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Hawkstone swoops
in Idaho
Hawkstone Mining Ltd started diamond
drilling at the high-grade Lone Pine gold
project in Idaho, US, at the time of print.
The maiden drilling programme is tar-
geting the historic non-JORC resource of
71,128oz @ 18.6 g/t gold at Lone Pine.
The gold resource is within the well-
defined trend of gold mineralisation at the
Lone Pine vein zone and Hawkstone will
be looking to define a JORC resource.

Hot Chili fires up again
Hawkstone completed the 100% acquisition of Lone Pine in February
Diamond drilling has restarted at Hot
Chili Ltd’s Cortadera copper-gold dis- 0.7-0.9% copper and 0.2-0.5 g/t gold, 1,855m programme are part of a re-
covery in Chile. Cortadera’s high-grade core has grown source and reserve expansion at Pluton-
The company believes it is on track to rapidly since its discovery in late July ic, also included 17 intersections striking
deliver another exceptionally wide por- 2019. more than 5 g/t gold; seven intersections
phyry intersection, with drilling re-enter- Work is on track to deliver first re- grading more than 10 g/t; three intersec-
ing a 250m step-out hole (CRP0042D), source estimates at Cortadera and then tions of more than 20 g/t and one inter-
which was suspended at 616m depth in San Antonio from drilling undertaken section encountering more than 50 g/t.
March due to COVID-19. prior to March. Drilling was focused on the area to the
The mineralised porphyry has been north-west of the Indian zone within an
observed over 300m so far, with the hole area that extends about 500m between
planned to extend a further 420m. Superior hits at Plutonic the Indian and Baltic zones which has
An initial seven diamond drill holes Superior Gold Inc has reported the yet to be fully drill tested.
will focus on significantly expanding the best underground intersection at Pluton- “The Indian and Baltic zones are key
extent of high-grade copper and gold at ic outside of the existing resource. components of our five-year under-
Cortadera. Diamond drilling at Plutonic in Western ground life-of-mine plan that was an-
First drill holes, including CRP0042D, Australia was targeting potential exten- nounced in October 2019. These results
will target areas within the high-grade sions to the gold mineralisation within illustrate the potential to extend this plan
core of the main porphyry (Cuerpo 3) the Indian zone, with results including well beyond the initial five years,” Supe-
which have not been tested and remain 56.3 g/t gold over 15.1m; 10.2 g/t over rior president Chris Bradbrook said.
open. 7.1m and 11.9 g/t over 5.3m.
With average grades ranging between Furthermore, results from the 19-hole,

Hot Chili has returned to drilling activities in Chile

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