{"id":811,"date":"2017-02-23T14:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2017-02-23T14:05:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T19:05:12","slug":"macdonald-mines-updates-on-exploration-program-at-holdsworth-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/02\/23\/macdonald-mines-updates-on-exploration-program-at-holdsworth-property\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald Mines Updates on Exploration Program at Holdsworth Property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 23, 2017 @ 14:00<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-816\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/holds-property_overview_170112-1000x906.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/holds-property_overview_170112-1000x906.png 1000w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/holds-property_overview_170112-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/holds-property_overview_170112-768x696.png 768w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/holds-property_overview_170112.png 1925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. has begun exploration programs at both its Wawa-Holdsworth Gold Project near Wawa, Ontario, and its Charlevoix Silica Property located approximately 42 kilometres north of Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec. The sampling program conducted at Charlevoix suggest that the high purity quartzite unit mined at the Sitec Silica Mine extends on the property.<br \/>\n<strong>Wawa-Holdsworth Project<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Havenan Brothers completed 62 kilometres of line cutting at the Wawa-Holdsworth Project in order to conduct magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the property. The Company intends to utilize this data to map, model and highlight prospective drill targets.<\/p>\n<p>The Wawa-Holdsworth Project is comprised of 18 contiguous patented mining claims covering approximately 285 hectares, located 20 kilometres northeast of Wawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p>Three gold targets have been identified on the property:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lode Gold in traditional quartz veins, known as the &#8220;The Soocana Vein&#8221;,<\/li>\n<li>an oxidized cap at surface developed over a massive pyrite zone (Algoma Iron Formation) known as the &#8220;The Oxide Sands&#8221;, and<\/li>\n<li>the precursor to the Oxide Sands &#8211; a massive pyrite zone (Algoma Iron Formation) at depths, known as &#8220;The Massive Sulphide&#8221;.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Company believes that there is potential to find additional high-grade gold mineralization at the Wawa-Holdsworth Project.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (&#8220;PDAC&#8221;) Convention\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Investors are invited to visit booth\u00a0<strong>#2512<\/strong>\u00a0on March 5-8, 2017, to meet with MacDonald&#8217;s management and staff to discuss the Company&#8217;s recent activities and projects.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb 23, 2017 @ 14:00 MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. has begun exploration programs at both its Wawa-Holdsworth Gold Project near Wawa, Ontario, and its Charlevoix Silica Property located approximately 42 kilometres north of Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec. The sampling program conducted at Charlevoix suggest that the high purity quartzite unit mined at the Sitec Silica Mine extends &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[96],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-macdonald-mines-exploration-ltd"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 10:50:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}