{"id":8586,"date":"2017-12-07T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=8586"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:24:56","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:24:56","slug":"macdonald-mines-discovers-gold-and-silver-underneath-the-oxide-sands-formation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/07\/macdonald-mines-discovers-gold-and-silver-underneath-the-oxide-sands-formation\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDonald Mines discovers Gold and Silver underneath the Oxide Sands Formation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Dec 7, 2017 @ 09:11<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div><div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<p>MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. sonic drilling program has discovered gold and silver in the bedrock underneath the Oxide Sands formation at its Wawa-Holdsworth Project. Quentin Yarie, President and Chief Executive Officer of MacDonald Mines stated, \u201d<em>The elevated sulfur content in bedrock assay samples rich in precious metals supports the conceptual association between precious metals in the bedrock and high sulfides.<\/em> <em>A large body of sulfides would explain the 1.8 km-long conductor associated with the Oxide Sands that was detected by the MaxMin survey we conducted earlier this year. This opens up a much larger potential as there are numerous other similar conductors on the property. This also suggests that the Oxide Sands are the oxidized cap of a sizeable shear zone extending to depth that is mineralized in gold and silver.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As part of the sonic drilling program, where it was possible, a short sample of bedrock was collected. Results suggest that the Oxide Sands represents the oxidized cap of a large gold-bearing shear zone. Results from the remaining 342 drill holes may corroborate these initial findings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 7, 2017 @ 09:11 MacDonald Mines Exploration Ltd. sonic drilling program has discovered gold and silver in the bedrock underneath the Oxide Sands formation at its Wawa-Holdsworth Project. Quentin Yarie, President and Chief Executive Officer of MacDonald Mines stated, \u201dThe elevated sulfur content in bedrock assay samples rich in precious metals supports the conceptual &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-8586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-macdonald-mines"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-22 03:20:39","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\/8586","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=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8587,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions\/8587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}