This property is 60% Lakeshore Gold.
WTM Intersects 83.40 Metres (273.55 feet) grading 12.75 g/t (0.37 oz/t) Gold on Thunder Creek Property, Timmins, Ontario
High Grade Intercept Includes 38.22 g/t (1.11 oz/t) gold over 11.00 metres (36.08 feet) (Vancouver, June 24, 2009) – West Timmins Mining Inc., WTM/TSX today announced the broadest high grade gold intercept ever reported from the West Timmins District – an impressive 83.40 metres (273.55 feet) grading 12.75 g/t (0.37 oz/t) gold – from hole TC-09-68b on its Thunder Creek Joint Venture in Timmins, Ontario. High-grade gold mineralization occurs throughout the entire width of the host syenite porphyry and contains a number of broad, higher grade sub-zones, including 38.22 g/t (1.11 oz/t) gold over 11.00 metres (36.08 feet).
"This is one of the broadest, high-grade gold intercepts ever reported from the Timmins Gold Camp, which ranks as the largest gold camp in North America with over 70 million ounces of gold produced over the last century" said Darin Wagner, President and CEO of West Timmins Mining Inc. “Broad high-grade gold intercepts like the one reported today, are very rare and characteristic of only a very few special situations in the Camp, including the world-class 32 million ounce Hollinger-McIntyre gold system. The Thunder Creek gold system continues to exhibit many of the hallmarks of the Hollinger-McIntyre system including abundant coarse-grained visible gold mineralization, gold mineralization over extremely broad widths in multiple zones proximal to and hosted within a porphyritic intrusion and the association of the gold mineralization with a suite of base metals including tungsten, molybdenum, zinc and lead.”
Hole TC09-68b is located 50 metres above, and was wedged from the same collar as hole TC09-68, intersecting both the Rusk and Porphyry Zones with the intersections centered at approximately 750 vertical metres. The Rusk Zone in hole TC09-68b returned a 4.90 metre gold mineralized intersection including 2.20 metres grading 9.50 g/t, further confirming the continuity and grade of the Rusk Zone.
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