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Integra Gold announced additional high-grade intervals from the Triangle zone at its Lamaque South gold project in Quebec.
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Integra Gold (TSXV:ICG)
Price: $0.29
Market cap: $84 million
Cash estimate: $17 million
Project: Lamaque South
Country: Canada
Ownership: 100 percent
Resources: 2.65 million tonnes @ 9.5 g/t gold indicated; 0.78 million tonnes @ 10.9 g/t gold inferred
Project status: Advanced exploration
- Integra Gold announced additional high-grade intervals from the Triangle Zone on its 100% owned Lamaque South gold project in the Abitibi greenstone belt in Val-d’Or Quebec (MRCC Morning Comment July 16, 2015). The project is adjacent to the past producing 4.6 million ounce Lamaque Mine and the 4.5 million ounce Sigma Mine, previously operated by Teck (TSX:TCK.b) and Placer Dome. In Oct. 2014, the Company purchased the fully permitted 2,200 tpd Sigma Mill and tailings facility for C$8 million.
- Highlights from the recent exploration drilling include: 4.0 metres grading 22.15 g/t Au and 2.0 metres of 39.17 g/t Au from the steeply dipping C2 and C3 structures. An infill metallurgical hole in the parallel zone 1.5 kilometres to the northwest returned 2.5 metres grading 98.83 g/t Au. The key geological feature to predict the location of additional mineralization is the understanding of the steeply dipping quartz tourmaline “C structures” that previous drilling had interpreted as “flats” or shallow dipping “T structures”. The current drilling into the steeply dipping C structures continues to confirm the potential to add additional resources where drilling has extended the mineralization 150 metres beyond the current resource outside of the typical intrusive host rocks.
- Using a 5.0 g/t Au cut-off and a USD$1,175 gold price, the Company has outlined an indicated resource estimate of 2.6 million tonnes grading 9.5 g/t Au, with an additional 0.78 million tonnes of 10.9 g/t Au in the inferred class. Over 70% the indicated resources are hosted within the higher-grade Triangle and Parallel zones which do not include the volcanic hosted veins which have returned values of 6.6 metres grading 11.47 g/t Au and 5.0 metres of 15.55 g/t Au. The Company increased the drill program from 75,000 metres to 90,000 metres and expects to release an updated 43-101 compliant resource estimate in early Q4/2015.
- Using a USD$1,175 per ounce gold price, the January 2015 PEA outlined a small capex project, with an estimated pre-production capital cost of $61.2 million, returning an after tax NPV (5%) of $113.5 million, an IRR of 59% with a payback of 1.6 years on the 4.5 year mine life. The operating cash, plus sustaining cost per ounce is estimated at $641 per ounce.
Development history: Past production on Sigma and Lamaque Mines: 9.1 million ounces Au. Acquired Lamaque South 2009, acquired Sigma/Lamaque North Oct 2014.
Current holes: 4.0 metres @ 22.15 g.t Au; 2.5 metres @ 98.82 g/t Au (metallurgical hole).
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- Integra Gold Corp. (ICG) is currently under coverage at Mackie Research Capital by analyst Peter Campbell.
- In March 2014, Peter Campbell visited the Lamaque Gold Project in Val-d’Or, Québec. Travel to and from the site in Val d’Or were paid by Integra Gold Corp.
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