Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd. is a Canadian junior gold company with dual-track programs underway – the resumption of an underground placer gold bulk sample program and a diamond drill program focused on the discovery of the potential multiple bedrock sources of that placer gold.
The flagship Wingdam gold exploration and placer recovery project is located along the Barkerville Highway, 40 km west of Barkerville in the Cariboo Mining District of south-central BC. The Wingdam projects include hard-rock tenures totaling over 50,000 hectares (500 square km) and more than 15 linear kilometers of placer claims along the Lightning Creek valley.
With the dewatering and rehabilitation of the existing decline and underground workings underway, the company is preparing to resume bulk sample operations at the Wingdam placer recovery project where the first bulk sample in 2012 recovered 173.4 oz of placer gold from a single 2.4m wide crosscut.
Omineca’s ongoing diamond drill program to explore the potential multiple hard rock sources of the placer gold at Wingdam is fully funded and currently nearing the half-way mark of its maiden, 27-hole drilling program.
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Wingdam Project:
Omineca’s aim is the commercial extraction the alluvial gold that has been trapped underneath a portion of Lightning Creek in south central British Columbia. Using a freeze technology to safely access the placer channel below the river, gold is extracted from the gold bearing gravels by wash plant and gravity separation using an existing, reusable water supply. No chemicals, no leaching, no mill, no waste or tailings.
The Wingdam Project encompasses 2.4 km of a rich, placer bearing channel buried 50 meters underneath Lightning Creek “containing some of the highest placer gold concentrations historically reported in all of the Cariboo mining district and perhaps British Columbia that remains un-mined” *
In 2012, the Company successfully conducted a test bulk sample using this technique extracting 5.4 kilograms of raw placer gold from crosscut tunnel 2.4 meters wide and 24 meters long cutting across the gold bearing channel. Omineca’s plan is to continue this process along the entire 2.4 kilometers of the channel.
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