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Beauce Gold Fields Mobile Placer Plant Bulk Samples Fine to Nugget Size Gold on the Ditton Property
Montreal, Quebec--(Newsfile Corp. - August 29, 2023) - Beauce Gold Fields (TSXV: BGF) (Champ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Beauce Gold Fields Mobile Placer Plant Bulk Samples Fine to Nugget Size Gold on the Ditton PropertyMontreal, Quebec--(Newsfile Corp. - August 29, 2023) - Beauce Gold Fields (TSXV: BGF) (Champs D'Or en Beauce), (\"BGF\" or the \"Company\"): is please to provide an update on its ongoing exploration activities at the Ditton Gold project located near Chartierville in southern Quebec. The Company has recently completed a bulk sampling program at specific locations that were previously dredged, including the SB-100 and within the Ditton quarry, the SB-101, and SB-102 sites (Press releases May 16 and June 28, 2023). Fine to nugget size placer gold were observed in the heavy mineral concentrates.Patrick Levasseur, President and CEO of Beauce Gold Fields, stated, \"This bulk sampling has increased our goal to assess the possibility of an economically viable placer gold deposit, as well as to look for signs that could lead to future discoveries of bedrock lode gold deposits.\"Image1: Left, Mobile placer plant Ditton property. Right, +5 mm gold nugget SB-100 sampleTo view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit:https://images.newsfilecorp.com/files/6198/178834_b9fa4e19c4c12ba4_001full.jpgThe 50-ton bulk sample SB-100 was excavated from unconsolidated Quaternary-type glacial till deposit from a ground-level trench located over the interpreted placer channel about 300m north of the operating Ditton (Blais) quarry. The two 50-ton bulk samples, SB-101 and SB-102, each consisting of Tertiary (oxidized and compact gravel) material, were excavated from trenches in the Ditton quarry floor.Explolab of Val D'Or Quebec utilized a mobile placer plant equipped with a trommel and sluice to process the samples on-site. It allowed the bulked samples to be reduced to concentrates for transport to Explolab's laboratory for finer processing. The samples were subjected to gravimetric concentration to make concentrates of heavy minerals. Laboratory technicians removed gold grains large enough to be manipulated from the heavy mineral concentrates to be weighed and measured. The concentrates were divided into batches of 500 grams and sent to MSALABS in Val D'Or for Photonassay analysis.PhotonAssay is a non-destructive technique that can assay for non-visible gold to nuggets without destroying the sample. The non-destructive analysis allows for fur...