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Eagle Plains Acquires St. Paul Mines' Crown Grants at Donna Project
CRANBROOK, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 14, 2020 / Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. (TSXV:EPL) ("EPL"...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Eagle Plains Acquires St. Paul Mines’ Crown Grants at Donna ProjectCRANBROOK, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 14, 2020 / Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. (TSXV:EPL) (\"EPL\" or \"Eagle Plains\") is pleased to announce the purchase of four Crown Grant mineral claims underlying Eagle Plains' 100%-owned Donna Gold Project located 60km east of Vernon, B.C. The recently acquired tenures cover the historical gold and silver workings of the St. Paul and Morgan Mines and carry no underlying royalties or encumbrances. The claims were purchased from St. Paul Mines Limited, an arms-length company that has controlled the property since at least 1927. Placer mining activity is currently underway on many of the creeks which drain the Donna property.St. Paul/Morgan Property HistoryProspectors following the discovery of placer gold in Cherry and Monashee Creeks discovered gold at the Morgan (BCMINFILE 082LSE022) in the 1890's and the Toughnut, Zilpah, Minerva and Black Bess claims were surveyed as Crown Grants in 1915.Historic development workings documented at the St. Paul (BCMINFILE 082LSE010) and Morgan include two shafts, 7 tunnels up to 116 meters in length, 3 winzes, an unknown number of open cuts and trenches, as well as a tramline and stamp mill that operated in the 1910's. Production ceased in 1916 due to the death of the property owner. The last reported development work was the construction of a 60 meter tunnel at the St. Paul in 1961. Recorded production from the St. Paul and Morgan deposits for the period 1914-1961 total 392 tonnes containing 5,630 grams of gold, 112,406 grams of silver, 3,720 kilograms of lead and 1,258 kilograms of zinc. Various geological reports and government publications report underground sampling returning values ranging from trace quantities to highs of up to 93.9 g/t (2.74 oz/t) gold and 60.3 g/t (1.76 oz/t) silver over a 0.6m sample width. All historical mine workings are currently inaccessible.Development work was focused on a series of parallel and cross-cutting quartz veins up to 1.2 meters thick carrying gold, silver, lead, zinc, antimony. The quartz veins occur within a Jurassic-aged diorite sill and along the margins of the contact with sedimentary and volcanic host rocks.The last significant work program on the Crown Grants occurred in 1996 when Discovery Consultants carried out a data review and propert...