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TDG Gold Corp. Announces Thirty Year Extension to the Mets Mining Lease and Receives Mets Drill Permit, Toodoggone District
WHITE ROCK, BC / ACCESSWIRE / October 19, 2022 / TDG Gold Corp (TSXV:TDG) (the "Company" or "...
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[{"type":"text","content":"TDG Gold Corp. Announces Thirty Year Extension to the Mets Mining Lease and Receives Mets Drill Permit, Toodoggone DistrictWHITE ROCK, BC / ACCESSWIRE / October 19, 2022 / TDG Gold Corp (TSXV:TDG) (the \"Company\" or \"TDG\") is pleased to announce a 30-year extension of its 100% owned Metsantan (\"Mets\") mining lease located in the road-connected Toodoggone Production Corridor of north-central B.C. (Figure 1). TDG has also received a Notice of Work (\"NOW\") authorizing diamond drilling and further exploration activities.Mets is a 200-hectare mining lease which includes a former producing gold-silver mine discovered and systematically explored between 1980-1992 including a reported 8,784 metres (\"m\") of diamond drilling (of which TDG has recompiled 7,944 m) and 2,622 m of trenching. Historical reported drill highlights include 9.52 grams per tonne (\"g/t\") gold (\"Au\") and 2 g/t silver (\"Ag\") over 25.9 m from a depth of 22.0 m including 59.13 g/t Au and 2 g/t Ag over 3.1 m from a depth of 28.8 m.Figure 1. Access to TDG's Metsantan (METS) mining lease and neighbouring properties is via the road through TDG's Baker Camp from Kemess.The Mets mining lease has been extended for 30 years to 2053 with support of the local communities. TDG would like to thank First Nations for their consultation and support during the application for the extension, and also the teams Falkirk Environmental Consultants and the BC Ministry of Energy, Mining and Low Carbon Innovation (\"EMLI\") for their input and management of the application process.Mets is located 23 kilometres (\"km\") northwest of TDG's former producing gold-silver Shasta and Baker mines. Mets is road accessible by the forestry road which runs from Centerra's Kemess mine past TDG's Shasta project and directly through TDG's Baker mine before continuing through Benchmark Metals' Lawyers project and the recently announced \"Ranch Extension\" being undertaken by Thesis Gold which includes a bridge crossing of the Toodoggone River (Figure 1). Mets was owned by Skeena Resources Ltd. in 2009 and underwent ~350 m of underground development work in 2012 including stockpiling of development rock and ore that historical records indicate was never shipped for processing but was backfilled and reclaimed.TDG's independent resource modelling group for the Mets project is Moose Mountain Techni...