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Winston Gold Corp. Prepares to Produce First Ounces of Gold As Paradine Mill Nears Completion
Winston Gold Corp. Prepares to Produce First Ounces of Gold As Paradine Mill Nears Completion.
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[{"type":"text","content":"WINNIPEG, MB / ACCESSWIRE / October 6, 2020 / Winston Gold Corp. ("Winston Gold" or the "Corporation") (CSE:WGC)(OTCQB:WGMCF) is pleased to announce that its Paradine Mill in Radersburg, Montana is nearing completion. So far, 2,500 tons of mineralized rock from the company's ongoing bulk-sampling program at the Winston Gold Mine is at the Mill awaiting initial processing. The Paradine Mill is located just 35 miles (56 km) by paved road from the Company's wholly-owned Winston Gold project."We are pleased to report that after only 40 days of rehabilitation work, the Paradine mill upgrades are almost complete," stated Murray Nye, "We are now just waiting on the delivery and installation of a jaw crusher and a closed circuit cone crusher."The Paradine Mill is currently rated for a 150 ton-per-day operation, however there is ample room for expansion if necessary. A new lined settling pond has been constructed for tailings disposal with a 35,000-ton capacity and two additional ponds are being built.Winston Gold has already stockpiled about 1300 tons of lower-grade bulk sample material. This represents mineralized rock that has been diluted with waste rock in the process of developing access to the main gold bearing vein structures. This material was sampled and has an average grade of about 0.1 oz per ton gold (3.43 g/t). Similarly, an additional 1200 tons of higher-grade bulk sample material is also on site. It returned an average grade of 0.2 opt (6.86 g/t) gold.This material will be used to commission the new mill and verify earlier metallurgical recovery tests. Bureau Veritas previously performed gravity and flotation tests on selected drill core from the vein systems. The gravity circuit alone was able to recover 5.9% gold and 1.3% silver. Flotation of the gravity tailings recovered 86.7% gold and 85% silver and resulted in a combined gravity plus floatation recovery of 92.6% gold and 86.3% silver. Bureau Veritas stated that they believed that there was still room to improve that recovery rate.Sampling Methodology, Chain of Custody, Quality Control and Quality AssuranceAll sampling was conducted under the supervision of the Company's project geologists and the chain of custody from the drill to the on-site sample preparation facility was continuously monitored. The samples are c...