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Sona Resources Corp. is a junior resource company based in Vancouver, British Columbia, specializing in gold exploration, development and mining in North America. The Sona board of directors and management have decades of combined experience in the mineral exploration and mining industry, and in managing and financing junior exploration companies.
Since its inception in 1990, Sona has engaged in exploration activities at its 100 percent owned mineral properties in Canada and the United States, as well as small-scale gold production at its flagship property, the Blackdome Gold Mine, in south-central B.C. Since 2002 at its Elizabeth Gold Property, 220 kilometres north of Vancouver, Sona has completed four diamond drill programs that have outlined a 206,000-ounce inferred gold resource.
Sona Resources now has 14,145oz inferred gold resource for Blackdome mine tailings
Sona Resources (TSX-V: SYS) said it has received a new NI43-101 compliant inferred resource estimate for the Blackdome gold mine tailings impoundment of 298,389 tonnes of tailings, grading 1.47 grams gold per ton and containing 14,145 ounces of gold at a cut-off grade of 0.5g/t Au.
The 18,500-hectare Blackdome gold mine is located in the Clinton Mining District, approximately 250 kilometres north of Vancouver. The site contains a fully permitted flotation and gravity mill. From 1986 to 1991, it treated 340,000 tonnes of ore at a mill head grade of 20g/t Au, producing 225,000 ounces of gold over five years.
Sona's president and CEO said John Thompson said: "This is one more important step toward achieving our goal of commencing full-scale production at the Blackdome mill by 2013.”
The resource estimate and the NI 43-101 report were prepared by Geoquest Consulting Ltd and Micon International Ltd.
Preliminary test work for leaching at SGS Lakefield, interpreted by Innovat Ltd, indicates a recovery of over 90 percent of the gold from the tailings pond.
Since its inception in 1990, Sona has engaged in exploration activities at its mineral properties in Canada and the United States, as well as small-scale gold production at its flagship property, the 100 percent owned Blackdome gold mine.
At its 100 percent owned Elizabeth gold property, 30 kilometres south of Blackdome, Sona has outlined an inferred gold resource of 522,900 tonnes grading 12.3g/t Au, containing 206,100 ounces of gold. Sona aims to bring the Blackdome mill back into production over the next three years, with feed from the former-producing Blackdome mine and the Elizabeth gold property.
Sona holds a 100 percent interest in two other promising properties: The Callaghan project located in Nevada within 80 kilometres of several producing mines, and the Montgolfier project in Quebec, 40 kilometres east of the multimillion-ounce Casa Berardi mine gold deposit.
