Northquest aims to drill new Howitzer zone

Northquest Ltd. Dec. 15 said results from a glacial till sampling program recently completed at its Pistol Bay gold project in Nunavut has identified a large new zone that will be the target of significant drilling in 2016.

This year, the company set aside C$500,000 for geochemical surveying of promising gold targets concealed by glacial overburden, known as till.

An initial 40-sample pilot survey...