Freegold Ventures Ltd. Sept. 8 provided results from the first hole of a 2016 drill program at the company's Shorty Creek copper-gold project in Interior Alaska.

Drilling commenced on Hill 1835, where drilling in 2015 cut 91.4 meters averaging 0.14 grams per metric tons gold, 7.02 g/t silver and 0.55 percent copper, or 0.71 percent copper-equivalent from a depth of 279 meters in hole SC 15-03....