North of 60 Mining News - The mining newspaper for Alaska and Canada's North

Northern Empire Resources Corp. Oct. 18 reported encouraging results from the rock sampling portion of its summer exploration program at its Richardson gold project about 25 miles northeast of Delta Junction in Interior Alaska.

Rock chip channel samples were collected in one-meter intervals across 130 meters of an exposed face in the historically mined Democrat Pit at Richardson.

One 32-meter-long sample returned 5.73 grams per metric ton gold and 29.8 g/t silver, including six meters of 18.33 g/t gold and 48.95 g/t silver.

Another sample collected about 61 meters away returned 2.57 g/t gold and 39.3 g/t silver across six meters.

The summer program also included 1,298 soil samples, prospecting and geophysics.

"Sampling of the Democrat Pit shows the mineralization remains open as the first and final rock chip samples collected along the 130-meter line returned values of 0.31 g/t gold and 0.35 g/t gold, respectively. The company is still awaiting final results from soil and geophysical surveys which will guide efforts in 2017," said Northern Empire President and CEO Michael Allen.

-SHANE LASLEY