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

Benz Mining Corp. June 21 said it plans to complete up to 8,000 meters of drilling this year at its Mel zinc-lead-barite property in southeastern Yukon.

The primary objective of this program is to confirm and expand a resource estimate calculated for Mel in March.

According to this estimate, the main zone at Mel hosts 5.28 million metric tons of inferred resource averaging 6.51 percent zinc,...