Banyan Gold Receives 10 Year Class Three Mining Land Use Permit for the Hyland Gold Project
Calgary, Alberta (FSCwire) - Banyan Gold Corp. (“Banyan” or the “Company”) reports that a Class 3 Land Use Permit for the Hyland Gold Project has been granted to the Company by the Yukon Government. This permit will allow for continued development of the Hyland Gold Project through advanced mineral exploration activities including diamond drilling, trenching geophysics and on-tenure camp support thereon. The 2017 Hyland Gold Project exploration plan being developed, is guided by the LiDAR assisted structural analysis and data compilation done over the winter of 2016/2017 to identify priority exploration areas and drill targets
Company President and CEO Tara Christie commented, “With a newly granted 10-year Class 3 Land Use Permit to operate, Banyan is well positioned to continue to build out our Hyland Gold Project through advanced and systematic exploration programs. Banyan looks forward to an active exploration season at Hyland this year.”
About Banyan Gold
Banyan is a gold exploration and development company whose flagship property, the Hyland Gold Project, is approximately 70km NE of Watson Lake, Yukon, along the southeast end of the Tintina Gold Belt. The Main Zone gold Inferred Resource, at a 0.6 g/t gold equivalent cutoff, hosts a NI 43-101 resource of 12,503,994 tonnes containing 361,692 ounces gold at 0.9 g/t and 2,248,948 ounces silver at 5.59 g/t for a combined gold and silver 396,468 ounces gold equivalent.
Banyan also has options to earn up to 100% in the Aurex and McQuesten properties, subject to work commitments, payments and a residual NSR to Alexco Resource Corp. and Victoria Gold Corp.
Banyan trades on the TSX-Venture Exchange under the symbol “BYN”. For more information, please visit the corporate website at www.BanyanGold.com or contact the Company.
ON BEHALF OF THE BANYAN BOARD OF DIRECTORS
(signed) "Tara Christie"
Tara Christie
President & CEO
| For more information, please contact: | |
| Tara Christie | David Rutt |
| Tel: (888) 629-0444 | Tel: (888) 629-0444 |
| Email: tchristie@banyangold.com | Email: drutt@banyangold.com |
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