Established in 2009, Manitou Gold Inc. has three exploration properties under its belt – and it is just getting started.
Headed by Richard Murphy, CEO, and Pat Dubreuil, president, Manitou Gold is headquartered in Toronto, Ont. The Manitou Gold website (manitougold.com) states that the company is a “Canadian exploration company with an experienced discovery team and a large package of highly prospective gold properties located in the Gold Rock District of Northwestern Ontario”. Manitou Gold’s three assets are Kenwest, Gaffney and Goudreau.
Murphy says Kenwest is a cornerstore asset, located 50 kilometres south of Dryden. It is a past producing mine property, which Manitou Gold purchased from Goldcorp Inc. During the week of Jan. 22, 2018, the company began an 1,800-metre drill program on the property.
Gaffney is the second property, and it’s known to have broad zones of lower-grade gold (around one to two grams), whereas higher-grade gold could be found in Kenwest.
“We hit the ball out of the park in 2011,” Murphy says. “We had a drill intersection at Kenwest that got everyone’s attention – with over 53,000 grams per ton.”
Murphy explains Gaffney will remain untouched for the next couple of quarters while work is being done on Kenwest. Manitou is currently working with the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines to get an underground bulk sample permitted.
Goudreau is the third and last property, located north of Wawa, Ont. on the east side of Island Gold Mine, previously owned by Richmont Mines until Alamos Gold Inc. took it over. The property got its name from the Goudreau-Lochalsh Gold Belt.
Manitou Gold acquired patented land east of the Island Gold Mine. “It’s private property which had never seen any modern exploration such as geophysics or drilling,” Murphy says, adding that work began in mid-January consisting of line-cutting and geophysical surveys.
In the future, Murphy says he would like to continue with the advancement at Kenwest and uncover all of the opportunities awaiting him and his team at Goudreau.
For more information, visit manitougold.com.
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1 – Richard Murphy.
