Junior miner Frontline Gold has acquired ground and struck a joint venture agreement with Talisker Gold to take a bigger footprint of prospective gold properties, near Wawa.
The Toronto exploration outfit announced April 30 that it had acquired 2,500 hectares, dubbed the English Property, 50 kilometres west of Wawa, and situated between Wesdome's Eagle River underground mine and its Mishi open-pit mine.
The company is also new 50-50 partners with privately-owned Talisker Gold, which brings an additional 1,200 hectares into the mix to create a land package of more than 3,700 hectares.
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Talisker has other gold exploration properties of its own in greenstone belts in the Wawa and Batchewana areas on the east side of Lake Superior, including its Dorset Property with a resource of 40,000 indicated and 180,000 inferred gold ounces.
In the release, Frontline said the option and joint venture agreements offers an opportunity to accelerate exploration on a property with data available from a previous drilling program that can be evaluated to "develop an exciting exploration program" next to an existing mine.
"We will be providing more detailed information along with a corporate update in the very near term on all our properties, existing option agreements, and new option agreements entered into." said Frontline president Walter Henry in a statement.
Frontline Gold's other properties include optioned gold projects in the Red Lake area of northwestern Ontario and in western Turkey.
