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Westgold Resources has kicked off stope mining within the Triton North area of the South Emu-Triton underground mine at its Meekatharra Gold Operations. The mines host the majority of the Reedy Mining Area’s 1.5moz of gold endowment. The Triton mine is steeped in Australian mining history as one of the first gold mines developed by Western Mining Corporation (WMC) and one of the early projects where mining legend, the late Sir Arvi Parbo, cut his teeth as a mining engineer. Operating from 1935 to 1948 under WMC, Triton produced about 720,000t of ore @ 9.8g/t Au for 228,000oz. Triton’s oxide caps and historic shaft were later mined via open pit by Metana Mineralsin the 1990s and produced more than 250,000oz of gold....

IN a significant improvement to the intercept grades, Westgold (ASX:WGX) has received screen fire assays for its Great Fingall mine near Cue in WA, with exceptional figures returned. Westgold sees this drilling as proof that the stratigraphic controls to mineralisation remain in place. It believes that the significant high grades that were produced historically at this site have been returned at greater than twice the former depth and plunge continuity is established at the high-grade Great Fingall Reef. The results have Great Fingall Reef upgraded to 1.57m at 10.10g/t up from 7.95g/t from 1642.18m, 3.1m at 34.05g/t up from 20.17g/t from 1439.7m and 4.35m at 3.27g/t from 1,493.22m at Great Fingall Hangingwall Lodes. Abundant specks of visible gold have been...