• Canadian Silver Hunter (AGH.H) has acquired an additional 56 mining claims in Quebec
  • The claims total 3,155 hectares and adjoin the company’s existing Lac Lachance property which now stands at 5,300 hectares
  • The company says recent work indicates gold mineralization in the area
  • Canadian Silver Hunter is unchanged and trading at C$0.07 per share

Canadian Silver Hunter (AGH.H) has staked an additional 56 mining claims in the Lac Windfall area of Quebec.

The claims total 3,155 hectares, adjoining the company’s existing Lac Lachance North property.

That property now stands at a total of 5,300 hectares.

Canadian Silver Hunter holds a total of 128 mining claims representing just over 7,200 hectares in the Lac Windfall area. The company acquired the newest claims for staking costs.

The company staked the additional claims in order to cover electromagnetic anomalies associated with east-west trending fault zones on the northern limit of the Urban-Barry volcanic belt that hosts numerous gold deposits. These include the Osisko Mining (TSXV:OSK) Lac Windfall gold deposit. 

Recent work by Osisko in the area has indicated gold mineralization detected by diamond drilling associated with conductive sulphide zones.

The mineral resource defined by Osisko comprises 2.382 million tonnes at 7.85 grams of gold per tonne of material in the indicated mineral resource category and 10.605 million tonnes at 6.70 grams of gold per tonne of material in the inferred mineral resource category.

Canadian Silver Hunter is a mineral exploration company headquartered in Toronto. Its focus is on gold and silver exploration in Ontario and Quebec.

The company currently owns two properties: the Silver Centre-Keeley Frontier project, located near Cobalt, Ontario; and the Lac Lachance property, located near Lac Windfall, Quebec. It also has an option to acquire a 100 per cent interest in the Lost Dog property near Timmins, Ontario.

Canadian Silver Hunter remains unchanged and is trading at C$0.07 per share at 10:39am EST.

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