West Red Lake Gold’s John Kontak on 2018 drill program for the Rowan Mine

March 15, 2018 – “In 2018 our focus is just to go to depth right under the resource area and endeavor to expand the mineralized zones down to about 1,000 meters, which is still relatively shallow in the Red Lake Gold District.” said John Kontak, President and Director of West Red Lake Gold Mines Inc. (CSE: RLG | OTCQB: RLGMF), in an interview with InvestorIntel’s Jeff Wareham. 

Jeff Wareham: Can you bring me up to speed on what the focus is for 2018? 

John Kontak: Focus for 2018 is going to be continuing to drill. We have announced that we will be drilling in March and we will be later this month. We will take the results from that drill program and look at the data and plan to drill another program on our West Red Lake property this summer as well. We are going to be busy in the field in 2018 is what we are going to be doing and we are funded for those programs.

Jeff Wareham: I know you have got at least three projects there on the deposit. Is it the Rowan Project you are concentrating on?

John Kontak: Yeah, we have the West Red Lake Project property. It is in Red Lake, Ontario on the west side of the Red Lake Gold District. It is a 3,100 hectare property. There are three former underground mines on the property, all of which has a shaft. The Mount Jamie Mines and the Red Summit Mines. We own 100%. On the Rowan Mine portion of our property we own that 60% and operate a joint venture that we have with Goldcorp. Goldcorp funds their 40% of the joint venture. We also have on that Rowan Mine property portion of our property where we have joint ventured with Goldcorp an NI 43-101 resource estimate. It is 1.1 million ounces of 7.57 grams per ton grading. It is all close to surface, within 500 meters of surface, most of it within 350 meters of surface. It is the type of deposit that Red Lake Gold District is famous for to the tune of 30 million ounces being produced over time. 18 million by our joint venture partner, Goldcorp. Close to surface, high-grade underground gold mining. In 2018 our focus is just to go to depth right under the resource area and endeavor to expand the mineralized zones down to about 1,000 meters, which is still relatively shallow in the Red Lake Gold District.

Jeff Wareham: You are looking at starting pretty much immediately, right? It is March/April you were talking.

John Kontak: We have a camp and we have a great relationship with our drill contactor. Drills are getting tighter, but we always have a drill on the property. We are just moving the drill and getting going yet in March. 

Jeff Wareham: Fantastic. Investors should be watching for lots of news.

John Kontak: Yes. We are going to keep the news flowing on the property. We will have data from the March drill program. Then we will be drilling again in the summer. At the same time Jeff we are starting internal scoping studies to look at the economics of the deposit. Also we have been working on the baseline environmental studies, like the water sampling…to access the complete interview, click here

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    MikeTennant

    In this enionment and moving forward,what is the likelihood that we could see RLG go to .60-$1.00 range?Ihavesome hard earned cash in this.

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