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In full production, Mount Milligan will be the second largest metal mine in Canada with an estimated yield of $5 bil- lion. (Continental Gold which developed the mining com- pany which has just started drilling is to find enough of it for industrial exploitation. Snowwater Resources Ltd., based in Castlegar, will begin diamond drilling on the Siwash Castlegar-based company keeps mining exploration alive property has sold it to Placer Dome for $182 million.) This year, the most vigorous mining explo- ration # in the West Kootenay, with Noranda drilling Sept. 8 on Yellowjack Resources Project on properties situ- ated about 30 kilometres id ki said in a news statement dated Sept. 4 for release at the Vancouver Stock Exchange's daily jour- nal StockWatch. Zukowski said the 30 square miles of Snowwater Properties, com- prising 128 units in the Rover Creek and Snowwater Creek areas, lies in the “most mineralized regions of North America.” Historically, this local sunbelt dotted with old mines has been a major producer of gold since the 1890s, including the Rossland, Salmo and Ymir camp. The geology of the Snowwater mining property is similar to the famed Rossland gold camp. — it’s very favorable, said $163.4 million in has spent “in ex- cess of $1.5 million” in the last five to six years on exploration. “The only commodity that's worth explor- ing for is gold,” said in the West Kootenay ~believes this area is much less costly in terms of big-scale exploration for precious metals as compared to the north of the province, where much of new mining activity is concentrated these days and where aver- age costs are four to five times as high. st because — the price of gold ag ese r Games; Beowester i management is aepiving to develop a bulk tonnage of copper-gold-sil- ver-zinc deposits. Zukowski thinks it’s now the West Kootenay’s turn in mining. Last year the focus was on Mount Milli- gan, a prolific copper and gold deposit near “The only commodity that’s worth exploring for is gold. And this is basically a gold " area.” Henry Zukowski Ltd. near Salmo, an old mining territory that’s been a sleeping giant since the 1920s. While hoping for a successful venture for his own . ki says this area will benefit economically no matter who strikes it rich. “All it is going to take for this area to wake up is one big discovery,” he said in an interview. “I don’t care who hits. When this happens, this area is going to explode with exploration money.” Zukowski and his company — public since 1985 and registered on the VSE — are in- vesting in,the company’s explorations in the belief that “there is a lot of Mount Milligan- type bodies of deposits to be found in this Although the days of the big high-grade mines are over, exhausted by early mining fever at the turn of the century, mining in- vestors like Zukowski have high hopes of Saaremaa ly wi e use lern oud mining Please see MINING page C4 Savings ‘Where You Belong