09:58 AM EST - Renaissance Gold Inc. : announced that core drilling started October 2 at the Arizona Mine area on the Fourth of July Project, fully funded by Summit Mining Exploration II, Inc., a U.S. subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation. The project lies in the northern portion of a prolific belt of silver+/-gold deposits in the Humboldt Range in Pershing County that includes the evolving Spring Valley Project (>5 M.Oz. Au) being developed by Midway Gold and Barrick, the Coeur Rochester Mine with over 300 million ounces in silver and one million ounces of gold endowment, and the growing Relief Canyon gold project under development by Pershing Gold. Renaissance Gold Inc.
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