12:24 PM EST - Orford Mining Corporation : Announced that the 2017 field program has commenced at its Carolina Gold Properties in North and South Carolina. The program will be carried out in two phases: a first phase of re-logging of historical core, surface mapping, trenching, and geophysics, and a second phase of drilling. Orford is party to an option agreement with Carolina Gold Resources Inc. to earn a 70% interest in the Jones-Keystone and Landrum-Faulkner Properties located, respectively, in North Carolina and South Carolina. The properties are located in the Carolina Gold Belt, home to Oceana Gold's producing Haile Mine (3.7 Moz resource at 1.8 g/t Au) and the past-producing Ridgeway Mine. Orford Mining Corporation
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