03:57 PM EST - Fronteer Gold : reported that core drilling adjacent to, and beneath, historic pits at the company's wholly-owned Northumberland gold deposit has returned excellent grades over significant widths. Assay results from the program's first four of these holes include wide intervals of open-pit mineable gold mineralization. Drill highlights include: 6.06 grams per tonne gold over 16.92 metres, including 8.93 g/t gold over 7.62 metres; and a separate zone that returned 2.44 g/t gold over 44.20 metres, in FNU43; -- 2.93 g/t gold over 30.18 metres in FNU45; and -- 2.78 g/t gold over 19.81 metres in FNU44. Fronteer Gold
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