Sparton Resources explores Yunnan's Luxi gold belt
Northern Miner Editor John Cumming travelled to the most southwestern part of China's Yunnan province, near the border with Myanmar, to visit Sparton Resources' (YRI-V) grassroots Luxi (pronounced "Loo-shee") gold-exploration project. Guided by president and CEO Lee Barker, the Toronto-based junior has two goals: to delineate enough oxide material to justify starting up a small heap-leach mine; and to sample and drill its vast holdings along the 40-km-long, underexplored Luxi gold belt, which is characterized by gold mineralization similar to that found in Nevada's famed Carlin Trend. Feature stories on the Chinese-operated Luxi heap-leach gold mine and Sparton's exploration around the mine are in our Sept. 2-8, 2005, and Nov. 25-Dec.1, 2005, editions, respectively. The following photos are from Cumming's visit to Luxi.
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