Orla Mining purchased the Musselwhite mine from Newmont in 2025 stating the fly-in northwestern Ontario operation had loads more gold potential. The Vancouver gold company said it’s now seeing the results to extend its operating life past 2030.
Orla posted a slew of drill results this month from Musselwhite, highlighting two high-grade gold zones that extend two kilometres out from the underground mine. The zones, dubbed Lynx (upper zone) and PQ (lower zone), plunge on a deep angle from the current deposit.
One drill result yielded 15.1 grams per tonne (g/t) of visible gold over a 4.1 metre length of core at a spot 1.6 kilometres out from the mine. Another showed 5.56 g/t over 5 metres, 2 kilometres out.
In an April 9 news release, Orla said the results show that the resource has the potential to be greater, more “broader and more continuous than previously understood.”
The drilling program continues to show high-grade hits, “reinforcing confidence in the potential to grow mineral resources, add reserves, and extend mine life,” the release said.
