Timmins gold mine developer preps to go underground.

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Gowest Gold has signed on North Bay mine builder Cementation Canada to be its contractor in preparation to take an underground bulk sample from its Bradshaw Gold Deposit.

Site work and construction of water treatment ponds will be finished by mid-April with work on a portal beginning immediately afterwards.

The company said it has ordered an ore-sorter from Steinert US, which is to be used to sharply reduce handling costs and increase gold grades of ore sent for processing. That unit will arrive in mid-year.

The Bradshaw deposit is part of the company's North Timmins Gold Project on its 110-square-kilometre land package northeast of Timmins and east of Glencore's Kidd base metal mine.

The deposit has an indicated resource of 2.1 million tonnes grading 6.19 grams per tonne (g/t) and an inferred resource of 3.6 million tonnes grading 6.47 g/t.

Gowest also announced the extension of an earlier announced nonbinding...