There appears to be another > Major gold discovery in the ‘ mountains north of Stewart. Calgary-based Calpine Re- sources recently accepted an op- tion to earn 50 percent of Con- solidated Stikine Silver’s Eskay _ Creek property. The holdings consist of about 30 claims near Tom MacKay Lake on a plateau above the Unuk River. The area is 100 kilometers north- northwest of Stewart, about f halfway between Skyline’s Johnny Mountain gold mine and the Corona-Newhawk- Granduc Sulphurets. The day-to-day exploration activities on the property are- being managed from Vancouver by Prime Explorations, a mem- ber of the Prime group of com- panies. owned by Vancouver Stock Exchange baron Murray Pezim. James Foster, a spokes- man for Prime. said the results | from initial drilling and trench- ing on the site were so encour- aging that the company has es- tablished an all-weather camp - ‘and will continue exploration throughout the winter. ' Although it is too early in the drilling program to estimate re- serves or the extent of the ore. body, Foster says it appears to be a zone of mineralization be- tween two ‘volcanic structures. Assay results released Nov. 1 showed a 242-foot intersection grading .125 ounces of gold per ton and a 52-foot intersection yielding 1.33 ounces. Grab samples from an earlier trench- ‘ing operation assayed 11.88 ounces’ of gold and 251.74 ounces of silver per ton. Foster said Prime has now moved a 2,000-foot Longyear 38 drilling rig onto the site because the drill used in previous explor- ation bottomed out while still “Terrace Review — Wednesday, November 23, 1988. a nother big I Northwest gold strike © going through mineralization a at 1,500 feet. Foster said the crew on the site will average about 15 peo- ple, consisting of drill crew, equipment operators, geologists and technicians, The drilling contractor for the job is Keewaitin Engineering of Vancouvér, The site is being serviced by road through Stew- art, and by air from Wrangell to . the Bronson Creek airstrip. ne BC Government should tell the truth about your health care plan. B.C. Govemment Claims About Medicare What the Government Neglected to Tell You : additional $300 million of Medicare. costs. sind costs in B.C. are out of control. - budgeting will be eimpored. Inthe last three months, billing numbers were issued to 1,200 new doctors following the B.C. Appeal Court striking - down Bill 41 (the Act controlling where doctors can » practice) Each new doctor costs Medicare $250, 000 a year, or an Medicare ¢ costs will be 3 peo next t year ar and regional “Infact, only 184 billing numbers were given to “new” doctors. Most of the 1,200 were already practising with restricted pumbers issued during the Mi years since Bill 41 passed. That same formtila means the 69 members of the legislature . \would cost the government $170 million a year each— Yeoh of B.C’s budget. Ridiculous? You bet. | Medicare costs are not out of control The portion of the _. provincial economy spent on Medicare has remained constant . for over 15 years, A November 7 Vancouver Sun editorial labelled the government's contention that Medicare costs are out of control as a “false claim” - This is a government attempt to ration health care, based _ on false claims about costs and doctor distribution. Quebec tried this and failed. Regionalization will discriminate against patients and their doctors and treat them differently, de- | Pending on where they live, Your doctors regret that the provincial government is playing politcal football with our ‘Medicare ‘program. Medicare is too important to you and your family. ~The Doctors of British Columbia SPEAKING OUT FOR YOUR HEALTH i British h Columbia Media Association