Other 2013 exploration highlights in north-central B. C. include 97.3 percent gold recovery in metallurgical studies and completion of a 12-hole, 3,863-meter diamond drilling program for 3Ts (Independence Gold Corp); completion of geochemical and geophysical surveying that expanded a deposit-scale anomaly to 600-meter-by-1,400 meter and identified other interesting geophysical targets in West Grid 4 at Blackwater West (RJK Explorations Ltd.) (A late 2012 two-hole drill program partially delineated the anomaly, reporting metal values up to 23 grams silver, 0.64 percent zinc, 0.45 percent lead an 0.22 percent copper ; and discovery of barium, zinc and lead mineralization in the Sitka showing on the Eastern Akie panel in extensive exploration at Akie (Canada Zinc Metals Corp).