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Sacre bleu, suspect package found on rig

VARISCAN Mines may be doing the first RC drilling on mainland France as it seeks to find gold and “introduce state-of-the art technology into the French resource sector”, but it is possible there may be some who aren’t all that keen on the whole affair given the discovery of a “suspect package” on one of its drill rigs that’s now being investigated by police.

Michael Quinn
Sacre bleu, suspect package found on rig

While Variscan doesn’t expect work at its St Pierre gold project east of Nantes to be delayed for long, it will review its planned operations pending the police investigation. MNN was unable to reach...

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