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The Ketola Zone is the southernmost auriferous zone discovered by drilling along the Suurikuusikko Trend. It has been tested by drilling over a strike length of approximately 960 m. The gold mineralization occurs in seven lenses (lenses 1020, 1320, 1340, 1420, 1440, 1520 and the average thickness of these lenses is 4.5 m, ranging between 3 and 9 m. The bulk of the mineral resource is between surface and 200 m depth. Low grade intercepts in the plunge of the zone indicate that this auriferous zone remains open at depth.

The Ketola Zone represents 2.1% of total probable reserves in the Kittila deposit (85,400 oz of gold in 0.6 million tonnes grading 4.48 g/t), 4.5% of total indicated resources (64,400 oz of gold in 1.0 million tonnes grading 2.07 g/t) and 1.5% of the total inferred resources (9,000 oz of gold in 0.1 million tonnes grading 2.17 g/t).