E.A (Ed) Balon
Westhaven Gold Corp. announced the passing of E.A (Ed) Balon, technical advisor. Throughout his career, Balon co-discovered several important deposits, including the Gayna River Zn-Pb deposit, Northwest Territories; the Logan Zn-Ag-Sn deposit, Yukon; the Midway (Silvertip) Ag-Pb-Zn deposit, BC; and the Elk/Siwash high-grade Au veins, British Columbia. Ed is widely recognized for identifying the Spences Bridge epithermal gold belt in southern British Columbia, where Westhaven’s Shovelnose gold project is located. He was inducted into the Yukon Prospectors’ Association Hall of Fame in 2014.
