Santana Minerals Ltd (ASX:SMI) has yielded one of the best results to date from its Rise and Shine (RAS) deposit, with an intercept of 41.6 metres at 8.6 grams per tonne of gold from 164.4 metres (with a true width of 38.8 metres). The deposit is part of the wider Bendigo-Ophir project in New Zealand’s Central Otago region, with regional exploration in the Rise and Shine valley beginning in 2012, leading to the discovery of an intercept of 40.3 metres at 2.05 grams per tonne of gold in 2020 – this being the ‘RAS discovery hole’. Santana has recently been carrying out infill drilling of the dep…