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Drill Holes AJ23-07 8 Intercepts 100 meter mineralized Zone beneath
Athelstan Gold Mine 100 meter mineralized zone suggests potential for several feeder systems to 1km mineralized gold zone at surface.
- 2,000 meter fall drill program on AJ gold property now complete.
Along with the two former gold mines this trend includes numerous trenches, pits and adit as well as mine waste dumps. Sampling in this area has returned extensive high gold and silver results. In particular sampling of the mine dumps have returned grades as high as 1oz/ton gold and over 5 oz/ton silver.1.
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This zone coincides with 2020 IP survey signatures of subsurface chargeability and resistivity highs, in addition to overlapping magnetic lows. All interpreted to potentially relate to the presence of sulphide mineralization, as well as silica, silica-carbonate and phyllic alteration zones.
Shallow listwanite units (oxidized to unweathered) were consistently intersected but unexpectedly, very wide intense alteration zones with moderate sulphide mineralization were also intersected at depths previously untested with historic exploration drilling or mining.
Silica, silica-carbonate and phyllic alteration was intersected over 100 metre durations in 7th and 8th diamond drill holes directly beneath the Athlestan mine. This discovery of multi-metre quartz shear and stockwork style vein intersections with all lithologies hosting widespread pyrrhotite and pyrite and lesser chalco and arsenopyrites may potentially be a conduit and fracture spaces for deep seated mineralizing hydrothermal fluids.
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Listwanite and Serpentinite
Listwanite(carbonated serpentinite) is a term to describe the silica-carbonate alteration of serpentinite and is commonly associated with high-grade lode-gold mineralization.
All of the historic production from the property, and the vast majority of the previous exploration, all of which were in the
During the serpentinization process any gold present in the serpentine may be assimilated with secondary sulfides and/or magnetite and could be indicative by the magnetic anomalies within the property.
These opaque minerals (magnetite) are subsequently destroyed in talc-carbonate alteration zones (magnetic low features), which results in gold being released from the serpentinite wall rocks and transported in solution. The gold and silica-rich fluids are transported to higher crustal levels via faults where the change in conditions (lower temperature, pH and ƒO2) results in the precipitation of gold, quartz and sulfides.
The
1. Arrowhead Resources Surface Dump Sampling Report, Grant 1981.
2.2002 Summary Report on the
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ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
“George Sookochoff”
Neither the
This Press Release may contain forward-looking statements that may involve a number of risks and uncertainties, based on assumptions and judgments of management regarding future events or results that may prove to be inaccurate as a result of exploration and other risk factors beyond its control. Actual events or results could differ materially from the Companies forward-looking statements and expectations. These risks and uncertainties include, among other things, that we may not be able to obtain regulatory approval; that we may not be able to raise funds required, that conditions to closing may not be fulfilled and we may not be able to organize and carry out an exploration program in 2023, and other risks associated with being a mineral exploration and development company. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release and, except as required by applicable laws, the Company assumes no obligation to update these forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results differed from those projected in the forward-looking statements.
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