Westhaven Gold Corp. announced initial drill results from its recently completed drill campaign at its 100% owned Skoonka Creek gold property. Skoonka Creek is located within the prospective Spences Bridge Gold Belt (SBGB), a four-hour drive from Vancouver, and 12 km northeast of Lytton, BC.

Westhaven is reporting assays for 11 holes from its Fall drill campaign at Skoonka Creek. An additional 5 holes are in the lab pending assay. J Zone: The primary target at the JJ Zone is high-grade epithermal, bonanza style, gold mineralization associated with quartz veining and quartz breccias, which were successfully intersected over various widths in all eight holes being reported herein (SC22-01 to SC22-08 - see table).

2022 drilling intersected the JJ vein zone over a strike length of 440m with a series of twelve holes spaced 25 to 185m apart. Combined with historic drilling, the vein zone extends over a strike length of 590m with a down dip extent of up to 240m from surface. Drilling also intersected significant intervals of lower grade gold mineralization, primarily in the footwall below the JJ Zone (for example, SC22-003 with 0.52 g/t Au and 0.85 g/t Ag over 21.04m from 73.37-94.41m).

This footwall mineralization is associated with brecciation, alteration and quartz-carbonate veining occurring in various host rocks (predominantly andesites and basalts). Results to date suggest that the relative location of this footwall zone varies slightly with respect to the JJ veining, likely as a result of both structural control and host rock mineralogy/rheology. Pending laboratory analyses for 5 other holes completed during the 2022 drill program are expected to help better define the extent of this footwall mineralization.

JJ West: Three drill holes were collared in 2022 at the previously untested JJ West exploration target (SC22-014, 014B and 015). Hole SC22-014B was drilled on section 4400E, some 600m southwest of the nearest holes at the JJ Zone. It was drilled at a dip of -55 as an undercut to hole SC22-014 (dip of -45), which was lost in a fault at 98m depth.

The JJ vein zone was intersected at 68.5-72.6m. Farther below, in the vein zone footwall, there are thick sections of andesite breccia at 89.63-142.99m and andesite at 142.99-223.25m that are variably bleached, locally very pyritic, and cut by trace to 1% millimetre scale, sometimes banded quartz-pyrite veins. These sections host a number of lower grade intervals.

The higher gold and arsenic grades tend to be associated with stronger bleaching and sometimes with stronger quartz-pyrite veining. Farther down hole, in the middle of a thick lapilli tuff horizon at 230.04–450m (EOH), there is an interval of low grade associated with some hydrothermally brecciated tuff at 312.88-313.36m that is healed by 10% pale grey to white chalcedony. The lower grade halo to this alteration zone extends into an underlying basalt dyke at 319.68-323.85m.

Hole SC22-015 was drilled on section 4100E at JJ-West, 300m southwest of SC22-014B and 900m along strike from the JJ Zone. It intersected the JJ vein zone at 152.9-228.4m, consisting of 1% pale grey to white massive to banded chalcedony veins to 4cm in basalt, some with hairline bands of black ginguro with elevated molybdenum and arsenic. The zone is cored by a quartz breccia vein at 185.43-185.89m containing 55 to 65% pale grey to white chalcedony, where 0.50 g/t Au, 0.73 g/t Ag were intercepted over 1.25m (184.64-185.89m).

A secondary zone of strongly bleached basalt within the vein zone at 198-211m returned elevated gold values as follows; 0.158 Au, 0.29 Ag over 9.10m (202.23-211.33m).