Spruce Ridge Resources Ltd. announced that it has completed its first diamond drill hole on the Fletcher Junction gold property in the Walker Lane area, Mineral County, Nevada. The drill hole penetrated the Aurora basalt and the gravel beds and intersected 324 metres of bedrock with alteration, and anomalous to highly anomalous pathfinder elements ­ silver, arsenic, antimony, mercury, and molybdenum - both of which typically form haloes for a few hundred metres around epithermal gold deposits similar to the adjacent Aurora mining district, which has produced approximately 2 million ounces of gold. Diamond drill hole FJ14 was the first core hole drilled on the Fletcher Junction property.

FJ1 to FJ13 were vertical reverse-circulation holes drilled by Nevada Exploration Inc., which were drilled a short distance into bedrock and established that alteration associated with anomalous concentrations of gold-related trace elements extended over several square kilometres under the lava and gravel cover. FJ14 is the first hole to test the depth extent of the newly discovered hydrothermal system. The target area is buried under gravels which are in turn covered with the 150,000 year-old Aurora basalt.

The drill hole passed through 115 metres of basalt and 191 metres of gravel before entering bedrock, which continued for 324 metres to the end of the hole at 629.4 metres. The company plans to drill a second hole, FJ-15, on a target 600 metres to the west of the area tested by FJ14.