K9 Gold Corp. announced that the company continues to learn a great deal from its inaugural drilling season on the company’s vast Stony Lake Project, which is nestled comfortably within the suddenly popular Exploits Subzone Gold Belt in Central Newfoundland. But it’s what the company hasn’t learned yet that could be the most exciting piece of the early puzzle K9 Gold is developing from its recently ended 2021 drilling program. It’s often said that the waiting is the hardest part, so, what K9 Gold is expecting could prove to be well worth the wait. The problem is that testing laboratories throughout Canada are overwhelmed with work from mining companies, both big and small, awaiting analytical results, and much of that work is coming from companies mining in the Exploits Subzone Gold Belt. Waiting patiently in line for analytical data are K9 Gold’s executives who, like their shareholders, are beaming with excitement for those results to be received by the company. Data could confirm what the discovery of several necessary key factors during drilling are suggesting—and that is the potential for higher grade zones of gold mineralization. These results are crucial to the company’s next steps and will allow K9 Gold’s team to further plan its drilling operations which are expected to commence after the Christmas break. In its Phase 1 drilling program, the company completed 6,865 meters of diamond drilling on a total of 24 drill holes—18 of which were drilled in the Jumper’s Pond area on the Stony Lake property. The goal was to test potential mineralized targets in the Lawrenceton volcanics below the Botwood sediments. K9 Gold has stated that multiple wide zones of shearing, brecciation with quartz veining exhibiting a pyrite-arsenopyrite-stibnite mineral association have been intersected in the volcanics below the Botwood sediments.