Hole 58 was the second of two holes completed during the 2024 winter diamond drilling program at the Company's 386 square kilometre, road accessible
Assay highlights from drill hole DDRCCC-24-058: 351 m of 0.85 g/t Au from 157.0 m including 154 m of 1.47 g/t Au from 354.0 m 37.0 m of 3.07 m g/t Au from 449.0 m 8.0 m of 4.61 g/t from 470.0 m
'The strong gold results from Hole 58 continue to highlight the potential of this area to add significant higher-grade tonnage to our gold resource while further demonstrating the prospectivity of the multiple intrusion related gold deposit targets we have across our 100% owned, district-scale
'The higher-grade gold values being discovered near our Blackjack gold deposit are quite remarkable for a reduced intrusion related gold system and the results from Hole 58 further support our view that there is incredible potential for additional discoveries of similar calibre across our largely underexplored land package, where nine known intrusions with associated gold mineralization have been discovered to date. With the summer phase of drilling about to commence and the largest drilling campaign planned to date at RC Gold, with up to 15,000 metres diamond drilling proposed, we look forward to further unlocking this potential while we continue to expand our rapidly growing gold resource'.
The results of Holes 57 and 58, when taken together with the results of Hole 47, have significantly enhanced the Company's understanding of the structural controls of gold mineralization at the Blackjack deposit. The higher-grade gold intervals identified in these holes form a large volume of well mineralized rock that define a SSE trending corridor, now called the Blackjack Mineralized Corridor, that is coincident with the Blackjack Fault, a previously identified feature which is interpreted to have been important in the emplacement of the Saddle Stock and subsequent gold mineralizing episodes.
When placed in a district context, the results of the recent drilling further demonstrate the potential of significant gold mineralization in the Blackjack deposit to continue to the southeast. The area between the known southern extent of the Saddle Stock and the West Pukelman Stock is of particular interest as it is essentially unexplored.
Hole 58 was collared approximately 70 metres north of recently completed DDRCCC-24-057, which also intersected visible gold in sheeted veining within megacrystic quartz monzonite and returned 191.0 Metres of 1.16 g/t gold. Hole 58 was drilled to a depth of 534.9 metres at an azimuth of 60 degrees and dip of -60 degrees. It was drilled to test the down dip extension of the well mineralized quartz monzonite intrusion intersected in hole DDRCCC-23-047.
Hole 58 intersected 2 broad zones of feldspar megacrystic and vari-textured, quartz monzonite and feldspar porphyry within a large package of biotite schist, phyllite, and quartzite. A large lamprophyre dyke was intersected from 509.85-528.15 m at the footwall contact of mineralized quartz monzonite.
Both quartz monzonite intrusions were cut by abundant 1-2 cm sheeted quartz veins, quartz-arsenopyrite veins, and arsenopyrite veins. Visible gold was noted at several locations including 180.2 m, 240.5 m, 244.2 m, 276.3 m, 401.2 m, and 476.9 m, and several occurrences of bismuthinite were noted such as 476.8 m and 420.0 m.
A focus for drilling up to 15,000 m in 2024 will be to continue to define gold mineralization along the newly recognized Blackjack Mineralized Corridor to the SSE. In addition, soil and rock sampling and geologic mapping will also be conducted along the Blackjack Mineralized Corridor to further evaluate the mineralization within this unexplored portion of the property.
Further Objectives for 2024
In addition to extending Blackjack gold mineralization to the southeast, objectives for the Company's 2024 exploration season include further drilling of the Saddle East zone (84 m of 1.21 g/t Au in 2023), further drilling of the Eiger Deposit (Inferred Resource of 440,000 oz Au in 2023), further drilling of the Josephine Stock (visible gold discovered at surface in 2023) and further investigation of the nine known intrusions with associated gold mineralization that have been discovered to date on the Company's 386 square kilometre
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Exploration on the Property has mainly focused on identifying an intrusion-related gold system ('IRGS'). The property is within the Tombstone Gold Belt which is the prominent host to IRGS deposits within the
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