NevGold Identifies +6 Meter Wide Undrilled Outcropping Vein and Finds Visible Gold in Historical Core at Nutmeg Mountain
08 September 2022 - 2:00PM
NevGold Corp. (“
NevGold” or the
“
Company”) (
TSXV:NAU)
(OTCQX:NAUFF)
(Frankfurt:5E50) is
pleased to announce it has identified an undrilled +6 meter wide
banded low-sulphidation epithermal vein outcropping at surface over
650 meters away from the main resource body at the Nutmeg Mountain
Project in Idaho. (See Note 1: historical 2020 mineral resource
estimate of 910,000 Indicated ounces of gold (43.5 Mt @ 0.65 g/t
Au), and 160,000 Inferred ounces of gold (9.1 Mt @ 0.56 g/t Au))
The Company also identified visible gold in previously assayed
historical core during a detailed core relogging campaign completed
since the transaction closed on July 5, 2022. The core relogging
and surface mapping campaign is now complete, and the project has
been advanced to the drill-ready stage by identifying multiple
resource expansion and exploration targets.
Key Highlights
- Untapped Lateral Resource
Expansion Potential: identification of a large epithermal
vein outcropping at surface with no historical drilling over 650
meters south of the main 2020 resource at Nutmeg Mountain (Figure
1) opens meaningful lateral resource expansion potential and could
be the high-level portion of a high-grade feeder zone. The
outcropping vein has a width of over 6 meters and over 100 meters
of exposed strike length with no historical drilling. Geochemical
and textural signatures indicate it is near the top of the
epithermal system, above the expected gold-silver zone. (Figure
2)
- High Grade
Opportunity: the Company has
identified a large, structurally controlled, high-grade core in the
2020 resource. Most of the historical drilling completed at the
project has been vertical and the extents of the higher-grade
portions of the orebody have not been fully tested at depth or
along strike. This is an immediate opportunity to increase the size
and grade of the resource. Visible gold was observed in
historically drilled core starting at 45.4 meters depth. (Figure
3)
- Phase 1 Core Relogging and
Surface Mapping Completed, Project is Drill-Ready: the
Company has diligently completed an initial geological mapping and
relogging program focused on the historical work completed on the
project. There are many untapped opportunities identified, which
will be the focus of the initial program at the project.
NevGold CEO, Brandon
Bonifacio, comments: “Although we just closed the
transaction on July 5, our team has diligently worked to get Nutmeg
Mountain to the drill-ready stage. Through the field and core
relogging program, we have identified a number of positive
developments that were not initially expected after completion of
our due diligence on the project. The identification of an
outcropping vein at surface over 650 meters away from the main 2020
resource boundary, with all the telltale signatures of a strong
epithermal gold system has become an outstanding growth target. To
our pleasant surprise we also found un-assayed core in the
historical core yard with visible veining occurring outside of the
2020 resource boundary. We are confident that we have built a
cost-effective, streamlined work program to deliver value from
Nutmeg Mountain to both expand the gold resource and discover new
ore in the district.”
NevGold VP Exploration,
Derick Unger, comments: “We have rapidly advanced the
field work and core relogging at Nutmeg Mountain and the project
continues to impress us. The identification of a +6 meter wide,
large banded vein with near surface silica textures and no previous
drilling is just one example of the potential for new discoveries
on the Nutmeg property. Additionally, our relogging of previously
drilled core has found unsampled veins in the drill core, and
observed visible gold in previously sampled core from only 45.4
meters depth. Combined, all indications are that this is a strong
gold system that starts at the surface and has untested high-grade
potential at depth. We have multiple exploration and resource
expansion targets already identified at Nutmeg and we look forward
to our first drill program during the fall.”
Figure 1 – Plan view of Nutmeg Mountain project
with resource block model and newly identified vein.To view image
please click here
Figure 2 – Outcrop of greater than 6 meters wide
vein with previously mined adit, over 650 meters from the main body
of the 2020 resource estimate at Nutmeg Mountain. The vein is
strongly banded and brecciated with near surface chalcedonic silica
textures and cinnabar mineralization, indicating it is above the
typical low-sulphidation epithermal gold-silver high-grade zone. To
view image please click here
Figure 3 – Core Photo – Visible gold in banded
vein from historical drill hole TAL-794 at 45.4 meters (149 feet)
depth. To view image please click here
Figure 4 – Map of NevGold’s projects in the
Western USA. To view image please click here
Note 1: On July 14, 2020, GoldMining Inc.
(“GoldMining”, TSX:GOLD, NYSE:GLDG) published a NI 43-101 technical
report on the Project titled “Technical Report – Almaden Gold
Property”, with an effective date of April 1, 2020, and which
includes the following Historical Resource Estimate:
Nutmeg Mountain Historic 2020
Mineral Resource
Classification |
Cutoff Grade Au
g/tonne |
Tonnes |
Gold Grade
g/tonne |
Ounces Gold |
Indicated |
0.30 |
43,470,000 |
0.65 |
910,000 |
Inferred |
0.30 |
9,150,000 |
0.56 |
160,000 |
Table 1: Mineral Resource from GoldMining’s NI
43-101 technical report filed on SEDAR on July 14, 2020
A Nevgold Qualified Person has not done
sufficient work to classify the Historical Resource Estimate as
current mineral resources, and NevGold is not treating the
historical estimate as current mineral resources or mineral
reserves.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Signed”
Brandon Bonifacio, President &
CEO
For further information, please contact Brandon
Bonifacio at bbonifacio@nev-gold.com, call 604-337-4997, or visit
our website at www.nev-gold.com.
Technical information contained in this news
release has been reviewed and approved by Derick Unger, CPG, the
Company’s Vice President, Exploration, who is NevGold’s qualified
person under National Instrument 43-101 and responsible for
technical matters of this release.
About the
CompanyNevGold is an exploration and development company
targeting large-scale mineral systems in the proven districts of
Nevada, Idaho, and British Columbia. NevGold owns a 100% interest
in the Limousine Butte and Cedar Wash gold projects in Nevada, and
the Ptarmigan silver-polymetallic project in Southeast BC, and has
an option to acquire 100% of the Nutmeg Mountain gold project in
Idaho.
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