HighGold Mining Inc. (TSXV:HIGH) has obtained high-grade assay results from six additional drill holes testing the new Ellis Zone at the Difficult Creek Prospect (DC) in Alaska.
The prospect is located four km northeast of the company’s 1.05 Moz indicated at 9.4 g/t gold equivalent (AuEq) JT Deposit.
Difficult Creek is one of several district-scale prospects being explored by HighGold on the Johnson Tract project South-central Alaska, USA.
Ongoing diamond drilling continues to focus on the Ellis Zone where step-out drilling on 25m centres has returned strong mineralisation west and down-dip of recently released hole DC22-043 with 21.68 g/t Au, 30 g/t Ag, 0.61% Cu, 4.20% Zn over 11.9m.
The new intersections have expanded the footprint of the wide, high-grade Ellis Zone mineralisation by nearly 50% and the zone remains open in all directions.
Drill Highlights of the Ellis Zone, DC Prospect
Drillhole DC22-046
- 14.8m @ 10.14 g/t Au, 13.8 g/t Ag, 0.28% Cu, 5.97% Zn (14.3 g/t AuEq) including 6.8m @ 21.29 g/t Au, 25.1 g/t Ag, 0.55% Cu, 0.61% Pb, 10.70% Zn (28.7 g/t AuEq) including 1.5m @ 62.50 g/t Au, 10.5 g/t Ag, 0.77% Cu, 0.59% Pb, 10.59% Zn (70.0 g/t AuEq)
Drillhole DC22-045
- 35.2m @ 4.2 g/t Au, 6.1 g/t Ag, 0.12% Cu, 1.40% Pb, 3.19% Zn (6.7 g/t AuEq) including 1.9m @ 12.95 g/t Au, 37.7 g/t Ag, 13.51% Pb, 31.42% Zn (36.2 g/t AuEq), and 13.3m @ 7.81 g/t Au, 6.4 g/t Ag, 0.23% Cu, 1.31% Pb, 2.35% Zn (10.0 g/t AuEq)
Drillhole DC22-044
- 20.3m @ 1.72 g/t Au, 5.6 g/t Ag, 0.14% Cu, 1.46% Zn (2.9 g/t AuEq), in hole DC22-044, including 2.0m @ 8.34 g/t Au, 8.9 g/t Ag, 0.41% Cu, 4.00% Zn (11.5 g/t AuEq)
“The Ellis Zone discovery continues to deliver excellent results with some of the strongest and widest intersections to date coming from the western limit of our drilling,” CEO, Darwin Green, said.
“We are very encouraged by the persistence of the Ellis Zone mineralisation along strike and plan to keep stepping out in all directions as we continue expanding the known extents of the zone. While still very early days, it appears we are well on our way to defining a second deposit at Johnson Tract to compliment the existing high-grade +1Moz JT Deposit mineral resource that is also open to expansion.”
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