Endurance Gold Corporation (TSXV: EDG) has unveiled further encouraging assay results from its 2021 diamond drilling programme at the Reliance Gold Property in southern British Columbia.
Assay results have been received for three additional diamond drill holes completed at the Eagle Zone. The maiden diamond drilling programme at the Eagle Zone continues to report near-surface high-grade gold intervals that confirm the zone is open to expansion. Highlights include:
- DDH21-006 intersected gold mineralisation of 8.62 grams per tonne (gpt) gold over 24.4 metres (m) (est. true width) including 17.02 gpt gold over 4.3 m. The gold mineralised interval commenced at 25.6 m down hole.
- DDH21-005 intersected 2.39 gpt gold over of 14.8 m (est. true width). The gold mineralised interval commenced at 14.3 m down hole.
- DDH21-007 intersected two gold intervals, 2.67 gpt gold over 2.5 m and 2.08 gpt gold over 16.9 m which includes 6.28 gpt gold over 2.0 m and 5.28 gpt gold over 3.3 m. The gold mineralised intervals commenced at 30 m and 44.9 m down hole, respectively.
“We are pleased to see the Eagle Zone continue to deliver high-grade intervals over substantial widths as we expand the extent of this zone,” CEO, Robert Boyd, said.
“We have now delivered both RC and diamond drill gold intercepts that confirm a significant strike length at the Eagle Zone. We look forward to expanding that strike potential even further with pending results.
“With other high-grade intersections, such as Imperial and Diplomat, our 2021 exploration program has already delivered a minimum 1.5 kilometre of exploration potential at the Reliance Property.”
The company has completed 22 drill holes at the Eagle and Imperial Zones. Assay results for the first four of 16 holes completed at the Eagle Zone were previously reported with intersections of 10.94 gpt gold over 5.4 m and 7.49 gpt gold over 9.0 m. Assay results for three of six holes drilled at the Imperial Zone included highlight intersection of 8.47 gpt gold over 24.9 m including a higher grade core of 16.27 gpt gold over 10.5 m.
DDH21-006 was drilled east at minus 45 degrees to test the downdip and south-eastern extension of the Eagle Zone and is the first entirely unoxidised Eagle Zone intersection. One of the sulphide-rich and silicified breccia intervals assayed 37.4 gpt gold over 1.3 m.
The hole intersected the Eagle mineralised horizon approximately 25 m downdip from reverse circulation (RC) drill hole RC21-040 (which returned 5.57 gpt gold over 22.86 m, including 9.87 gpt gold over 7.62 m), and extended the strike extent 25 m from hole RC21-039 (which returned 2.86 gpt gold over 21.34 m, including 7.51 gpt gold over 3.05 m).
DDH21-007 was drilled east at minus 70 degrees from the same setup as DDH21-006. The hole intersected the Eagle mineralised zone approximately 25 m downdip from the DDH21-006 intersection. The Eagle Zone is interpreted to be disrupted to the west by a wide melange zone related to the Royal Shear. These results indicate that the Eagle Zone continues to be open to expansion to the east and southeast. To the east, the up-dip extension of the Eagle Zone is interpreted to have been intersected in holes DDH21-018 and DDH 21-019, with assay results pending.
DDH21-005 was drilled east at minus 45 degrees with an approximate core recovery of 81% over this oxidised interval. This hole twinned an earlier RC drill hole, RC20-013 which had 100% sample recovery and returned 3.53 gpt gold over 15.2 m starting at 10.7 m down hole depth.
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