Viva Gold Corp (TSXV:VAU) has mobilised a reverse circulation (RC) drill rig to the Tonopah Gold Project in Nevada, to commence work on a 3,000 m, 21- hole work plan approved by the US Bureau of Land Management.
The drilling programme is expected to be completed over approximately a two-month period, with assay results to follow.
“The focus of this programme is to follow up on the exceptional drill results from our 2022 RC drilling programme and to perform both infill and step-out drilling in our current resource area with the goal of increasing the contained gold mineral resource at Tonopah,” President and CEO, James Hesketh, said.
“The programme is also expected to upgrade existing inferred mineral resource to measured and indicated category and to partially convert undrilled waste material in the resource pit area into gold mineralization.”
Prior to its 2022 drilling programmes, Tonopah reported a pit confined measured and indicated gold mineral resource of 394,000oz at a gold grade of 0.78g/t and 206,000oz of Inferred resource at 0.87g/t. The Company is updating its resource model by adding information from twenty-two drill holes completed in 2022 and is planning to prepare a new NI43-101 compliant resource estimate once the current drill programme’s results are received.
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