Victoria Gold Corp. (TSX.V-VIT) “Victoria” or the “Company” is
pleased to announce analytical results from the 2019 diamond
drilling program at the Raven Target within the Nugget Zone.
Multiple high-grade gold intersections,
including:
- 2.05 g/t Au over 14.8 m,
- 7.72 g/t Au over 2.8 m,
- 4.48 g/t Au over 5.9 m,
- 2.35 g/t Au over 15.9 m, and
- 2.40 g/t Au over 8.1 m.
Long intercepts of gold mineralization,
including:
- 1.05 g/t Au over 42.4 m, and
- 0.60 g/t Au over 88.1 m.
Mineralized veins were intersected in every hole
at Raven and are interpreted to be structurally controlled.
Exploration work over the past two seasons has proven the
mineralized veins are both consistent and persistent across the
Raven Target.
“The exploration team delivered exciting results
despite the fact the exploration program was limited this year, as
we focused on building the Eagle Gold Mine.” stated John McConnell,
President & CEO. “Raven, Bluto, Olive-Popeye, and Falcon all
have potential to add ounces across the Dublin Gulch property while
we begin to mine and generate cash flow from Eagle.”
The goal of the 2019 Raven drill program was to
follow up on the high-grade, on surface, gold mineralization
discovered in late 2018 by surface trenches and limited diamond
drilling. The 2019 program consisted of extensive surface trenches
and drill testing of the Raven Target on nominal 50 meter step outs
from the 2018 drill fence and surface trenches. During this year’s
drilling campaign, further evaluation of the Nugget intrusive
stock, which hosts the Raven Target, was undertaken as well as new
access construction into areas in the eastern Dublin Gulch claim
block that were previously inaccessible.
Nine short angled diamond drill holes (average
hole depth of 180 meters) totaling 1,617 meters were drilled over
approximately 400 m2 of the > 1 km2 Raven Target in 2019; which
tested over 300 meters of strike length across the target.
Additionally, over 5,400 meters of trenches were constructed across
the Nugget Zone with 2,458 total trench samples.
The 2019 Raven drill program concentrated on the
central portion of the coincident gold+arsenic+bismuth-in-soils
anomaly that was defined from 2018 soils geochemical sampling.
Raven is centered in this large 1,800 meter long by 900 meter wide
soil anomaly that remains open to the south and east. The 2019
Raven trenches covered an area of over 800 m2 and returned multiple
scorodite, bismuth and siderite related sulphide vein exposures
throughout the trenches. Structural control of the mineralization
is evident within the trenches and drill core and this information
will be critically important for guidance in all next phase efforts
at Raven, to vector in to the large high-grade dilatational
fracture zone which is interpreted to host the Raven gold deposit.
The density of intersected veins affords Eagle-style grade
intervals over greater than 100 meter intervals. The majority of
the Nugget gold stock remains untested, all of which represents top
priority Eagle-style mineralization targets.
A Summary table of 2019 Raven diamond drillholes
is presented below:
Hole ID |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Length (m) |
Gold (g/t) |
|
NG19-009C |
81.1 |
98.1 |
17.1 |
0.39 |
|
NG19-010C |
81.3 |
134.3 |
53.0 |
0.45 |
|
including |
81.3 |
89.4 |
8.1 |
2.04 |
|
NG19-011C |
28.8 |
117.0 |
88.1 |
0.60 |
|
including |
16.7 |
40.5 |
23.9 |
0.92 |
|
which includes |
28.8 |
31.6 |
2.8 |
7.72 |
|
and |
91.1 |
117.0 |
25.9 |
1.15 |
|
including |
91.1 |
93.0 |
1.8 |
9.27 |
|
NG19-012C |
29.4 |
195.7 |
166.4 |
0.46 |
|
including |
29.4 |
71.8 |
42.4 |
1.05 |
|
which includes |
29.4 |
30.5 |
1.1 |
14.90 |
|
and includes |
65.9 |
71.8 |
5.9 |
4.48 |
|
NG19-013C |
14.1 |
153.4 |
139.3 |
0.41 |
|
and with |
72.5 |
91.7 |
19.2 |
0.89 |
|
including |
72.5 |
73.5 |
1.0 |
9.90 |
|
NG19-014C |
16.8 |
119.1 |
102.4 |
0.32 |
|
including |
16.8 |
17.2 |
0.4 |
18.20 |
|
and including |
78.2 |
97.0 |
18.8 |
0.95 |
|
NG19-015C |
4.4 |
198.3 |
193.9 |
0.35 |
|
including |
48.6 |
91.4 |
42.8 |
0.94 |
|
with |
68.2 |
84.1 |
15.9 |
2.35 |
|
and including |
82.1 |
84.1 |
2.0 |
12.8 |
|
NG19-016C |
33.9 |
176.4 |
142.6 |
0.45 |
|
including |
100.1 |
106.1 |
6.0 |
2.64 |
|
with |
161.6 |
176.4 |
14.8 |
2.05 |
|
NG19-017C |
15.2 |
62.3 |
47.1 |
0.43 |
|
including |
58.1 |
62.3 |
4.2 |
3.93 |
|
*True widths are unknown at this time
A full set of sections and plan maps for the
2019 Nugget exploration drill program will be made available on the
Company website, www.vitgoldcorp.com.
In conjunction with the Nugget drill and trench
work programs, a detailed soils geochemical survey consisting of
100 meter spaced lines and 50 meter sample stations was completed
and culminated in the collection of 3,266 soils samples. These
samples are currently being analyzed by XRF which will be followed
by full suite ICP multi-element analyses.
Trench assays and results of detailed
meter-scale trench mapping the 2019 Raven program will be released
when assay and related geological data is available.
About the Nugget ZoneThe Nugget
Zone, inclusive of the Raven Target, represents the second largest
Cretaceous granodiorite intrusive body on the Dublin Gulch property
(second only the Dublin Gulch stock that hosts the Eagle Gold Mine)
and consists of a 2.2 kilometer by 1.2 kilometer, medium to coarse
grained granodiorite stock of the Cretaceous age Tombstone Plutonic
Suite. The Nugget stock is hosted in the Earn group and the Keno
Hill Quartzite. Coincident arsenic and gold in soils anomalies
occur along the contact margins of the Nugget stock. This intrusive
plug is akin to the Eagle Deposit, and has been the subject of
limited historic exploration work due to the previous
inaccessibility of the area.
About the Dublin Gulch
PropertyVictoria Gold's 100%-owned Dublin Gulch gold
property is situated in central Yukon Territory, Canada,
approximately 375 kilometers north of the capital city of
Whitehorse, and approximately 85 kilometers from the town of Mayo.
The Property is accessible by road year-round, and is located
within Yukon Energy's electrical grid.
The Property covers an area of approximately 555
square kilometers, and is the site of the Company's Eagle Gold
Deposit. The Eagle Gold Mine is under construction and is expected
to be Yukon's next operating gold mine. The Eagle and Olive
deposits, include Proven and Probable Reserves of 2.7 million
ounces of gold from 123 million tonnes of ore with a grade of 0.67
grams of gold per tonne, as outlined in a National Instrument
43-101 feasibility study entitled Report for the Eagle Gold Project
and dated October 26, 2016. The NI 43-101 Mineral Resource for the
Eagle and Olive deposits has been estimated, as at December 5,
2018, to host 208 million tonnes averaging 0.66 grams of gold per
tonne, containing 4.4 million ounces of gold in the "Measured and
Indicated" category, inclusive of Proven and Probable Reserves, and
a further 20 million tonnes averaging 0.64 grams of gold per tonne,
containing 0.4 million ounces of gold in the "Inferred"
category.
Analytical Method All
exploration drill core from the 2019 program was logged,
photographed, split and shipped from Victoria Gold’s Nugget
Exploration Camp with half samples placed back in the core boxes
and alternate halves of split samples sealed in poly bags with one
part of a three-part sample tag inserted within. Half core
samples were sent directly to SGS Canada Inc.’s on-site assay
laboratory at the Eagle Gold Mine where samples were crushed,
pulverized and analyzed by 30-gram Fire Assay with AAS finish for
gold via SGS protocol ‘GC_FAA35V10’. A comprehensive system of
standards, blanks and field duplicates was implemented for the 2019
Raven drilling programs and were monitored as chemical assay data
became available.
All samples above the 80th percentile of
reported gold grade have been selected for full multi-element
ICP-MS and 50 gram Fire Assay gold analyses at an ISO certified
facility as part of Victoria’s internal assay confirmation
program.
Qualified PersonThe technical
content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Paul
D. Gray, P.Geo., as the Qualified Person. For additional
information relating to the Property, refer to the technical report
entitled “NI 43-101 Feasibility Study Technical Report for the
Eagle Gold Project, Yukon Territory, Canada”, with an effective
date of September 12, 2016, which is available on the Company’s
profile at www.sedar.com.
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For Further Information Contact:John McConnell
President & CEO Victoria Gold Corp Tel: 416-866-8800 Fax:
416-866-8801 www.vitgoldcorp.com
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