VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 19,
2024 /CNW/ - Nevada King Gold Corp. (TSXV:
NKG) (OTC: NKGFF) ("Nevada
King" or the "Company") is pleased to announce
that its Phase III regional drill program is now underway,
following receipt of all necessary approvals from the Bureau of
Land Management, at its 100%-owned Atlanta Gold Mine Project along
the prolific Battle Mountain Trend, 264km northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.
Highlights:
- The Phase III drill program will include an initial
20,000m of drilling across roughly 80
drill targets that are planned throughout the Atlanta district (targets released on
September 17, 2024, and October 3, 2024).
- The program will utilize two reverse-circulation ("RC")
drills, the first of which arrived on site on November 13, 2024, and has completed three holes
at the Jumbo and Northeast Target areas. The second rig, which will
be used at the South Quartzite Ridge Target ("SQRT") arrived
on November 19, 2024.
- Road construction at the SQRT commenced on November 8, 2024, to provide access to new drill
pad locations along the eastern side and top of the ridge.
Initially expected to take 8-12 weeks, progress has been faster
than anticipated, with the majority of the road construction
already complete, ahead of schedule, and below budget (see Figures
1-2).
- Planned SQRT holes are sited to drill down through the
impermeable quartzite cap, into the low resistivity zone visible on
geophysics underlying much of the ridge and thought to be the
southward extension of altered felsic intrusive rock that hosts the
6.28 g/t Au over 54.9m returned in
AT24HG-41 (released July 23, 2024) at
the very northern end of the SQRT.
Cal Herron, Exploration Manager of Nevada King, stated, "The Atlanta resource is almost entirely covered by
variably thick sections of alluvium and unmineralized volcanics,
quartzite, and dolomite. Since the mid-70s through successive
stages of drilling, the extent of mineralization expanded from a
small outcrop discovered 140 years ago to what it is today. Despite
the discovery of numerous Au-Ag occurrences throughout the
Atlanta district, discovery of
additional deposits has been severely hampered by extensive thick
cover. New high resolution geophysical data together with a more
comprehensive understanding of the structural and lithological
controls has provided Nevada King
focus and a number of high priority targets for our Phase III
drilling program. We look forward to testing these targets to
assess their geological environment and potential for hosting
significant gold mineralization."
QA/QC Protocols
All RC samples from the Atlanta Project are split at the drill
site and placed in cloth and plastic bags utilizing a nominal 2kg
sample weight. CRF standards, blanks, and duplicates are inserted
into the sample stream on-site on a one-in-twenty sample basis,
meaning all three inserts are included in each 20-sample group.
Samples are shipped by a local contractor in large sample shipping
crates directly to American Assay Lab in Reno, Nevada, with full custody being
maintained at all times. At American Assay Lab, samples were
weighted then crushed to 75% passing 2mm and pulverized to 85%
passing 75 microns in order to produce a 300g pulverized split.
Prepared samples are initially run using a four acid + boric acid
digestion process and conventional multi-element ICP-OES analysis.
Gold assays are initially run using 30-gram samples by lead fire
assay with an OES finish to a 0.003 ppm detection limit, with
samples greater than 10 ppm finished gravimetrically. Every sample
is also run through a cyanide leach for gold with an ICP-OES
finish. The QA/QC procedure involves regular submission of
Certified Analytical Standards and property-specific
duplicates.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information in this news release
has been reviewed and approved by Calvin R.
Herron, P.Geo., who is a Qualified Person as defined by
National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101").
About Nevada King Gold Corp.
The Atlanta Mine is a historical gold-silver producer with a NI
43-101 compliant pit-constrained resource of 460,000 oz Au in the
measured and indicated category (11.0M tonnes at 1.3 g/t) plus an inferred
resource of 142,000 oz Au (5.3M
tonnes at 0.83 g/t). See the NI 43-101 Technical Report on
Resources titled "Atlanta Property, Lincoln County, NV" with an effective date of
October 6, 2020, and a report date of
December 22, 2020, as prepared by
Gustavson Associates and filed under the Company's profile on
SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca).
Resource
Category
|
Tonnes
(000s)
|
Au
Grade
(ppm)
|
Contained
Au
Oz
|
Ag
Grade
(ppm)
|
Contained
Ag
Oz
|
Measured
|
4,130
|
1.51
|
200,000
|
14.0
|
1,860,000
|
Indicated
|
6,910
|
1.17
|
260,000
|
10.6
|
2,360,000
|
Measured +
Indicated
|
11,000
|
1.30
|
460,000
|
11.9
|
4,220,000
|
Inferred
|
5,310
|
0.83
|
142,000
|
7.3
|
1,240,000
|
Table 1. NI 43-101 Mineral Resources at the Atlanta
Mine
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Forward-looking statements in this news release relate to, among
other things, the Company's exploration plans and the Company's
ability to potentially expand mineral resources and the impact
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Forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and
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complete proposed exploration work, the results of exploration,
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