WalkerWalker River Reports Drill Results At Lapon Canyon

 

VANCOUVER, BC - Walker River Resources Corp. reported results from the reverse circulation (RC) drill program on the Lapon Canyon gold project, located approximately 60 kilometers southeast of Yerington, Nevada.

Highlights include a RC drill hole LC 16-10 intersected 77.62 grams per tonne gold over 12.2 meters uncut (15.38 g/t cut) from 54.9 to 67.2 meters. A second zone in RC drill hole LC 16-10 intersected 48.02 grams per tonne gold over 13.7 meters uncut (7.2g/t cut) from 1.5 to 15.2 meters. RC drill hole LC 16-11 intersected 39.17 grams per tonne gold over 9.2 meters uncut (10.5 g/t cut) from 15.2 to 24.4 meters.

RC drill hole's 9, 10, and 12 were drilled in the Upper Lapon Rose zone in an altered sheared and faulted granodiorite and quartz monozonite porphyry. Alteration consists of sericite,FeOx and MnOx, secondary sulphidization, intruded by a series of flat lying altered quartz porphyry dykes.

RC drill hole LC 15- 04 intersected a mineralized cross fault structure in previously unmineralized diorite.

RC drill hole LC 16-10 was designed to verify the position of previously reported, presently inaccessible mined out area. The drill hole successfully intersected the mined-out stope at the reported location and verified the width at some 8 meters at a depth of 68 meters. It is significant that the gold mineralization encountered in LC 16-10 was encountered from 54.9 to 67.1 meters, only 0.8 meters from the stope.

The Lapon Project consists of 36 claims (720 acres) situated in the Wassuk Range, easily accessible by secondary state roads from the main highway. A state grid power transmission line passes within three kilometers of the property.

The Lapon project is located within the Walker Lane shear zone, a 100-kilometer-wide structural corridor extending in a southeast direction from Reno, Nevada. Within this trend, numerous gold, silver, and copper mines are located, notably the historic Comstock Lode mines in Virginia City, the past producing Esmeralda/Aurora gold mine, with reported production of some one million ounces, as well as the Anaconda open pit copper mine in Yerington. Nevada Copper's new mine, Pumpkin Hollow, is also located within the Wasuk Range about 25 kilometers north of Lapon.

The Lapon project is cut by a series of steeply dipping cross fault structures cutting across the Walker trend, analogous to other cross fault structures responsible for many gold and base metal deposits in the world. These faults are heavily sheared and altered (sericite, iron oxides) with abundant silica. They vary in width from 60 to 300 meters. Four of these structures have been discovered at Lapon, and at least two can be traced for over four kilometers. Gold mineralization is located within vertical en echelon structures within these faults. At least one of these shear zones, the Lapon Rose zone, was the site of underground development, and shows a minimum strike length of 4 kilometers, has a width of over 60 meters and has a vertical extent of at least 650 meters.

Walker along with its partner, Nevada Canyon Gold Corp. intend to pursue an aggressive drill program on this well located, highly prospective gold project. Some 6,000 meters of planned drilling has been outlined, with some 1800 meters completed to date.