Austin Gold Options The Stockade Mountain Project In Oregon


RENO, NV - Austin Gold Corp. has signed a mineral lease and option agreement with Bull Mountain Resources LLC (BMR) to lease a 100% interest in the Stockade Property located in southeastern Oregon. The Stockade Property consists of 261 unpatented lode mining claims that cover an area of over 6,790 acres, located in Malheur County, Oregon, approximately 85 kilometers southeast of Burns, Oregon, or 150 kilometers southwest of Boise, Idaho.

The property is a classic large epithermal/hot springs alteration system associated with rhyolite intrusions and doming focused along a major NW-trending structural corridor. Exploration programs conducted by BHP, Phelps Dodge and Placer Dome in the 1980s and 1990s included shallow exploration holes targeting bulk tonnage potential, with no efforts to target deeper high-grade gold/silver vein deposits. Many of these short holes returned significant lengths of strongly anomalous gold mineralization, with the best intercept being 79.2 m (260 ft) averaging 0.937 g/t gold from 45.7 - 125 m (150 – 410 ft). Within that interval is 24 m averaging 1.560 g/t gold from 58 to 82.3 m (190 – 270 ft). Numerous other holes returned long intercepts of >0.2 g/t gold.