Drilling At The Alpha Gold Project
VANCOUVER - Sitka Gold Corp. has commenced drilling at its Alpha Gold Project, located at the southeast end of the Cortez Trend in Nevada, approximately 40km southeast of the Barrick/Newmont Cortez gold mine complex. It has permitted six additional drill site locations at Alpha Gold for this next phase of drilling where the focus will be on testing along the newly identified structural trend to the southeast of AG21-02 & 03 for additional gold mineralization that was first discovered in these drill holes. These two discovery holes intersected long intervals of anomalous gold coincident with very strong pathfinder elements known to be associated with Carlin-type gold deposits. These latest drill results compiled with the results from recent surface reconnaissance have outlined these new target areas as the most probable high-grade cores of this system. Sitka intends to drill a minimum of 1,500 meters in this follow up phase of drilling.
“This is a very exciting chapter for Alpha Gold. Our data driven, systematic approach to exploration at Alpha has advanced the Project from what began as a conceptual model with no previous drilling to the discovery of a Carlin-type gold system at a mineable depth within the Project area,” said, Cor Coe, P.Geo., Director and CEO. “Results from our last two drill holes indicate that we are on the fringe of this system and we are now focused on discovering where the high-grade zones are. Alpha Gold continues to show it has the potential to host one or more Carlin-type gold deposits and we are very much looking forward to this phase of drilling as we aim to make the next big gold discovery on the Cortez Trend”.