Lapon Gold Project Drilling Commences

VANCOUVER - Walker River Resources Corp. has restarted on the 2021 reverse circulation (RC) drilling program at the Lapon Canyon portion, of the Lapon Gold Project located approximately 60 kilometers southeast of Yerington, Nevada. Significant, visible gold (VG) was noted at a depth of 18.3 meters in hole LC 21-76, in the chip tray used for visual logging purposes at the drill rig. The 2021 drilling programs have been designed to determine structure and morphology for 3D geological modeling. Drilling has concentrated on the boundary contacts of the gold mineralization with the surrounding country rock (granite). To date, drilling has been successful in determining the gold mineralization continuing to be open along strike both to the NE and SW, including the discovery of new mineralization. Drill hole LC 21-65 was very important in this regard, it opened up mineralization to the NE, potentially being the continuation of the high-grade corridor some 500 meters to the west. The present drilling will now follow up and target the extensions of the high-grade zones and corridors, both at depth and along strike, as discovered in previous drilling at Lapon Canyon.

The gold mineralization at Lapon Canyon is contained in a wide (300 meters), long (over 4km strike length), intensely altered (sericite, iron oxides) sheared and faulted NE trending zone. Gold mineralization is present pervasively throughout as an envelope of lower grade mineralization (0.5 to 2.0 g/t Au) enveloping distinct high-grade structures, that have been drilled over a strike length of over 850 meters and a vertical extent of 400 meters. The high-grade gold mineralization is encountered in discrete, traceable zones located at the intersection of flat lying porphyry dikes and vertical stockwork fracture chimneys.