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Trenching, sampling provides White Gold insights into JP Ross North of 60 Mining News – October 23, 2020
White Gold's early staged exploration at JP Ross is an integral part of a C$4 million exploration campaign being carried out this year across the company's more than 1-million-acre land package in Yukon's White Gold District.
White Gold Corp. Oct. 22 reported that this year's trenching, GT probe and soil sampling at JP Ross has identified widespread structurally controlled gold mineralization at multiple targets on the road accessible property in Yukon's White Gold District.
"To date, at least 14 gold targets have been identified on the JP Ross property across a 14- by 11-kilometer (8.7 by 6.8 miles) area, many within close proximity to significant current and historical placer gold operations," said White Gold Corp. CEO David D'Onofrio. "This program has also provided valuable insight into the orientation and geometry of the mineralized systems, information that has been incorporated into our scientific and data driven methodology to define drill targets for the current and future seasons."
Trenching at the Stage Fright target, which encompasses multiple gold-in-soil anomalies covering a 2,700- by 400-meter area, encountered a 2.5-meter-wide high-grade zone averaging 8.88 grams per metric ton gold in trench JPRSF20T009. Another trench at Stage Fright, JPRSF20T010, exposed two separate mineralized zones – 2.5 meters of 1.06 g/t gold and 2.5 meters 1.83 g/t gold.
At Sabotage, a target about 1,500 meters southeast of Stage Fright, five of seven trenches encountered gold mineralization including 1.5 meters of 3.4 g/t gold in trench JPRSAB20T023; 8.5 meters of 1.15 g/t gold in trench JPRSAB20T025; and 2.1 meters of 1.06 g/t gold and 0.8 meters of 15 g/t gold in trench JPRSAB20T029.
Trenching at North Frenzy, a target roughly 4,500 meters northeast of Stage Fright, traced a north-south striking zone of mineralized quartz vein breccias with anomalous gold over a strike length of 600 meters.
In addition to trenching, top of bedrock samples with a GT Probe encountered intriguing gold values at Notorious, an untested target about 1,500 meters west of North Frenzy. Samples from Notorious returned values from 0.17 to 24.4 g/t gold
"We are pleased to have encountered additional gold mineralization across multiple recently identified zones as well as the high-grade gold mineralization on the newly discovered Notorious target, providing further indication that the abundant gold mineralization is part of a robust regional scale structurally controlled system," said D'Onofrio.
White Gold said the positive results from the 2020 JP Ross exploration program, in conjunction with other exploration results, warranted follow-up exploration.
The company has already completed significant follow-up sampling, trenching and rotary air blast drilling on several high-priority targets, and plans to carry out addition RAB and diamond drilling in 2021.
White Gold said the early staged exploration at JP Ross is an integral part of a larger 2020 exploration campaign across the company's more than 1-million-acre land package in Yukon's White Gold District. This fully funded C$4 million program is backed by partners Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd. and Kinross Gold Corp.
The 2020 program also includes diamond drilling at the Ryan's Surprise and Titan targets; RAB drilling at Hen, which lies immediately east of JP Ross; and a significant regional program that includes soil and GT probe sampling, and ground geophysical surveys.
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