The newly discovered Ziti Occurrence and new drilling target
Gold is concentrated near a north-trending contact between quartzite and argillite that was traced for 600 metres in three outcrops. The north end of the Ziti structure is intersected by the northwest-trending Witlage deformation zone and this intersection is also an area where intensive artisanal mining has created an obvious colour anomaly of bright white quartz tailings (Exhibit 1). Adjacent to, and within the contact, gold is concentrated in quartz-pyrite vein stockworks and silicified zones in quartzite (Exhibit 2). At the north end of the structure, rock samples contain up to 5.7 grams gold per tonne from rock chip samples of quartz veins and silicified quartzite with disseminated pyrite. At the south end of the structure, a large pit approximately 40 metres wide and 15 metres high was recently excavated into a hillside by local miners who were evidently mining material with an excavator and hand cobbing the ore to feed two crusher-sluice box streams. At that location, the quartzite has stockworks of quartz vein steeps and flats and the adjacent argillite also has secondary quartz-pyrite replacement bodies (Exhibit 2). Four drill holes (approximately 400 metres) of drilling are planned to test the Ziti gold occurrence. It is anticipated that the drilling will be completed in June as part of the current Phase 2 drilling of the high grade Witlage Target.
Results of sampling of the newly discovered Ziti Gold Occurrence
Sample | Type | Description | Au ppm (g/t) | |
59614 | Ziti | Rock chip | very hard and silicified sandstone with hematite oxidation and quartz veinlets | 15.51 |
59679 | Ziti | Rock chip | 20 cm quartz vein in sandstone | 1.58 |
59685 | Ziti | Rock chip | sandstone with 10% pyrite boxworks | 2.29 |
59686 | Ziti | Rock chip | 30 cm quartz vein, fractured, with hematite and 10% pyrite boxworks | 2.99 |
59687 | Ziti | Rock chip | sandstone with argillite parting and 5% pyrite boxworks | 1.86 |
59689 | Ziti | Rock chip | argillite with 10% pyrite boxworks | 2.31 |
59691 | Ziti | Rock chip | quartz veinlet in sandstone with pyrite boxworks in argillaceous laminae | 2.70 |
59705 | Ziti | Rock chip | quartz vein in sandstone 10% pyrite boxworks | 5.70 |
59726 | Ziti | Rock chip | quartz stockwork in sandstone with 5% pyrite boxworks | 2.12 |
Ziti | Rock chip | Series 59844 to 59877 assays are pending |
Results of additional sampling of the northwest extension of the
In addition to the newly discovered Ziti gold occurrence, additional rock chip sampling was completed along the Witlage shear zone corridor where local miners have made new exposures of the northwest extension of the shear zone. High grade quartz veins and stockworks were sampled and individual samples contained 14.12, 5.92, and 2.72 grams gold per tonne (Exhibit 1). The shear zone in this exposure contains numerous quartz shear veins ranging in width from millimetres to approximately 10 centimetres and is, in general, more silicified than the
Results of new sampling of the northwest extension of the
Sample | Type | Description | Au ppm (g/t) | |
59694 | Witlage | Rock chip | 10 cm dark red quartz vein in saprolite | 5.92 |
59695 | Witlage | Rock chip | 10 cm quartz shear vein in shear zone | 14.12 |
59698 | Witlage | Rock chip | 10 cm quartz shear vein in shear zone | 2.72 |
Witlage | Rock chip | Series 59904 to 59916 assays are pending |
Update on Phase 2 drilling
Phase 2 drilling at the
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Exhibit 1. Geologic map with sampling and proposed drill holes of the Witlage and Ziti gold occurrences is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/367bb40d-dfe1-49c1-8856-36b8a38891c1
Exhibit 2. Mineralized rock samples from the Ziti gold occurrence: Quartz-pyrite vein and disseminated pyrite in altered sandstone, Ziti gold occurrence is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/309d93fb-f85d-46d6-94e6-5bf83c49b729
Exhibit 2. Mineralized rock samples from the Ziti gold occurrence: Silicified sandstone with 20% disseminated pyrite, Ziti gold occurrence is available at https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/f61ba029-0ada-4f3e-9821-21c80447a602
Exhibit 1
Geologic map with sampling and proposed drill holes of the Witlage and Ziti gold occurrences
Exhibit 2
Mineralized rock samples from the Ziti gold occurrence
Exhibit 2
Mineralized rock samples from the Ziti gold occurrence
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