Carlin Gold Corporation reported that it has completed a limited core drilling program on its Cortez Summit property, Eureka County, Nevada. The program consisted of entering and deepening one of the reverse circulation holes completed in 2012 on the west side of the Property and successfully established the presence of deeper, favorable 'Lower Plate' carbonate rocks within a prospective structural setting. Lower Plate rocks host the bulk of the gold mineralization in the Cortez district.

In September 2013 the company re-entered vertical reverse circulation hole CS12-2 and deepened it from 1,760 ft. (537 m) to 4,032 ft. (1,229 m).

Drilling was completed on October 25, 2013. Short intervals of anomalous gold values to 0.667 grams/tonne and Carlin-type pathfinder elements were encountered, as well as longer intervals of anomalous arsenic values (greater than 100 ppm) ranging up to 130 ft. (40 m) of drilled thickness.

The bottom 900 feet (274 m) consisted of variably calcareous mudstone/sandstone, and silty/sandy, laminated, variably carbonaceous limestone. This material locally displays Carlin-type alteration features such as decalcification, clay alteration and calcite veining. Carlin geologists are encouraged that favorable Lower Plate carbonate rocks are present near the projection of the gold-bearing Fourmile structural corridor, at depths consistent with some of the holes in the north portion of Barrick Gold Corporation's neighboring Goldrush discovery.

The company's primary target is Carlin-style mineralization in a structural and stratigraphic setting in Paleozoic sedimentary rocks similar to that at the nearby Cortez Hills mine and the adjacent new Goldrush resource. Most of the target is blind, covered by Miocene-age post-mineral gravel and basaltic andesite. The most prominent structure identified to date at Cortez Summit is the Fourmile fault zone, a north-northwest trending structural corridor which trends for 4,500 feet (1,370 m) along the west side of the Property.