GT Gold Corp. announced that the final and deepest hole of the Company’s 2018 Saddle North porphyry drill program, hole TTD109, has returned the strongest intercept to date. The results confirm the presence of a high-grade stockwork- and sheeted vein-rich “core zone” encompassing grades exceeding 1.0% CuEq2 and 1.5 g/t AuEq2 on Section 5740, which reaches from near surface (hole TTD108) to greater than 1,300 metres down-dip, where it remains open, with associated true widths that approximate 100 metres near surface in hole TTD108, expanding with depth to greater than 300 metres in holes TTD093 and, 300 metres farther down-dip, in TTD109. Results from the previous 10 holes at Saddle North demonstrate that this high-grade core zone extends to at least 500 metres of strike (e.g., hole TTD102), and that it lies within a much broader, strongly mineralized envelope which has a drilled strike length in excess of 650 metres, a true width of approximately 700 metres, and a down-dip extent of more than 1,300 metres. A full geological compilation and interpretation is now well underway, and planning has begun for the 2019 drill campaign. Results for the remaining 22 holes from the Saddle South target area are expected prior to the end of January. The Saddle North intrusive complex appears to be similar lithologically to the porphyry system at the nearby Red-Chris mine, but with high-K calc-alkalic rocks predominating. The host intrusive rocks comprise fine-grained equigranular to crowded hornblende feldspar porphyritic (quartz) monzonite or monzodiorite bodies, locally rich in sub-round inclusions. The youngest intrusive phase, a relatively narrow and variably mineralized inter-mineral coarse hornblende plagioclase porphyry, which is recognized in hole TTD109 and the other holes on section 5740, is better-mineralized in the deeper holes (e.g. TTD109 and 093). This appears to contribute significantly to the increase in grade with depth. Along with chalcopyrite:pyrite ratios increasing in that direction and the potential for a deeper bornite zone, the prospects for further grade increases deeper in the system are excellent. The intrusive rocks at Saddle North are variably and commonly strongly altered by potassic (magnetite, potassium feldspar, biotite) or chlorite-sericite-silica alteration assemblages. They appear to be bound on either side by relatively intense phyllic alteration assemblages (quartz-sericite-pyrite), as well as by peripheral propylitic assemblages (chlorite, epidote, +/- pyrite), mainly developed in Upper Triassic lapilli tuff or reworked lapilli tuff (debris flow conglomerate) of intermediate to mafic composition. Mineralization occurs in quartz-magnetite-pyrite-chalcopyrite veins and as closely associated disseminations, with the principal sulphide phases being pyrite and chalcopyrite.