Sitka Gold Corp. announced it has intercepted visible gold in its first 2024 winter diamond drill hole (DDRCCC-24-57 or Hole 57) at its RC Gold Project ("RC Gold" or the "Project") located in Yukon's prolific Tombstone Gold Belt. Hole 057 was drilled to a depth of 550.2 m and was a step-out to the west from hole DDRCCC-23-047 which was the highest grade intersection at the project to date at the current southern extent of the Blackjack zone returning 219.0 m of 1.34 g/t gold including 124.8 m of 2.01 g/t gold and 55.0 m of 3.11 g/t gold.

Hole DDRCCC-24-058 (Hole 058) is collared approximately 70 metres north of Hole 57 and is currently underway with a dip of -60 degrees and an azimuth of 60 degrees. Hole 57 is currently being logged and cut in preparation for delivery to the assay lab. Drill Hole DDRCCC-24-057 was drilled to test the southeastern extension of the well-mineralized quartz monzonite intrusion intersected in hole DDRCCC-23-047.

It intersected two broad zones of feldspar megacrystic quartz monzonite intrusion (49.9 - 160.9 m and 446.6 - 509.9 m) within a large package of biotite schist, phyllite, and quartzite of the Late Proterozoic Yusezyu Formation (Hyland Group). A narrow lamprophyre dyke was intersected from 241.6 - 243.2 m along with abundant narrow (1-2 m) quartz monzonite dykes cross cutting throughout the Yusezyu Formation metasediments. Both intrusions were cut by abundant 1-2 cm sheeted quartz veins, quartz-arsenopyrite veins, and dominantly arsenopyrite veins with narrow cm scale sericite alteration halos.

Visible Gold has been identified in Hole 57. Hole 057 is the first hole to be completed of up to 15,000 metres of diamond drilling at RC Gold this year in proposed winter and summer drilling campaigns. The key objectives of drilling this year will be to further expand and define targets within the well-endowed Clear Creek Intrusive Complex area, which currently hosts the Blackjack and Eiger gold deposits - both of which remain open in all directions - and the Saddle zone.

Additionally, the drilling aims to advance the drill-ready targets elsewhere on the district-scale, 386 square kilometre property.