Provenance Gold Provides Further Update on Work Conducted on its Yukon Property over the 2017 and 2018 Field Seasons
As subsequently recognized, these gold samples are believed to be associated with the bottom of a sub-horizontal complex gold zone that is projected to occur above the placer workings. The drilling did not intersect the main gold source structures, and the drill holes were only modestly mineralized because they spudded below the gold zone. One hole had a shallow 2.5 meter interval of 0.3 grams. The drilling in that area did not intersect the main gold source structures, and the drill holes were only modestly mineralized. One hole had a shallow 2.5 meter interval of 0.3 grams gold and a deeper interval of 0.13 grams. The placer gold did not come from the drilled structures, but from the gold mineralization zone that is projected to occur slightly higher in the geological units a short distance above the placer areas. Subsequent reinterpretation of the gold geology largely based on the information gained from the drilling program modified the gold mineralization model. The drilling was in strongly altered and structurally deformed surface bedrock, but below the main zones of gently dipping gold veining that were the placer source. The Company's new understanding of the gold system geology is expected to allow the company to focus on the overlying zones that are the likely sources of the placer gold and may host a large lode gold deposit.
This autumn a trench was placed uphill of the placer area based on the modified interpretation of the gold controls subsequent to the exploratory drilling. The trench intersected a new gold vein up to a meter thick that assayed 54 grams of gold, supporting the modified interpretation. The company believes this may be one of multiple new ore structures and plans to focus on four new target areas it has identified based on its new understanding of the project geology. The company plans to trench these new targets in the 2019 field season, to be followed by drilling of the targets identified by the trenching.
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Provenance Gold Corp.
Rauno Perttu, Chief Executive Officer
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