Whitehorse Gold Corp has reported assay results of the remaining 30 drill holes from the 2021 drill program at its wholly-owned Skukum gold project in Canada’s Yukon Territory.
The company noted that the 30 drill holes were infill and step-out drill holes from the Skukum Creek, Mt Skukum and Goddell deposits, which have further confirmed and expanded gold-silver mineralization on the project.
With all drill results now received, it said it is evaluating its exploration plans for the 2022 program.
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Highlights of the drilling results:
- Hole MS21-003 at the Mt Skukum deposit intersected a 7.7 metre (m) interval (from 82m to 89.7m) grading 15.68 grams per tonne (g/t) gold in the Lake 1 Zone. This is an infill hole and mineralization occurs within a series of chalcedonic quartz-calcite veins and veinlets
- Hole SC21-027 at the Skukum Creek deposit intersected a 14m interval (from 473.7m to 487.7m) grading 6.05 g/t gold and 106 g/t silver, including two separate intervals of 2.13m grading 12.85 g/t gold and 203 g/t silver, and 3.9m grading 9.18 g/t gold and 183 g/t silver, in the Rainbow Zone. This is an infill/resource upgrade hole with gold-silver mineralization associated with a quartz vein breccia within a rhyolite dyke host emplaced in shear zone within granodiorites
- Hole RACA21-003 on the RACA zone, adjacent to and east of the Skukum Creek deposit, intersected a 3.2m interval (from 356.9m to 360.1m) grading 0.76 g/t gold and 581 g/t silver. An additional deeper interval of 2.65m (from 425.5m to 428.2m) graded 489 g/t silver including a 0.3m interval of 3,740 g/t silver. This hole tests a new zone that encountered multiple narrow silver-rich quartz sulfide veins
Whitehorse Gold is a responsible mineral exploration and development company focused on its 170-square kilometre (km) Skukum gold project in the Yukon, about 55 km south-southwest of Whitehorse.
The project hosts the advanced-stage Skukum Creek and Goddell deposits, and the formerly producing Mt. Skukum high-grade gold mine, all of which remain open for expansion, plus additional untested mineralized occurrences.
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