HighGold Mining Inc (TSX-V:HIGH, OTCQX:HGGOF) has announced the first drill results of the 2022 field season from the Difficult Creek Prospect at its Johnson Tract (JT) project in Alaska, which included 21.7 grams per tonne (g/t) gold over 11.9 meters (m), as well as 54.2 g/t gold, 71 g/t silver, 1.3% copper, and 8.3% zinc over 3.9m.
The mineral exploration company said new drilling in 2022 has been completed along strike to the east, west and down-dip from hole DC22-010 in fans of short, shallow step-out holes.
“A priority of our 2022 drill program was to follow up on last year’s late season discovery at the DC Prospect to determine if the mineralization continued to depth and laterally along strike,” HighGold Mining CEO Darwin Green said in a statement.
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“This has been confirmed in our initial step-outs which have returned multiple intersections of high-grade mineralization, including subintervals of multi-ounce grade,” Green added.
HighGold noted it anticipates drilling through to the end of October as it continues to grow what the company says is shaping up to be a potentially significant new zone at the Johnson Tract project.
It added that two drill rigs have been targeting the Ellis Zone at the Difficult Creek prospect since the beginning of July, with 3,017m completed in 25 drill holes to date.
As well, the company said to date, drilling has defined Ellis Zone mineralization over a strike length of about 100m and from surface to a depth of 100m, while remaining open along strike and at depth.
HighGold Mining is a well-funded mineral exploration company focused on high-grade gold projects located in North America. Its flagship asset is the high-grade Johnson Tract gold, zinc, copper project located in southcentral Alaska.
The company also controls a portfolio of quality gold projects in the greater Timmins gold camp, Ontario, Canada that includes the Munro-Croesus Gold property, which is renowned for its high-grade mineralization, and the large Golden Mile and Timmins South properties.
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