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Arizona Gold & Silver Announces Exploration Plan For Silverton Gold-Antimony Project, Nye County, Nevada
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[{"type":"text","content":"Arizona Gold & Silver Announces Exploration Plan For Silverton Gold-Antimony Project, Nye County, Nevada\n\n\n (TheNewswire)\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Vancouver, British\nColumbia –\n \n\n\n\n TheNewswire -\n \n\n\n\n September 24, 2025\n–\n \n\n\n\n Arizona Gold & Silver Inc.\n \n\n\n\n (TSXV: AZS)\n \n\n\n\n (\n \n\n\n\n OTCQB:AZASF\n \n\n\n\n ) is pleased to announce its plan to advance\nthe Silverton gold-antimony project located in Nye County, Nevada,\nimmediately north of US Highway 6 roughly halfway between Tonopah and\nEly.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Why\nAntimony?\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Antimony is currently trading at\nUS$57.50/lb. and has been designated a critical mineral by the US\ngovernment for defense purposes.  The current pricing environment and\ngovernment support for development of antimony resources has prompted\nthe company to re-assess the antimony occurrences on the Silverton\nproperty, which have been known for some time, but which previously\nhave been considered a trace metal signature only to a deeper and\nblind primary gold occurrence.\n \n\n\n\n\n\n Antimony at the\nSilverton Project\n \n\n\n\n\n The Silverton property database contains multi-element\ngeochemistry from over 2000 rock samples collected primarily by\nprevious companies, mostly by Newcrest Resources Inc., between\n2002-2004.  The database has over 25 surface samples that contain\ngreater than 1% antimony (Sb), for which they did not assay the\nover-limits, 95 surface samples greater than 1000 ppm Sb, and 217\nsurface samples greater than 200 ppm.  Samples with anomalous\nantimony values also contain 0.1 to +1.0 grams per tonne gold values\n.(Figure 1).\n \n\n\n\n Newcrest Resources Inc. had all surface samples\nprepared and analyzed at ALS Labs in Sparks, NV.  Gold was determined\nby Au-AA23 method which is a 30-gram fire assay analysis with AA\nfinish.  Trace metals, including antimony, were determined by the\nME-ICP41 method, which is a four-acid digestion using ICP analyses to\nreport 41 elements. Overlimits >10,000 ppm were not determined.\nSamples consisted of both rock chip and channel samples of unknown\nweight or length.  Drill hole samples were analyzed by Chemex Labs,\nin Reno, NV. Chemex has since been incorporated into ALS Labs.\n Coarse ...