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WestKam Gold: Results from 2018 Diamond Drilling Support Planned 2019 Exploration at Bonaparte Property
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WestKam Gold Corp. (TSX-V: WKG) (the “Company” or “WestKam”) has received assay results from an e
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- WestKam Gold Corp. (TSX-V: WKG) (the “Company” or “WestKam”) has received assay results from an eight-hole drill program completed on September 29, 2018 at its Bonaparte property located near Kamloops, BC. The 591.32-meter drill program was designed to evaluate the potential for extending to depth known, near-surface high grade gold mineralization exposed along the Crow-Grey Jay-Owl vein structure where a 3,700-tonne surface bulk sample in 1994 recovered 98 kilograms of gold. “Once again, drilling in the Discovery Zone area of Bonaparte has generated encouraging results,” said WestKam President and CEO Matt Wayrynen. “When combined with past work, especially our successful historical bulk sampling, these results further reinforce our premise that Bonaparte may host a significant gold resource.” The company will be analysing and incorporating the results into plans for continued exploration. “Our intent is to look at the next phases of exploration at Bonaparte on a property-wide scale,” added Wayrynen. “This comprehensive approach will begin with the upcoming 2019 season.” Drilling was completed from three drill setups spaced 10 meters and 15 meters apart, targeting between 10 and 40 meters below the historic surface bulk sample. Three drill holes each were collared from the first two drill pads while the remaining two drill holes were collared from the southern most drill setup. Table of Significant Results Hole 2018-02: 0.94 g/t Au over 1.2 meters (28.0 to 29.2m) Hole 2018-04: 5.29 g/t Au over 2.0 meters (32.3 to 34.3m) including 9.79 g/t Au over 0.9 meters (32.3 to 33.2m) Hole 2018-06: 9.78 g/t Au over 0.2 meters (23.3 to 23.5m) Hole 2018-07: 11.9 g/t Au over 1.1 meters (37.1 to 38.2m) Further drilling is recommended to follow up on historical, near-surface high grade gold intercepts to develop a near-surface resource. To date the bulk of the historical drilling has concentrated in the central to northern portions of the quartz vein system, while additional drilling is further recommended to the south along strike where a historical trench in 1989 uncovered a shear zone in quartz diorite containing four-to-five, 3-centimeter quartz veins returning 21.02 g/t Au over 1.5m and a 1998 drill hole which intersected the s...