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Blackrock Drills up to 8.32 G/t Gold over 1.5m at Silver Cloud in the Upper Portion of an Epithermal Vein System; Identifies Several Mineralized Porphyry Intrusives
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 6, 2020) - Blackrock Gold Corp. (TSXV: ...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Blackrock Drills up to 8.32 G/t Gold over 1.5m at Silver Cloud in the Upper Portion of an Epithermal Vein System; Identifies Several Mineralized Porphyry IntrusivesVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 6, 2020) - Blackrock Gold Corp. (TSXV: BRC) (the \"Company\") is pleased to report assay results and geologic interpretation following a 15 year exploration hiatus on its recently acquired, 100% controlled Silver Cloud project located on the Northern Nevada Rift in Elko County, Nevada. Highlights are:Five HQ core holes were drilled at Silver Cloud totalling 2,207 metres (7,240 feet). Partial assay results are received for SBC19-001, SBC19-002, and SBC19-003. Drilling focused on evaluating a potential east-west vein system between the Silver Cloud mercury mine and Northwest Canyon;Drilling confirms the existence of an east-west low-sulfidation epithermal quartz veining system and potential for vein hosted gold and silver as well as mineralized rhyolite porphyry intrusives;SBC19-001, adjacent to the Silver Cloud mine, intersected 0.7 metres grading 3.95 g/t Au starting at 290 metres (951 feet). This drillhole followed up on historic Teck drilling from 2000;SBC19-002, drilled in Northwest Canyon (1,550 metres west of the Silver Cloud mine), intersected a 1.5 metre vein zone grading 8.32 g/t Au starting at 263 metres (864 feet). This drillhole followed up on historic Placer Dome drilling from 2002;Downhole acoustic televiewer data confirmed the gold mineralization is aligned with east-west structures offset by north-northwest oriented post-mineral faults;The breccia, veins, and associated fine-grained sulfides, in addition to trace element geochemistry, indicate drilling encountered the upper portion of a low sulfidation epithermal gold system; andSBC19-004 and SBC19-005 have significant alterations starting at approximately 335 metres. SBC19-004 encountered quartz veins and veinlets below 381 metres. Assays pending.Andrew Pollard, President & CEO, stated, \"Our drill campaign, the first completed on the project in almost 15 years, set out to establish the existence of an east-west epithermal vein system at the Silver Cloud mine and Northwest Canyon. The potential for discovery of a bonanza epithermal system on our property, for which the Northern Nevada Rift is renowned, represents a 3-dimensional puzzle that we ...