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Blackrock's 2019 Drill Program Delineates 250 Metres of Mineralized Strike Open to the East, West, and Down-Dip at Silver Cloud
Press Release Highlights Drilling in Northwest Canyon starts the week of March 8 to follow...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Blackrock's 2019 Drill Program Delineates 250 Metres of Mineralized Strike Open to the East, West, and Down-Dip at Silver Cloud2020 Exploration Program CommencesPress Release HighlightsDrilling in Northwest Canyon starts the week of March 8 to follow up drillholes SBC19-002, SBC19-003, and SCP-15. The spring 2020 drill program is tasked with drilling down-dip and along strike, extending the 250-metre long, east-west zone to the west and testing the gold/silver system at depth.The gravity in-fill survey commenced in late February and will be completed the week of March 1, with reprocessing and interpretation completed in March.An IP survey is scheduled to commence in May to test the response of drill-intersected sulfides and associated structures for drillhole targeting at the NE Veins target and adjacent to the Silver Cloud mercury mine.Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 3, 2020) - Blackrock Gold Corp. (the \"Company\") is pleased to announce the commencement of the 2020 exploration program on the Silver Cloud project located along the Northern Nevada Rift in Elko County, Nevada. The drill portion of the program has three distinct objectives: to test the mineralized structure down-dip within the contemplated boiling zone of the gold system; to extend the strike of the mineralized structure to the west, and to intercept the basement rocks beneath Northwest Canyon.Andrew Pollard, the Company's CEO, commented, \"The Company's 2019 drill program confirmed the east-west orientation of gold mineralization in Northwest Canyon (see news release dated January 6, 2020). A drill intercept in SBC19-002 of 8.32 grams per tonne (g/t) gold over 1.5 metres (m) aligns with the 12.5 g/t gold intercept in Placer Dome's drillhole SCP-15, and a low-grade but similar vein zone in SBC19-003 indicates we now have an overall strike length of 250 metres confirmed, of which the initial focus of our 2020 exploration program will be to expand upon. Downhole geophysical surveys illustrate that gold zones are associated with east-west oriented veins and fractures. With strike and dip data on the mineralized structure in-hand, crews are being mobilized to site next week to drill the dip extension to test for high-grade gold and silver within the contemplated boiling zone at depth of this low-sulfidation epithermal system. From there, our plan...