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Carlin Gold Reports on Barrick's Drill Program at its Cortez Summit Property
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 24, 2017) - Carlin Gold Corporation (...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Carlin Gold Reports on Barrick's Drill Program at its Cortez Summit PropertyVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 24, 2017) - Carlin Gold Corporation (TSXV: CGD), (\"Carlin\" or the \"Company\") announces the balance of the assays received from Barrick Gold Exploration Inc. (\"Barrick\") for core hole SJV17-1D on Carlin's Cortez Summit property (\"Cortez Summit\" or the \"Property\"), Eureka County, Nevada. Carlin has previously reported results from the upper portion of the hole (October 25, 2017 news release). SJV17-1D is a vertical hole collared near the Fourmile structural zone and drilled to a depth of 5,171 ft (1,577 m). The drill hole was collared in post-mineral Miocene basalt and encountered altered and mineralized upper plate Vinini strata at 283 ft. (86 m). The hole continued in upper plate rocks to the base of the Roberts Mountain thrust at 4,234 ft. (1,291 m) below which is an essentially complete section of the favorable carbonate host rocks.SJV17-1D was collared in the southwest portion of the Property in the vicinity of Carlin's previous shallow reverse circulation holes drilled into the upper plate in 2012, adjacent to an area referred to by Carlin geologists as the Fourmile structural zone, a wide north-northwest trending corridor defined by geological, geochemical and geophysical information. As previously reported, this hole encountered a 592 ft. (180 m) interval of highly anomalous arsenic at 328-920 ft. (100-280 m) averaging 480 ppm, with strongly anomalous Carlin-style pathfinder elements including mercury (to 17 ppm), antimony (to 173 ppm) and thallium (to 6.3 ppm). Gold values include a 10 ft. (3 m) wide zone at 694-704 ft. (211-214 m) grading 2.6 grams/tonne. This thick anomalous interval is contained in upper plate rocks consisting of variably clay-altered, iron-oxide stained, brecciated hornfels and lesser mudstone/siltstone, with the most intense clay alteration and iron-oxide development at 652-798 ft. (199-243m.). Additional information provided indicates more modest zones of anomalous arsenic and thallium further down the hole, including a 415 ft. (127 m) interval of anomalous thallium straddling the base of the Roberts Mountain Thrust. Minor, local zones of brecciation, carbon development, and minor decalcification were also observed. No significant gold mineralization was encou...