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Ridgeline Minerals Reports Final Results for the Crash Zone Drill Program at the Carlin-East Gold Project, Nevada
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 2, 2021) - Ridgeline Minerals Corp. (T...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Ridgeline Minerals Reports Final Results for the Crash Zone Drill Program at the Carlin-East Gold Project, NevadaVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 2, 2021) - Ridgeline Minerals Corp. (TSXV: RDG) (OTCQB: RDGMF) (FSE: 0GC0) (\"Ridgeline\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce final results for the Crash Zone drill program at the Company's 100% owned Carlin-East Gold Project (\"Carlin-East\"). The project is centrally located in the north Carlin Trend and sits adjacent to the world-class Goldstrike gold deposit and directly on-trend of Nevada Gold Mines emerging high-grade gold discovery at North Leeville (Figure 1). The Company's 2021 drill program encountered challenging drilling conditions throughout the program and as a result, completed one out of the three planned drill holes to target depth with details summarized below. Drill Program SummaryCE21-003 drilled to a depth of 1,254 metres (\"m\") and was the only core-hole of the planned three-hole (3,000m) program to reach a minimum target depth of 1,000m or greater. The hole did not intersect significant gold values or the intended Lower Plate carbonate rock package that hosts gold mineralization at multiple open-pit and underground mines on the north Carlin Trend (Figure 2).CE21-003 is interpreted to have drilled the deeper, down-dropped (hanging-wall) side of a major NW fault Zone resulting in the hole drilling an over-thickened, strongly sheared section of Upper Plate Vinini formation (Figure 2).Drilling intersected greenstone and limestone marker beds of the Lower Vinini formation as well as narrow zones (1-10m) of strongly sheared and hydrothermally altered intervals of Vinini mudstone.Ridgeline geologists interpret these stratigraphic marker beds as an indication that CE21-003 was nearing the Roberts Mountain Thrust (\"RMT\") contact (The RMT marks the transition between Upper and Lower Plate rocks) prior to termination of the drill hole (Figure 3).Future drilling will target shallower (900 to 1,100m) Lower Plate host rocks in the adjacent fault block directly to the south of CE21-003, where marker beds of the middle Vinini formation have been intersected at substantially shallower depths in both CE21-004 and CE21-005, which are cased and ready for re-entry at a future date (Figure 2).Due to the depth of drilling required to hit target rocks (1...