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Desert Gold Makes New Discovery North of Gourbassi West SMSZ Project, Mali
Drill Results Include 1.13 G/T Gold over 42 metres*, 1.12 G/T Gold over 33 metres* and 1.06 G/...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Desert Gold Makes New Discovery North of Gourbassi West SMSZ Project, MaliDrill Results Include 1.13 G/T Gold over 42 metres*, 1.12 G/T Gold over 33 metres* and 1.06 G/T Gold over 29 metres*Delta, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 25, 2021) - Desert Gold Ventures Inc. (TSXV: DAU) (FSE: QXR2) (OTCQB: DAUGF) (\"Desert Gold\" or \"the Company\") is pleased to present the results for 26 holes totalling 2,421 metres completed on its Gourbassi West Zone target area, on its SMSZ Project in in Western Mali. This program led to the discovery of a material extension to the Gourbassi West Zone and extensions to the original Gourbassi West Zone. First pass drilling over two anomalous auger lines resulted in the discovery of the Gourbassi West North gold mineralization, which appears to be the widest gold system intersected on the SMSZ property to date.Desert Gold carried out a 257 hole, 18,161 metre drill program from January to July 2021. This news release includes results from 25 AC, RC and core holes completed over the Gourbassi West Zone and a new, on-strike target zone, located 500 metres to 1,500 metres north of the last hole at the Gourbassi West Zone.A summary of the drill highlights are as follows (see Figures 1 and 2 for more detail and Table 1 at end):Gourbassi West North Extension (New Discovery)Drilling intersected 3 closely spaced gold zones totalling an estimated 94 metres true thickness (across a 125 metre wide area) (see Figure 2)Lens 1: 0.64 g/t gold over 23 metres - 16 metres estimated true widthLens 2: 1.06 g/t gold over 29 metres (incl 1.62 g/t gold over 13 metres)* and 0.67 g/t gold over 28 metres (incl 1.26 g/t gold over 7 metres)* - 33 metres estimated true widthLens 3: 1.13 g/t gold over 42 metres (incl 1.65 g/t gold over 19 metres)* and 1.12 g/t over 33 metres (incl 1.62 g/t gold over 16 metres)* - 45 metres estimated true width500 metres south step-out from above holes: 0.64 g/t gold over 24 metres* Gourbassi West (Zone Expansion)1.23 g/t gold over 10 metres* in hole FR-21-RC-200.30 g/t gold over 31 metres* in hole FR-21-RC-2 (incl 1.13 g/t gold over 7 metres)1.62 g/t gold over 8 metres* in hole FR-21-RC-226.42 g/t gold over 2.2 metres* in hole FR-21-DD-0051.48 g/t gold over 15.55 metres* in hole FR-21-DD-006* Estimated true widths for the holes is from 75 to 85% of the intercept width. Desert Gold'...