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Endurance Completes Sampling on New Targets at the Elephant Project, Alaska
Up to 6.60 ppm gold in grab samples and visible gold in quartz veins VANCOUVER, BC / AC...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Endurance Completes Sampling on New Targets at the Elephant Project, AlaskaUp to 6.60 ppm gold in grab samples and visible gold in quartz veins\nVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / August 28, 2017 / Endurance Gold Corporation (TSX.V: EDG \"Endurance\") is pleased to report the completion of a soil and rock sampling program on targets within the recently acquired Trout and Wolverine claim blocks. Initial analytical results have been received with complete results of the larger sampling program expected in September. These claims, which include South Fork, Trout and Wolverine target areas, were acquired to expand and enhance the exploration potential of the Company's Elephant Mountain Project. The Elephant Mountain Project can be easily accessed by the all-weather Elliott Highway located 76 miles (123 kilometres (\"km\")) northwest of Fairbanks within the Rampart-Eureka-Manley Hot Springs placer gold mining district near Eureka, Alaska.\nSouth Fork Target - An initial reconnaissance rock sampling program was completed in early July thatevaluated an east-west striking mineralized structure. Previously reported rock samples contained up to 11.98 grams per tonne (\"gpt\") gold. Assay results from sampling in July returned gold values up to 6.60 parts per million (\"ppm\"), confirming the gold potential associated with this structural feature. The mineralization within the structure is related to oxidized sulphides associated with intermittent quartz veining, vein stockwork, and quartz healed breccia hosted in hornfels altered clastic sediments. East-west striking felsic dikes cut the meta-sediments and structure in several locations. The highest gold values received from the first 10 rock samples in the initial July 2017 sampling program are associated with bleached zones of quartz veining and quartz-healed breccia hosted within the structure. These samples also contained anomalous lead (up to 1.940%), arsenic (>1%), bismuth (up to 21.6 ppm) and silver (up to 10.25 ppm).\n\nIn August, a follow-up ATV-supported program was completed on the South Fork Target. Exploration involved the collection of 132 soil samples and 102 additional rock samples. This total includes 60 rock chip samples from a shallow 100 metres (\"m\") long trench, excavated by hand and oriented perpendicular to the strike of the gold-bearing structure. The South Fork soi...