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Falcon Mobilizes Field Crew on Spitfire and Sunny Boy Claims, Meritt, B.C.
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 8, 2020) - FALCON GOLD CORP. (TSXV: FG)...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Falcon Mobilizes Field Crew on Spitfire and Sunny Boy Claims, Meritt, B.C.Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 8, 2020) - FALCON GOLD CORP. (TSXV: FG), (FSE: 3FA); (\"Falcon\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce it has commenced field work on its Spitfire-Sonny Boy project near Merritt, B.C. The company will be conducting prospecting, field reconnaissance mapping, and channel sampling near the historic Master Vein which sampled up to 50.53 oz/t Au. The goal of the project will be to delineate and constrain the styles of gold mineralization on the project and assess the geological setting and deposit type as limited geological work has been performed by past operators. An exploration permit application has been submitted outlining planned surface trenching and diamond drilling along the Master zone.Falcon's recent due-diligence work in 2019 confirmed the presence of gold mineralization along the Master Vein over a 300-meter strike length with samples ranging from 0.33 to 2.74 oz/t Au. The company has also completed a recent data compilation of historic exploration work which indicated that the best exploration targets on the property are high-grade gold vein deposits along flexures in structure in the northeastern portion of the project. Based on the sporadic past exploration, the company has identified a tightly spaced soil sampling grid, EM and IP geophysics, and structural mapping as the best approach for identifying new mineralized structures for both gold and base metals discoveries.The majority of the early exploration focused on quartz veins that hosted gold, copper and silver. High grade gold values have been reported at 124 to 127 grams per tonne gold (Au) and 309 to 514 grams per tonne silver (Ag) in quartz vein material from underground workings by Quilchena Mining and Development Company Ltd. The narrow but high-grade veins have been trenched, pitted, blasted, and drilled but have never been commercially mined. The main showing, Master Vein, boasts high-grade gold mineralization up to 50.53 oz/t as sampled by Ken Sanders, P. Eng in 1974. To the south-west of the Sunny Boy Zone in an area referred to as the \"AL\" showing soil geochemistry, geophysics (magnetometer/VLF), trenching, sampling and diamond drilling have been performed on the mineralized veins. The best drill result was 3.77 grams per ...