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Crestview Exploration Announces Final Results from the 2022 Sampling Program at the Rock Creek Gold Prospect in Elko County, Nevada
Calgary, Canada - TheNewswire - December 15, 2022 - Crestview Exploration Inc. (CSE:CRS) (FRA:CE7) (“Crestview” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce the fin
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[{"type":"text","content":"Calgary, Canada - TheNewswire - December 15, 2022 - Crestview Exploration Inc. (CSE:CRS) (FRA:CE7) (“Crestview” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce the final assay results for the 2022 surface sampling campaign at the Rock Creek gold prospect in the Tuscarora Mountains of Elko County, Nevada. A total of 118 samples were collected from across the Rock Creek property, and submitted for precious metal and trace element geochemistry. As a reminder to the reader, the Rock Creek property consists of 74 unpatented lode mining claims, but is in close proximity to (as near as currently possible) Crestview’s Divide and Falcon properties which comprise an additional 186 claims, for a total of approximately 2,009 hectares or 4,965 acres between the three. Small historical prospecting occurred at all three properties, and more extensive historic mining occurred at Falcon and Divide. The surface sampling program has demonstrated wide-spread anomalous gold and silver (see Map 1), including nine samples with greater than 30 g/t Ag (including a sample of 121 g/t Ag), and 32 samples with greater than 0.1 g/t Au (including two samples with greater than 0.5 g/t Au). The 2022 sampling focused on epithermal quartz veins exposed in outcrop and historic prospect pits, and was undertaken in conjunction with 1:2,000 scale mapping (see recent release dated November 9, 2022). A previous press release (dated January 16, 2020) described results from the previous sampling program undertaken at Rock Creek, which summarized the previously collected 98 surface samples and highlighted two gold values over 0.5 g/t (0.543 g/t and 0.597 g/t Au) and several samples in the 0.1 g/t to 0.35 g/t Au range. The Rock Creek data also includes inherited gold assay results from historic sampling which included several samples greater than 1 g/t Au. The faults and quartz veins delineate major structural trends of mineralization and alteration at Rock Creek. The quartz veins occur in several structural systems that dominate the entire Rock Creek property. Higher gold and silver grades correlate well with the presence of visible sulfides (arsenian pyrite) and jarosite in the quartz veins. Elevated arsenic and barium are ubiquitous in the samples, and there is a notable lack of mercury. A statistical correlation was carried out on the 2022 Rock Creek surface samp...