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Harvest Gold Announces a 1.4 Km x 0.9 Km Open-Ended Quartz-Sericite-Pyrite Alteration Zone; RAB drilling program Complete
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[{"type":"text","content":"Harvest Gold Announces a 1.4 Km x 0.9 Km Open-Ended Quartz-Sericite-Pyrite Alteration Zone; RAB drilling program Complete\n \n \n (TheNewswire)\n \n \n \n \n \n \n Vancouver, British Columbia -\n \n \n TheNewswire\n \n \n – August 12, 2021 – Harvest Gold\nCorporation\n \n \n (“\n \n \n Harvest\n \n \n ”,\n“\n \n \n Harvest Gold\n \n \n ” or the “\n \n \n Company\n \n \n ”) (TSXV:HVG) is pleased to provide\nan exploration update on its 100% owned Au-Cu Emerson Property (the\n“\n \n \n Emerson\nProperty\n \n \n ”) located in central BC\n \n \n The 56 km\n \n \n 2\n \n \n Emerson Property comprises 14 contiguous\nmineral claims located 15 km west of Houston, BC with a nearby\nrailroad, high voltage powerline and gas pipeline.\n \n \n \n \n Rick Mark, Harvest Gold President and CEO, states:\n“We have just received the second update on our Rotary Air Bast\n(“\n \n \n RAB\n \n \n ”) drilling program at our Emerson Property from Equity\nExploration Consultants Ltd. This second set of visual results has\nexpanded our “zone of interest” significantly. My compliments to\nour entire Technical Team.”\n \n \n \n \n Mr. Henry Awmack, Emerson Property co-vendor and member\nof Harvest Gold’s Geoscience Advisory Board, states: “I am most\nexcited by the intensity of alteration and the presence of\nsulphide-bearing quartz chips within the increased, now 1.4 km x 0.9\nkm, open-ended quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration zone defined by the\nRAB drilling. These early RAB results have been extremely\nhelpful.”\n \n \n \n \n Highlights:\n \n \n \n \n \n \n -\n \n \n 17 of 17\nplanned RAB holes (273 m) completed, four days ahead of\nschedule.\n \n \n \n \n - Average hole depth of 15.1 m with average overburden\nthickness of 9.2 m.\n \n \n \n \n - All chip samples have been sent to ALS Geochemistry\nin Terrace, BC for assay.  Sixty-seven bedrock chip samples will be\ndescribed in detail after examination under a binocular microscope and\nanalysis by short-wave infrared spectroscopy and portable XRF.\n \n \n \n \n -\n \n \n Twelve of the seventeen holes\nencountered quartz-sericite-pyrite (“\n \n \n QSP\n \n \n ”) alteration in\nbedrock under shallow glacial till cover.\n \n \n \n \n - The strong QSP alterat...