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Sitka Gold Drills 40 feet of 0.41 g/t Gold at Alpha Gold, Nevada
VANCOUVER, CANADA - TheNewswire - September 16, 2021 - Sitka Gold Corp. (“Sitka” or the “Company”) (CNSX:SIG.CN) (FSE:1RF) (OTC:SITKF) is pleased to provide an
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[{"type":"text","content":"VANCOUVER, CANADA - TheNewswire - September 16, 2021 - Sitka Gold Corp. (“Sitka” or the “Company”) (CNSX:SIG.CN) (FSE:1RF) (OTC:SITKF) is pleased to provide an update on the drill program currently underway at its Alpha Gold Project (“Alpha Gold” or the “Project”) located at the southeast end of the Cortez Trend in northern Nevada. This phase of drilling is designed to test southeastward extensions of the Carlin-Type gold system that was identified earlier this year in holes AG21-02 & 03. AG21-08, the fifth hole of the summer drill program, is currently in progress. All of the holes have encountered strong silicification, decalcification, and pyrite in the lower Horse Canyon Equivalent and upper Devils Gate Limestone, except AG21-05 which was lost in the Horse Canyon Equivalent unit as it went into the target zone. AG21-04, 06, and 08 have encountered significant dike or sill zones with associated strong silica, clay, pyrite, and sooty pyrite in both the dikes/sills and wall rocks. Drilling is clearly testing a strong Carlin-type alteration system. Assay and geochemical results have been received for AG21-04 and 05. AG21-04, collared 510 metres (1,673 feet) southeast of AG21-02 (Figure 1), intersected strong intervals of jasperoid, decalcification, silicified mudstone, and skeletal silica after decalcified limestone in the Horse Canyon equivalent unit and uppermost Devils Gate Limestone. From 735 to 950 feet (224 to 290 metres) the hole encountered a set of dikes or sills not evident on surface. Sample intervals contained up to 25% pyrite and sooty pyrite in both the dike rocks and silicified and decalcified, mudstone and limestone wall rocks. This zone spanned the Horse Canyon Equivalent to Devils Gate contact. The interval had anomalous gold with a high of 0.13 g/t and averaged 622 ppm arsenic over 215 feet (66 metres). Peak pathfinder values included 3580 ppm arsenic, 22.7 ppm mercury, 185 ppm antimony, and 52.1 ppm thallium. These results and the associated alteration are much stronger than anything seen on surface and are very strong representations of a Carlin-type alteration system. AG21-05 stepped out 910 metres (2,986 feet) south of AG21-04 to continue testing the extensions of the target zone related to surface alteration. The hole encoun...