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Legacy Gold Prospecting at the Baner Gold Project, Idaho Finds 20 Historic Shafts and Adits and Returns 29.3 g/t Au Sample
Calgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - January 20, 2025) - Legacy Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: LEGY) (th...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Legacy Gold Prospecting at the Baner Gold Project, Idaho Finds 20 Historic Shafts and Adits and Returns 29.3 g/t Au SampleCalgary, Alberta--(Newsfile Corp. - January 20, 2025) - Legacy Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: LEGY) (the \"Company\" or \"Legacy Gold\") is pleased to announce results from its prospecting, sampling and other activities at the Baner gold project located in Idaho County, Idaho, USA (the \"Baner Gold Project\") (the Company recently acquired an option to acquire the Baner Gold Project - see the Company's October 4, 2024 press release). Of particular interest were results from a bedrock sample on the western-most area of adits that graded 9.2 g/t Au, and results from two well-mineralised boulders that returned 29.3 g/t Au and 1.6 g/t Au in an area of the Baner Gold Project with no previous known workings or geology work. The Baner Gold Project and immediate area is a historic gold mining camp that hosts numerous gold deposits along geologic structures that appear to have provided conduits for the gold fluids and that extend for significant distances.\"Since completing the transaction for the Baner Gold Project in October, Legacy Gold personnel have been busy completing various programs and tasks while awaiting the permit to drill,\" said Mike Sutton, VP, Exploration of the Company. \"We are very pleased with the results of the successful extensive prospecting program on the property which found 20 historic mine shafts and adits and returned some nice high-grade assays at both historic mining sites and new under-explored areas.\"Sampling ResultsSome of the better gold assays received through Legacy work at the Baner Gold Project includes: 29.3 g/t Au and 1.6 g/t Au from boulders located west of the historic Black Lady Mine; 38.2 g/t Au and 16.1 g/t Au from Baner Adit D rock dump; 22.7 g/t Au from the Baner Adit K rock dump; 7.5 g/t Au from the historic Zenith Mine rock dump; 5.2 g/t Au from Baner trench B; 9.2 g/t from outcrop at Baner Adit G; 6.1 g/t Au from the Lucky Strike Adit B rock dump; and 6.0 g/t Au from the Baner Adit E rock dump. Some of the better gold assays received through historical work by previous companies at the Baner Gold Project includes: 25.9 g/t Au at the historic Zenith Mine rock dump; 42.5 g/t Au, plus 19.0 g/t, plus 8.6 g/t Au, plus 12.9 g/t from the Baner Adit F rock dump, plus 39.5 g/t Au fro...