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Northern Shield Continues to Improve Gold Assays and Discovers Gold in Outcrop, Shot Rock, Nova Scotia
Northern Shield Continues to Improve Gold Assays and Discovers Gold in Outcrop, Shot Rock,...
About this update from Northern Shield Resources Inc.
[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nNorthern Shield Continues to Improve Gold Assays and Discovers Gold in Outcrop, Shot Rock, Nova Scotia\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCanada NewsWire\nOTTAWA, Oct. 18, 2018\n\n\n\nOTTAWA, Oct. 18, 2018 /CNW/ - Northern Shield Resources Inc. (\"Northern Shield\" or the \"Company\") (TSXV: NRN) is pleased to announce that the stockwork-style epithermal quartz veining recently found in bedrock through grab sampling at the Shot Rock Gold Property (the \"Property\") in Nova Scotia assayed 0.96 g/t Au. Additionally, a newly discovered boulder found approximately 600 metres east of this outcrop assayed 3.3 g/t Au. This is the highest gold assay from Shot Rock to date and to the Company's knowledge, the first known occurrence of mineralised epithermal banded quartz veins in northern Nova Scotia. Shot Rock is being explored through Northern Shield's wholly-owned subsidiary, Seabourne Resources Inc., which can earn up to an 80% interest in the Property.\nThirteen other samples from the current batch assayed between 0.1 and 0.6 g/t Au. All of these are within the Highway Zone. The mineralization appears to be related to a five kilometre-long, east-west structure that forms a splay off a larger regional structure. The western end of the structural zone is exposed along a windmill access road on top of the ridge. While very little epithermal quartz veining has been noted here, the altered fault zone is marked by sporadic anomalous gold and strong enrichment in the pathfinder elements associated with the quartz veins. This could represent the uppermost levels of the fault system which hosts the quartz veins to the east. The eastern end coincides with a topographic low and hence this area may represent the deepest erosional level of the vein system. It is within this topographic low that the boulders with the highest gold grade have been found to date. This would be supportive of the model whereby gold grades in epithermal systems typically increase rapidly at depth within the vein. The outcrop exhibiting stockwork epithermal veining is midway between th...