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Sky Gold Drill Permits Approved for the Evening Star Copper-Gold Porphyry Project Located in Mineral County, Nevada
Highlights: Drill permits approved for copper-gold targets in Nevada Copper porphyr...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Sky Gold Drill Permits Approved for the Evening Star Copper-Gold Porphyry Project Located in Mineral County, NevadaHighlights:Drill permits approved for copper-gold targets in NevadaCopper porphyry drill targetsIntrusion related Gold drill targetsVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / October 23, 2024 / Sky Gold Corp. (\"Sky Gold\" or the \"Company\") (TSXV:SKYG)(US:SRKZF) is pleased to announce it has received its NOI level permits from the US Bureau of Land Management to drill its Evening Star Copper-Gold property in Mineral County, NV. The road accessible, 1,450-acre (586 hectare) property is located about 10 miles (16 km) east of Hawthorne, NV, in the prolific Walker Lane Trend and about 52 miles (83 km) southeast of the Yerington, Nevada porphyry copper deposit. The Evening Star property is in the Pamlico Mining district which has a history of exploration for base metal skarn and carbonate-replacement prospects.The most recent exploration work by Sky Gold geologists suggests that there is a possibility for an undiscovered porphyry copper-gold deposit as well as a separate intrusion-hosted gold deposit.\"While we await assay results from our Shebandowan Nickel Copper Gold project in Ontario, we are excited to get a long-awaited drill program organized for our now permitted Evening Star project in Nevada. Our copper and gold targets have been carefully selected after years of work in a hot area of Nevada and with the surge in commodity prices sparking a renewed interest in the junior mining exploration space there is no time like the present to get drilling!\" stated Mike England, CEO of Sky Gold.Sky Gold's upcoming drill program at its Evening Star property will test the \"Highlife Copper\" porphyry/skarn copper target and the \"Tower Gold\" intrusion-hosted gold target. The 3,500 foot (1,060 meters) drill program will consist of two holes at Highlife and three holes at Tower Gold.Highlife Porphyry Copper TargetAt the Highlife Copper target, a +1000 foot (304 meters) long copper-in-soil anomaly overlies bedrock of altered quartz monzonite porphyry dikes that intruded a biotite-rich granodiorite. Samples of the porphyry dikes exposed in roadcuts and old prospect pits contain up to 1.54% copper and 0.159 ppm gold. The quartz monzonite porphyry dikes exhibit pervasive quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration (QSP) and is possibly the \"phyllic\...