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Solstice Gold Outlines Results from Winter 2018 Exploration Program on Its 100% Owned Kahuna Gold Project in Nunavut
Program Confirms, Extends and Further Defines Target Areas VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Solstice Gold Corp. ("Solstice" or the
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[{"type":"text","content":" Program Confirms, Extends and Further Defines Target Areas VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 19, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Solstice Gold Corp. (\"Solstice\" or the “Company”) (TSX-V:SGC) is pleased to provide an update on ongoing exploration at its 100% owned 841 km2 Kahuna Gold Project (“Kahuna” or the “Project”), located near Rankin Inlet, Nunavut. Results reported today include gold recoveries from glacial till, Rotary Air Blast (RAB) drilling and ground geophysics completed during winter 2018. The program has successfully confirmed, extended and further defined gold target areas (Figure 1). The Company expects to start the summer portion of its 2018 work program in the coming weeks once snow cover has cleared. Highlights of 2018 Program to date: 3,436 gold grains were retrieved from 627 till samples collected from the Westeros area New gold-in-till results have expanded historical till-based gold targets and have identified several new target areas (Figure 1) Gold grains have travelled relatively short distances from the source rocks as indicated by their delicate, irregular and abraded textures, inferring local sources within Westeros (Figure 1) 1,675 line km of ground magnetic surveys at 25 m spacing were completed in the North areas; the survey highlights key structural and stratigraphic features for follow-up summer 2018 exploration 69 RAB drillholes were completed on tightly spaced fence lines within the Westeros target area. The RAB has successfully identified favourable rock types within several of the till anomalies. (Figure 2) Till Results: The till program included the assaying and analysis of 627 till samples collected during the 2017 summer field program. Gold was confirmed in 521 of 637 samples collected across a 330 square kilometre area, reflecting the significant extent of the gold mineralized system at Kahuna. The new till data correlate well with rock samples, as gold-bearing rock samples are found up-ice from gold-bearing tills. Locations of greater than 80th percentile till counts are shown in Figure 1 along with contoured ranked till data from 3,991 samples of combined historical and current till results. Total grain counts of new till data are presented since only one grain out of 3,436 grains is classified as ‘rounded’, meaning the overwhelming majority o...