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Viva Gold Drills 22.9 Meters at 1.5 g/t, Including 4.6 Meters at 6.2 g/t, on a Significant Step-Out Drill Hole at its Tonopah Gold Project in Nevada
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / September 15, 2021 / Viva Gold Corp. ( TSX-V:VAU)(OTCQB:VAUCF...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Viva Gold Drills 22.9 Meters at 1.5 g/t, Including 4.6 Meters at 6.2 g/t, on a Significant Step-Out Drill Hole at its Tonopah Gold Project in NevadaVANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / September 15, 2021 / Viva Gold Corp. (TSX-V:VAU)(OTCQB:VAUCF) (the \"Company\" or \"Viva\") is pleased to announce strongly positive results on the first hole of its 2021 reverse circulation (\"RC\") drill program announced on July 12, 2021.Tonopah ProjectDrill Results Hole TG 2101HoleAzimuthDipFromToLengthGold GradeSilver Grade MeterMeterMeterGram/TonneGram/TonneTG 2101110-600.0204.0 25.929.03.00.2510.90 125.0147.822.91.538.34 including 125.0137.212.22.699.41 which includes 125.0129.54.66.166.83Hole TG 2101 was drilled as a 90-meters step-out to extend a new zone of mineralization intercepted in drill hole TG 2004 (announced on October 14, 2020). TG 2004 was collared on the east side of the regional Rye Patch fault, and cumulatively intercepted 36.1 meters at 0.76 grams per ton. Previously, it was thought that mineralization did not occur on the east side of the Rye Patch fault, but these two recent holes prove that mineralization may extend significantly further east, opening up very fertile untested potential. Both TG 2101 and TG 2004 fall on the centerline strike of a mineral trend originating in the Midway Hills section of the property in the west and extending three-kilometers through the declared resource pit area to the east. Gold mineralization encountered in TG 2101 was found in lower Tertiary volcanics, and unmineralized Palmetto argillite was intercepted at a shallower depth than anticipated.Review of existing drilling in light of the results of holes TG 2101 and TG 2004 highlights drill-hole MW 305, which also falls on the same trend line, a reconnaissance hole drilled by Newmont in 2004. MW 305, was collared 355-meters further to the east-south-east from TG 2101 and encountered 7.6 meters at an average of 0.47 g/t gold in Tertiary volcanics. The combination of results from existing resource trends, TG 2004, TG 2101 and MW 305, plausibly points to the potential for up to 500-meters of additional mineralization along this trend.\"We are extremely pleased with these results as they represent the confirmation of a major open extension to the Tonopah resource. The high-grade results seen in TG 2101 clearly point to the potential for additional hi...