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Walker Announces 12.85 g/t Gold over 9.2 Meters
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 4, 2017) - Walker River Resources Corp....
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[{"type":"text","content":"Walker Announces 12.85 g/t Gold over 9.2 MetersVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - October 4, 2017) - Walker River Resources Corp. (TSXV: \"WRR\") (\"Walker\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce initial results from the 2017 reverse circulation (\"RC\") drill program on the Lapon Canyon gold project, located approximately 60 kilometres southeast of Yerington, Nevada.The present drill program is designed to expand gold mineralized zones discovered by the company in 2015 and 2016, and to discover and delineate new gold mineralized zones.These are preliminary results from the 2017 drill program and further assays are pending.Highlights Include:RC drill hole LC 17-14 intersected 12.85 grams per tonne gold over 9.2 meters from 10.6 to 19.8 meters.RC drill hole LC 17-13 intersected 21.03 grams per tonne gold over 3.0 meters from 22.9 to 25.9 meters. Drill Hole From m To mLength** m Assay(g/t Au)LC 17-1410.619.89.212.85Including10.612.21.532.6Including18.319.81.526.2 1.519.818.37.8 LC 17-1322.925.93.021.03Including24.525.91.540.0 15.225.910.75.6 **True widths approx. 80% in LC 17-14Initial drilling began on the project in Dec 2015 and 2016. Highlights (previously announced) included 77.62 g/t gold (uncut) over 12.2 meters in RC drill hole LC 16-10; 48.02 g/t gold (uncut) over 13.7 meters; 39.17 g/t gold (uncut) over 9.2 meters in RC drill hole LC 16-12; 7.62 g/t gold over 18.3 meters in RC drill hole LC 15-03; 7.84 g/t gold over 22.9 meters in RC drill hole LC 15-02, among others.The drill program is planned to resume at the end of this month. Further results will be released as available.About the Lapon ProjectThe Lapon Project consists of 96 claims (1,940 acres) situated in the Wassuk Range, easily accessible by secondary state roads from the main highway (25 kilometres). A state grid power transmission line passes within three kilometres of the Lapon Project. The Lapon Project is located within the Walker Lane shear zone, a 100-kilometre-wide structural corridor extending in a southeast direction from Reno, Nevada. Within this trend, numerous gold, silver, and copper mines are located, notably the historic Comstock Lode mines in Virginia City. Also, the past producing Esmeralda/Aurora gold mine, with reported production of some one million ounces and the Anaconda open pit copper mine in Yerington, Nevada.The L...