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Walker River Resources Announces Drill Results From the Lapon Gold Project
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Walker River Resources Corp. (“Walker” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: “WRR”) is pleased to announce ad
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Walker River Resources Corp. (“Walker” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: “WRR”) is pleased to announce additional drill results from the 2021 reverse circulation (“RC”) drill programs at its 100% owned Lapon Gold Project located approximately 60 kilometres southeast of Yerington, Nevada. RC drill hole LC 21-65 returned 3.45 g/t Au over 30.5 meters from a depth of 33.5 meters. This is a very significant hole as it was drilled approx. 150 meters from the nearest intercept. It also includes a higher-grade intercept of 9.65 g/t Au over 1.5 meters, which appears to be on strike with the high-grade corridor located approx. 500 meters to the west. RC drillhole LC 21-61 returned 1.22 g/t Au over 7.6 meters from surface. This hole is significant as it demonstrates mineralization in granite. Key Highlights: The drilling results expand the gold mineralization at Lapon Canyon, further define the direction and dip of the higher-grade structures, and expanded gold mineralization both laterally and to depth as shown in drill hole LC 21-65. LC 21-60 was designed to determine the possible extension of the higher-grade mineralization corridor discovered at Lapon. The corridor does deflect and warp along dip and strike (azimuth). It is believed that the higher-grade intercept in the hole at the target depth of 44 meters (1.5 meters of 9.32 g/t Au) represents the leading edge of the high-grade corridor. In addition, at a depth of 55 meters, we had no recovery of sample over 3.5 meters, which is often indicative of intense fracturing, prevalent in the high-grade structures at Lapon. The drill program is designed to ascertain granite contacts and their relationships with the altered gold mineralized alteration zones. We continue to intercept gold assay results in what was previously believed to be barren granite, as evidenced in drill holes LC 21-56 to 61. The 2021 drill program will continue to target the higher-grade trends and expand the new gold mineralization previously discovered at the 8800-foot elevation, at the Honeypot, Holes LC19-42 and 43, the lateral extension of LC 21-65, among other targets at Lapon Canyon. The 2020-2021 drill programs at Lapon Canyon consist of systematic drilling on section for geological modelling purposes, as well as exploration drilling to discover new gold m...