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Walker River Resources Announces Exploration Program Update from the Lapon Gold Project
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 11, 2020) - Walker River Resources Corp. (TSXV: "WRR") ("Walker" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an
About this update from Walker River Resources Corp.
[{"type":"text","content":" Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - June 11, 2020) - Walker River Resources Corp. (TSXV: \"WRR\") (\"Walker\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to provide an update to its exploration activities at the Lapon Gold Project in Nevada. The 2020 exploration program has been limited to date by the worldwide COVID 19 pandemic, but Walker is now able to schedule and begin its 2020 exploration work. The Lapon Gold Project consists of 147 claims (2940 acres) situated in the Wassuk Range, within the Walker Lane shear zone, a 100 km wide structural corridor extending in a southeast direction from Reno, Nevada. The Project is easily accessible by secondary state roads from the main highway (25 kilometres), and is located approximately 60 kilometres southeast of Yerington, Nevada. A state power grid transmission line passes within three kilometres of the Project. The Lapon Gold Project includes Lapon Canyon, the Pikes Peak claims located 4 kilometres to the north, and the Rattlesnake and Range Front claims 3 kilometres to the west and over 600 meters lower than the present drilling at Lapon Canyon. The Rattlesnake, Range Front, and Pikers Peak claims cover over 8 km of possible extensions of the range front zones to the west, north, and south of Lapon Canyon, adding several additional drill target areas to the project. Rattlesnake and Pikes Peak contain numerous historical mining and milling areas that consist of adits at different levels, shafts and underground workings, and a network of existing roads providing access throughout. Little or no exploration work has been carried out on these claims prior to Walkers arrival. It is notable that the Rattlesnake area and adits are on strike with the Lapon Canyon discoveries located 3 km on strike and 600 meters above. Lapon Canyon hosts historical high grade gold mining with approximately 2000 feet of undergoing workings in three adits. Historical underground work returned numerous assay values in the one ounce per ton range, with a sample at the end of Adit returning 20.6 ounces per ton Au. (NI43-101, Montgomery and Barr, 2004). The gold mineralization at Lapon Canyon is contained in a wide (300 meters), long (over 4km strike length), intensely altered (sericite, iron oxides) sheared and faulted NE trending zone. Gold mineralization is present pervasively throughout as an envelope of low...