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Western Gold Intersects High-Grade Gold Within Its Newly Discovered Porphyry-Breccia Pipe at Ardlochan Prospect
North Berwick, Scotland--(Newsfile Corp. - September 18, 2025) - WESTERN GOLD EXPLORATION LTD. (...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Western Gold Intersects High-Grade Gold Within Its Newly Discovered Porphyry-Breccia Pipe at Ardlochan ProspectNorth Berwick, Scotland--(Newsfile Corp. - September 18, 2025) - WESTERN GOLD EXPLORATION LTD. (TSXV: WGLD) (the \"Company\") is pleased to announce results from 2025 drilling at Ardlochan (Figure 1). Following positive indications from the initial shallow scout drilling campaign at Ardlochan in 2023/24 (see May 2024 Press Release), the Company completed 741 m of drilling across three holes (Table 1). These tested three target styles: a porphyry-breccia pipe, porphyry stock mineralisation, and a marginal structural zone (Figure 2).Breccia Pipe Gold DiscoveryDrilling confirmed the discovery of a gold mineralised breccia pipe system at least 140m in diameter, containing multiple generations of porphyry breccia (Figure 3). Most of the higher-grade gold mineralisation occurs in late stage breccias with a potassic matrix and within dykes, although their development in this drillhole is limited. Further drilling is warranted to assess how the pipe varies with depth. Copper mineralisation is elevated throughout but does not correlate well with gold.The entire pipe is anomalous in gold and averages 195m @ 0.36 g/t Au, from 30 m downhole (using a 0.1 g/t Au cutoff). Full intercepts are reported in Table 2 with higher grade zones including1:4m @ 6.73 g/t Au from 135m, including: 1m @ 23.6 g/t Au from 136m12.2m @ 0.72 g/t Au, from 31.8m*6m @ 0.73 g/t Au, from 71m*1m @ 1.11 g/t Au, 22.4 g/t Ag, 0.45% Cu, from 112m1.Using a 0.3 g/t Au cut-off with ≤ 5m consecutive internal dilution*Reported in previous press release\"The Lorne Project continues to surprise us. Breccia pipe systems can be important hosts to gold and copper mineralisation in porphyry systems, and this pipe is consistently mineralised, with some high-grade gold in the first drillhole into the system,\" said Harry Dobson, Chairman. \"Having identified several other potential breccia pipes, these results give us confidence in the broader potential of the project considering the limited drilling conducted to date.\" The second hole, WGLD25-B, drilled towards the top of a resistivity magnetic target, looking for primary porphyry mineralisation. It intersected minor copper (up to 0.33% Cu) and gold (up to 0.27 g/t Au) at the granodiorite contact with the phyllit...