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Westhaven Gold Provides Exploration Update at Shovelnose Gold Property
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Westhaven Gold Corp. (TSX-V:WHN) is pleased to provide an exploration update at its 41,623-hectar
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Westhaven Gold Corp. (TSX-V:WHN) is pleased to provide an exploration update at its 41,623-hectare Shovelnose gold property, situated within the prospective Spences Bridge Gold Belt (SBGB), 30 kilometres south of Merritt, British Columbia. The summer/fall phase of the 2024 drill campaign has now commenced and is focused on seven new, high-priority features. 4,000 metres of diamond drilling will test targets at Line 6 North, Line 6-MIK, CSAMT-3, Romeo and three different sites at Certes (each ~1km apart). Gareth Thomas, President & CEO, states, “Our “boots on ground” exploration approach this summer has identified what we feel could be the southeastern extent of Vein Zone One some 6 kilometres away from the South Zone. The discovery of banded mercury-bearing high level epithermal quartz makes us believe we are at the top of a completely preserved epithermal system at Certes. We look forward to drilling Certes and other high-priority targets in the coming weeks.” Prospecting, mapping and sampling programs conducted in 2023 and 2024, in combination with an ongoing review of geological, geochemical and geophysical data, have highlighted additional exciting prospective targets across the Shovelnose property. The majority of these targets are situated within the ‘Shovelnose Corridor’, a prominent trend of multielement pathfinder anomalies that extends for over 11km across the property and trends into the newly acquired claims to the southeast (see press release dated August 22nd, 2024). High-level quartz veins and anomalous antimony-mercury values suggest that less erosion has occurred in the southeast extent of the corridor, meaning that more of the epithermal system would be preserved, raising the potential for additional discoveries. Drill Targets Line 6 North – testing contacts of a potential rhyolite dome and related structural elements that may be the source for broad lower grade gold mineralization intercepted in past drilling (e.g. SN20-76 – 20.8m of 0.51 g/t Au). Line 6/Mik – testing a linear 500m long gold in soil anomaly coincident with geophysically inferred structures parallel to, and ~600m southwest of, those hosting Franz-FMN-South Zone mineralization. CSAMT3 – follow-up to hole SN24-412 (results reported herein) that intersected molybdenum rich silica ...