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Westhaven Plans Inaugural Drill Program at Skoonka Creek Gold Property
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Westhaven Gold Corp. (TSX-V:WHN) is pleased to announce preparation for a diamond drilling progra
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Aug. 10, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Westhaven Gold Corp. (TSX-V:WHN) is pleased to announce preparation for a diamond drilling program at its 2,784 hectare Skoonka Creek Gold Property, located within the prospective Spences Bridge Gold Belt (SBGB), British Columbia. Westhaven acquired a 100% interest in the Skoonka Creek Gold Property, subject to a 2% net smelter return royalty, in May of 2017. Previous owners, through prospecting, mapping, geochemistry, geophysics, and drilling, outlined several gold zones. The best drill intercept returned 12.80 metres (m) of 20.20 g/t gold (Au). Skoonka Creek Gold Property Highlights: Road accessible and close to power, rail and major highways. Over $4.5 million spent by previous owners / operators. Significant areas of epithermal alteration and veining which are prospective for gold & silver mineralization have been outlined. 3,000-metre-long by 500-metre-wide structural corridor encompassing numerous gold and/or pathfinder element (arsenic, antimony, mercury, molybdenum) soil and rock geochemical anomalies. Skoonka Creek High-Grade Drill Intercepts Include: 20.20 g/t gold over 12.80m (SC-008) 26.80 g/t gold over 3.31m (SC-007) 7.48 g/t gold over 4.10m (SC-006) 3.39 g/t gold over 4.67m (SC-038) 6.43 g/t gold over 1.20m (SC-039) Gareth Thomas, President & CEO of Westhaven stated, “Prior to Westhaven’s discovery of high-grade gold at its 100% owned Shovelnose Gold Property, the Skoonka Creek Gold Property had the highest-grade gold drill intercepts across the entire Spences Bridge Gold Belt. In 2017, Westhaven identified the JJ-West target which is possibly the continuation of the high-grade JJ Vein zone last drilled in 2007. We look forward to applying what we have learned at our Shovelnose Gold Property to the Skoonka Creek Gold Property.” Soil, rock sampling, and prospecting have uncovered anomalous pathfinder geochemistry that suggests the possible continuation of the JJ Vein zone to the southwest in a down-dropped fault block that has preserved the upper portions of an epithermal system anomalous in mercury, antimony and arsenic. These high-level pathfinders are coincident and on-trend with an airborne magnetic low of similar strike as the JJ vein zone to the northeast.&nbs...