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Westward Gold Announces Mobilization of Drill Rig to Toiyabe and Commencement of 2022 Field Activities
Vancouver, British Columbia – TheNewswire - June 8, 2022 – Westward Gold Inc. (CSE:WG), (OTC:WGLIF), (FSE:IM50) (“Westward” or the “Company”) is pleased to anno
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[{"type":"text","content":"Vancouver, British Columbia – TheNewswire - June 8, 2022 – Westward Gold Inc. (CSE:WG), (OTC:WGLIF), (FSE:IM50) (“Westward” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that contractor Midnight Sun Drilling Inc. has mobilized its rig and personnel to site for the Company’s 4,000-meter drill program at its flagship Toiyabe Project in Lander County, Nevada (“Toiyabe”). Earthwork crews from Legarza Exploration LLC have been on site since last week preparing access roads, and drilling is slated to begin in the coming days. The Company’s fully-funded inaugural drill campaign is designed to test high-priority step-out targets across 15 holes to the west, south, southeast and east of the 2009 historical resource estimate at Toiyabe (~173 koz at 1.2 g Au/t)(1) (the “Historical Estimate”). Drilling will begin at the California Target area to the west of the Historical Estimate (see Figure 2 below), and Westward will be highlighting individual target areas and keeping investors informed as key milestones are reached throughout the campaign, expected to last 5-6 weeks. Figure 1: Westward’s Nevada Land Package Figure 2: 2022 Toiyabe Drilling – California Target Area California Target Area The California Target to the west of the Historical Estimate corresponds with northwest/southeast trending gold-in-soil anomalies, and lies a short distance away from the past-producing Toiyabe-Saddle Mine. This northwest trend of mineralization is repeated across Westward’s land package, including eastwards onto Turquoise Canyon. This area has also shown elevated arsenic and mercury-in-soils, corresponding with the anomalous gold values; these are important pathfinder elements for many Carlin-type gold deposits. Drilling will test deeper zones of gold mineralization indicated by previous drilling(2) but not adequately tested. Of the 16 legacy holes found in the Company’s review of past operator logs (within the ~500 m2 blue box in Figure 2 above), the average depth was approximately 85 meters, with no modern drilling. Westward plans to reach a minimum target depth of 250m per hole. Shallow, anomalous gold intercepts above the current oxide cut-off grade of 0.14 g Au/t have been identified in legacy holes; these include 10.7m of 1.64 g Au/t from a depth of 18m (DH89-086), 6.1m of 1.29 g Au/t from a depth of 35m (DH89-112), 36.6m of 1.12 g Au/t from a depth of ...