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Westward Gold Targets High-Grade Potential with 2026 Drilling at the SSD Zone, Toiyabe Hills Property, Nevada
SSD is one of three high-priority target areas to be tested with RC and core drilling in 2026 on the Company’s 84-square-kilometre Property Systematic explorati
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[{"type":"text","content":" SSD is one of three high-priority target areas to be tested with RC and core drilling in 2026 on the Company’s 84-square-kilometre Property Systematic exploration has expanded the SSD Target’s plan dimensions and improved the Company’s understanding of mineralization controls 8-12 holes planned at SSD with strategic step-outs from the most significant historical gold intersections seen on the Property Vancouver, British Columbia – TheNewswire - April 27, 2026 – Westward Gold Inc. (CSE: WG, OTCQB: WGLIF, FSE: IM50) (“Westward” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide additional details pertaining to its 2026 exploration plans at the SSD Target (“SSD”), one of three zones slated for reverse-circulation (“RC”) and core drilling at the Company’s Toiyabe Hills Property in Lander County, Nevada (“Toiyabe Hills”, or the “Property”). This year’s field activities are already well underway, beginning with sampling programs across newly-staked ground, 1:5000 surface geological and alteration mapping, and expanded geophysical surveys. Westward expects drilling to commence in early June, with trenching, road and pad construction to begin in May. SSD was originally identified several years ago by the Company through a detailed investigation of legacy drill hole data; it is a separate and unique zone of gold mineralization that lies beneath the Courtney Zone, an area of shallow gold mineralization that was the focal point of the vast majority of historical drilling by previous operators. Westward subsequently expanded upon SSD with drilling in 2022 and 2023, and now with the benefit of large-scale systematic programs completed since then – including 1:5000 surface mapping, relogging of legacy RC and core drill holes, soil and rock-chip sampling, gravity and magnetic surveys – this target has been deemed a top priority for follow-up in 2026. SSD also represents the target zone that is most proximal to the recently-identified Threemile Stock, a deep-seated intrusive centre interpreted from magnetic data, dike swarms, and mapped/logged thermal alteration (see press release dated March 26, 2026, for additional details). Importantly, SSD earthwork is already permitted under the Company’s existing Exploration Plan of Operations (“EPO”) with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”), allowing for significant trench, road, and drill-pad construction ...