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Xtra-Gold Completes Resource Expansion Drill Program at South Ridge Gold Deposit, Kibi Gold Belt, Ghana
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 1, 2019) - Xtra-Gold Resources Corp. ( TSX: XTG) (OT...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Xtra-Gold Completes Resource Expansion Drill Program at South Ridge Gold Deposit, Kibi Gold Belt, GhanaToronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - May 1, 2019) - Xtra-Gold Resources Corp. (TSX: XTG) (OTCBB: XTGRF) (\"Xtra-Gold\" or the \"Company\") , is pleased to announce the assay results for the final 19 drill holes of the 2018 - 2019 mineral resource expansion drill program at the South Ridge gold deposit, on the Company's wholly-owned Kibi Gold Project, located in the Kibi - Winneba greenstone belt (the \"Kibi Gold Belt\"), in Ghana, West Africa. The 19 diamond core boreholes totalling 2,305 metres were completed by the Company's in-house drilling crew on an intermittent basis from October 2018 to March 2019. A total of 37 boreholes encompassing 4,577 metres were completed during the resource expansion drill program initiated in February 2018; with the program designed to test an approximately 400 metre strike length of the South Ridge gold zone at 50 metre section spacing and to further define the litho-structural setting of the gold mineralization.Highlights of today's drill results are as follows and complete auriferous intercepts are listed in Table 1 below: - 30.25 metres grading 1.50 grams per tonne (\"g/t\") gold, including 2.26 g/t gold over 8.5 metres and 2.56 g/t gold over 9.55 metres from a down-hole depth of 62.65 metres in #KBDD18278;- 11.0 metres grading 3.3 g/t gold (uncut), including 5.96 g/t gold over 5.15 metres from a down-hole depth of 22.0 metres in #KBDD19287, 25 metres NW of previously reported high-grade #KBDD18264 intercept of 27.0 metres grading 2.85 g/t gold, including 4.84 metres grading 5.12 g/t gold (August 8, 2018 News Release); - 15.0 metres grading 2.85 g/t gold, including 5.67 g/t gold over 6.0 metres and 8.5 metres grading 3.33 g/t gold, including 6.02 g/t gold over 4.5 metres from down-hole depths of 9.0 metres and 10.5 metres in #KBDD19293 and #KBDD19292 respectively, 25 metres and 50 metres up-dip from the high-grade #KBDD18264 intercept; and- 7.5 metres grading 6.71 g/t gold (uncut), including 31.00 g/t gold over 1.5 metres from a down-hole depth of 1.5 metres on the zone's most northwesterly drill section.James Longshore, President and CEO remarked: \"We are extremely satisfied with the successful completion of the over 4,575 metre South Ridge resource expansion drill program utilizing o...