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Xtra-Gold Continues to Expand Gold Mineralization at Double 19 Kibi Gold Project, Ghana
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 14, 2021) - Xtra-Gold Resources Corp. (TSX: XTG) (...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Xtra-Gold Continues to Expand Gold Mineralization at Double 19 Kibi Gold Project, GhanaToronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - April 14, 2021) - Xtra-Gold Resources Corp. (TSX: XTG) (OTCQB: XTGRF) (\"Xtra-Gold\" or the \"Company\") is pleased to announce assay results for an additional 13 drill holes from its current resource expansion target generation program within the Zone 2 - Zone 3 maiden mineral resource footprint area, 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 13 diamond core boreholes totaling 2,185 metres were completed by the Company's in-house drilling crews from mid-January to early March 2021 on the Double 19 deposit (9), Gatehouse zone (3) and newly identified Lone Tree shear structure (1); with a total of 98 holes (13,004 metres) drilled to date since the program's initiation in September 2019. Assay results reported are provided in Table 1 below and include the following highlights:48.8 metres grading 0.76 grams per tonne (\"g/t\") gold, including 1.91 g/t gold over 6.9 metres, from down-hole depth of 134.0 metres in #KBDD21387, with undercut hole #KBDD21391 returning 15.1 metres grading 1.24 g/t gold, including 2.56 g/t gold over 4.5 metres, from down-hole depth of 200 metres; extending mineralization down to vertical depth of 200 metres on northeasternmost NW Limb zone section at Double 19 additional NW Limb drilling highlights include: 13.5 metres grading 1.92 g/t gold, including 3.13 g/t gold over 5.9 metres, from down-hole depth of 138.5 metres in #KBDD21384; 11.6 metres grading 1.00 g/t gold and 17.1 metres grading 1.13 g/t gold from down-hole depths of 92.0 metres and 121.9 metres respectively in #KBDD21386; and 7.6 metres grading 2.12 g/t gold, including 4.61 g/t gold over 2.0 metres, and 8.75 metres grading 1.03 g/t gold from down-hole depths of 101.0 metres and 125.25 metres respectively in #KBDD21390 473.09 g/t gold over 0.5 metres (visible gold), immediately followed by 16.1 metres grading 0.51 g/t gold, from down-hole depth of 112.8 metres in #KBDD21388; with placement of mineralization along granitoid - metasediment contact highlighting potential for high-grade, contact-controlled, shear-type gold mineralization at Gatehouse, in addition to typical Kibi-type Granitoid-hosted gold mineralization16.6...