VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 16,
2024 /CNW/ - Nevada King Gold Corp. (TSXV:
NKG) (OTC: NKGFF) ("Nevada
King" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it
has received a Finding of No Significant Impact, or "FONSI", from
the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for a minor modification
to its existing 45km2 Plan of Operations, a critical
step towards commencing its Phase III regional drill program at the
100%-owned Atlanta Gold Mine Project along the prolific Battle
Mountain Trend 264km northeast of Las
Vegas, Nevada.
Highlights:
- With the FONSI in place, Nevada
King is currently posting an increase to the Atlanta reclamation bond and, upon acceptance,
expects to receive a final Approval Letter for the modification to
its Plan of Operation.
- The Company is planning a 59-hole, Phase III regional drilling
program (Figure 1) testing 12 regional targets throughout the
district (released September 17,
2024, and October 3, 2024).
This is in addition to ongoing drilling at the Wild West Target
(4.67 g/t Au over 42.7m,
including 7.94 g/t Au over 18.3m, (August 19,
2024 release), located adjacent to the Atlanta resource zone.
- New road construction will begin along portions of the South
Quartzite Ridge Target ("SQRT") upon receipt of the final
Approval Letter from the BLM. Construction, which will include
three road extensions on the east face of the SQRT, is expected to
take 8-12 weeks to complete.
- Ten pads along the new roads are designed to test a northern
portion of the 2.5km long SQRT, following up on the Company's
recent discovery of 6.28 g/t Au over 54.9m at the northern end, (released
July 23, 2024). Sixteen additional
drill sites are planned along the west side and along the southern
extent of the SQRT that will be accessed by existing roads. The
SQRT is located along trend of the Atlanta resource zone and coincides with a
major anticline that is thought to have played a major part in the
mineralizing events at Atlanta.
This drill campaign represents the first time this target has been
drilled, aside from two shallow historical holes at the southern
end that averaged just 56m in
depth.
Cal Herron, Exploration Manager
of Nevada King, stated: "We
initially acquired Atlanta for its
district-scale potential as evidenced by widespread gold
mineralization spanning 6km across the district. Its caldera
setting was certainly important, as calderas are known to host very
large deposits, as witnessed by Kinross' world-class Round Mountain Mine.
After three years of extensive drilling and field work combined
with an array of detailed geophysical data, we now possess a
fundamental understanding of how the Atlanta gold system formed and how the various
geological environments hosting mineralization within and around
the resource zone can be identified using geochemical and
geophysical methods. Armed with this knowledge, we are excited to
step further out into the surrounding district with our Phase III
program and start chasing target types that were unknown to
previous explorers and in areas that have yet to be drilled."
QA/QC Protocols
All Reverse Circulation (RC) samples from the Atlanta Project
are split at the drill site and placed in cloth and plastic bags
utilizing a nominal 2kg sample weight. CRF standards, blanks, and
duplicates are inserted into the sample stream on-site on a
one-in-twenty sample basis, meaning all three inserts are included
in each 20-sample group. Samples are shipped by a local contractor
in large sample shipping crates directly to American Assay Lab in
Reno, Nevada, with full custody
being maintained at all times. At American Assay Lab, samples were
weighted then crushed to 75% passing 2mm and pulverized to 85%
passing 75 microns in order to produce a 300g pulverized split.
Prepared samples are initially run using a four acid + boric acid
digestion process and conventional multi-element ICP-OES analysis.
Gold assays are initially run using 30-gram samples by lead fire
assay with an OES finish to a 0.003 ppm detection limit, with
samples greater than 10 ppm finished gravimetrically. Every sample
is also run through a cyanide leach for gold with an ICP-OES
finish. The QA/QC procedure involves regular submission of
Certified Analytical Standards and property-specific
duplicates.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information in this news release
has been reviewed and approved by Calvin R.
Herron, P.Geo., who is a Qualified Person as defined by
National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101").
About Nevada King Gold Corp.
The Atlanta Mine is a historical gold-silver producer with a NI
43-101 compliant pit-constrained resource of 460,000 oz Au in the
measured and indicated category (11.0M tonnes at 1.3 g/t) plus an inferred
resource of 142,000 oz Au (5.3M
tonnes at 0.83 g/t). See the NI 43-101 Technical Report on
Resources titled "Atlanta Property, Lincoln County, NV" with an effective date of
October 6, 2020, and a report date of
December 22, 2020, as prepared by
Gustavson Associates and filed under the Company's profile on
SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca).
Resource
Category
|
Tonnes
(000s)
|
Au
Grade
(ppm)
|
Contained Au
Oz
|
Ag
Grade
(ppm)
|
Contained Ag
Oz
|
Measured
|
4,130
|
1.51
|
200,000
|
14.0
|
1,860,000
|
Indicated
|
6,910
|
1.17
|
260,000
|
10.6
|
2,360,000
|
Measured +
Indicated
|
11,000
|
1.30
|
460,000
|
11.9
|
4,220,000
|
Inferred
|
5,310
|
0.83
|
142,000
|
7.3
|
1,240,000
|
Table 1. NI
43-101 Mineral Resources at the Atlanta Mine
|
Please see the Company's website at www.nevadaking.ca.
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Forward-looking statements in this news release relate to, among
other things, the Company's exploration plans and the Company's
ability to potentially expand mineral resources and the impact
thereon. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove
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Forward-looking statements reflect the beliefs, opinions and
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complete proposed exploration work, the results of exploration,
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