Prosper Gold Corp. ("
Prosper Gold" or the
"
Company") (TSXV:PGX) is pleased to introduce high
priority exploration targets at the recently optioned Mohave Gold
Project in Mohave County, northwestern Arizona, USA. (see the
Company's April 24, 2023 news release for details) The large
low-sulphidation epithermal gold system at Mohave is comprised of
three main mineralized trends, only two of which have seen shallow
historical drilling to date.
Exploration Target
Highlights:
- Dixie Trend – 1.8 km x 1 km
area of epithermal alteration and gold mineralization with 26
historical small-scale mine workings. No historical
drilling.
- Klondyke trend – 1 km x 1
km area host to several zones of epithermal gold mineralization,
including past producing open-pit and underground Klondyke
Mine.
- Golden Door Trend – 1.5 x 1
km area host to several past-producing, high grade gold mine
workings with only shallow drilling (average depth of 34
m).
“There are a number of highly prospective
exploration targets on the project. The Dixie Trend with widespread
high-grade gold at surface, anomalous gold-in-soil and 26
historical small-scale mine workings has not seen a single drill
hole,” commented Peter Bernier, CEO.
Mohave Gold Project
Exploration to date by historical operators has
outlined several mineralized zones through relatively shallow
drilling along with additional targets outlined through geochemical
and geophysical surveys which have not been drill tested. Extensive
alteration and widespread gold mineralization outlines three
mineralized trends: the Golden Door, the Klondyke and the Dixie
trends. The Dixie trend has seen no drilling to date, despite the
presence of highly anomalous rock and soil geochemistry and the
presence of numerous historical workings.
Figure 1. Map showing compiled
historical rock sampling results (gold) and location of historical
workings/prospects of three mineralized gold trends at the Mohave
Gold
Project.https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/c60cb848-9324-48fb-a0e7-569a8f6d98c4
Dixie Trend
The Dixie Trend is characterized by moderately
to steeply dipping quartz-calcite ± adularia-chalcedony veins
flanked by quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration within a 1.8 km by 1
km area. Historical composite chip sampling results of up to 4.0 m
grading 15.8 gpt gold show potential for high-grade gold at the
Dixie Trend. Despite the presence of widespread high-grade gold at
surface, anomalous gold-in-soil and 26 historical mine workings
this area has never been drilled.
Historical mine workings in the area range from
short adits to the relatively large Dixie Queen Mine (Figure 3).
Higher gold grades are associated with quartz-calcite vein
breccias, proximal to both NNW and NE trending structures. A
significant amount of diking persists across the Dixie Trend,
associated with a SW-NE trending, dilational structural
corridor.
Figure 2. Map of Dixie Trend area
showing historical soil and rock geochemistry (gold) relative to
historical prospects and workings, underlain by property
geology.https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/b4abb31e-6d46-42c3-92cf-0497ba9b0b2e
Figure 3. Select 2020 rock sampling
results from the Dixie Trend area. A) Sampling of quartz-calcite
vein breccia at adit of Jamie prospect. B) Massive calcite-quartz
vein at Cottonwood prospect. C) Grab sampling of quartz-calcite
veining near Dixie Queen mine entrance. D) Sampling of sheeted
calcite-quartz veinlets at Jack’s Hill
prospect.https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/65928b43-10d5-46cd-a8c7-e14bb0e78d48
Klondyke Trend
The Klondyke Trend, situated in the central
portion of the Mohave Gold Project, is characterized by widespread
sub-horizontal to locally steeply dipping quartz-calcite ±
adularia-chalcedony veins within a 1 km by 1 km area. The Klondyke
deposit has been interpreted as a low-sulphidation epithermal gold
system that has been tilted almost 90 degrees with originally
sub-vertical veins being rotated to sub-horizontal. This
interpretation is supported by alteration mapping completed in 2020
which indicates higher-temperature hydrothermal alteration
(quartz-sericite-pyrite) in the east and high-level lower
temperature alteration to the west (clay-hematite). The presence of
sporadic sub-vertical veining in this area is likely due to
gold-hosting veins being emplaced relatively late in the period of
extension and associated westward rotation.
A total of 373 historical drill holes with an
average length of 43.4 metres completed by historical operators in
the 1980’s and 1990’s primarily focused on defining shallow oxide
gold mineralization in and around the area of the past-producing
Klondyke Mine open pit. Historical drill results at the Klondyke
Mine prospect include 6.57 gpt gold over 9.1 m in drill hole
M80R-003 and 5.63 gpt gold over 10.7 m in drill hole M87A-117. The
Klondyke deposit remains open to the northeast, to the west and to
depth.
The Apex prospect, approximately 500 m north of
the center of the Klondyke Mine deposit has seen limited drilling
to date though intercepts up to 4.27 gpt gold over 4.6 m in drill
hole 89A-244. Approximately 500 to the southeast of the center of
the Klondyke Mine deposit historical chip sampling results include
8.56 gold over 2.0 m and 8.16 gpt gold over 2.0 m. Additional
exploration targets at depth beneath strong quartz-sericite-pyrite
alteration approximately 700 east of the Klondyke Mine deposit have
been outlined by previous operators and have seen limiting
exploration and no drilling.
Figure 4. Maps showing geologic and
alteration mapping of Klondyke Trend, with soil and rock
geochemistry and select historical drill
interceptshttps://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/e7e43f8f-6245-410b-9e04-0c08c0909f9d
Figure 5. Select 2020 rock sampling
results from the Klondyke Trend area. A) Composite chip sampling of
brecciated quartz-chalcedony-calcite veins in hanging wall of
Klondyke fault. B) Sampled vein breccia composed of brecciated
chalcedony vein cemented by banded quartz-calcite veins at Klondyke
Mine prospect. C) Sampling of chalcedony breccia in footwall of
fault at the Apex prospect. D) Sub-vertical swarm of chalcedony and
calcite veins at North Klondyke
prospect.https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/37954d59-ae71-4f12-8ff0-b69815e52c13
Golden Door Trend
The Golden Door Trend comprises a 1.5 km by 1 km
area with 6 historical small-scale mine workings. Gold
mineralization in this portion of the property consists primarily
of sub-horizontal quartz-calcite ± chalcedony-adularia veins, vein
breccias and mineralized tectonic breccias.
Of the six significant prospects five have seen
shallow Reverse Circulation and Rotary Air Blast drilling.
Historical drill results include 6.75 gpt gold over 7.6 m in drill
hole M81R-035 at the Golden Ram prospect, 8.1 gpt gold over 4.6 m
in drill hole M87A-083 at the Golden Door prospect and 1.39 gpt
gold over 35.1 metres in drill hole M80R-149 at the Scout
prospect.
The Red Gap prospect in the northwestern portion
of the Golden Door Trend has seen no drilling to date. The prospect
has locally high-grade gold mineralization coincident with highly
anomalous gold-in-soil geochemistry over an area of 600 m by 250 m.
The majority of historical workings within the Golden Door Trend
underlie the Red Gap prospect where silicified rhyolites yielded
8.91 gpt gold over 1.6 m in 2020 chip sampling.
Figure 6. Map of Golden Door Trend
showing historical soil and rock geochemistry relative to
historical prospects and workings, underlain by property geology.
Select historical drill intercepts
shown.https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/81b7624a-2a47-4a47-a428-932b7441d159
Figure 7. Select 2020 rock sampling
results from the Golden Door Trend area. A) Sampled quartz-calcite
vein breccia with variable banding and lattice texture at Scout
prospect. B) Quartz-chalcedony vein breccia near Jim & Jerry
mine entrance. C) Sampling of multi-stage vein breccia with
abundant chalcedony at Golden Door prospect. D) Chip sampling of
silicified rhyolite with quartz stockwork veining and iron-oxide at
Red Gap
prospect.https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/a00257b9-ce94-4a1a-9de0-b59acdd10525
About Prosper Gold
Prosper Gold Corp. is a mineral exploration and
development company focused on discovering high-grade gold deposits
in stable jurisdictions. The Company holds a 100% interest in the
Golden Sidewalk Project in the Red Lake Mining Division of
northwestern Ontario, Canada, and holds the right to earn a 100%
interest in the recently optioned Mohave Gold Project in Mohave
County, northwestern Arizona, USA.
The Mohave Gold Project is host to a large,
robust low-sulphidation epithermal gold system with over 40
historical small-scale mine workings, over half of which have not
seen any drilling to date. The Project comprises 160 contiguous
mining claims covering 1,176 hectares in the Mohave County,
northwestern Arizona. It is road-accessible with a well-developed
network of access roads to historical workings and drill sites. The
Project is permitted for construction of up to 600 drill sites and
approximately 27 kilometres of access roads.
The Golden Sidewalk is a district-scale Archean
orogenic gold exploration project covering over 160 square
kilometres of contiguous mineral claims and mining leases in the
western Birch-Uchi Greenstone Belt, approximately 60 km east of Red
Lake, Ontario and 60 km northeast of Kinross Gold’s Dixie Project,
acquired from Great Bear Resources in 2022. The vehicle-accessible
project straddles 12 kilometres of the Balmer Assemblage – Narrow
Lake Assemblage unconformity, a regional-scale feature that has
been the Red Lake exploration guide, but which has seen limited
exploration in the project area. The “Golden Corridor” lies
immediately north of the unconformity and is characterized as a
highly prospective trend of coincident favourable magnetic and
resistivity lineaments supported by highly anomalous gold-in-till
samples covering 7.0 by 0.5 kilometres. An additional highly
prospective target area was defined in 2021, termed the Skinner
North Target Area, where 2022 channel sampling results include 9.69
gpt gold over 3.0 metres and 13.13 gpt gold over 1.8 metres and
till samples containing up to 1,014 gold grains, was drilled for
the first time in November of 2022. A high-resolution Induced
Polarization survey completed in 2023 has outlined a number of
high-priority drill targets at the Skinner Target to the west and
to the east of the Skinner North prospect, where the inaugural 2022
drill program was completed.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information in this
news release has been reviewed by Rory Ritchie, P.Geo.,
Vice-President of Exploration for Prosper Gold and a Qualified
Person under National Instrument 43-101. The results contained in
this release were completed by previous operators of the Property.
Although the Company was not involved in the original work in
respect of these results, proper industry data verification
procedures appear to have been followed.
For an overview of Prosper Gold please
visit www.ProsperGoldCorp.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Per: “Peter
Bernier” Peter
BernierPresident & CEO
For further information, please contact:
Peter BernierPresident & CEOProsper Gold
Corp.Cell: (250) 316-6644Email: Pete@ProsperGoldCorp.com
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