Evergold Corp. (TSXV: EVER, WKN: A2PTHZ)
(“
Evergold” or the “
Company”) is
pleased to report that personnel have been active on the ground at
the Company’s road-accessible DEM1 precious and strategic metals
discovery in central B.C., refining targets and preparing for the
fall drill program, which the Company is now fully financed to
complete.
“Geophysical surveying earlier this year (see
news, May 13, 2024) highlighted an exceptionally strong target
lying between last year’s two widely spaced drill pads, with
another emerging to the south, suggesting that our first-ever holes
on the large DEM1 target may have just missed where we really need
to be,” said Kevin Keough, President and CEO. “Testing these
targets will be the primary focus for the forthcoming
September-October drill program, as we believe they stand the best
chance of delivering the stand-out drill results the current market
demands.”
In July the Company completed a further 249 soil
samples over the DEM1 prospect, extending grid coverage to the
west, north and south, where the results of previous sampling had
indicated the multi-element soil geochemical anomaly overlying the
DEM1 “magnetic donut” remained open. A first-ever prospecting and
sampling traverse across the DEM2 target area was also completed,
during which large areas of newly identified felsic intrusive were
mapped including, locally, intrusive hosting disseminated
sulphides. Laboratory assays for this work are anticipated later
this month, the results of which will be used to better guide the
fall exploration program.
Additionally, a further 7 line-kms of Induced
Polarization (IP) surveying is to be carried out over the DEM1
prospect in the coming weeks, extending existing IP coverage west,
north and south. Results of this work will also be used to guide
exploration planning.
Financing Closed
The Company has capped its previously announced
(news, May 21, 2024) non-brokered private placement financing at
the first tranche gross of $1,072,000 (news, June 12, 2024). All
funds received to date in the context of the proposed second
tranche announced July 5, 2024 have been returned to
subscribers.
About the DEM Project
The 12,728-hectare DEM property is ideally
located in moderate terrain only 40 kms northwest of Fort St. James
in central B.C.. The project area lies toward the south end of the
Nation Lakes porphyry camp and within the Quesnel terrane, the
latter of which hosts large deposits and long-life mines including
the Mount Milligan mine (50 kms to the northeast of DEM) and
Lorraine deposit and, farther south, the Mt. Polley, Afton, Copper
Mountain, and Brenda mines, in addition to the Highland Valley
mines and deposits.
Located central to the DEM property is the DEM1
prospect, a roughly 4km2 target area defined by alteration and
mineralogy suggestive of the presence of a porphyry system, by a
multi-element soil geochemical signature, by compelling high-relief
magnetic, IP-chargeability and CSAMT resistivity anomalies, and by
the presence of nearby regional scale structures. Extensive logging
in the area and associated forest service roads provide drive-on
access directly to the DEM1 prospect. All of these factors,
combined with the results of a 3-hole, 947-metre reconnaissance
drilling program carried out in 2023 which returned narrow
intercepts of high-grade gold, silver and strategic metals
(molybdenum, cobalt, tungsten, tellurium, and rhenium) within a
broad, low-grade envelope (news, January 15, 2024), underscore the
outstanding exploration potential of the DEM project area. Further
details on the DEM prospect may be found on the Company’s website
at www.evergoldcorp.ca/projects/dem-property/ and in a NI 43-101
technical report dated August 30, 2023, posted thereon and on the
Company’s issuer profile at SEDAR+.
Qualified Person
Charles J. Greig, M.Sc., P.Geo., the Company’s
Chief Exploration Officer and a Qualified Person as defined by NI
43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information in this
news release.
About Evergold
Evergold Corp. is a TSX-V listed mineral
exploration company with projects in B.C. and Nevada. The Evergold
team has a track record of success in the junior mining space, most
recently the establishment of GT Gold Corp. in 2016 and the
discovery of the Saddle South epithermal vein and Saddle North
porphyry copper-gold deposits near Iskut B.C., sold to Newmont in
2021 for a fully diluted value of $456 million, representing a
1,136% (12.4 X) return on exploration outlays of $36.9 million.
For additional information, please contact:
Kevin M. Keough President and CEO Tel: (613)
622-1916kevin.keough@evergoldcorp.cawww.evergoldcorp.ca
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