Promising assays from the first hole of the 2021 drill program at its flagship Fondaway Canyon project in Nevada confirm Getchell Gold Corp.’s (CSE: GTCH) (OTCQB: GGLDF) hypothesis of a significant gold mineralization system.
The first drill hole, FCG21-07 was drilled to establish the lateral continuity of the Colorado SW Extension zone. It intersected a higher-grade gold interval than the neighboring drill holes, grading 3.0 g/t Au over 33.0m of uninterrupted mineralization including an interval grading 7.8 g/t Au over 4.6m. This is the sixth consecutive drill hole to intersect a substantive interval of gold mineralization at the Central Area of Fondaway Canyon.
FC21-08, drilled from the same pad, was designed to further define the Colorado SW Extension zone and to test the extent of the mineralization along strike to the northwest in a previously undrilled area.
According to Getchell, there is a likelihood that these mineralized intercepts join with the high-grade Juniper zone encountered in holes FCG20-02 and FCG20-03. The pending results from theFCG21-08 will assist with the modelling.
“The continued confirmation of gold grade and continuity of the thick zones of mineralization support our high expectation for the Fondaway Canyon project and the balance of the drill program through to the end of the year,” Getchell President Mike Sieb said in a June 1 news release.
Building on 2021 Drill Program
Five of the six holes drilled in 2020, all returning gold intercepts, were within the Central Area:
- FCG20-02:9 g/t Au over 43.5 m including 4.2 g/t Au over 14.9 m; and 1.1 g/t Au over 12.3 m
- FCG20-03:3 g/t Au over 21.1 m including 8.7 g/t Au over 9.4 m and including 14.6 g/t Au over 3.4 m; and 2.0 g/t Au over 49.0 m (188.3 to 237.3m)
- FCG20-04:6 g/t Au over 9.8 m (main Half Moon Shear vein); 2.7 g/t Au over 20.5 m; and 6.3 g/t Au over 3.3 m
- FGC20-05:8 g/t Au over 90.0 m including 3.0 g/t Au over 45.3 m and including 4.4 g/t Au over 11.1 m; 6.3 g/t Au over 3.3 m; and 0.6 g/t Au over 28.0 m
- FGC20-06:5 g/t Au over 37.7 meters including 2.1 g/t Au over 19.2 meters; and 1.1 g/t Au over 38.3 meters including 2.5 g/t Au over 10.6 meters
The remaining hole, FCG20-01, drilled 2.3 km to the west at the Pediment target area, was lost within a fault zone before reaching the target depth.
“The stellar results from the 2020 drill program blew the potential of Fondaway Canyon wide open,” Sieb said. “The revised geological interpretation represents more than a doubling in the projected downdip extent of the gold mineralization from previous geological models and has provided ample target areas for the 2021 drill program to further delineate and expand upon our recent discoveries.”
About Fondaway Canyon
Fondaway Canyon, acquired by Getchell in January 2020, is an advanced-stage gold project comprising 170 unpatented lode claims in Churchill County, Nevada. The project area covers 12 known veins, including five mineralized areas: Colorado, Halfmoon, Paperweight, Silica Ridge and Hamburger Hill. The property was the subject of multiple exploration campaigns in the late 1980s and early 1990s, resulting in 591 holes totaling nearly 50,000 meters.
A 2017 technical report showed an estimated 409,000 oz of indicated gold resources grading 6.18 g/t Au and 660,000 oz inferred grading 6.4 g/t Au — for a combined 1.1 million oz. As much as 80% of these ounces are within Colorado, Paperweight, and Halfmoon.
Mineralization is contained in a series of steeply dipping en-echelon quartz-sulfide shears outcropping at surface and extending laterally over 1,200 meters. There are drill-proven depth extensions to more than 400 meters.
2021 Drill Program and New Permits
The company’s goals in 2021 are to increase confidence in the geological model to support an updated resource estimate and to continue stepping out from known gold intercepts to expand the geological model.
The drill program comprises a series of holes targeting the North Fork Zone. It started with drill hole FCG21-09, which is nearing completion, and will circle back to expand on the Juniper and Colorado SW Extension gold mineralized zones. FCG21-07 and FCG21-08 were drilled southwest from the Colorado Pit to expand on the high-grade gold Juniper zone and the thick Colorado SW Extension zone intersected by holes FCG20-02 and FCG20-03. Both functioned as a step-out to the high-grade Juniper zone and reached their targeted depths.
Getchell has obtained permits to add three drill pads at Fondaway. This would allow the company to obtain full drill coverage to define the Central target area and to have an additional drill hole at the Pediment target area.
The permitted Central target area hosts a sizable historic resource and is where the 100-metre-thick Colorado SW Extension and the North Fork zones were discovered in 2020. Some 4,000 meters of infill and step-out drilling is slated for the Central target area, where the objective is to delineate and expand on the mineralization discovered in 2020.
The newly permitted Pediment target area is the site of two historic drill holes that each intercepted broad gold-bearing intervals in 2002 and has yet to be properly characterized.
As the drill campaign progresses, additional drill pads and access roads will be permitted as required, Getchell said.
Conclusion
The 2021 drill program at Fondaway Canyon could be a transformative step in achieving Getchell’s goals. The first hole has intersected substantive gold mineralization, marking the company’s sixth consecutive “hit.”
With more drilling to be completed, Getchell shareholders can look forward to more pleasant surprises from this advanced stage project this year.
Meanwhile, the company is planning a maiden drill program at its high-grade Star copper-gold-silver project, located north of Fondaway. This should begin after it completes the planned series of holes in the Central and Pediment target areas. Following the Star drill program, which is currently slated for early October, the Getchell team will return to Fondaway Canyon for more drilling.
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