Relevant Gold receives exploration permit; drilling underway at Burr Target, Wyoming
Relevant Gold Corp. [TSXV-RGC; OTCQB-RGCCF] has received its third exploration drilling permit and has commenced a phase one, 1,000-metre diamond core drilling program at the Burr Target, located within its Lewiston Project in the South Pass Gold Camp, Wyoming. The Burr target is located approximately 4 km southwest along strike of the Heavy Hand target, where the company drilled widespread gold mineralization in 2023.
The Burr target area features the historic Hidden Hand, Amanda, and Burr mines, which are prolific high-grade historic mines in the Lewiston District. This drill program is designed to test the continuation of mineralized structures beneath these historic high-grade gold mines, and seek to extend the strike length of the primary mineralized structures drilled at the Heavy Hand target in 2023 another 4km to the southwest within the larger >10km Lewiston District trend.
“This drill program at Burr represents a critical next step in expanding our understanding of the mineralized system at Lewiston. Historic mining at Hidden Hand and Burr mines focused on high-grade ore shoots that historically reported gold grades of up to 3,100 oz/ton gold (Pfaff 1978). These mines terminated when they hit the water table, and this target has been begging to be drilled ever since. In addition to testing below the high-grade historic mines, this drilling is testing another strong target 4 km southwest of the Heavy Hand target that we drilled in 2023, where 10 of 11 holes intersected shear-hosted gold mineralization. The results from this year will provide key insights to the strike potential within the broader Lewiston property. We are excited to build upon the success of our previous drilling and to continue advancing our exploration thesis at Lewiston,” said Rob Bergmann, CEO of Relevant Gold.
The Burr target area is an approximately 1 km long x 500 m wide mineralized shear zone corridor of greywacke-slate with intrusive granodiorite and metagabbro sills. The 2024 drill program consists of 5-8 drill holes specifically targeting the down-plunge projections of the mineralized zones identified from surface structural mapping and historic mining data as well as the thickness and number of parallel mineralized shear structures within the structural corridor.
Additionally, this aims to connect the mineralization at the Burr target to the broader >10km structural trend observed throughout the Lewiston District. Success with this drill program could allow the company to demonstrate a more extensive mineralized system that stretches across multiple targets, further confirming the exploration thesis that South Pass hosts a district-scale orogenic gold system.
The 2024 drilling program at Burr is expected to be completed in early October with assay results anticipated before the end of the year.