Golden Shield Drills 10 M at 2.68 G/T GOLD and 4 M at 7.77 G/T GOLD, Confirming High-Grade Depth Extension at Mazoa Hill Deposit and Discovers Five Additional Prospects, TWO Drill Ready
GOLDEN SHIELD DRILLS 10 M AT 2.68 G/T GOLD AND 4 M AT 7.77 G/T GOLD,
CONFIRMING HIGH-GRADE DEPTH EXTENSION AT MAZOA HILL DEPOSIT AND
DISCOVERS FIVE ADDITIONAL PROSPECTS, TWO DRILL READY
• 4m grading 7.77 g/t gold confirms high-grade depth extension at Mazoa Hill.
• Two new areas of gold host rock QMC identified – both larger than Mazoa Hill.
• Drilling starting mid-September to year end and trenching ongoing.
Vancouver, British Columbia, September 13, 2022 – Golden Shield Resources Inc. (CSE:
GSRI / FRA: 4LE0) (the “Company” or “Golden Shield”) is pleased to announce assay results
from the final four holes of the Company’s eleven-hole 3,100 metre Phase Two drill program and
recent trenching results at its flagship, 5,457-hectare Marudi Mountain gold project located in the
Rupununi District of southwestern Guyana. The Phase Two drill program was designed to test
the extension of mineralization at depth and laterally at the previously identified Mazoa Hill
prospect.
MAZOA DRILL RESULTS
Drill holes MH-22-24, MH-22-25 and MH-22-26 were drilled to test the southern extension of
Mazoa Hill Deposit. This area had seen limited historical drilling. Drillhole MH-22-27 was drilled
to infill a previously undrilled panel in the northern part of the deposit. Detailed geological logging
and interpretative work has shown that a high-grade mineralized envelope (the “Main Zone”)
within the Quartz Metachert (“QMC”), plunges shallowly to the south. The Main Zone is interpreted
to be down dropped vertically to the south, by a steeply dipping fault (Figure 3). The next (third)
phase of drilling will target the down-dropped extension of the Main Zone, as shown in Figure 3.
Figure 1. Overview of the Marudi Mountain Property showing location of the Mazoa Hill
Deposit and Prospects with new Prospects highlighted.
Highlights Include:
Hole MH-22-26
• 10 m grading 2.68 g/t Au, including 3 m at 5.12 g/t Au
o Drilled as a step-out hole in the southern section of the deposit (Figure 2.). The
hole was drilled above the main high-grade ore shoot and intersected the upper
zone of the Mazoa Hill Deposit (Figure 3.)
Hole MH-22-27
• 4 m grading 7.77 g/t Au
o Designed to drill into an undrilled section of the Mazoa Hill deposit at the northern
margin of the deposit.
Figure 2. Drill locations of 2021 (Phase 1) and 2022 (Phase 2) drilling. Holes in this
release are highlighted.
Hilbert Shields, CEO of Golden Shield commented, “The final four drill holes from our Phase
Two drill campaign at Marudi Mountain continue to produce high -grade gold intercepts. The
previously unrecognized down-faulted continuation of high-grade mineralization resulted from
holes MH-22-24, MH-22-25 and MH-22-26 and this has greatly improved the company’s
understanding of the Mazoa Hill deposit.”
Table 1. Drillhole Intersections:
Azimuth /
Inclination
Interval
number From (m) To (m) Width (m) Gold (g/t)
MH-22-24 /
306 m
060 / -55
1 187.00 190.00 3.00 3.33
2 195.50 200.50 5.00 1.67
3 239.00 242.00 3.00 4.81
MH-22-25 /
303 m 060 / -55 1 159.00 161.20 2.10 1.82
MH-22-26 /
204 m 060 / -50
1 116.52 126.64 10.12 2.68
including 116.52 119.52 3.00 5.12
2 123.52 126.64 3.12 3.65
MH-22-27 /
141 m 075 / -52
1 32.00 36.00 4.00 2.07
2 92.00 100.00 8.00 1.75
3 106.00 110.00 4.00 7.77
*Lengths are drill indicated core length, as insufficient drilling has been undertaken to determine true widths at this time. The highest
assay used for weighted average grade is 14.27/t gold and top-cutting is not deemed to be necessary. Average widths are calculated
using a 0.50 g/t gold cut-off grade with < 4 m of internal dilution below cut-off grade. Sample lengths are 1m unless reduced below
this to respect geological contacts
Figure 3. Long Section of the Mazoa Hill Deposit showing scaled mid-points of the best
intersections.
*Scaled midpoints were calculated by calculating the average grade for the intercept. The true width was then estimated by
comparison to modeled interpretation and wireframes. Grade x width was then calculated and scaled as a point plotted at the
midpoint of the intersection
PROPERTY EXPLORATION
Since June, Golden Shield geologists at Marudi have been conducting an ongoing trenching
program to develop new prospects and advance these and existing prospects to drill stage. A
total of 2,010m in 17 trenches have been excavated and 505 continuous chip samples have been
taken from bedrock, for which results from 340 samples have been received. Mapping and grab
and channel sampling of outcrops and float material has also been ongoing. This work has
increased the number of prospects, with favourable QMC host rock at surface, from eight to 13.
All of these prospects are summarized in Table 2
Table 2. Summary of Prospects at Marudi with new prospects asterisked.
Trenching has mainly focused on two areas, the new prospects of Throne and July (see Figure
4). These prospects appear to form a north-northwest to south-southeast oriented, 1.9 kilometre
trend that is coincident with a ridge. The ridge may be indicative of resistive weathering resulting
from the comparatively hard QMC lithology. Company geologists are currently exploring for
additional QMC in this trend, primarily by trenching, to establish whether these zones could be
continuous and to extend it further to the north and south. Further exploration outside of these
areas is required to gain an understanding of the full extent and mineral potential of the unexplored
portion of the project.
Figure 4. Location map showing Mazoa, Throne, July trend.
Results for Throne are compiled in Figure 5. Trenching at the Throne target has uncovered QMC
over a maximum strike length of approximately 230m and a maximum width of approximately
150m. This compares with a width of 55m and an outcropping strike of 120m at Mazoa Hill. At
throne, the saprolite is thought to be the weathered expression of the metavolcanic and
metasedimentary units that envelope the QMC. The competent, resistive QMC unit displays cubic
boxworks after pyrite suggesting gold values at surface may have been depleted by leaching.
Figure 5. Throne Prospect, map of QMC in trenches and selected trench and grab sample
results. Light yellow boxes are trench results and salmon boxes are grab samples.