NV Gold Announces Exploration Target at its Slumber Gold Project of up to ~450,000 Gold Ounces
NV Gold Announces Exploration Target at its Slumber Gold
Project of up to ~450,000 Gold Ounces
VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 21, 2023 / NV Gold Corporation (TSXV:NVX)
(OTCQB:NVGLF) (FSE:8NV) (“ NV Gold ” or the “ Company ”) is pleased to provide a
technical update for the Company’s 100% -owned Slumber Gold Project (“Slumber”) located
80 kilometers (50 miles) northwest of Winnemucca, and 37 k ilometers (23 miles) west of the
Sleeper gold deposit, in Humboldt County, Nevada (see Figure 1). The technical update has
identified a n estimated exploration target (the “Exploration Target ”) of 150,000 – 450,000
ounces of gold (see Table 1).
Table 1: Exploration Target potential grades and tonnages, with the potential tonnage
and grade using a maximum and minimum of 20% increase/decrease to allow for
uncertainty.
Slumber Exploration Target (1)
Project Metric million Tonnage
Range Au ppm Range Au Ounces Range
Slumber Au 35-50 0.15-0.31 150k - 450k
(1) The potential quantity and grade are conceptual in nature. There has not been sufficient exploration drilling to estimate a
Mineral Resource, and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a Mineral Resource.
Exploration Target Summary:
Like nearby epithermal volcanic hosted gold deposits, such as the Sleeper mine (37 kilometers
east-northeast) and the Sandman resource (45 kilometers southeast), gold occurs in rhyolitic
to rhyodacitic tuffs, breccias, and other volcanic rocks. Alteration consists of silicification,
veining, and argillization. Nearly all the mineralization is oxidized. Drilling to -date suggests
zones of mineralization can occur in both sub-horizontal stratigraphically hosted deposition, as
well as sub-vertical, structurally controlled deposition.
There have been 29 reverse circulation drill holes by NV Gold from 2019 to 2022 and 6 reverse
circulation drill holes by Amax Gold Inc. (“Amax Gold”) in 1988, both of which were combined
for this analysis. Based on the data from both drilling periods, there is not presently sufficient
drilling density to calculate an Inferred Resource (as defined in National Instrument 43 -101 –
Standard for Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 4 3-101”)). An Exploration Target is an
identified zone or zones of mineralized rock that potentially could be subsequently converted
to a NI 43-101 compliant Inferred Resource with at least one additional drill program. The data
currently available does provide an Exploration Target that contains between 35 million tons
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and 50 million tons, with grades ranging from 0. 15 gram per ton to 0.31 gram per ton. The
target has been developed and modeled in 3-dimensional and in 2-dimensional sections using
the average grade for mineralized intercepts from all holes on or on near -by 50-meter spaced
sections. A range of density values from 2.3 g/cm 3 to 2.5 g/cm 3 was used in the tonnage
calculation based on a 2020 geophysical report on the local and regional gravity written by
Thomas V Weis and Associates, Inc. This exploration target is based on 29 intervals (25 from
the Company and 4 from Amax Gold) of at least 3.1 meters downhole thickness, considered
mineralized, covering a surface area of approximately 400 meters east to west, and 700 meters
north to south, with the largest distance between the Company’s drill holes of approximately
200 meters (see Figure 2).
Thomas Klein, VP Exploration stated, “I am excited by the outcome of this technical
update (“Exploration Target”) and the potential ounces modeled by Mr. Jesse D. Wellman.
NV Gold has successfully delineated a substantial near -surface, oxide gold system at its
Slumber property in Humboldt County, Nevada. The gold zone is very homogenous and
comprehensive, and preliminary AuCN tests returned potentially high gold recoveries. The
gold system remains open in multiple directions and at depth , and last year’s mercury vapor
survey has identified numerous additional targets to be drill -tested (see Figure 3). I am
confident that the Slumber gold system will grow significantly and has potential for higher
gold grade (Sleeper -like) structures; and that more drilling could lead to the nex t oxide gold
discovery in Nevada. ”
Figure 1: Slumber Gold Project General Location Map
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Figure 2: Overview Map of the Slumber South-block Drilling
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Figure 3. Mercury Vapor Survey
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Jesse D. Wellman, CPG stated , “The Slumber project checks most of the boxes of a
textbook volcanic hosted epithermal style gold setting. This should be an exciting project
exploring and developing the full picture of what appears to be a primarily covered,
potentially intact, well min eralized gold system .”
Data provided by the Company to Jesse D. Wellman, CPG, for this Exploration Target
calculation has not been verified. There is no reason to believe that the information provided
and used in this exploration target calculation contains any misrepresentation. It is believed
that all work performed, data collected, and reported on, wa s conducted at or above industry-
standard professional-conduct at the time the work was performed.
Qualified Person: The technical information in this news release was complied, reviewed, and
approved by Jesse D. Wellman, CPG, an American Institute of Professional Geologists certified
Professional Geologist, and a Qualified Person as defined in the NI 43-101. Jesse D. Wellman,
CPG, is a consulting Economic Geologist and Qualified Person with over 20-years’ experience
in precious metals exploration, discovery, and development.
About NV Gold Corporation
NV Gold Corporation is a well -organized exploration company with ~80 million shares issued
and no debt. NV Gold has 21 exploration projects in Nevada comprising 639 100%-Company-
owned lode mining claims totaling 53.4 square kilometers (20.6 square miles) The Company is
based in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Reno, Nevada and is focused on delivering value
through mineral discoveries in Nevada, USA. Leveraging its expansive property portfolio, its
highly experienced in -house technical team, and its extensive geological data library, 2023
promises to be highly productive for NV Gold.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
John Seaberg, Director, and CEO
For further information, visit the Company’s website at www.nvgoldcorp.com or contact.
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management's expectations and intentions with respect to, among other things: the potential
quantity and grade of mineral resources identified in the Exploration Target and the Company’s
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