Field Commences On Kinkaid Gold-Silver-Copper And Scossa Gold Properties
TORONTO - Romios Gold Resources Inc. has commenced its 2023 field program on its two major projects in Nevada - the Kinkaid property in Mineral County which covers dozens of old small-scale but high-grade gold-silver-copper mine workings and prospect pits, and the former producing Scossa gold mine property in Pershing County.
"The goal of the 2023 program at the Kinkaid property is to complete the mapping and sampling program at all of the known occurrences, and to develop a coherent genetic model to tie them all together," stated Stephen Burega, CEO and President. "We should then be able to determine which sites have the greatest size and grade potential and warrant drilling. In addition to the vein type targets, the northern claims host several old, small scale mine sites that exploited skarn-type mineralization (Au-Tungsten) that will be mapped in detail in an effort to trace the mineralized horizons under cover to their contacts with their source plutons where the mineralization can generally be expected to improve."
The Kinkaid property hosts a variety of mineral showings with historic workings including the 500 m long series of the Montreal Ag-Au mine workings, several skarn deposits that were reportedly mined for gold and/or tungsten prior to the mid-1940s, and numerous high-grade copper-gold-silver vein type deposits of unknown extent that do not appear to have been fully evaluated in the past. The Kinkaid property consists of 109 claims covering approximately 9.2 sq km in the Walker Lane trend located 18 km east of the town of Hawthorne.
"To date, we have conducted 2 brief mapping and sampling programs at Kinkaid in late 2021 and early 2022. Perhaps the most surprising result of that work was the abundance of poorly documented, high-grade Cu-Au-Ag prospects on the property," stated John Biczok, VP of Exploration. "At least 7 sets of old mine workings have been located on the ground so far and several more that are visible on satellite imagery remain to be examined during the current program. These former workings exploited epithermal and mesothermal veins and we believe there is tremendous potential to be discovered across the entirety of the Kinkaid project area.
In an epithermal system like this, the gold mineralization would have begun to precipitate at that level and continued upwards for hundreds of meters," stated Biczok. A recently completed 3D model of the known veins, past drilling, and location of the old mine workings has now identified an untested area down-plunge from the shallow mine workings. Romios believes that the new 3D and geological models have provided compelling shallow-level, potentially very high-grade drill targets.”