Southern Cross Gold Reinforces Continuity In Rising Sun

VANCOUVER – Southern Cross Gold Consolidated Ltd. reported on five diamond drill holes from the Rising Sun prospect, of the Sunday Creek gold-antimony project in Victoria.
SDDSC169AW1 intercepted 0.5 m @ 342.2 g/t AuEq just 12 m along strike from SDDSC118’s previously reported 0.7 m @ 604.0 g/t AuEq intersection, demonstrating high-grade continuity within the RS15 vein. SDDSC178W1 returned 18.0 m @ 3.7 g/t AuEq containing four distinct higher-grade intervals, while SDDSC169AW1 delivered 5.9 m @ 4.6 g/t AuEq and 6.1 m @ 3.4 g/t AuEq, demonstrating both scale and grade. Successfully intercepted seven distinct mineralized vein sets in SDDSC169AW1 and nine vein sets in SDDSC178W1 across vertical intervals exceeding 160 m, confirming the multi-level nature of the Rising Sun system. Three individual assays exceeded 40% Sb (approaching pure stibnite at approximately 71% Sb), including 43.8 % Sb and 42.1 % Sb, reinforcing Sunday Creek’s strategic importance as a Western World antimony source. Results bring the total to 70 intersections >100 g/t AuEq x m and 74 intersections >50 to 100 g/t AuEq x m across Sunday Creek, establishing it as one of the highest-grade gold projects globally.
Michael Hudson, President & CEO, said, “Sunday Creek again delivers grade and scale. While we’ve established the continuity in the up-and-down orientation of the vein sets through extensive drilling, it’s now, with this more recent focus on along-strike drilling, that we’re seeing further lateral grade continuity confirmed. SDDSC169AW1’s intersection of 0.5 m @ 342 g/t AuEq being just 12 m along strike from our previous 0.7 m @ 604 g/t AuEq intersection in the RS15 vein reconfirms that the high grades extend consistently in multiple directions.
What makes Sunday Creek unique isn’t just the high grades – it’s the combination of high grades with broader mineralized widths. SDDSC178W1’s 18 m @ 3.7 g/t AuEq interval exemplifies this perfectly, containing four distinct higher-grade vein sets within a single broad envelope. This demonstrates how stacked vein sets can create substantially wider zones that are potentially mineable. Additionally, with three zones exceeding 40% Sb alongside these high-grade, broad gold-rich intervals, Sunday Creek showcases a rare combination of grade in two attractive commodities and significant width.
“This announcement at Rising Sun, along with previous announcements over the last 2 months at Apollo East, Golden Dyke and Christina, demonstrates significant progress with resource drilling and confidence in the continuity of mineralization, as well as extending the Exploration Target. With 70 drill intersections now exceeding 100 gram-metre AuEq across the project, and our successful use of wedge technology enabling precise targeting of these vein sets, Rising Sun, as one of five bodies across Sunday Creek, continues to deliver on scale, grade, and continuity. This is exceptional by any global standard.”