Scorpion Drilling At The Kelly Creek Project

 

VANCOUVER, BC - Nevada Exploration Inc. reported that it has completed 36 Scorpion drill holes totaling more than 8,600 feet at its Kelly Creek Project located along the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend in north-central Nevada, and that the preliminary results indicate that vectoring using gold and related geochemistry in the groundwater at the Project is leading to increasing gold and related geochemistry in the bedrock and alluvium.

NGE is using its Scorpion Drill Rig to evaluate several mineralized, structurally controlled, shallow bedrock targets extending north under cover from Silver Standard’s Marigold Mine.  The objective of this stage of NGE’s exploration program is to map the gold and related geochemistry found in the bedrock, alluvial cover, and groundwater at these targets, and to vector towards one or more mineralized footprints large enough to be associated with a major gold deposit.

With its Scorpion Drill Rig, NGE is focusing on completing fences of holes across its main targets at the Project to sample the bedrock, alluvial cover, and groundwater.  NGE has now completed fences across the first two targets and a portion of a third. The Scorpion drill holes range in depth from 75 to 400 feet, with an average depth of 240 feet.

The initial results show significant and increasing concentrations of gold and related trace-elements in the bedrock (up to 0.15 ppm Au), in the alluvial cover above the bedrock (up to 0.10 ppm Au), and in the groundwater (up to 890 ppt Au).  Also of significance, the drilling continues to define areas of very shallow bedrock, as shallow as 20 meters (70 feet), which is considerably shallower than previously believed.  NGE expects to provide a detailed update with full results once it has completed the next drill shift and received all assays.

Discussing the results, NGE’s CEO, Wade Hodges: “We’re very excited to share the news that the early results of our Scorpion drilling program at Kelly Creek confirm that we are focusing in on a number of shallow bedrock targets by following increasing concentrations of gold in all three of: the bedrock, the alluvial cover, and the groundwater.  This is exactly what we designed this phase of the program to accomplish.”