11,307 g/t AgEq over 1.0m within 21.2m of 1,079 g/t AgEq at El Favor East
HALIFAX, NS, Feb. 2, 2022 /CNW/ - GoGold Resources Inc. (TSX: GGD) (OTCQX: GLGDF) ("GoGold", "the Company") is pleased to release the results of 6 drill holes at El Favor East within Los Ricos North. Hole LRGF-21-107 intersected 1.0m of 11,307 g/t silver equivalent ("AgEq") contained within 21.2m of 1,079 g/t AgEq. See Table 1 for breakdown of silver and gold values and Figure 1 for a cross section of LRGF-21-107. These drill holes represent data that is post resource cut-off date and will form part of a future resource update. The drill program at El Favor East is primarily focused on expansion of the resources with up-dip and down-dip drilling in addition to strike expansion on the zone towards the east.
Figure 4: Favor Long Section (CNW Group/GoGold Resources Inc.)
Figure 5: Favor-Orito Long Section (CNW Group/GoGold Resources Inc.)
Last fall, the drill program at El Favor East was focused on following the zone along strike to the east with drill pads built along the historical road to the Constancia mine workings. The first phase of drilling has cut wide zones of high-grade mineralization at vertical depths near 300 metres from surface (see Figure 1). Phase 2 of the drill program will progressively drill both the fill-in holes along strike and the up-dip holes required for the 2022 Mineral Resource estimation. Crews are currently building the roadways and drill pads required to drill the new holes to follow-up on the zones discovered in holes LRGF-21-107 and LRGF-21-109.
"The results from these new holes demonstrate the importance of the El Favor East zone," said Brad Langille, President and CEO. "With these high grades and widths at depth as shown in holes 107 and 109, we have the opportunity to quickly increase the mineral resource by simply drilling the zone up to surface. 2022 will be another year of aggressive resource expansion in the Los Ricos district."
Table 1: Drill Hole Intersections
Hole ID
Area / Vein
From
To
Length1
Au
Ag
AuEq2
AgEq2
(m)
(m)
(m)
(g/t)
(g/t)
(g/t)
(g/t)
LRGF-21-102
El Favor East
36.1
36.7
0.6
0.51
179.8
2.91
218.1
and
262.5
264.3
1.8
0.08
105.1
1.49
111.4
and
305.2
315.6
10.5
0.05
72.3
1.01
76.0
LRGF-21-104
El Favor East
30.5
31.3
0.9
0.35
88.8
1.53
114.8
and
67.2
69.6
2.4
0.14
66.4
1.03
77.0
including
68.0
68.6
0.6
0.30
177.5
2.66
199.7
and
154.1
157.5
3.4
0.68
101.4
2.04
152.6
including
154.6
155.3
0.7
1.75
230.1
4.82
361.1
LRGF-21-106
El Favor East
243.3
269.5
26.3
0.43
106.6
1.85
138.8
including
256.1
268.5
12.4
0.79
184.2
3.24
243.3
including
259.7
260.5
0.8
2.52
593.0
10.43
782.3
LRGF-21-107
El Favor East
249.3
275.0
25.7
1.55
776.4
11.90
892.3
including
250.1
271.2
21.2
1.87
938.0
14.38
1,078.5
including
258.4
262.7
4.3
8.65
4,163.8
64.17
4,812.8
including
259.1
260.2
1.0
18.23
9,940.1
150.76
11,307.3
LRGF-21-108
El Favor East
223.2
228.3
5.1
0.17
69.2
1.09
81.8
including
223.2
224.8
1.6
0.43
155.0
2.49
187.0
and
357.9
366.0
8.1
0.46
90.2
1.66
124.5
including
358.5
359.6
1.1
2.52
353.5
7.24
542.6
LRGF-21-109
El Favor East
49.5
53.2
3.7
0.34
157.9
2.45
183.4
and
223.6
287.2
63.6
0.23
109.0
1.69
126.4
including
262.2
265.2
2.9
2.36
1,109.2
17.15
1,286.0
including
264.3
265.2
0.8
4.17
2,261.9
34.33
2,574.8
1.
Not true width
2.
AqEq converted using a silver to gold ratio of 75:1 at recoveries of 100%
The exploration team has been moving east of El Favor with drilling stepouts in the eastern end of El Favor, beginning with discovery hole 48, and continuing to intersect wide strong mineralization. This area is known as the El Favor East zone, and a mapping and drilling program has extended the presence of mineralization 900m to the east of hole 48 (El Favor East zone discovery hole), as shown in Figure 2. To date, approximately 800m of El Favor East has been drilled showing the strong mineralization. The drill holes in this release were not included in the initial Mineral Resource Estimate for Los Ricos North released on December 7, 2021, hole LRGF-21-094 was the final drill hole included in that resource.
Table 2: Drill Hole Locations
Hole ID
Easting
Northing
Elevation
Azimuth
Dip
Length
LRGF-21-102
586505
2336784
1320
180
-50
444
LRGF-21-103
586723
2336748
1291
180
-45
383
LRGF-21-104
586751
2336780
1269
180
-50
236
LRGF-21-105
586608
2336751
1344
180
-45
431
LRGF-21-106
586631
2336743
1341
180
-43
433
LRGF-21-107
586425
2336743
1321
180
-44
343
LRGF-21-108
586574
2336750
1344
180
-45
446
LRGF-21-109
586454
2336740
1325
180
-45
329
In September, the company commissioned TMC Exploracion to complete an IP survey using the Pole:Dipole array on the El Favor property. The grid consists of a network of 28 N/S profiles spaced every 100 m from L-2W to L-25E ranging in length from 0.85 to 2.0 km. The survey outlined several high chargeability anomalies representative of the sulphide mineralization along the El Favor – El Favor East zone. A geophysical map showing anomalies and drilling targets is included as Figure 3 below.
El Favor is located approximately 800 meters along strike to the east of the El Orito deposit. The longitudinal section in Figure 5 below shows that the combined systems cover approximately 2.9km in mineralized strike length over a 3.7km distance. At El Orito, wide zones of precious and base metal mineralization were cut by drill holes at El Orito at elevations between 600 to 900m. The drill holes at El Favor have cut primarily silver-gold mineralization with trace to minor amounts of base metals at a higher elevation in the system, between 1,050m to 1,400m, compared to the semi-massive to massive base metal sulphide mineralization seen deeper in the El Orito deposit.
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Los Ricos District Exploration Projects The Company's two exploration projects at its Los Ricos Property are in Jalisco state, Mexico. The Los Ricos South Project began in March 2019 and an initial Mineral Resource was announced on July 29, 2020 which disclosed a Measured & Indicated Mineral Resource of 63.7 million ounces AgEq grading 199 g/t AgEq contained in 10.0 million tonnes, and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 19.9 million ounces AgEq grading 190 g/t AgEq contained in 3.3 million tonnes. An initial PEA on the project was announced on January 20, 2021 indicating an NPV5% of US$295M.
The Los Ricos North Project was launched in March 2020 and an initial Mineral Resource was announced on December 7, 2021, which disclosed an Indicated Mineral Resource of 87.8 million ounces AgEq grading 122 g/t AgEq contained in 22.3 million tonnes, and an Inferred Mineral Resource of 73.2 million ounces AgEq grading 111 g/t AgEq contained in 20.5 million tonnes. The Company has a drill program for an additional 100,000 metres of drilling for 2022 in place.
Procedure, Quality Assurance / Quality Control and Data Verification The diamond drill core (HQ size) is geologically logged, photographed and marked for sampling. When the sample lengths are determined, the full core is sawn with a diamond blade core saw with one half of the core being bagged and tagged for assay. The remaining half portion is returned to the core trays for storage and/or for metallurgical test work.
The sealed and tagged sample bags are transported to the ActLabs facility in Zacatecas, Mexico. ActLabs crushes the samples and prepares 200-300 gram pulp samples with ninety percent passing Tyler 150 mesh (106μm). The pulps are assayed for gold using a 50-gram charge by fire assay (Code 1A2-50) and over limits greater than 10 grams per tonne are re-assayed using a gravimetric finish (Code 1A3-50). Silver and multi-element analysis is completed using total digestion (Code 1F2 Total Digestion ICP). Over limits greater than 100 grams per tonne silver are re-assayed using a gravimetric finish (Code 8-Ag FA-GRAV Ag).
Quality assurance and quality control ("QA/QC") procedures monitor the chain-of-custody of the samples and includes the systematic insertion and monitoring of appropriate reference materials (certified standards, blanks and duplicates) into the sample strings. The results of the assaying of the QA/QC material included in each batch are tracked to ensure the integrity of the assay data. All results stated in this announcement have passed GoGold's QA/QC protocols.
Mr. David Duncan, P. Geo. is the qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the technical information of this release.
About GoGold Resources GoGold Resources (TSX: GGD) is a Canadian-based silver and gold producer focused on operating, developing, exploring and acquiring high quality projects in Mexico. The Company operates the Parral Tailings mine in the state of Chihuahua and has the Los Ricos South and Los Ricos North exploration projects in the state of Jalisco. Headquartered in Halifax, NS, GoGold is building a portfolio of low cost, high margin projects. For more information visit gogoldresources.com.
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