Gold Basin Confirms New Drill Targets at Red Cloud Deposit from Historical Drill Data Review
Red Cloud Historical Drilling
Further to the Company's Option Agreement (News Release dated May 10, 2022) whereby the company took an option to purchase an additional forty (40) unpatented BLM minerals claims that lie primarily in the area situated between the Cyclopic and Stealth deposits. The Company has been able to further assess historical drill data within these claim areas where the largest concentration of historical drill holes consisting of 39 holes (with an average depth of less than 70 metres) were in an area known as the Red Cloud deposit. Whilst gold intersections at this location were previously known by the Company a new analysis of the data has enabled an accurate geo location of the holes in relation to the major structural features and the Stealth deposit.
The position of the Red Cloud mineralisation correlates with a position along and straddling the Stealth fault, a major structural feature that the Company's recent geophysical interpretation has shown to extend several kilometres on an approximate NW-SE trend. The Stealth deposit lies along this fault and the historical Red Cloud drilling clearly suggests over 1 kilometre of potential strike extension of the oxide gold mineralisation between the two deposits. (Figure 1)
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Figure 1: Stealth-Red Cloud Mineralization Zones
The mineralisation intersected historically at Red Cloud starts from near surface and corresponds closely with the form and grade intersected with the Company's drilling at Stealth in its last drill program. These consistencies provide a great deal of optimism for future drilling.
The current gap in drilling apart from 3 holes situated almost midway between the Stealth and Red Cloud deposits is over 600 metres in length and both deposits remain open both to the NW and SE along the Stealth Fault and at depth. The Company's next phase of drilling is designed to test the drilling data gap between the Stealth and Red Cloud deposits and also extend the drilling SE along the fault zone through Red Cloud .
The Company is also in the process of further evaluating a number of historical drillholes drilled on an East-West line between Cyclopic and Stealth in the northern section of the new claim areas that have also intersected gold mineralisation
Figure 2 shows the Stealth and Red Cloud deposits in relation to the Stealth Fault and the Cyclopic Deposit that sits on the parallel Cyclopic Fault approximately 900 metres east. It is also noteworthy that mineralisation at the PLM deposit about 3.5km SE of Red Cloud also lies on the same trend of the Stealth Fault.
Figure 2: Gold Basin Deposits and Main Faults
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Similar to the situation with Stealth and Red Cloud, no drilling data is available for the large distance interval in between the Red Cloud and PLM deposit areas and provides another compelling future exploration target.
ABOUT GOLD BASIN RESOURCES CORPORATION
Gold Basin Resources is engaged in the business of mineral exploration and the acquisition of mineral property assets in North America, including the Gold Basin Property located in the Gold Basin Mining District, Mohave County, Arizona, which comprises five mineral rights and 294 unpatented mining claims totalling 30.8 square kilometres. A total of 74 new unpatented claims and an Option to acquire additional claims has expanded the total land footprint to 42 square kilometres.
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Gold Basin is a member of Discovery Group, an alliance of public companies focused on the advancement of mineral exploration and mining projects. For more information please visit: discoverygroup.ca.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Michael Povey
Chief Executive Officer and Director
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QUALIFIED PERSON
Michael Povey M.Sc BSc.( Hons) M.Aus IMM a qualified person as defined by NI 43-101, has reviewed the scientific and technical information that forms the basis for this news release and has approved the disclosure herein. Mr. Povey has verified the data disclosed in this news release, and has reviewed the applicable report (KCA0210118_CYC01_03 dated 30/12/2021). Mr. Povey is not independent of the Company as he is the CEO and a director of the Company and holds securities of the Company.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS:
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