An early “near miss” from Valley, V-21-004 (left) alongside core from G-25-010 from Gracie (right). V-21-004, the fourth hole drilled at Valley, intersected silicified sedimentary rocks with low quartz vein densities along a fault corridor, returning 0.77 g/t Au over 93.8 m roughly 50 m from the edge of the well-mineralized Valley intrusion. G-25-010, drilled last season at Gracie, intersected similar alteration and mineralization associated with a fault zone, returning 0.32 g/t Au over 53.5 m at an unknown distance from an intrusion. Similarities include: (A) Fault zone associated with alteration; (B) visible gold in quartz veins associated with bismuth and tellurium; (C) mineralized, centimeter-scale veins with irregular geometries; (D) disseminated pyrrhotite in silicified, fine-grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks.
An early “near miss” from Valley, V-21-004 (left) alongside core from G-25-010 from Gracie (right). V-21-004, the fourth hole drilled at Valley, intersected silicified sedimentary rocks with low quartz vein densities along a fault corridor, returning 0.77 g/t Au over 93.8 m roughly 50 m from the edge of the well-mineralized Valley intrusion. G-25-010, drilled last season at Gracie, intersected similar alteration and mineralization associated with a fault zone, returning 0.32 g/t Au over 53.5 m at an unknown distance from an intrusion. Similarities include: (A) Fault zone associated with alteration; (B) visible gold in quartz veins associated with bismuth and tellurium; (C) mineralized, centimeter-scale veins with irregular geometries; (D) disseminated pyrrhotite in silicified, fine-grained siliciclastic sedimentary rocks.