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Project Overview
Project located on south side of prospective Humboldt Structural Zone, at north end of Shoshone Mountains, 52 miles south-southwest of Battle Mountain, Nevada.
High grade zinc, lead and silver samples;
Sample No 52303: 13.6% zinc, 12.8% lead, 146 ppm silver.
Sample No.52304: 29.6% zinc, 0.3% lead, 7 ppm silver.
Sample No 810014: 15.9% zinc, 0.5% lead, 17 ppm silver.
Samples occur within a larger altered area containing widespread gossans with anomalous zinc values (43 samples averaging 0.86% zinc).
Geological setting and mineralogical evaluation of the samples suggests a Carbonate Replacement Deposit (“CRD”) style of base-precious metal mineralisation.
Satellite imagery shows large alteration areas associated with this mineralisation.
The Reese Ridge Project covers a fault bounded horst block of fault juxtaposed Lower Plate limestones/shales and Upper Plate Antler sequence sediments bounded to the east and west by Tertiary age volcano-sedimentary basins. Mineralisation occurs at the top of thick carbonate sequence.
The Reese Ridge Project has evolved from the Company’s Reese River industrial limestone project and was first suggested as an interesting target when prospecting by the Company yielded an unremarkable limestone sample containing a few spots of the lead sulphide mineral galena which was submitted for analysis and returned a value of 15.9% zinc (alongside 0.3% lead and 17ppm silver). The high zinc content was unexpected and unexplained and given a low priority.
Since then, various Company prospecting campaigns have focused on a broader area containing numerous conspicuous iron-rich gossans of generally limited extent but which attracted the Company’s attention and that of early prospectors and were found to contain exotic geochemistry and consistently anomalous zinc, lead and silver with values up to 6.8% zinc, 3.3% lead and 51g/t silver. 43 samples taken from these gossans and old workings averaged 0.86% zinc.
In May 2023 the original high-grade zinc sample site was revisited and two further samples collected and analysed with the following results:
Sample No 52303: 13.6% zinc, 12.8% lead, 146ppm silver.
Sample No.52304: 29.6% zinc, 0.3% lead, 7ppm silver.
Sample 52303 contained visible galena and so the high lead content was to be expected. However, the very high zinc values in both samples were again a surprise as the samples were otherwise unremarkable. It is believed that the zinc in these samples is present as secondary zinc oxide, carbonate or silicate minerals. These minerals are difficult to identify in the field in an area where the rocks are significantly altered and do not have the stand-out character of iron rich gossans and are easily overlooked.
Whilst the widespread high visibility iron rich gossans at Reese Ridge are part of the same mineralising system, they were likely a red herring to the early prospectors and the Company’s own follow up sampling campaigns g