Rock House (RH) - Gold, Silver Claim Group - Nevada, USA
Great Western Mining Corp PLC
London listed (AIM GWMO.L) mineral exploration & development company in Nevada, USA. Gold, silver & copper projects.
The Rock House Group?has?the potential for gold and silver deposits over 6.2 km2?with?3 distinct targets. Great Western first drilled?the Rock House Group in 2021?with follow-up drilling, as part of the 2022 drilling programme, currently underway.
The stratigraphy and structural settings?are similar to?the nearby Candelaria District, which produced 38.5 million tonnes grading 61 grams per tonne of silver from an open-pit, heap-leaching operation from 1980?until recent times as well as high grade ore from narrow veins mined from underground methods in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
During 2021 drilling encountered gold?at shallow depths at the Southern Alteration Zone in multiple holes with best intercepts 8.02 g/t Au in one hole and 2.29 g/t Au in another.
Key Facts
Exploration
A virgin area which has never previously been drilled or exploited with first drilling completed in 2021.?Consists?of 3 distinct targets:
Great?Western identified?these targets through satellite imagery, desk top research, rock chip sampling, soil sampling and trenching.
First-phase drilling programme in 2021 for gold and silver complete, with six holes drilled at the Southern Alteration Zone (“SAZ”) totalling 1,685 feet (515 metres) using a reverse circulation (“RC”) rig. Drilling encountered gold?at shallow depths?in multiple holes with best intercepts 8.02 g/t Au in one hole and 2.29 g/t Au in another.
The objective of the 2022 programme will be to uncover further extensions to the identified mineralisation along-strike to the west and deeper drilling will aim to establish whether the zone contains significant dip extents. The programme will test a potential increase in zone thickness and grade where narrow structures coalesce, either along-strike or down-dip.
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Great Western?has a target range of 25,000?-?75,000 oz gold for the Rock House Group.
Geology
The geology at RH Group is dominated by Palaeozoic and Mesozoic sediments, overlain by Tertiary age volcaniclastics.?The pre-Tertiary sedimentary units consist of flaggy brown and grey slates in the north and black carbonaceous siltstones in the south. Tertiary age volcanic units include rhyolites in the west and mafic tuffs to the north, which unconformably overlay the basement units.?The basement slates and siltstones are considered contemporaneous with the Candelaria and Palmetto Formations found to the East at Candelaria, which host the bulk of the Silver mineralisation found there.
At RH Group, massive-sulphide bearing oxidised quartz breccia veins, with pervasive silicification and argillic alteration on faulted contacts between the slate, siltstone and rhyolites, have been mapped and sampled. These mineralised structures are traceable across the entire 2.7 km E-W extent of the RH claim block and have been designated as the Eastern Shear Zone (“ESZ”) prospect.
A subsequent soil sampling campaign over the remainder of the basement exposure at RH Group has clearly identified two further prospective zones of mineralisation, in addition to the Eastern Shear Zone previously mentioned.?These two new prospects have been designated as the Northern Slate Zone (“NSZ”) and the Southern Alteration Zone (“SAZ”).