PGS129: 22.9 m grading 0.80 g/t Au and 27.4 m grading 0.84 g/t Au
PGS117: 22.9 m grading 1.20 g/t Au
VANCOUVER, B.C. - Pilot Gold Inc. (PLG - TSX) ('Pilot Gold' or the 'Company') is pleased to announce additional drill results from the Main Zone at the 100% controlled Goldstrike Project in southwestern Utah. The primary target is shallow, Carlin-style, oxide gold mineralization within the 14 km2 'Historic Mine Trend', between and down-dip of historic open pits.
Highlights include:
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2.00 g/t Au over 7.6 m in PGS107
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0.88 g/t Au over 9.1 m in PGS 108
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0.47 g/t Au over 25.9 m in PGS109
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0.52 g/t Au over 10.7 m in PGS 110
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0.51 g/t Au over 13.7 m in PGS 113
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0.70 g/t Au over 25.9 m in PGS114
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0.42 g/t Au over 10.7 m and 0.87 g/t Au over 10.7 m in PGS115
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1.20 g/t Au over 22.9 m including 2.48 g/t over 6.1 m in PGS117
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0.84 g/t Au over 10.7 m including 1.20 g/t over 6.1 m and 0.83 g/t Au over 10.7 m in PGS126
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0.80 g/t Au over 22.9 m and 0.84 g/t Au over 27.4 m in PGS129
* Please note that due to having two drills on the property, assay results for the holes are not necessarily received in sequence.
KEY POINTS
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Drilling has concluded in the Main Zone (located on the eastern end of the Historic Mine Trend) to prepare it for inclusion in a resource estimate, projected for completion in Q1/Q2 2017.
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Over 30 additional drill holes are currently pending assay results. Of the 21 released drill holes, 18 holes contained mineralized intercepts of at least 0.26 g/t Au and nine of those contained a second mineralized intercept. Three holes had no significant results.
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Assay results are pending from 17 holes drilled in the Dip Slope target, an area approximately 2.5 km long and up to 750 m wide, located to the north of the Main Zone. This area hosts several historic pits with unmined gold intercepts in historic holes and much of the target area is very sparsely drilled.
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One drill is currently focused on the Covington - Moosehead historical pit areas, testing the main graben-bounding Covington fault.
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A second drill is testing the Peg Leg Graben, located to the southwest of the Main Zone. Results are pending from all of these holes.
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Hole PGS129 fills an important gap in the Main Zone, with higher grade and shallower gold mineralization than expected.
For a complete table of drill results for the current holes, please click here: http://pilotgold.com/sites/default/files/GS_Intercepts11292016.pdf
For a complete table of results for all drilling by Pilot Gold at Goldstrike in 2015 and to date in 2016, please click here: http://pilotgold.com/sites/default/files/GS_Intercepts2015to11292016.pdf
For a map of drill collars and traces for the current release, please click here: http://pilotgold.com/sites/default/files/GoldStrike_PR2016-25.jpg
For a map showing the areas of new drilling and the location of historic hits at Goldstrike, please click here: http://pilotgold.com/sites/default/files/GoldstrikeFutureDrilling.jpg
ABOUT GOLDSTRIKE
Goldstrike is located in the eastern Great Basin, immediately adjacent to the Utah/Nevada border, and is a Carlin-style gold system, similar in many ways to the prolific deposits located along Nevada's Carlin trend. Like Kinsley Mountain and Newmont's Long Canyon deposit, Goldstrike represents part of a growing number of Carlin-type systems located off the main Carlin and Cortez trends in largely underexplored parts of the Great Basin.
Goldstrike is an early-stage exploration projects and does not contain any mineral resource estimates as defined by NI 43-101. The potential quantities and grades disclosed herein are conceptual in nature and there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource for the targets disclosed herein. It is uncertain if further exploration will result in these targets being delineated as a mineral resource.
Further information on Goldstrike is available in the technical report entitled 'Technical Report on the Goldstrike Project, Washington County, Utah, U.S.A.', effective April 1, 2016 and dated October 7, 2016, prepared by Michael M. Gustin, C.P.G. and Moira Smith, Ph.D., P.Geo., available on the Company's website at www.pilotgold.com or under Pilot Gold's SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com.
Moira Smith, Ph.D., P.Geo., Vice-President Exploration and Geoscience, Pilot Gold, is the Company's designated Qualified Person for this news release within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ('NI 43-101') and has reviewed and validated that the information contained in the release is accurate. Drill composites were calculated using a cut-off of 0.20 g/t. Drill intersections are reported as drilled thicknesses. True widths of the mineralized intervals vary between 30 and 100% of the reported lengths due to varying drill hole orientations, but are typically in the range of 60 to 80% of true width. Drill samples were assayed by ALS Limited in Reno, Nevada for gold by Fire Assay of a 30 gram (1 assay ton) charge with an AA finish, or if over 5.0 g/t were re-assayed and completed with a gravimetric finish. For these samples, the gravimetric data were utilized in calculating gold intersections. For any samples assaying over 0.200 ppm an additional cyanide leach analysis is done where the sample is treated with a 0.25% NaCN solution and rolled for an hour. An aliquot of the final leach solution is then centrifuged and analyzed by AAS. Metallic screen techniques may be employed where the presence of coarse free gold is suspected. Approximately 1000 grams of coarse reject material are pulverized and screened. Two splits of the fine fraction are assayed, as well as all material that does not pass through the screen (the coarse fraction). The final gold assay reported is a weighted average of the coarse and fine fractions.QA/QC for all drill samples consists of the insertion and continual monitoring of numerous standards aonnd blanks into the sample stream, and the collection of duplicate samples at random intervals within each batch. Selected holes are also analyzed for a 51 multi-element geochemical suite by ICP-MS. ALS Geochemistry-Reno is ISO 17025:2005 Accredited, with the Elko prep lab listed on the scope of accreditation.
ABOUT PILOT GOLD
Pilot Gold is led by a proven technical and capital markets team that continues to discover and define high-quality assets. Our core projects are Goldstrike in Utah, Mineral Gulch in Idaho and Kinsley Mountain in Nevada. The Company also holds important interests in two Turkish assets, Halilaga and TV Tower, and has a pipeline of Western US projects characterized by large land positions and district-wide potential that can meet our growth needs for years to come.
For more information, visit www.pilotgold.com or contact:
Evelyn Cox, Director Corporate Communications
Phone: 604-632-4677 or Toll Free 1-877-632-4677
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