VANCOUVER, BC, Feb. 23,
2023 /CNW/ - West Red Lake Gold Mines
Ltd. ("West Red Lake Gold" or "WRLG" or the
"Company") (TSXV: WRLG) is pleased to announce drill results
from its 2022 drilling campaign at the Rowan Property. The
program consisted of 13 holes totaling 4,189 meters of
drilling highlighted by drill hole RLG-22-119 which
intersected 12.5 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold ("Au") over 3
metres ("m") at the NT Zone. The Rowan Property is the
main property within the West Red Lake Gold Project, a
3,100-hectare area consisting of three properties (Mount Jamie, Red
Summit, and Rowan). The Rowan Property is located west of
Red Lake, Ontario and borders
Evolution's Red Lake gold
complex.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE 2022 DRILLING
INCLUDE:
- Of the thirteen (13) holes drilled during the 2022 program,
twelve (12) encountered gold mineralization greater than or equal
to 1 gram per tonne Au
Hole RLG-22-119
- Intersected 3m @ 12.5 grams per
tonne gold, from 287m to 290m
Hole RLG-22-118
- Intersected 3m @ 5.04 grams per
tonne gold, from 145m to 148m, and
- Intersected 0.5m @ 34.23 grams
per tonne gold, from 280.5m to
281m
Hole RLG-22-126
- Intersected 1.1m @ 11.3 grams per
tonne gold, from 61m to 62.1m
Hole RLG-22-117
- Intersected 2.5m @ 7.72 grams per
tonne gold, from 236.5m to
239m
Hole RLG-22-125
- Intersected 2m @ 4.57 grams per
tonne gold, from 89m to 91m
Hole RLG-22-127
- Intersected 0.7m @ 6.58 grams per
tonne gold, from 206m to 206.7m
Tom Meredith, CEO, stated, "We
are pleased with the results from our 2022 drill program. The team
continues to intersect the high-grade gold intervals characteristic
of the Rowan deposit in areas outside of the existing resource."
Mr. Meredith continues, "we also intersected varying styles of
high-grade gold mineralization at the NT Zone and Porphyry Hill
that could lead to a significant discovery on our land package. The
team will look to build on the success of the 2022 campaign during
our 7,000 metre Phase 1 drilling program set to commence in
March 2023."
DISCUSSION
Drilling at the Rowan vein system further confirms our thesis
that grades continue to increase at depth and mineralization is
consistent with that outlined in the current inferred resource
which remains open in all directions. The NT Zone represents
a large-scale, northeast trending alteration/deformation zone with
associated widespread hydrothermal (quartz-carbonate) alteration.
The scale and style of the iron-carbonate alteration within the NT
Zone is consistent with large multi-stage hydrothermal systems.
Gold mineralization in the NT Zone is associated with
silica/sulphide replacement within the iron-carbonate altered
felsic volcanic and intrusive rocks. At Porphyry Hill, gold is
found in sheared, sulphidized iron formation and in shear-parallel
quartz stringers within, and along the margins of a felsic porphyry
stock.
Table 1: All significant drill intercepts > 1 gpt Au from
the 2022 West Red Lake Drill Program.
Hole
ID
|
Target
|
From
(m)
|
To
(m)
|
|
Int
(m)
|
Au
(g/t)
|
RLG-22-115
|
Rowan
|
350
|
360
|
|
10
|
2.14
|
Including
|
355.5
|
360
|
|
4.5
|
3.16
|
RLG-22-116
|
Rowan
|
273.5
|
277
|
|
3.5
|
3.19
|
RLG-22-117
|
Rowan
|
236.5
|
239
|
|
2.5
|
7.72
|
And
|
306
|
309
|
|
3
|
1.40
|
RLG-22-118
|
Rowan
|
145
|
148
|
|
3
|
5.04
|
And
|
280.5
|
281
|
|
0.5
|
34.23
|
RLG-22-119
|
NT
|
280.7
|
319
|
|
38.3
|
1.5
|
Including
|
287
|
290
|
|
3
|
12.5
|
RLG-22-120
|
NT
|
217
|
224.5
|
|
7.5
|
1.27
|
RLG-22-121
|
NT
|
111.64
|
115.5
|
|
3.86
|
3.32
|
RLG-22-122
|
NT
|
|
No Significant
Values
|
RLG-22-123
|
Porphyry
Hill
|
8.5
|
10.3
|
|
2.53
|
11
|
And
|
50.3
|
54.5
|
|
4.2
|
1.02
|
RLG-22-124
|
Porphyry
Hill
|
34.5
|
38.1
|
|
3.6
|
1.14
|
And
|
63
|
65.85
|
|
2.85
|
2.79
|
RLG-22-125
|
Porphyry
Hill
|
89
|
91
|
|
2
|
4.57
|
And
|
100
|
102
|
|
2
|
1.6
|
RLG-22-126
|
Porphyry
Hill
|
57.35
|
62.1
|
|
4.75
|
3.36
|
Including
|
61
|
62.1
|
|
1.1
|
11.3
|
And
|
182
|
187
|
|
5
|
1.17
|
RLG-22-127
|
Porphyry
Hill
|
36.2
|
36.9
|
|
0.7
|
1.19
|
And
|
65.1
|
66
|
|
0.9
|
1.77
|
And
|
206
|
206.7
|
|
0.7
|
6.58
|
And
|
274.8
|
276
|
|
1.2
|
2.42
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
*Reported intervals
refer to downhole lengths.
|
Table 2: Drill Collar Summary for 2022 West Red Lake Drill
Program.
Hole
ID
|
UTM
Easting
|
UTM
Northing
|
Elevation
(m)
|
Length
(m)
|
Azimuth
|
Dip
|
Target
|
RLG-22-115
|
421920
|
5657683
|
375.4
|
426
|
356.9
|
-50.95
|
Rowan
|
RLG-22-116
|
421680
|
5657575
|
393.6
|
351
|
355
|
-50
|
Rowan
|
RLG-22-117
|
421999
|
5657750
|
373.2
|
324
|
357.3
|
-58.32
|
Rowan
|
RLG-22-118
|
422051
|
5657750
|
384.1
|
327
|
356.86
|
-59.99
|
Rowan
|
RLG-22-119
|
421476
|
5656828
|
362
|
339
|
335.26
|
-75.19
|
NT Zone
|
RLG-22-120
|
421476
|
5656828
|
362
|
351
|
334.94
|
-60.13
|
NT Zone
|
RLG-22-121
|
421547
|
5656852
|
365
|
351
|
335
|
-55
|
NT Zone
|
RLG-22-122
|
421547
|
5656852
|
375.4
|
316
|
335
|
-80
|
NT Zone
|
RLG-22-123
|
422109
|
5657171
|
381
|
300
|
179.97
|
-45.039
|
NT Zone
|
RLG-22-124
|
422154
|
5657178
|
383
|
234
|
180.02
|
-45.182
|
Porphyry
Hill
|
RLG-22-125
|
422444
|
5657153
|
365
|
300
|
359.74
|
-45.25
|
Porphyry
Hill
|
RLG-22-126
|
422491
|
5657172
|
365
|
276
|
359.71
|
-45.215
|
Porphyry
Hill
|
RLG-22-127
|
422517
|
5657187
|
365
|
294
|
0.26
|
-45.43
|
Porphyry
Hill
|
QUALITY ASSURANCE/QUALITY
CONTROL
All drill core samples reported in this press release were
submitted for preparation and analysis to SGS Natural Resources in
Red Lake, Ontario. Fire assays
were conducted for gold at SGS's Red Lake Facility, with coarse
rejects sent to their facility in Burnaby, British Columbia for 33 element
4-acid digest, ICP-AES. SGS Natural Resources analytical
laboratories operate under a Quality Management System that
complies with ISO/IEC 17025. Many of their sites are accredited by
the Standards Council of Canada
(SCC) for specific mineral tests listed on the scope of
accreditation to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard. ISO/IEC 17025
addresses both the quality management system and the technical
aspects of operating a testing laboratory. SGS laboratories
participate in numerous formal proficiency testing and round robin
programs. Quality control procedures are method specific and
include blanks, duplicates, replicates, control samples, certified
reference materials as appropriate for the methodology. Matrix
matching of reference materials to samples is always attempted. In
addition, summaries of all analytical methods are available on
request. Repeat analysis is performed when failure to meet internal
data acceptance criteria occurs or
when requested by a customer.
West Red Lake Gold's Rowan Property presently hosts a National
Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") inferred mineral resource of
2,790,700 tonnes at an average grade of 9.2 grams per tonne Au
containing 827,462 ounces of gold with a cut-off grade of 3.8 grams
per tonne Au (NI 43-101 Technical Report authored by John Kita, P.Eng., dated December 13, 2022 and filed December 30, 2022 on sedar.com). The inferred
resource is located in the area of the historic underground Rowan
Mine site and situated within a 1.8 kilometer strike length portion
of the regional scale Pipestone Bay St Paul Deformation
Zone.
The technical information presented in this news release has
been reviewed and approved by William J.
Robinson, P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration for West Red
Lake Gold and the Qualified Person for exploration at the West Red
Lake Project, as defined by National Instrument 43-101 "Standards
of Disclosure for Mineral Projects".
ABOUT WEST RED LAKE GOLD MINES
West Red Lake Gold Mines Ltd. is a mineral exploration company
that is publicly traded and dedicated to creating value for its
shareholders by discovering new gold mines in the highly productive
Red Lake Gold District of Northwest
Ontario, Canada. This district has yielded 30 million ounces
of gold from high-grade zones and hosts some of the world's richest
gold deposits. WRLG holds an extensive property position spanning
3,100 hectares in West Red Lake,
including three former gold mines - Rowan, Mount Jamie, and Red
Summit. The West Red Lake Project covers a 12-kilometer strike
length along the Pipestone Bay St. Paul Deformation Zone, and WRLG
plans to continue exploring this property along strike and to depth
aggressively in 2023. In late 2022, resource investor Frank Giustra acquired a 19.44% stake in WRLG, a
testament to the Company's potential and the prospects for new gold
discoveries in the region.
ON BEHALF OF WEST RED LAKE
GOLD MINES LTD.
"Tom Meredith"
Tom Meredith
Chief Executive Officer
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