Hole PK091CA, which returned 8.53 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold ("Au") over 36.6 metres, is at the centre of the trend (see Nevada Sunrise news release dated November 18, 2013). New drill highlights along trend include:
— 5.00 g/t Au over 7.6 metres and 4.71 g/t over 7.3 metres in PK096C
— 2.50 g/t Au over 24.4 metres in PK104C
— 6.34 g/t Au over 5.9 metres in PK106C, including
9.91 g/t Au over 3.4 metres
Pilot Gold reports that from the Western Flank zone, stratigraphic units hosting gold rise to surface over a distance of 500 metres to the Right Spot target. Mapping and rock sampling at the Right Spot demonstrate a 250-metre north-northeast zone of surface jasperoids returning 1-5 g/t Au in grab samples. These features indicate that the Right Spot surface mineralization may continue north-northeast under cover rocks to the Western Flank target area, suggesting that the Western Flank and Right Spot may be part of a connected gold mineralized system potentially resulting in a mineralized zone that could stretch more than one kilometre in length.
The Western Flank target is located 550 metres northwest of the past-producing pits at Kinsley Mountain. It comprises north-northeast-plunging zones of mineralization hosted in up to three receptive stratigraphic horizons intersected by one or more steep breccia zones that may have served as conduits and porous hosts for gold mineralization. Pilot Gold’s drilling has shown that high-grade gold also occurs within a lower limestone unit that was not identified or tested by previous operators.
Pilot Gold is operator of exploration at Kinsley Mountain and holds an approximate 78% participating interest, with Nevada Sunrise holding an approximate 22% participating interest. Pilot Gold drilled approximately 14,200 metres in 58 holes in the 2013 Kinsley Mountain program, with assays pending for three holes. Pilot Gold advises that the 2014 winter drill program is expected to begin in late January. Priority targets include the Western Flank and drill testing of the surface mineralization at the Right Spot and other areas to the south.
