Nov 6 2015
Northern Empire Resources Corp., today announced results from the first phase of an exploration program at the 28,763 acre Richardson Project gold property located 115 km southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, USA. The program included review of all available historic data, prospecting, and the collection of 256 soil samples and 25 rock samples.
Highlights from this work include:
- Rock grab samples from outcrop in the Democrat Pit zone returned highlight assays: 71.2 g/t gold "Au" and 48.6 g/t silver "Ag"; 4.6 g/t Au and 111 g/t Ag; 2.0 g/t Au and 233 g/t Ag; 5.88 g/t Au and 6.09 g/t Ag; and 1.78 g/t Au and 67.3 g/t Ag;
- Soil samples collected on two east to west soil lines to the north, 800 metres and 400 metres respectively, of Democrat Pit both returned anomalous gold-in-soils values. Soils collected here are also statistically high in silver;
- Soils collected along two east to west reconnaissance lines in the Wide Zone returned anomalous gold and copper values;
- Exploration targeting in 2016 will now be based upon the 2015 results, supported by a compilation and review of historic results which includes data from a bulk sample and drilling at Democrat Pit, more than 2000 soil, rock and stream samples collected in the Richardson gold district and trenching.
"Richardson is one of the few gold exploration properties in Alaska which is road accessible, bound on two sides by high transmission power lines, located in a mining friendly jurisdiction, and host to multiple, large gold footprints," stated Northern Empire's Chairman, John Robins, P.Geo. "The initial results from both the Democrat Pit area and the Wide Zone, including finding high grade gold and silver in outcrop at the Democrat Pit, have greatly refined our areas of focus for the 2016 exploration season."
2015 Program Summary:
The work program at Richardson was completed in two phases (Phases 1 and 2) between June and August 2015, and focused on soil sample lines north of the Democrat Pit, portions of the adjacent intrusive body known as the Wide Zone, and at Tenderfoot Creek. Both the Phase 1 and 2 rock sampling and Phase 1 and 2 soil programs resulted in assay results anomalous in gold, silver and/or copper. Phase 2 included the collection of soils taken 400 metres to the north of the brecciated quartz feldspar porphyry "QFP" in the Democrat Pit and highlighted the potential for a gold bearing structural corridor extending at least 800m to the north from the northern margin of the Democrat Pit. According to historic reports a 1990 State of Alaska publication entitled "ALASKA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY, 1989," Division of Geological & Geophysical Surveys SPECIAL REPORT 44 (Bundtzen, Swainbank, Deagen, and Moore), the Democrat Pit was the site of a 70,000 short ton bulk sampling program in 1988 where 2,000 ounces of gold was recovered.
23 rock samples were taken in or near to the Democrat Pit zone, with values ranging from a high of 71.2 g/t Au to a low of 0.005 g/t Au; a high of 233 g/t Ag to a low of 0.01 g/t Ag. Rock grab samples from an outcropping brecciated QFP from within the exposed Democrat Pit zone returned highlight assays, including:
- 71.2 g/t gold and 48.6 g/t silver, Rock sample #660836;
- 2.0 g/t gold and 233 g/t silver, Rock sample #660827.
A review by Northern Empire of drill logs and drill core from drilling conducted in 1988 and 2005 by previous exploration groups, shows that mineralization in the Democrat Pit and along the mineralized Richardson Lineament is hosted in fault bounded brecciated Rhyolite Porphyry and coeval fine grained intrusives. The Wide Zone, though not exposed, shows a high degree of QFP and quartz vein components in chip and rock fragments noticed in soil samples collected in the "B" soil horizon throughout the area.