NuLegacy Gold announced that it has resumed the drilling work on the remaining 10 holes of a preliminary 20-hole exploration program on the Wood Hills South gold project in Elko County, Nevada. Earlier in 2011, the company had drilled the initial 10 holes of the 20-hole exploration program, wherein assay results were announced on 6 February 2012.
Among the 10 holes, 8 included favorable trace elements and anomalous gold with WHS11-007 hole returning the best results. The holes also contained Carlin-type style trace elements and an oxidized 10.7 m interval averaging 0.40 g/t gold within 60 m of anomalous gold mineralization. This gold mineralization exists in iron oxide that contains silicified inter-layered dolomites and silty limestones. A gold-bearing mineralized intrusive lies beneath the higher grade interval. This intrusive is the main geologic relationship in the Pequop gold locality.
The ongoing drilling program will study the selected targets to calculate if other regions of similar or better gold mineralization can be identified. The drilling campaign will be concluded, wherein all the new holes are expected to be about 120 m deep or more, depending on potential regions of gold mineralization.
The company will also conduct geochemistry and geophysics surveys to plan a follow-up drilling campaign of the gold mineralization in WHS11-007 drill hole. The information will be used to delineate regions that are likely to be mineralized and this will form the basis for scheduling a step-out drilling campaign around the WHS11-007 hole.
Nevada-based company, Envirotech Drilling is conducting the Wood Hills drilling under the guidance of Dr. Roger Steininger, COO of NuLegacy Gold; Zonge Geosciences will perform the microgravity survey of the WHS11-007 drill hole to delineate areas and structure of potential hydrothermal modification; North American Exploration will gather soil samples to infill the present soil grid in the same region as the microgravity survey; and American Assay Labs based in Nevada will analyze the drill holes and soil samples for gold and trace elements.