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Angus Gold Doubles the Strike Length of New High-Grade Gold Zone at Dorset West, Intersects 15.6 g/t Au over 3.5 metres in 100m-step out hole, Golden Sky Project, Wawa
TORONTO, March 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Angus Gold Inc. (TSX-V: GUS | OTC: ANGVF) (“Angus” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce preliminary results from its ongoing exploration drilling program on the Dorset West Zone, as part of its Winter 2025 drilling program at the Golden Sky Project in Wawa, Ontario. To date, the drilling has doubled the strike length of the new high-grade gold zone on Dorset’s west end, where Angus previously intersected 7.0 g/t Au over 12.4 metres in Hole GS-24-136, approximately 500 metres to the west of the historical Dorset resource (see News Release of May 7, 2024). In addition, these drill results show the continued growth potential of the Dorset Gold Zone as it has now been intersected along 2.1 kilometres of strike length.
Highlights:
Dorset Gold Trend now defined for 2.1 kilometres of strike length of continuous mineralization.
High-Grade Dorset West gold mineralization strike length has doubled to 200 metres of strike length:
3.5 metres of mineralization grading 15.6 g/t Au, including 0.4 metres of 80.1 g/t Au in Hole GS25-183 at 100 metres true depth; 100m west of previous drilling
5.5 metres of mineralization grading 1.7 g/t Au, including 1.5 metres of 3.8 g/t Au in Hole GS25-182 at 150 metres true depth; 50m west of previous drilling
15,000 metres of drilling planned for the Golden Sky Project in 2025.
Fully funded 2025 exploration budget.
Breanne Beh, Chief Executive Officer of Angus, states: “We are extremely pleased with the initial results from our first holes of the 2025 drilling season. With our current step-out drill program, we have successfully doubled the strike length of our new high-grade Dorset West Zone, which is now defined over 200 metres. Our goal with the winter program was to test the potential to grow Dorset’s strike length, and it is extremely encouraging that we are demonstrating significant grades, and significant strike expansion, in our preliminary results. With two (2) drills currently dedicated to the project, we will continue our step-out program as we work to determine the full potential of the Dorset Gold Zone.”
One of the goals of the 2025 winter drill program was to test the expansion potential of the western high-grade zone. Step-out holes were planned to test west of GS-24-179, drilled along Dorset’s most western section to date, which intersected 4.3 g/t Au over 9.1m (see News Release of January 28, 2025). The three (3) holes published in this press release all hosted visible gold. The most notable intercept was in GS-25-183, returning 3.5 metres grading 15.6 g/t Au including 0.4 metres of 80.1 g/t Au. GS-25-183 is now the most western hole drilled along the Dorset Gold Trend. GS-25-181, returned 9.5 g/t Au over 0.5 metres and 11.1 g/t Au over 0.8 metres in a broader zone of mineralization that ran 0.8 g/t Au over 20.4 metres. This intersection was at approximately 110 metres true depth. GS-25-182, returned 1.7 g/t Au over 5.5 metres and 3.8 g/t Au over 1.5 metres, within a broader zone of mineralization that ran 0.7 g/t Au over 15.5 metres.
The gold mineralization in all three of these holes was hosted in quartz veins within a metasedimentary rock package, the same geologic setting as the mineralization in GS-24-136. VG was present within the quartz veins. These results continue to grow the strike length and show there is consistency in this new high-grade zone that is completely open to the west with minimal historic drilling completed along the structural corridor for 2 kilometres.
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Selected drill results from the 3 holes at the Golden Sky drilling program are, as follows:
Hole Number
From (m)
To (m)
Length (m)
Au g/t
Area
GS-25-181
155.9
176.3
20.4
0.8
Dorset West Exploration
including
155.9
161.2
5.3
1.2
including
159.6
160.1
0.5
9.5
including
175.5
176.3
0.8
11.1
GS-25-182
181.0
196.5
15.5
0.7
Dorset West Exploration
including
188.0
193.5
5.5
1.7
including
189.0
190.5
1.5
3.8
GS-25-183
148.5
152
3.5
15.6
Dorset West Exploration
including
150.1
150.6
0.5
40.1
including
151.6
152
0.4
80.1
(1) Assay results presented over core length. Additional drilling will be necessary to constrain the true width of the mineralized envelope of the gold system.
The 2025 drilling campaign at the Golden Sky project is planned to be 15,000 metres and will test targets along the Dorset Zone mineralized structural corridor in addition to the BIF Gold Zone and the Eagle River Splay exploration area.
Figure 1 - Dorset West DDH Results Update - March 2025
Figure 1: Dorset West Winter 2025 Drill Results Map
Figure 2 - Visible gold hosted in quartz veins in GS-25-183
Figure 2: Visible gold hosted in quartz veins in GS-25-183.
The Golden Sky Project The 100%-owned Golden Sky Project is located within the Mishibishu Lake Greenstone Belt of Northern Ontario, which is host to Wesdome’s high-grade Eagle River and the Mishi open-pit gold mines. The Company’s 290-square-kilometres land package is located approximately 50 kilometres west of the town of Wawa and is situated immediately between the two Wesdome mines.
The ongoing drill program on the Golden Sky Project is focused on the Dorset Gold Zone, which hosts a historic gold resource; the BIF Zone, a new gold zone discovery in a large banded iron formation; as well as the Eagle River Splay deformation zone, which shows potential for another extensive gold system. Angus’ drill programs on the near-surface Dorset Gold Zone have been successful at extending the strike length of the previously modelled zone from 750 metres to 1.7 kilometres. The Dorset Gold Zone historic estimated resource (using a 0.50 g/t Au cut-off) consists of an indicated resource of 40,000 ounces of gold (780,000 tonnes grading 1.4 g/t Au), and an inferred resource of 180,000 ounces of gold (4,760,000 tonnes grading 1.2 g/t Au). For greater details on the Golden Sky Project, please refer to the NI 43-101 technical report for the Golden Sky Project entitled, ’NI 43-101 Technical Report Wawa Property Ontario, Canada’ dated February 18, 2020, and available on the Company’s SEDAR profile.
Qualified Person The scientific and technical content of this press release has been reviewed and approved by Breanne Beh, P.Geo, who is a “Qualified Person” as defined by National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) and Chief Geologist for the Company.
Quality Control During the last drilling program, assay samples were taken from the NQ core by sawing the drill core in half, with one-half sent to a certified commercial laboratory and the other half retained for future reference. A strict QA/QC program was applied to all samples; which includes insertion of mineralized standards and blank samples for each batch of 20 samples. The gold analyses were completed by fire-assay with an atomic absorption finish on 50 grams of materials. Repeats were carried out by fire-assay followed by gravimetric testing on each sample containing 3.0 g/t gold or more.
About Angus Gold: Angus Gold Inc. is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition, exploration, and development of highly prospective gold properties. The Company’s flagship project is the Golden Sky Project in Wawa, Ontario. The Project is immediately adjacent to the Eagle River Mine of Wesdome Gold Mines Ltd.
On behalf of Angus Gold Inc.,
Breanne Beh President and Chief Executive Officer
INQUIRIES: Lindsay Dunlop, Vice President Investor Relations Email: info@angusgold.com Phone: 647-259-1790 Company Website: www.angusgold.com
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