NEVADA KING INTERCEPTS 42.7M OF 4.67 G/T AU INCLUDING 18.3M OF 7.94 G/T AU AT NEW 'WILD WEST' ZONE, A STEP-OUT APPROXIMATELY 150M WEST OF THE ATLANTA RESOURCE ZONE

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VANCOUVER, BC, Aug. 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Nevada King Gold Corp. (TSXV: NKG) (OTCQX: NKGFF) ("Nevada King" or the "Company") is pleased to announce results from 12 vertical, reverse circulation ("RC") holes, eight of which were drilled into a new discovery area called the Wild West Zone ("WWZ") at its 5,166 hectares (51.6km2), 100% owned Atlanta Gold Mine Project, located in the prolific Battle Mountain Trend 264km northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The WWZ target area is interpreted to have a width of 150m to 200m (east-west, open to the west) over a minimum 500m north-south strike length (open to the south). This new zone is located in an area previously thought to be unmineralized on the west side of the West Atlanta Fault #2 ("WAF2"), which forms the western boundary of the West Atlanta Graben Zone ("WAGZ") and the Atlanta resource zone (Figures 1-3).

 Wild West Zone Highlights:

Hole No.

From (m)

To (m)

Interval (m)

Au (g/t)

Ag (g/t)

AT24WS-83

387.1

429.8

42.7

4.67

25.3

Includes

408.4

426.7

18.3

7.94

18.3

AT24WS-80

373.4

408.4

35.1

2.66

6.3

Includes

390.2

399.3

9.1

5.06

8.4

AT24WS-69*

323.2

396.3

73.2

1.48

5.5

Includes

352.0

356.6

4.6

4.97

4.6

And includes

304.8

306.3

1.52

11.00

4.2

AT24NS-193*

247.0

297.3

50.3

1.29

19.2

Includes

280.5

283.5

3.0

3.72

16.5

AT24NS-194*

257.6

300.3

42.7

2.08

18.5

Includes

266.8

272.9

6.1

6.32

40.8

Table 1. Highlight holes released today. Mineralization occurs along near-horizontal horizons with true mineralized thickness estimated to be 90% to 100% of reported drill intercept length. *Denotes hole that bottomed in mineralization.

  • As shown in Figure 1 below, drilling to date at Atlanta has focused on targeting gold mineralization primarily within the Atlanta Mine Fault Zone ("AMFZ") highlighted in purple and the WAGZ highlighted in grey. The recent drilling at the WWZ, shown in green, identifies mineralization well beyond the boundaries of the Atlanta resource zone, returning thick intersections of high-grade gold mineralization in a new target area that remains open to the west and south.

  • Figures 2 and 3 illustrate the current known dimensions of the WWZ. Bounded by the recent drilling and two historical holes (DHRI-11-11C and KR98-13), the WWZ measures up to 200m in the east-west direction and over 500m in the north-south direction and remains open to the west and south. Highlight intervals exhibit several high-grade intercepts including AT24WS-83 that returned 4.67 g/t Au over 42.7m, including 7.94 g/t Au over 18.3m.

  • Mineralization within the WWZ is heavily oxidized and is concentrated along the same near-horizontal unconformity observed in the neighboring AMFZ and WAGZ. Mineralization is hosted within the silica breccia horizon along the unconformity and within a rhyolitic sill and tuffaceous volcanics directly above the silica breccia. We see the same Au-Ag-As-Ba-Mo metals association within the WWZ as is seen in the adjacent WAGZ.

  • The WWZ discovery was made based off of a large CSAMT anomaly (Figure 4) and comes on the heels of two additional discoveries made with targeting done by combining CSAMT results with other historical data – the East Ridge discovery (July 16, 2024) and the South Quartzite Ridge discovery (July 23, 2024). Additional details are provided in the WWZ - CSAMT Geophysical Anomaly section below.