Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 31, 2025) - West Point Gold Corp. (TSXV: WPG) (OTCQB: WPGCF) (FSE: LRA0) ("West Point Gold" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it plans to expand the current reverse circulation ("RC") drill program at its Gold Chain Project in Arizona. The Company has elected to expand the program as the successful results returned to date continue to confirm the model. The expanded program will be funded by proceeds received from recent warrant exercises. The expanded program plans to continue drilling the northern extension of Tyro and complete an initial test of the Frisco Graben target.
Press Release Highlights:
The Frisco Graben is a large-scale, covered, low-sulphidation epithermal gold target.
The Frisco Graben is approximately 4km in length and 1km wide.
The ongoing drill program has been expanded to 5,000 metres from 3,000 metres.
Assays are pending from 2,113 metres of completed drilling (13 holes).
"We would like to thank our current shareholders for their continued support. Through their warrant exercises, we have been able to expand the ongoing drill program at our Gold Chain project in Arizona. The expanded program will allow us to complete an initial test at the Frisco Graben that bears geologic similarities to AngloGold's Silicon-Merlin deposit," stated CEO Quentin Mai.
Frisco Graben Target at Gold Chain
The Frisco Graben is a large-scale, low-sulphidation epithermal gold target at the Company's Gold Chain project Arizona (Figure 4). The Frisco Graben is bounded on the southwest by the Frisco Mine Fault and the northeast by the Union Pass Fault. The target area is approximately 4 kilometres in length and 1 kilometre across.
The Frisco Graben is bounded by structures hosting altered rhyolite dikes, flow domes and associated flows and debris aprons extending into a narrow basin, i.e., a graben filled with volcanic tuffs and sediments. Strong hydrothermal alteration along the extent of the graben, especially at the intersection with the Tyro vein system (Figure 1), argues for concealed potential, as presented in Figure 3.
Figure 1: Plan View of Gold Chain Project Showing Tyro Main Zone (with drilling) and drill pad locations for the Tyro NE Extension and Frisco Graben (see Figure 4 for location within the broader project).
Sampling to date has not revealed anomalous gold in the Frisco Graben, which is expected in vapour-driven alteration. A hyperspectral survey was completed in 2020, an aeromagnetic survey in 2021 and geologic mapping of the graben and beyond provide additional evidence for a deeper epithermal gold system (Figure 2). The magnetic signature along Section 7000E, roughly parallel to the Tyro vein, reveals the shallow floor to the graben at about -300m in the hanging wall of the Frisco Mine fault. The section also reveals magnetite destruction along the Tyro vein to about -500 metres. A strong magnetic 'quiet' zone is positioned immediately beneath the graben and may reflect a felsic stock at depth.
Figure 2. Annotated Section 7000 3D Magnetic Susceptibility Model Across the Gold Chain Project and the Frisco Graben.
Note: Annotated by Rob Johansing, VP of Exploration. Airborne geophysics was conducted by a third-party contractor, and the interpretation was performed by Simcoe Geoscience Limited.
The structures bounding the Frisco Graben merge to the northwest to form a fault zone referred to as the Union Pass fault zone (Figure 4). As observed elsewhere, the structure hosts rhyolite dikes and widespread quartz veining in the footwall Precambrian rocks and the rhyolite. As seen elsewhere, volcanic rocks in the hanging wall are altered, providing additional targets for future exploration programs.
Figure 3. Schematic diagram of the Frisco Graben showing the 'boiling zone' (Tyro Vein) in the FW of the rhyolite dike (Frisco Mine fault) and vapour-dominated alteration in the hanging wall and capping the volcanic section of the graben.
Note: Prepared by Rob Johansing, VP of Exploration.
Figure 5. Exploration model for low-sulfidation epithermal gold-silver vein systems illustrating vertical variations in quartz textures, structure, alteration and geochemistry along with the estimated vertical positions of the several structural segments of the Tyro vein system. Diagram adapted from: Buchanan (1980), Hollister (1985), Berger & Eimon (1983), Anaconda Corp. (1983), Guoyi (1992) and Corbett & Leach (1996).
The Company has elected to expand the ongoing RC drill program from 3,000 metres to 5,000 metres based on early warrant exercises by existing shareholders. To date, 2,450 metres have been completed in the current drill program, with assays pending for 2,113 metres (13 holes).
The expanded drill program is expected to focus on the Frisco Graben (described above).
Qualified Person
Robert Johansing, M.Sc. Econ. Geol., P. Geo., the Company's Vice President, Exploration is a qualified person ("QP") as defined by NI 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical content of this press release. Mr. Johansing has been responsible for all phases of work conducted at Gold Chain by West Point Gold to date.
About West Point Gold Corp.
West Point Gold Corp. (formerly Gold79 Mines Ltd.) is a publicly listed company focused on gold discovery and development at four prolific Walker Lane Trend projects covering Nevada and Arizona, USA. West Point Gold is focused on developing a maiden resource at its Gold Chain project in Arizona, while JV partner Kinross is advancing the Jefferson Canyon project in Nevada.
For further information regarding this press release, please contact: Aaron Paterson, Corporate Communications Manager Phone: +1 (778) 358-6173 Email: info@westpointgold.com
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