09:49 AM EST - Marathon Gold Corporation : announced the results of eight new drill holes from the 2012 drilling campaign at the Leprechaun Gold Deposit in Valentine Lake, Newfoundland. Continued step-out drilling has intersected significant new intervals of high-grade mineralization located up to 70 metres down-dip of previously defined Main Zone mineralization at the Leprechaun Gold Deposit. Results include: 4.31 g/t Au over 13.5 metres including 25.42 g/t Au over 1.8 m and 8.85 g/t Au over 3.6 m including 32.31 g/t Au over 0.9 m in VL-12-393; 11.28 g/t Au over 7.65 m including 41.80 g/t Au over 1.7 m and 1.75 g/t Au over 14.45 m including 17.87 g/t Au over 0.85 in VL-12-395; 2.41 g/t Au over 17.0 m including 16.84 g/t Au over 2.0 m and 3.43 g/t Au over 5.7 m including 19.61 g/t Au over 0.95 in VL-12-400. Marathon Gold Corporation
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