09:55 AM EST - Marathon Gold Corporation : announced the discovery of multiple high-grade gold-bearing quartz-tourmaline-pyrite ("QTP") veins to the southwest of the J. Frank Zone, Valentine Lake Project, Newfoundland, Gold-bearing prospecting samples led to focused trenching along the Valentine Lake thrust fault, which resulted in the subsequent discovery of QTP gold vein mineralization over a 400 meter strike length and extending up to 180 meters into the hanging wall. Channel sampling of Trench 8175 returned surface intervals of 4.73 grams per ton gold (g/t Au) over 24.68 metres including 20.45 g/t Au over 3.11 metres and 11.22 g/t Au over 4.2 metres, and 2.51 g/t Au over 4.45 metres. Marathon Gold Corporation
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