03:47 PM EST - Marathon Gold Corporation : announced the positive results of initial prospecting and trenching in an area located 300 meters north of the current NE end of the Leprechaun Gold deposit and 500 metres north of the Valentine Lake thrust fault. This newly discovered zone of high-grade gold mineralization is exposed in two 100-metre long trenches covering a 200-metre NE strike length. The new gold zone overlies a magnetic low zone interpreted as a splay fault off the main Valentine Lake thrust fault. Multiple stacked quartz-tourmaline-pyrite-gold veins exposed throughout the trenches returned grab outcrop samples up to 41.34 g/t Au, 33.31 g/t Au, 32.12 g/t Au, 29.17 g/t Au, 26.00 g/t Au and 21.42 g/t Au. Marathon Gold Corporation
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