Sitka Intersects Multiple Occurrences of Visible Gold from near Surface in Initial Six Diamond Drill Holes Completed at the Contact Zone, RC Gold Project, Yukon
Sitka Gold (OTCQB:SITKF) has reported multiple occurrences of visible gold in the first six diamond drill holes at the Contact zone of its RC Gold Project in Yukon. The drilling program has traced mineralization along a 900-meter strike length and to a depth of approximately 430 meters from surface.
The company has completed 2,172 meters of drilling in six holes as part of a planned 5,000-meter program at the Contact-Pukelman target. Notably, visible gold has been observed in drill core from all five targets drilled within the Clear Creek Intrusive Complex this year. The Contact zone's previous drilling in 2010/2011 produced significant historical intersections, including 38.3 meters of 1.54 g/t gold and 10.7 meters of 20.46 g/t gold.
Currently, over 25,000 meters of the planned 30,000-meter drill program has been completed, with assays pending for 52 holes. Four drill rigs are actively operating on the project, with two at Pukelman, one at Rhosgobel, and one at Bear Paw.
Sitka Gold (OTCQB:SITKF) ha segnalato la presenza di oro visibile nei primi sei carotaggi diamantati nella zona Contact del suo progetto RC Gold nello Yukon. Il programma di perforazione ha individuato mineralizzazione lungo una traccia di 900 metri e fino a una profondit脿 di circa 430 metri dalla superficie.
La societ脿 ha completato 2.172 metri di perforazioni in sei fori, nell鈥檃mbito di un programma pianificato di 5.000 metri al target Contact-Pukelman. Di rilievo, l鈥檕ro visibile 猫 stato riscontrato nelle carote provenienti da tutti e cinque i target perforati quest鈥檃nno all鈥檌nterno del Clear Creek Intrusive Complex. La precedente campagna di perforazione nella zona Contact nel 2010/2011 aveva restituito intersezioni storiche significative, tra cui 38,3 metri a 1,54 g/t oro e 10,7 metri a 20,46 g/t oro.
Ad oggi sono stati completati oltre 25.000 metri del programma di perforazione previsto di 30.000 metri, con analisi in corso per 52 fori. Sul progetto operano quattro trapani attivi: due a Pukelman, uno a Rhosgobel e uno a Bear Paw.
Sitka Gold (OTCQB:SITKF) ha informado de m煤ltiples apariciones de oro visible en los primeros seis sondajes diamantinos en la zona Contact de su proyecto RC Gold en Yukon. El programa de perforaci贸n ha seguido la mineralizaci贸n a lo largo de una longitud de rumbo de 900 metros y hasta una profundidad aproximada de 430 metros desde la superficie.
La compa帽铆a ha completado 2.172 metros de perforaci贸n en seis sondeos como parte de un programa planificado de 5.000 metros en el objetivo Contact-Pukelman. Cabe destacar que se ha observado oro visible en las testigos de los cinco objetivos perforados este a帽o dentro del Clear Creek Intrusive Complex. Las perforaciones previas en la zona Contact en 2010/2011 arrojaron intersecciones hist贸ricas significativas, incluyendo 38,3 metros a 1,54 g/t de oro y 10,7 metros a 20,46 g/t de oro.
Actualmente se han completado m谩s de 25.000 metros del programa planificado de 30.000 metros, y est谩n pendientes los ensayos de 52 sondeos. Cuatro equipos de perforaci贸n est谩n operando en el proyecto: dos en Pukelman, uno en Rhosgobel y uno en Bear Paw.
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順勳灛 瓿勴殟霅� 30,000氙疙劙 鞁滌稊 頂勲攴鸽灗 欷� 25,000氙疙劙 鞚挫儊鞚� 鞕勲霅橃棃瓿�, 52臧� 瓿奠棎 雽�頃� 攵勳劃 瓴瓣臣臧� 雽�旮� 欷戩瀰雼堧嫟. 頂勲鞝濏姼鞐愲姅 順勳灛 4雽�鞚� 鞁滌稊 鞛ル箘臧� 臧�霃� 欷戩澊氅�, Pukelman鞐� 2雽�, Rhosgobel鞐� 1雽�, Bear Paw鞐� 1雽�臧� 氚办箻霅橃柎 鞛堨姷雼堧嫟.
Sitka Gold (OTCQB:SITKF) a signal茅 plusieurs apparitions d鈥檕r visible dans les six premiers trous de forage diamant茅s de la zone Contact de son projet RC Gold au Yukon. Le programme de forage a suivi la min茅ralisation le long d鈥檜ne longueur de 900 m猫tres et jusqu鈥櫭� une profondeur d鈥檈nviron 430 m猫tres depuis la surface.
La soci茅t茅 a compl茅t茅 2 172 m猫tres de forage en six trous dans le cadre d鈥檜n programme pr茅vu de 5 000 m猫tres sur la cible Contact-Pukelman. Il est notable que de l鈥檕r visible ait 茅t茅 observ茅 dans les carottes issues des cinq cibles for茅es cette ann茅e au sein du Clear Creek Intrusive Complex. Les forages ant茅rieurs dans la zone Contact en 2010/2011 avaient donn茅 des intersections historiques significatives, notamment 38,3 m猫tres 脿 1,54 g/t d鈥檕r et 10,7 m猫tres 脿 20,46 g/t d鈥檕r.
脌 ce jour, plus de 25 000 m猫tres du programme de forage pr茅vu de 30 000 m猫tres ont 茅t茅 r茅alis茅s, et les analyses sont en attente pour 52 trous. Quatre foreuses sont actuellement actives sur le projet : deux 脿 Pukelman, une 脿 Rhosgobel et une 脿 Bear Paw.
Sitka Gold (OTCQB:SITKF) meldet mehrfach sichtbares Gold in den ersten sechs Diamantbohrungen der Contact-Zone seines RC Gold-Projekts im Yukon. Das Bohrprogramm hat die Mineralisierung 眉ber eine Streichl盲nge von 900 Metern sowie bis in eine Tiefe von etwa 430 Metern von der Oberfl盲che verfolgt.
Das Unternehmen hat im Rahmen eines geplanten 5.000-Meter-Programms am Zielgebiet Contact-Pukelman 2.172 Meter in sechs L枚chern abgeschlossen. Bemerkenswert ist, dass in diesem Jahr in den Bohrkernen aller f眉nf im Clear Creek Intrusive Complex angezielten Ziele sichtbares Gold gefunden wurde. Fr眉here Bohrungen in der Contact-Zone 2010/2011 lieferten bedeutende historische Schnitte, darunter 38,3 Meter mit 1,54 g/t Gold und 10,7 Meter mit 20,46 g/t Gold.
Derzeit wurden 眉ber 25.000 Meter des geplanten 30.000-Meter-Bohrprogramms abgeschlossen, f眉r 52 L枚cher stehen die Analysen noch aus. Vier Bohrger盲te arbeiten aktiv am Projekt: zwei in Pukelman, eines in Rhosgobel und eines in Bear Paw.
- Multiple occurrences of visible gold observed in all six initial drill holes at Contact zone
- Mineralization traced along significant 900m strike length and 430m depth
- Successful drilling program with 25,000m of 30,000m planned already completed
- Historical high-grade intersections including 10.7m of 20.46 g/t gold validate target potential
- Widespread gold mineralization observed across five different targets in the Clear Creek Intrusive Complex
- Assay results still pending for 52 holes, creating uncertainty about actual gold grades
- True widths of mineralization not yet determined due to insufficient drilling
Visible gold observed in first six diamond drill holes drilled at the Contact zone
Drilling to date has traced mineralization along a strike of approximately 900 m and to a depth of approximately 430 m from surface at the Contact zone
Visible gold has now been observed in drill core from all five targets drilled within the Clear Creek Intrusive Complex this year
First drilling completed since 2010/2011 that produced historical intersections in Contact zone of 38.3 m of 1.54 g/t gold, 74.3 m of 1.01 g/t gold and 43.4 m of 1.20 g/t gold in Holes CC11-043, 044, 045 respectively and 10.7 m of 20.46 g/t gold in CC10-22
Six holes totalling 2,172 m completed as part of the ongoing 5,000 m of drilling planned at Contact-Pukelman target
Drilling has also recently commenced at the Bear Paw target
Results are currently pending for all holes drilled at Contact-Pukelman along with holes completed across Blackjack, Saddle, Eiger, Rhosgobel and Bear Paw
Over 25,000 metres of the ongoing 30,000 m planned drill program completed with assays currently pending for 52 holes
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 19, 2025) - Sitka Gold Corp. (TSXV: SIG) (FSE: 1RF) (OTCQB: SITKF) ("Sitka" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that multiple occurrences of visible gold have been observed, beginning near surface, in the first six drill holes to be completed by the Company at the Contact zone. Visible gold has now been observed in the drill core from every target that has been drilled within the Clear Creek Intrusive Complex so far this year, including Blackjack, Saddle, Eiger and Rhosgobel. Up to 5,000 metres of drilling is currently underway at the Contact-Pukelman zone (see Figures 3, 4 and 6) as part of the fully funded 30,000 metre diamond drill program currently underway at Sitka's
"The Contact zone is now the fifth target drilled by Sitka Gold in 2025 to yield multiple occurrences of visible gold within the core of the Clear Creek Intrusive Complex," said Cor Coe, CEO and Director of Sitka Gold. "The widespread and robust gold mineralization being intersected in our drilling across this area continues to demonstrate that the RC Gold project is a unique gold camp with multiple intrusions that display the potential to host several multi-million ounce gold deposits within this relatively small 3 by 5 kilometre core area. With an existing multi-million ounce gold resource open for expansion and numerous other high-quality targets within the 431 square kilometre land package, RC Gold is quickly emerging as the foundation of a potential new mining district in the Yukon."
Figure 1: Examples of coarse visible gold (VG) observed in drill core at the Contact Zone. Recent drilling at the Contact Zone has intersected VG in all six holes completed so far this year, including the largest VG particles observed on the property in drill core to date (scale is the same for all pictures).
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Figure 2: Example of large particles of visible gold seen within a quartz vein in metasedimentary rock in the drill core of DDRCCC-25-115 from 39.4 to 39.7 m length drilled at the Contact zone.
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Contact-Pukelman Target
Six holes totalling 2,172 metres have been completed as part of the ongoing 5,000 metres of drilling planned at the Contact-Pukelman target. Drilling intersected broad intervals of strongly altered metasediments cut by several quartz monzonite, and biotite-feldspar porphyritic dykes, along with abundant, cm scale, sheeted quartz veins. Visible gold was observed in the sheeted quartz veins and was often associated with arsenopyrite, bismuthinite, and minor scheelite (see Figures 1 and 2).
Sitka's 2025 drill program is planned to expand the mineralized footprint of the Contact zone, test the zone with oriented diamond drill core to better understand controls on the mineralization and test the linkage between the metasedimentary and intrusion hosted mineralization of the Contact and Pukelman zones. The Contact zone was previously drilled in 2010 and 2011 with 1,660 metres in 12 holes of reverse circulation drilling and 254 metres in 2 holes of diamond drilling (see Table 1) and encountered significant mineralization in quartz veining within metasedimentary rocks up to 450 metres south of the Pukelman intrusion. Current drilling to date has traced gold mineralization across a lateral extent of approximately 900 metres x 650 metres and from surface to a depth of approximately 430 metres (see Figure 3 and Table 1). While this is an encouraging indicator of the potential size of this target, the Company cautions that additional drilling and assay results are required to confirm the extent and continuity of gold mineralization within this area.
* While visible gold observations are very encouraging and confirm the presence of gold mineralization, they are not intended to imply potential gold grades. Gold assays will be published after they are received from the lab for mineralized intervals in which visible gold particles were noted.
Figure 3: A location map of the Pukelman/Contact area showing the location of drill holes DDRCCC-25-111 to -116. Drilling to date has traced gold mineralization across a lateral extent of approximately 900 m x 650 m and from surface to a depth of approximately 430 m.
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Table 1: Highlights of reverse circulation drilling from 2010 and 2011 at the Contact zone
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*Intervals are drilled core length, as insufficient drilling has been completed at this time to determine true widths.
(a) O'Brien, 2010; Assessment Report, 2010 Diamond Drilling Program, Clear Creek Property (Assessment report 095539)
(b) Shutty, 2011; Assessment Report, 2011 Exploration Program, Clear Creek Property (Assessment Report 095984)
Figure 4: Long Section showing target areas within the Clear Creek Intrusive Complex (CCIC), from the Blackjack deposit to the Rhosgobel target and the proposed drilling metres that were allocated as part of the 30,000 metre diamond drilling program planned for 2025. Visible gold has now been observed in drill core from all of the targets drilled this year within the CCIC.
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Figure 5: Regional map of the RC Gold Project located in the western portion of Yukon's prolific Tombstone Gold Belt.
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Figure 6: A plan map of the Clear Creek Intrusive Complex (CCIC) showing the updated resource areas at Blackjack and Eiger, and the six additional areas that have drill targets indicated by the mauve hatched areas. The map highlights the numerous drill targets that Sitka has outlined within the CCIC which all are connected by the road network on the project and occur in an area measuring five (5) km north-south and twelve (12) km east-west. Additional areas highlighted by strong gold in soil anomalies are being advanced to the drill ready stage with additional geological work in 2025.
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About the Flagship RC Gold Project
Sitka's
The RC Gold Project now has pit-constrained mineral resources that are contained in two zones: the Blackjack and Eiger gold deposits with 1,291,000 ounces of gold in 39,962,000 tonnes grading 1.01 g/t gold in an indicated category and 1,044,000 ounces of gold in 34,603,000 tonnes grading 0.94 g/t in an inferred category at Blackjack and 440,000 ounces of gold in 27,362,000 tonnes grading 0.50 g/t gold in an inferred category at Eiger. These resource estimate numbers are supported by the recently updated technical report for RC Gold, prepared in accordance with NI 43-101 standards, entitled "Clear Creek Property, RC Gold Project NI 43-101 Technical Report Dawson Mining District, Yukon Territory", prepared by Ronald G. Simpson, P. Geo., of GeoSim Services Inc. with an effective date of January 21, 2025. This report is available on SEDAR+ () and on the Company's website ().
Both of these deposits begin at surface, are potentially open pit minable and amenable to heap leaching, with initial bottle roll tests indicating that the gold is not refractory and has high gold recoveries of up to
As of the end of 2024, the Company has drilled 72 diamond drill holes into this system for a total of approximately 25,136 metres. Other targets drilled to date include the Saddle, Josephine, Rhosgobel and Pukelman zones. The resource expansion drilling in 2023 at Blackjack produced results of up to 219.0 metres of 1.34 g/t gold including 124.8 metres of 2.01 g/t gold and 55.0 metres of 3.11 g/t gold in drill hole DDRCCC-23-047 (see news release dated September 26, 2023) and in 2024 results of up to 678.1 metres of 1.04 g/t gold starting from surface in DDRCCC-24-068, including 409.5 metres of 1.36 g/t gold, 93.0 metres of 2.57 g/t gold and 5.5 metres of 17.59 g/t gold (see news release dated October 21, 2024). Results from DDRCCC-25-075, completed during winter drilling in 2025, produced the best high-grade intercepts drilled to date at Blackjack, returning 352.8 metres of 1.55 g/t gold including 108.9 metres of 3.27 g/t gold and 45.0 metres of 4.52 g/t gold (see news release dated April 22, 2025).
A planned 30,000 metre diamond drilling program for 2025 is currently underway at RC Gold.
RC Gold Deposit Model
Exploration on the Property has mainly focused on identifying an intrusion-related gold system ("IRGS"). The property is within the Tombstone Gold Belt which is the prominent host to IRGS deposits within the Tintina Gold Province in Yukon and Alaska. Notable deposits from the belt include: Fort Knox Mine in Alaska with current Proven and Probable Reserves of 230 million tonnes at 0.3 g/t Au (2.471 million ounces; Sims 2018)(1); Eagle Gold Mine with current Measured and Indicated Resources of 233 million tonnes at a grade of 0.57 g/t Au at the Eagle Main Zone (4.303 million ounces; Harvey et al, 2022)(2); the Brewery Creek deposit with current Indicated Mineral Resource of 22.2 million tonnes at a gold grade of 1.11 g/t (0.789 million ounces; Hulse et al. 2020)(3); the AurMac Project with an Inferred Mineral Resource of 347.49 million tonnes grading 0.63 gram per tonne gold (7.00 million ounces)(4) and the Valley Deposit, with a current Measured and Indicated Mineral Resource of 7.94 million oz gold at 1.21 g/t and an additional Inferred Mineral Resource of 0.89 million oz at 0.62 g/t gold(5), and the Raven deposit with an inferred mineral resource of 1.1 million oz (19.96 million tonnes at 1.67 g/t gold)(6). The QP has been unable to verify the information regarding the above resource estimations and the information is not necessarily indicative of the mineralization on the property that is the subject of the disclosure.
(1) Sims J. Fort Knox Mine Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, USA National Instrument 43-101 Technical Report. June 11, 2018. https://s2.q4cdn.com/496390694/files/doc_downloads/2018/Fort-Knox-June-2018-Technical-Report.pdf
(2) Harvey N., Gray P., Winterton J., Jutras M., Levy M.,Technical Report for the Eagle Gold Mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Victoria Gold Corp. December 31, 2022. https://vgcx.com/site/assets/files/6534/vgcx_-_2023_eagle_mine_technical_report_final.pdf
(3) Hulse D, Emanuel C, Cook C. NI 43-101 Technical Report on Mineral Resources. Gustavson Associates. May 31, 2020. https://minedocs.com/22/Brewery-Creek-PEA-01182022.pdf
(4) Thornton T., Jutras M., Malhotra D. Technical Report Aurmac Property Mayo Mining District, Yukon Territory, Canada. JDS Energy and Mining Inc. February 6, 2024. https://banyangold.com/site/assets/files/5251/banyan_gold_ni_43-101_technical_report_2024_03_18.pdf
(5)https://snowlinegold.com/2025/05/15/snowline-gold-expands-measured-and-indicated-gold-ounces-by-96-in-updated-mineral-resource-estimate-at-its-valley-gold-deposit-yukon/
(6) Jutras, M. 2022. Technical Report on the Raven Mineral Deposit, Mayo Mining District Yukon Territory, Canada, prepared for Victoria Gold Corp and filed on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) with an effective date of September 15, 2022
Upcoming Events
Sitka Gold will be attending and/or presenting at the following events*:
Precious Metals Summit, Beaver Creek, Colorado: September 9 - 12, 2025
Yukon Geoscience Forum, Whitehorse, YT: November 16 - 19, 2025
Swiss Mining Institute, Zürich, Switzerland: November 19 - 22, 2025
*All events are subject to change.
About Sitka Gold Corp.
Sitka Gold Corp. is a well-funded mineral exploration company headquartered in Canada. The Company is managed by a team of experienced industry professionals and is focused on exploring for economically viable mineral deposits with its primary emphasis on gold, silver and copper mineral properties of merit. Sitka is currently advancing its
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The scientific and technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Gilles Dessureau, P.Geo., V.P. Exploration of the Company, and a Qualified Person (QP) as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
SITKA GOLD CORP.
"Donald Penner"
President and Director
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| Donald Penner President & Director 778-212-1950 [email protected] | or | Cor Coe CEO & Director 604-817-4753 [email protected] |
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