New High-Grade Discovery At The Honeypot Zone

New High-Grade Discovery At The Honeypot Zone

VANCOUVER- New Found Gold Corp. reported on 16 diamond drill holes that were completed as part of a drill program designed to test the newly discovered Honeypot Zone located 230m north of Jackpot on the east side of the highly prospective Appleton Fault Zone (AFZ). New Found’s Queensway project comprises a 1,662km2 area, accessible via the Trans-Canada Highway, 15km west of Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador.

The host structures are interpreted to be steeply dipping and true widths are generally estimated to be 170% to 95% and 240% to 70% of reported intervals. Infill veining in secondary structures with multiple orientations crosscutting the primary host structures are commonly observed in drill core which could result in additional uncertainty in true width. Composite intervals reported carry a minimum weighted average of 1 g/t Au diluted over a minimum core length of 2m with a maximum of 4m consecutive dilution when above 200m vertical depth and 2m consecutive dilution when below 200m vertical depth. Included high-grade intercepts are reported as any consecutive interval with grades greater than 10 g/t Au. Grades have not been capped in the averaging and intervals are reported as drill thickness.

26.4 g/t Au over 7.65m in NFGC-23-1810, intersected at a vertical depth of 91m, and 23.1 g/t Au over 5.25m in NFGC-23-1931, located a further 100m down-dip, are part of a new discovery called Honeypot that was found along the east side of the AFZ, 230m north of Jackpot and 1.3km north of Lotto. This discovery was made as a result of a follow-up drill program testing a mineralized fault that was initially identified by grid drilling.

Gold found at Honeypot is hosted within a primary fault that has been drill-defined over a strike length of 280m and to a depth of 190m. The high-grade domain shows good continuity and appears to strengthen at depth. Honeypot has a similar east-northeast striking and steeply dipping orientation to the neighbouring Jackpot Zone and ongoing drilling is targeting its expansion along strike and to depth.

Melissa Render, VP of Exploration, said, “Our first pass grid drilling reconnaissance program working north of Jackpot intersected a near-surface, brittle fault with characteristics similar to the other epizonal high-grade gold-bearing faults found along this segment of the AFZ. In following this structure to depth, we are finding that Honeypot is delivering encouraging high-grade results over significant widths. There is limited drilling in this area and we are eager to expand upon these high-grade results as we kick off our 2024 drill program.”