Planned Drill Program At The Fortuity 89 Is Underway

VANCOUVER – Discovery Harbour Resources Corp. reported that Newcrest Resources, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Newcrest Mining Limited, has confirmed that its planned drill program at Fortuity 89, Nevada is underway.

Subject to the continued impacts of COVID-19, Newcrest plans to drill a minimum of eight drill holes and 3,400 meters to test a series of low sulphidation epithermal gold targets on Fortuity 89. Newcrest has implemented a comprehensive safety plan for the drill program, including extensive COVID-19 protocols. Newcrest completed an initial exploration program in 2021 which included a geophysical program encompassing a 675 line kilometer drone airborne magnetic survey, a 250 station ground gravity survey and a 45 line kilometer audio band magnetotellurics (AMT) resistivity survey as well as geological and alteration mapping and sampling with a soil geochemical program (see news release July 14, 2021). The three geophysical surveys showed anomalies consistent between each different geophysical method and the geological and alteration mapping, establishing promising drill targets. The drill targets are proximal to a very limited outcrop on Fortuity 89 and extend into a large plain overlain by a gravel cover.

Newcrest’s program was designed to evaluate the limited outcrop and provide interpreted extrapolations of the geological and structural mineralization controls, which are prospective for concealed low sulphidation epithermal gold mineralization below the shallow unconsolidated alluvial gravels.