Mr. Robert Boyd reports
ENDURANCE COMMENCES PLANNED 7,000 M DRILLING PROGRAM AT THE RELIANCE GOLD-ANTIMONY PROJECT
Drilling has commenced at Endurance Gold Corp.'s 100-per-cent-owned Reliance gold-antimony project in Southern British Columbia. The road-accessible property is located four kilometres east of the village of Gold Bridge and 10 km north of the historic Bralorne-Pioneer gold mining camp, which has produced over four million ounces of gold.
The planned 2025 program primarily consists of 7,000 metres of diamond drilling with the objectives of expanding the gold zones discovered along the Royal shear, and delineation infill drilling to be incorporated into an open-pit constrained maiden resource estimate. The 2025 program goals include:
- Expanding new drill discoveries at Lower Imperial and Lower Crown zones;
- Demonstrating continuity of near-surface mineralization;
- Reporting of an inaugural open-pit mineral resource;
- Completing representative metallurgical testwork and flow sheet design to maximize gold and antimony recoveries;
- Drill target generation on additional regional-scale structures.
In the previous four seasons, the company has completed a total of 25,210 metres of diamond drilling, expanding the Royal shear gold mineralized trend over 1.5 km of strike and 1.1 km vertically. Drilling to date has been extremely successful with 73 of the 108 diamond drill holes completed to date returning significant drill intersections (exceeding three grams per tonne with a minimum mineralized width of three m). This continuing cost-effective exploration work has led to the discovery of a substantial orogenic gold and antimony system.
The 2025 drilling program has been initiated at the Imperial zone. The initial holes are designed to provide infill data along the Royal shear contact while also testing the continuity of the Lower Imperial zone discovered in late 2024. The Lower Imperial zone was intersected approximately 200 m in the footwall of the Royal shear contact in hole DDH24-106, which returned 7.18 grams per tonne gold over 8.3 m, including 28.08 g/t gold over 1.7 m hosted in altered gabbro, indicating a possible previously unrecognized stacked mineralized zone below Imperial zone (see news release dated Dec. 16, 2024).
The 2025 drilling will further test new drill discoveries at the Crown zone. The Lower Crown zone was discovered in 2024, where DDH24-103 returned 7.61 g/t gold over 5.7 m from the Royal shear contact (see news release dated Nov. 19, 2024). Infill drilling will test the Royal shear contact for continuity of mineralization between the Imperial, Lower Crown and Eagle zones. The 2025 drilling in this area will target near-surface mineralization, which may optimize into the pit-constrained mineral resource.
The prime 2025 objective is to complete 3-D modelling of existing data complemented by further drilling and additional representative metallurgical testwork to support completion of an inaugural mineral resource estimate. Aside from optimized and representative gold recovery, metallurgical testwork will consider alternatives for the production of an antimony-rich concentrate.
Geochemical surface sampling, geological mapping and prospecting are also planned in 2025 to better define drill targets along the southeast trend of the Royal shear, where a new 500-metre soil anomaly was discovered (see news release dated March 24, 2025). Similar surficial work is planned at the Enigma and Olympic targets, where surface grab sampling has returned gold values up to 25.1 g/t gold and 11.9 per cent antimony (see news release dated Feb. 6, 2024). A drill permit application is in progress for the Olympic and Enigma areas to facilitate drill testing in late 2025 or 2026.
The Reliance gold project is interpreted to host a shallow-level (epizonal) orogenic gold system. Gold mineralization is directly related to varying amounts, though generally low concentrations of sulphides, including pyrite, arsenopyrite and stibnite. These occur as sulphide replacement and multigenerational breccias, which are frequently associated with pervasive silicification, quartz stockwork and/or quartz breccia infill.
Endurance Gold is a company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of highly prospective North American mineral properties.
Diamond drill core was logged and evaluated on the property, and samples were designated for assay analysis under the supervision of a geologist at the property. Drilling was completed with HQ and NQ size tools capable of collecting 6.35- and 4.76-centimetre-diameter core (respectively). Drill core was cut using a diamond saw with one-half of the core sent for analysis, and the remaining kept for future studies. All drill core samples have been submitted to ALS Global in North Vancouver, B.C., an ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited laboratory, where they are crushed to 70 per cent less than two millimetres then up to 250 grams pulverized to less than 75 microns. Samples are then submitted for four-acid digestion and analyzed for 48 elements ICP-MS (ME-MS61) and gold 30-gram FA ICP-AES finish (AU-ICP21). Overlimit samples returning greater than 10 parts per million gold are reanalyzed by Au-GRA21 methodology, and overlimit antimony returning greater than 10,000 ppm Sb are reanalyzed by Sb-AA08 methodology. Samples with visible gold were reanalyzed by metallic screening method Au-SCR21, which incorporates a one-kilogram pulp screened to 100 microns and includes assaying of the entire oversize fraction.
Endurance Gold monitors quality assurance/quality control by inserting blanks, certified standards and pulp duplicates into the sample stream. The work program is supervised by Darren O'Brien, PGeo, vice-president, exploration, for the company, the qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101. Mr. O'Brien has reviewed and approved this news release.
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