VANCOUVER, BC, April 14, 2025 – Nevada King Gold Corp. (TSX-V: NKG; OTCQB: NKGFF) (“Nevada King” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on its regional drill program at its 100%-owned Atlanta Gold Mine Project along the prolific Battle Mountain Trend, 264km northeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.
To date, the Company has completed 88 widely spaced reverse circulation (“RC”) holes, totaling 21,300 metres, focused along the margins of the Atlanta caldera over an 18km2 area. Drilling has occurred at the 12 preliminary targets released on September 17, 2024, and October 3, 2024, which were largely based on geophysical anomalies. Through drilling, these targets have evolved into three major exploration areas – Atlanta South (that includes the South Quartzite Ridge Target), Atlanta North, and Silver Park (Figure 1). Two RC drills are currently operating onsite, with one dedicated to testing early-stage targets at Atlanta North and Silver Park while the other rig concentrates on testing prospective host rocks beneath the quartzite cap at Atlanta South. The Company is waiting on assays for several key holes and expects to provide an initial release on Phase III drill results in the coming weeks. Drilling at Atlanta North and Silver Park has progressed faster than expected, while drilling at Atlanta South has been slower than expected due to challenges drilling through the Eureka Quartzite. As a result of initial findings of the ongoing drilling, the Company is pleased to announce an increase of its Phase III drill program from 20,000m to 30,000m.
Target Areas
Drilling at Atlanta South has progressed slower than expected initially due to constraints accessing the most prospective areas atop the ridge, followed by challenges drilling through the Eureka Quartzite. These hurdles have been overcome and the Company recently completed the first hole ever drilled from the crest of Atlanta Peak.
QA/QC Protocols
All RC samples from the Atlanta Project are split at the drill site and placed in cloth and plastic bags utilizing a nominal 2kg sample weight. CRF standards, blanks, and duplicates are inserted into the sample stream on-site on a one-in-twenty sample basis, meaning all three inserts are included in each 20-sample group. Samples are shipped by a local contractor in large sample shipping crates directly to American Assay Lab in Reno, Nevada, with full custody being maintained at all times. At American Assay Lab, samples were weighted then crushed to 75% passing 2mm and pulverized to 85% passing 75 microns in order to produce a 300g pulverized split. Prepared samples are initially run using a four acid + boric acid digestion process and conventional multi-element ICP-OES analysis. Gold assays are initially run using 30-gram samples by lead fire assay with an OES finish to a 0.003 ppm detection limit, with samples greater than 10 ppm finished gravimetrically. Every sample is also run through a cyanide leach for gold with an ICP-OES finish. The QA/QC procedure involves regular submission of Certified Analytical Standards and property-specific duplicates.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Calvin R. Herron, P.Geo., who is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”).
1Sourced from Nevada Division of Minerals (NDOM) website and I-80 Gold’s 2021 NI 43-101 report.
1,516,507 Moz Au production + 3,874,000 Moz Au indicated = 5,390,507 Moz Au endowment.
2Sourced from Nevada Division of Minerals (NDOM) website and Berrick’s 2023 Q4 results released February 14t, 2024.
1,168,694 Moz Au production + 820,000 oz M&I = 1,988,694 Moz Au endowment.
About Nevada King Gold Corp.
Nevada King is focused on advancing and growing its 100% owned, past producing, 120km2 Atlanta Gold Mine project located along the Battle Mountain trend in southeast Nevada. The project hosts an NI 43-101 compliant pit-constrained oxide resource of 460,000 oz Au in the measured and indicated category (11.0M tonnes at 1.3 g/t) plus an inferred resource of 142,000 oz Au (5.3M tonnes at 0.83 g/t) based on historical drilling, and does not include any of the 100,000m+ of drilling completed by Nevada King. See the NI 43-101 Technical Report on Resources titled “Atlanta Property, Lincoln County, NV” with an effective date of October 6, 2020, and a report date of December 22, 2020, as prepared by Gustavson Associates and filed under the Company’s profile on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca).
NI 43-101 Mineral Resources at the Atlanta Mine
Please see the Company’s website at www.nevadaking.ca.
For more information, contact Collin Kettell at collin@nevadaking.ca or (845) 535-1486.
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