11
March 2024
Lexington
Gold Ltd
("Lexington Gold" or the "Company")
Contract for Drill Programme
at Jennings-Pioneer Project, South Carolina, USA
Lexington Gold (AIM: LEX), the gold
exploration and development company with projects in South Africa
and the USA, is pleased to announce that it has signed a drilling
contract with Logan Drilling Group to commence its 2024 drilling
programme at the Jennings-Pioneer Project on the Carolina Slate
Belt, USA.
Highlights:
·
The drilling contract is for a minimum of 430m of
diamond drilling with Logan Drilling USA based in Sandersville,
Georgia, USA.
· Drilling is expected to start in the week commencing 18 March
2024, with all the requisite approvals already in place.
· The planned 430m+
drilling campaign comprises three diamond core holes at the
Company's Jennings-Pioneer Project to test gold mineralisation
adjacent to the historic Barite Hill Main open pit that was active
in the early 1990s.
· Drill
targeting has utilised an implicit grade shell model and an
explicit geologic model based on a wealth of modern and historic
exploration and production data.
· The drill targets are three distinct gold ore zones that lie
along and marginal to the contact between the Lower Pyroclastic
Unit and the Upper Pyroclastic Unit of the Persimmon
Formation.
· Historic assay results from Barite Hill indicate copper,
silver and possibly tellurium by-product potential.
·
The drill programme is expected to take
approximately one month to be completed.
·
Assay results from the programme will be used to
update and expand Lexington Gold's implicit grade shell model for
the Barite Hill Trend.
· Geologic logging of the drill core will be used to update and
expand the Company's explicit geologic model for the Barite Hill
Trend.
Ed Nealon, Lexington Gold's
Chairman, commented:
"We are delighted to be commencing the 2024 drilling programme
at our Jennings Pioneer Project, working alongside Logan
Drilling. Building on the historical data and the encouraging
results of our 2023 soil and surface sampling programme, we are
excited by the prospect of this next stage of exploration. With the
programme expected to take a month to complete, we look forward to
updating our shareholders in due course.
Furthermore, with current gold prices
reflecting a continued robust demand for gold and gold assets, we
believe our strategic gold exploration initiatives to expand and
validate known gold mineralisation both in the USA and South Africa
is more relevant than ever."
Additional Information
Modelling of data from historic
third-party exploration and mining activities at the Barite Hill
Main Pit mine plus recent exploration data generated by the Company
indicates that the gold mineralisation continues from the pit along
strike and down plunge onto the Jennings-Pioneer Project area (see
Figure 1). Historic data includes over 12,000 blast hole gold
assays, 2,239 exploration drill hole gold
assays from 118 drill hole collars, 442 trench gold assays from 18
surface trenches and numerous United States Geologic Survey reports
(see Figure 2). The models also incorporate recent Lexington Gold
exploration data including from an air-borne geophysical survey,
multi-element assays from a soil grid and field mapping. Such
data has been utilised to create an explicit
geologic model and an implicit grade shell model, which have
facilitated target generation for this latest drill programme. The
drill programme is designed to test the three mineralisation zones
indicated by the models and to expand our geologic knowledge of the
area to the northeast and down plunge of the Barite Hill Main
Pit.
Figure 1: Geologic model and
grade shell ore zones with the Spring 2024 planned exploration
drill holes.
Figure 2: Example of gold assay
data from historic third party blast holes, trenches and
exploration drilling used to generate implicit modelled grade
shells.
Competent Person's Statement
The information contained in this
announcement that relates to exploration activities is based upon
information compiled by Edward Nealon, Chairman of Lexington Gold.
Mr Nealon is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy (AusIMM) and has sufficient experience which is relevant
to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under
consideration and to the activity being undertaken to qualify as a
Competent Person as defined in the December 2012 edition of the
"Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral
Resources and Ore Reserves" (JORC Code). Mr Nealon consents to the
inclusion in this announcement of the matters based upon the
information in the form and context in which it appears.
For
further information, please contact:
Lexington Gold Ltd
Bernard Olivier (Chief Executive
Officer)
Edward Nealon (Chairman)
Mike Allardice (Group Company
Secretary)
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www.lexingtongold.co.uk
via Yellow
Jersey
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Strand Hanson Limited (Nominated Adviser)
Matthew Chandler / James Bellman /
Abigail Wennington
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www.strandhanson.co.uk
T: +44 207
409 3494
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WH
Ireland Limited (Joint Broker)
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www.whirelandplc.com
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Katy Mitchell
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T: +44 207
220 1666
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Peterhouse Capital Limited (Joint Broker)
Duncan Vasey / Lucy Williams
(Broking)
Eran Zucker (Corporate
Finance)
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www.peterhousecap.com
T: +44 207
469 0930
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Yellow Jersey PR Limited (Financial Public
Relations)
Charles Goodwin / Annabelle Wills /
Soraya Jackson
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www.yellowjerseypr.com
T: +44
7747 788 221
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The information contained within this announcement is deemed
by the Company to constitute inside information as stipulated under
the Market Abuse Regulation (EU) No. 596/2014 as it forms part of
United Kingdom domestic law by virtue of the European Union
(Withdrawal) Act 2018, as amended by virtue of the Market Abuse
(Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.
Note
to Editors:
Lexington Gold (AIM: LEX) is a gold
exploration and development company currently holding interests in
four diverse gold projects, covering a combined area of
approximately 1,675 acres in North and South Carolina, USA and in
five gold projects covering approximately 89,505 hectares in South
Africa.
Further information is available on
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