Arizona Gold and Silver Vice President of Exploration Greg Hahn spoke with Steve Darling from Proactive to announce a major milestone at the company’s Philadelphia Project in Arizona, reporting the highest gold grades to date from core drilling on the property. The standout result came from drill hole PC25-136, which intersected 4.91 metres grading 9.20 grams per tonne (gpt) gold, highlighting a robust zone of epithermal quartz and calcite-bearing vein breccia within rhyolitic volcanic rocks.

Hahn explained that this new high-grade zone, located in the Rising Fawn area, had previously seen limited exploration and lacked the drilling required for a formal resource estimate. The mineralized interval is surrounded by lower-grade stockwork, indicating a broader halo of gold-bearing material.

PC25-136 is the first of six drill holes recently completed to test extensions of earlier high-grade intercepts, targeting both down-dip and along-strike mineralization. Hahn noted that the presence of abundant yellow and green quartz in this zone is geologically significant and comparable to mineralization seen in the historic Oatman gold district, suggesting strong potential for further high-grade discoveries.

Importantly, this intercept appears to be relatively shallow in the vein system, enhancing the prospectivity as drilling continues to deeper levels. Ongoing drilling at the Philadelphia Project is focused on following up these new results by targeting deeper extensions of the Rising Fawn zone, with the goal of expanding the mineralized envelope and advancing toward a resource definition.