Liberty Gold Corp. (TSX:LGD) is pleased to announce additional drill results from its Carlin-style Black Pine Property in southern Idaho, USA.  Reverse Circulation drilling at Black Pine continues to return thick, high-grade intervals of Carlin-style oxide gold mineralization. New results reflect step-out drilling on all sides of the Discovery 2 Zone that has increased the size of the zone to 600 metres in a northeast-southwest direction, merging with the Discovery 1 Zone, and up to 400 m in a northwest-southeast direction. Exploratory holes were also drilled to the south, east and west of the Discovery 1 and 2 Zones. 

Based on the consistency of the high-grade results in the initial focus area, the 2020 Black Pine exploration program has been increased to 45,000 m of RC and Core drilling using up to three drills.  The Company is fully funded and may further accelerate the exploration program going forward.

Fourteen of the 17 RC drill holes reported below in the highlight table contain a significant interval of oxide gold mineralization above 1 gram per tonne gold (“g/t Au”).

DISCOVERY 2 ZONE DRILL HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE¹:

¹A number of mineralized intervals were omitted from this table for brevity. Please refer to the full table at the link below for complete results. Grams per Tonne Gold abbreviated as “g/t Au”.

For a cross section of drill collars and traces for the current release, please click here: 

https://libertygold.ca/images/news/2020/january/BlackPine_NR01072020CS.pdf

For a long section of drill collars and traces for the current release, please click here: 

https://libertygold.ca/images/news/2020/january/BlackPine_NR01072020LS.pdf

For a map of drill collars and traces for the current release, please click here: 

https://libertygold.ca/images/news/2020/january/BlackPine_NR01072020Map.pdf

For a complete table of drill results from all Liberty Gold drill holes at Black Pine, please click here: 

https://libertygold.ca/images/news/2020/january/BP_Intercepts01072020.pdf

Click here for a list of the top 500 unmined gold intercepts at Black Pine:

https://libertygold.ca/images/news/2020/january/BlackPine_NR01072020HH.pdf

In addition to drilling on the Discovery Zones, drilling targeted areas to the west, south and east.  Drill holes encountered oxide gold which warrants further follow-up drilling for discovery of additional high-grade corridors similar to the Discovery Zones.  In particular, LBP100 and LBP102 extend gold mineralization up to 200 m to the west of the Discovery 1 Zone, and LBP084 extends mineralization 150 m to the south of the main Discovery 2 NE-SW corridor toward the historic B Pit, with an average historical mined grade of 1.38 g/t Au.

Key Points

• The Discovery 2 Zone continues to deliver thick, high-grade oxide gold intercepts in drill holes. 
• Most highlight intercepts to date are oxide. Weighted average cyanide solubility for the primary high-grade interval in LBP088 is 92%, for LBP090, 86%, and for LBP095, 85%.      
• The new drill results highlight the NE – SW structural control on the Discovery 2 Zone, with LBP088, LBP085, LBP089 and LBP091 and LBP095 extending mineralization to the west of previous drilling and merging with the Discovery 1 Zone.
• LBP081, LBP084 and LBP103 expand mineralization to the south of the Discovery 2 structural corridor corridor by up to 200 m.  This area is still sparsely drilled, with more drilling planned in 2020.
• LBP100 and LBP102 expand mineralization up to 200 m to the west of the Discovery 1 Zone.
• 8 of the top 10 unmined intercepts on the Black Pine Property have been drilled by Liberty Gold. 
• Drilling is completed for 2019, with a total of 20,900 m drilled in 87 RC and 6 core holes.  Core drilling results are pending and drilling is anticipated to commence in mid-March.
• Approximately 60% of the 1 square kilometer (“km²”) Focus Area has been drill tested to date, out of a gold system estimated to span 12 km².

“Our 2019 drill program at Black Pine was an unqualified success by any measure,” stated Cal Everett, President and CEO of Liberty Gold.  “We are now updating the geological model and planning a program for 2020 that is over double the size of 2019’s.  With mineralization in the Discovery 2 Zone still open to the south, the Discovery 1 Zone open to the northwest and southeast, and a host of other targets to test, we look forward to continued success and the release of a resource estimate in 2020.”

Core drilling at Black Pine was recently completed.  The large-diameter core program obtained material to fulfill several goals, including: Phase 1 metallurgical column testing; specific gravity measurements; gold deportment studies; validation of RC drilling data; and collection of structural, stratigraphic and alteration information.  Assays are pending from six diamond core holes.

RC drilling, with 2 drill rigs in a 1 km² Focus Area between the historic A Pit, B Pit and A Basin target, was recently completed as well. Weather permitting, drilling will resume at Black Pine in mid-March.  The 2020 drill program will continue to build on the discovery in the Focus Area and also test new targets.

About Black Pine

Black Pine is located in the northern Great Basin, immediately adjacent to the Utah/Idaho border. It is a Carlin-style gold system, similar in many ways to the prolific deposits located along Nevada’s Carlin trend.  Like Newmont’s Long Canyon deposit, Black Pine represents a growing number of Carlin-style gold systems located off the main Carlin and Cortez trends in underexplored parts of the Great Basin.  The historic Black Pine Mine operated from 1992 to 1997, during a period of historically low gold prices, with 435,000 ounces of gold produced from five composite, shallow pits, at an average grade of 0.63 g/t Au and average recovery of approximately 65%. 

A virtual site tour and 3D model of Black Pine property, including details about the geology and mineralization, is available on the homepage of the Company’s website, www.libertygold.ca.

A Technical Report is also available on the Company website: https://libertygold.ca/images/pdf/BlackPine_NI43-101_2018.pdf

Moira Smith, Ph.D., P.Geo., Vice-President Exploration and Geoscience, Liberty Gold, is the Company’s designated Qualified Person for this news release within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43-101”) and has reviewed and validated that the information contained in the release is accurate. Drill composites were calculated using a cut-off of 0.20 g/t. Drill intersections are reported as drilled thicknesses. True widths of the mineralized intervals vary between 30 and 100% of the reported lengths due to varying drill hole orientations, but are typically in the range of 60 to 80% of true width. Drill samples were assayed by ALS Limited in Reno, Nevada for gold by Fire Assay of a 30 gram (1 assay ton) charge with an AA finish, or if over 5.0 g/t were re-assayed and completed with a gravimetric finish. For these samples, the gravimetric data were utilized in calculating gold intersections. For any samples assaying over 0.200 ppm an additional cyanide leach analysis is done where the sample is treated with a 0.25% NaCN solution and rolled for an hour. An aliquot of the final leach solution is then centrifuged and analyzed by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy.  QA/QC for all drill samples consists of the insertion and continual monitoring of numerous standards and blanks into the sample stream, and the collection of duplicate samples at random intervals within each batch. Selected holes are also analyzed for a 51 multi-element geochemical suite by ICP-MS. ALS Geochemistry-Reno is ISO 17025:2005 Accredited, with the Elko prep lab listed on the scope of accreditation.

ABOUT LIBERTY GOLD

Liberty Gold is focused on exploring the Great Basin of the United States, home to large-scale gold projects that are ideal for open-pit mining.  This region is one of the most prolific gold-producing regions in the world and stretches across Nevada and into Idaho and Utah.  We know the Great Basin and are driven to discover and advance big gold deposits that can be mined profitably in open-pit scenarios.  Our flagship projects are Black Pine in Idaho and Goldstrike in Utah, both past- producing open-pit mines, where previous operators only scratched the surface.