Crestview Exploration Inc. announced that it has identified high-priority drill targets at the Rock Creek and Divide gold-silver projects in the Tuscarora Mountains of Elko County, Nevada for the upcoming summer-fall drilling season. These high priority targets include 12 proposed drill holes at Rock Creek (P1 through P12) for an approximate total footage between 13,000-16,500, and 3 proposed drill holes at Divide (PD1 through PD3) for an approximate total of 3,500-4,500. Drill hole locations were chosen from a target-rich environment utilizing a number of geological indicators captured to date, especially mapped structural and alteration data and HSAMT interpreted sections.

The drill targets were chosen to accomplish several objectives, including: Testing areas of anomalous and economic gold and silver grades in surface sampling and historic drill results; Crossing mapped structures and structural intersections, and determining the potential of the interpreted nested caldera; Determining the potential for disseminated mineralization in the Paleozoic sequence at depth, and Sampling geophysical anomalies generated by the 2022 HSAMT survey. Based on surface alteration and sampling, shallow resistance highs (shown in red) may represent silica - sulfide mineralization. The deep low resistance zones (in green/blue) may indicate carbonate dissolution associated with sediment hosted disseminated gold mineralization.

Crestview aims to begin testing these high-priority targets in the 2023 field season with an approximate 10,000 mixed RC-Core drill program. Crestview's VP Exploration, Justin Lowe, commented, The program is designed to simultaneously test areas with extensive surface indicators, HSAMT-generated anomalies, and the potential of the underlying geological sequence to host disseminated mineralization.