Radius Gold Acquires Bald Peak Property Located on the Nevada/California Border

Radius Gold (TSXV:RDU) is pleased to announce the acquisition of the Bald Peak gold property from Ely Gold & Minerals Inc. (TSX VENTURE:ELY) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Nevada Select Royalty Inc. (“Nevada Select”), adding to Radius’s portfolio of epithermal gold prospects in the Aurora gold camp, Nevada.
As quoted in the press release:

The Bald Peak Property consists of 38 unpatented mining claims in Mineral County, Nevada and one mineral prospecting licence in Mono County, California. The Property overlies a 6 km long, NE-trending zone of gold-bearing quartz-chalcedony veins, stockworks and hot spring silica sinters that has seen minimal historical exploration work.
Bald Peak Mountain is a rhyolite dome complex located 7 km WNW of the historic Aurora Gold mine that was recently acquired by Klondex Mines Inc. The high level gold bearing veins/stockworks and sinters discovered on the Property occur in a rhyolitic sedimentary unit intermittently exposed beneath more recent volcanic flows along a NE-trending depression, potentially a graben structure. Previous explorers in the area collected rock chip samples along this trend. Historical exploration documentation shows that within the Property boundaries, 201 rock chip samples from exposed outcrops returned assay values ranging from trace to 7 g/t Au, with 40 samples returning assay values above 1 g/t Au. Rock chip samples also contain highly anomalous levels of Hg, Sb, and As, elements typical of shallowly-exposed epithermal systems. The historical geochemical data suggest that these outcrops may represent the upper portions of a productive hydrothermal system.

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