Resource Capital Gold Corp. Files 43-101 Technical Report on Corcoran Canyon Joint Venture in Nevada

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• Exploration work to expand and upgrade historic resource to continue
• Joint venture will move forward towards feasibility and production

Resource Capital Gold Corp. (TSX VENTURE: RCG) (“RCG” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that, further to its announcement of June 16, 2016, it has filed a Technical Report on Form NI 43-101 (“Report”) on the highly prospective Corcoran Canyon Joint Venture (the “Project”). The Company plans to continue to advance the project toward production while continuing to explore on the Project area in this historically prolific region. The Project covers a total area of 1,959 hectares following the recently announced staking of 226 new claims.
The Report describes the previous drilling of a total of 17,895 meters in 123 holes, the bulk of which was performed by Echo Bay Mines. The Report includes a historic block model estimate based on the historic drilling data and commissioned by project vendor Centennial Minerals, which calculates a historic resource as follows, using a cutoff grade of 68.6 g/t Ag without grade capping:⁽¹⁾

The Report recommends a two-phase program moving forward, with phase one consisting of 2,900 meters of drilling, including 1,480 meters of verification drilling and 1,420 meters of in-fill and step-out drilling. The verification drilling is expected to bring most, if not all, of the historic diamond drill data into compliance with 43-101 standards. The in-fill and step-out drilling is expected to convert a number of the resource ounces into higher-quality classifications and at the same time expand the total resources. Phase one would conclude with the completion of a new 43-101 compliant resource estimate and Technical Report based on the additional drilling. A cost estimate for phase one is US$918,000.
Phase two, as recommended by the Report, will consist of 800 meters of PQ diamond drilling in 4 to 6 holes to provide sufficient material for the metallurgical test work needed to commence the pre-feasibility study. A cost of US$511,000 is estimated for Phase two with some of the work potentially overlapping the time estimated for drilling in phase one. It is expected that both phases could be completed within a period of 8 to 10 months from commencement. Permitting activity for the work recommended by the Report has already begun.
RCG’s Chairman and CEO George Young commented, “The Corcoran Canyon Joint Venture represents an excellent opportunity for RCG as we continue to grow the Company. We anticipate that both the verification drilling and new drilling programs will add considerable value as we begin to test new areas and additional claims. Our plan is to move the Project swiftly towards completion of the pre-feasibility study. RCG is also continuing to assemble a portfolio of development stage and previously producing precious metals projects in North America with plans to bring them into production.”
About Corcoran Canyon
The Corcoran Canyon Joint Venture Project has an advanced stage silver-gold property that lies in a prolific belt containing current and past producing silver and gold deposits. Historic production has been in excess of 175M oz silver and 12M oz gold. The project is located approximately 80 km northeast of Tonopah in central Nevada. It consists of 253 unpatented mineral claims covering 1,959 hectares, consisting of 27 existing claims covering 219 ha and 226 new claims covering 1,740 hectares recently staked by RCG.
The Project was discovered in the 1980s, and exploration work on-site has included extensive drilling, geologic mapping, rock and soil geochemistry, and geophysics. Previous exploration work outlined a historic silver/gold resource and four exploration targets worthy of additional exploration. The Project lies in an extensive belt of prolific mineral deposits, including: Round Mountain (Kinross, 1.47M oz Au proven and probable reserves, 683K oz Au measured and inferred resources, 233K oz Au inferred resources, 198K oz Au produced in 2015; over 10M oz Au produced) Northumberland (Newmont, 2.3M oz Au indicated resources, 777K oz Au inferred resources); Manhattan; and the historic district of Tonopah, which produced 175M ounces Ag and 1.5M ounces Au. Two other historic districts near the Project, Jefferson and Belmont, produced silver.
Corcoran Canyon shows distinct similarities to many deposits in this mineral trend: low-sulfidation epithermal mineralization related to caldera margin fault zones in veins, stockworks, and breccias hosted in hydrothermally altered felsic volcanic rocks of Oligocene age. The Project lies 20 km east of and on the same caldera margin related to Round Mountain and is well situated within a belt of numerous rich silver-gold deposits, with which it shares many similarities. Of particular note is the preponderance of large, high-grade, low sulfidation epithermal deposits in Oligocene-age felsic volcanic host rocks on or near major caldera margins in this belt, including Corcoran Canyon.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical data contained in this news release was reviewed and prepared under the supervision of David S. Smith, MS, MBA, CPG, who is a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Resource Capital Gold Corp.
George S. Young Chairman and CEO
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⁽¹⁾ This historic resource estimate is based on historic drill data that has not been upgraded to NI 43-101 standards; a qualified person has not done sufficient work to classify it as a current mineral resource, and Resource Capital Gold Corp. is not treating it as a current mineral resource.