Reunion Gold Announces Discovery of Significant Gold Mineralization in Shear Zones and Launches Drilling Program at Oko West Project in Guyana

Trench #9 intersects 30 m at 2.24 g/t (including 8 m at 5.28 g/t) and 50 m at 2.04 g/t (including 16 m at 4.23 g/t)

LONGUEUIL, Quebec, Dec. 09, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reunion Gold Corporation (TSX-V: RGD) ("Reunion" or the "Company") is pleased to announce the discovery of significant gold mineralization in shear zones and the commencement of a 1,000-meter diamond drilling program at its Oko West Project in Guyana (Figure 1).

Highlights

• The trenching program resumed in September 2020 after a work suspension due to COVID-19.
• To date, Reunion has completed 19 trenches for a total length of 1,990 meters; 904 channel samples have been taken.
• Significant gold assay results from channel samples include 30 meters at 2.24 g/t (including 8 meters at 5.28 g/t) and 50 meters at 2.04 g/t (including 16 meters at 4.23 g/t) at trench OKWT20-009, in a newly discovered shear zone.
  

Soil sampling in Q1 of 2020 defined a 2 km-long anomaly coincident with major north-south striking shear zones identified from geophysical data acquired in 2019. The Company believes that this gold-in-soil anomaly and trenching results is related to the southern extension of one or more mineralized structures intersected in drilling by G2 Goldfields immediately north of the Oko West permits boundary (Figure 2).

Table 1 reports relevant channel sampling assay results for all trenches. The following 11 trenches returned sampling intervals with strong gold mineralization (Figure 3), particularly at trench OKWT20-009:

Trench ID	From (m)	To (m)	Length (m)	Au (g/t)
OKWT20-001	6	10	4.00	1.85
OKWT20-002	1	5	5.00	3.42
OKWT20-003	0	24	24.00	0.98
OKWT20-004	116	128	12.00	2.00
OKWT20-008	8	14	6.00	1.83
OKWT20-009	0	10	10.00	3.77
	20	50	30.00	2.24
	58	78	20.00	0.85
	82	132	50.00	2.04
OKWT20-013	136	148	12.00	0.80
OKWT20-015	1,4	3,4	2.00	5.97
OKWT20-016	22	26	4.00	2.30
OKWT20-017	24	30	6.00	3.58
OKWT20-018	102	112	10.00	0.59
	126	140	14.00	2.76

This trenching program confirms up to 2 km-long north-south mineralized shear zones straddling the contacts of volcano-sedimentary rocks and granitoids (Figures 2 and 3). The tectonic interaction between these rocks created intense shearing and allowed the introduction of gold mineralization in open spaces, characterized by carbonaceous and sericitic alteration accompanying quartz veining.