Relevant Gold Commences Drilling at the Lewiston Project in the South Pass Gold Field

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / September 14, 2023 / Relevant Gold Corp. ("Relevant Gold" or the "Company") (TSXV:RGC) is pleased to announce it has commenced diamond core drilling at its 5,665 hectare Lewiston Project in the South Pass Gold Field, central Wyoming, USA. The Company plans to drill a total of 1,500 metres (m) as a phase 1 drilling program at the Heavy Hand target. Previous Relevant Gold rock chip sampling at Heavy Hand has returned surface assays up to 62.4 g/t gold out of a 500m wide zone of near vertical sub-parallel shears. This first-ever drilling program at Lewiston is designed to test the:

• Alteration and mineralization profiles between sub-parallel shear zones;
• Depth to sulfide mineralization below the oxidized zone;
• Structural architecture of shears; and
• Occurrence of shear-parallel and cross-cutting extensional quartz-sulfide veining (Figure 1).

"The Lewiston project has never been drilled before and we are very excited to be the first," said Rob Bergmann, CEO of Relevant Gold Corp. "This initial drilling program is a first step in defining the more than 10-kilometer trend of mineralized shear zones at Lewiston and aims to expand the proof of concept achieved at Golden Buffalo in 2022 to another district-scale target within the Company's portfolio."

Multiple shear zone orientations and brecciated fold hinges were identified in the Lewiston Project and demonstrated spatial associations with alteration and mineralization. Mapping within the project area outlined a regional scale anastomosing shear system with at least two distinct shear orientations:

1. A dominant system of NE-striking shear zones cross-cut the entire project area, demonstrating chlorite alteration.
2. A later or coeval, widespread set of E-W striking shear zones and altered fracture zones hosting silica-epidote-sulfide alteration.

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Heavy Hand Target

The Heavy Hand target is a previously undrilled target lying along a 2-kilometer long, 500-meter-wide corridor laced by multiple mineralized shear zones. Numerous rock-chip samples in this area have returned high-grade gold assays (ranging from below detection limit to 62.4 g/t gold) from the surface. This initial drill program is designed as a proof-of-concept program to test: A) alteration and mineralization profiles between sub-parallel shear zones; B) depth to sulfide mineralization below the oxidized zone; C) structural architecture of shears; and D) occurrence of shear-parallel and cross-cutting extensional quartz-sulfide veining. (Figure 1).