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Harvest Gold to Commence Field Program at
Garcia Flats, South Carlin Trend Property
May 19, 2006
Harvest
Gold Corporation (HVG – TSX.V) May 19, 2006 (the “Company”) will begin a
detailed soil geochemistry survey of its Garcia Flats claims. The claims cover a
16 square kilometer (3,960 acres) area located at the southern extension of the
Carlin Trend in Elko County Nevada. This program is the first this summer and
the results of the survey will be combined, with gravity data and geophysical
survey data to identify drill targets.
Approximately 1150 soil samples are planned for the Garcia Flats claim blocks,
850 in the northwest block and 300 in the southeast. A sample spacing of 100 m
by 100 m will cover both claim blocks. All samples will be analyzed by enzyme
leach and a small subset will be analyzed by aqua regia ICPMS. The aqua regia
ICPMS subset will be compared against the enzyme leach data for purposes of
calibration to help sort out the different phases (gaseous vs. solid or aqueous)
that contain various elements, including gold. The plan calls for seventy
samples to be analyzed by aqua regia ICPMS.
Harvest
Gold Corp. (US), Vice President, Greg Hill says “This large number of soil
samples is required to develop quality drill targets at a property as large as
Garcia Flats. Ore bodies at Carlin-type mines can be as narrow as 100-200 m, and
some have maximum dimensions of only 200-400 m. A million ounces of gold, or
more, can be contained in a very small space and this systematic soil sampling
approach, combined with geophysics, will provide us with an excellent screening
process to identify the best drill targets. Soil sampling will commence
immediately.”
Garcia
Flats was acquired by the company following completion and positive results of a
regional soil geochemical survey of the area. The program was designed to
identify a new district size gold target area on the south Carlin Trend in Elko
County Nevada. It utilized broadly spaced (500 m) sample sites over geological
features generally associated, with Carlin Trend gold deposits.
The
Garcia Flats claims are situated in a structurally complex area, along a major
northwest-trending fault zone that extends towards the Bald Mountain district to
the southeast. The Roberts Mountains thrust, projects under the shallow cover
that contains anomalous soil geochemistry gold values having significant
responses in pathfinder elements including: arsenic, antimony and other metals.
The Webb/Devils Gate contact occurs to the north of the property throughout the
Pinon range where it is mineralized in many places and acts as the main ore host
at the Rain gold deposit 40 km north of the property. This contact is believed
to be present beneath the Garcia Flats claim blocks. Eocene age volcanic rocks
also exist on the property, indicating local igneous activity, around the time
of gold mineralization on the Carlin Trend.
On behalf
of the Board of Directors,
John
Roozendaal, B.Sc.
President,
Harvest Gold Corporation
For more information about Harvest Gold Corporation, please review the
company’s
website at
www.harvestgoldcorp.com or speak with a Company representative
at 1-866-816-0118 or 604-986-2020
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