Trailbreaker Resources Ltd. announced drill results from the recent 2,039-m first-pass diamond drill program at the Eakin Creek gold property in south-central British Columbia. Drilling returned gold-bearing intervals in all eleven drillholes, and successfully identified a bedrock source of the surface geochemical anomalies. Additional drilling is recommended in order to expand the known zones of mineralization.

The Eakin Creek property is located 100 kilometres north of Kamloops, BC and can be accessed via Highway #24 and by well-maintained forest service roads. The claims cover 1,610 hectares of prospective ground that drains into placer gold-bearing Eakin Creek. The target was initially acquired due to: the historic ?G Occurrence?

located on the highway in one of the few exposed outcroppings on the property; a field of gold-bearing boulder samples (inferred to be local), and a grouping of some of the highest gold-in-till values in BC from regional till sampling. During 2022, Trailbreaker completed a 10.75 line-kilometre Induced Polarization survey, a 302-sample Mobile Metal Ion soil survey, and a prospecting program. A 1,000 x 600-metre area was defined as having a gold-silver-copper-antimony (Au-Ag-Cu-Sb) soil anomaly coincident with chargeability and resistivity anomalies.

Also, widespread gold mineralization in bedrock and float samples was identified. The 2023 drill program was designed to comprehensively test this area. Drilling has successfully defined a widespread system of gold mineralization at the Eakin Creek property.

Intervals returning anomalous gold values were encountered in all eleven drillholes. Gold mineralization in drill core is associated with zones of silicified intermediate intrusive rocks hosting disseminated pyrite and quartz-carbonate-chlorite veins containing pyrite ± magnetite. Gold mineralization is strongly correlated with silver (Ag) and tellurium (Te).

This style of mineralization is similar to that observed within ?float? material at surface. It is therefore interpreted that drilling has encountered the bedrock sourc e of the surface geochemical anomaly.

Gold mineralization was also found to be structurally associated, particularly with faulting. Zones of faulting, brittle deformation, and brecciation were found to be spatially associated with increased gold grades.