Tocvan Ventures Corp. announced first pass reconnaissance results from its Pilar Gold-Silver Expansion Area in Sonora, Mexico. The area includes highly prospective zones that have seen limited exploration t date, recent placer mining in conjunction with historic mine workings, suggests untested gold and silver potential.

Tocvan geologists have already completed initial field reconnaissance t evaluate new target areas, the results have returned high-grade gold and silver values associated with intense hydrothermal altered volcanic rocks on the newly acquired expansion area, highlighting new prospects for further evaluation. Only twenty-three samples were collected during the first pass reconnaissance, already discovering new target areas, including 5.6 g/t Au and 106 g/t Ag in a sample taken 4.5-kilometers from the Pilar Main Zone. The rock grab sample was the first taken from a large hydrothermal alteration zone hosted in andesitic rocks similar t those seen at Pilar.

The extent of alteration in the area of the sample spans for over 3.3-kilometers of strike and over a 1.5-kilometer width as defined by satellite ASTER data. The Pilar Gold-Silver property has recently returned some of the regions best drill results. Coupled with encouraging gold and silver recovery results from metallurgical test work, Pilar is primed t be a potential near-term producer.

Pilar is interpreted as a structurally controlled low-sulphidation epithermal system hosted in andesite rocks. Three primary zones of mineralization have been identified in the north-west part of the property from historic surface work and drilling and are referred t as the Main Zone, North Hill and 4-T. The Main Zone and 4-T trends are open t the southeast and new parallel zones have been recently discovered. Structural features and zones of mineralization within the structures follow an overall NW-SE trend of mineralization.

Mineralization extends along a 1.2-km trend, only half of that trend has been drill tested s far. T date, over 23,000 m of drilling has been completed. 2022 Phase III Diamond Drilling Highlights include (all lengths are drilled thicknesses): 116.9m @ 1.2 g/t Au, including 10.2m @ 12 g/t Au and 23 g/t Ag.

108.9m @ 0.8 g/t Au, including 9.4m @ 7.6 g/t Au and 5 g/t Ag. 63.4m @ 0.6 g/t Au and 11 g/t Ag, including 29.9m @ 0.9 g/t Au and 18 g/t Ag. 2021 Phase II RC Drilling Highlights include (all lengths are drilled thicknesses): 39.7m @ 1.0 g/t Au, including 1.5m @ 14.6 g/t Au.

47.7m @ 0.7 g/t Au including 3m @ 5.6 g/t Au and 22 g/t Ag. 29m @ 0.7 g/t Au. 35.1m @ 0.7 g/t Au.

2020 Phase I RC Drilling Highlights include (all lengths are drilled thicknesses): 94.6m @ 1.6 g/t Au, including 9.2m @ 10.8 g/t Au and 38 g/t Ag; 41.2m @ 1.1 g/t Au, including 3.1m @ 6.0 g/t Au and 12 g/t Ag; 24.4m @ 2.5 g/t Au and 73 g/t Ag, including 1.5m @ 33.4 g/t Au and 1,090 g/t Ag 15,000m of Historic Core & RC drilling. Highlights include: 61.0m @ 0.8 g/t Au. 16.5m @ 53.5 g/t Au and 53 g/t Ag.

13.0m @ 9.6 g/t Au. 9.0m @ 10.2 g/t Au and 46 g/t Ag.