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The drill program was designed to test for the presence of an east-west trending structure, which could be important in gold deposition. The program was clearly successful and obtained potential economic gold values along the structure and within the surrounding ultramafic host. While Ultramafics are typically poor hosts for gold deposits, this unexpected success indicates a potentially larger gold system nearby. The program comprised of four HQ-size diamond drill holes, totaling 702 meters.
Discovery of near-surface, gold-bearing east-west trending structures.
Significant gold mineralization occurs within ultramafics, away from a crosscutting thrust fault. Ultramafics are typically a poor host for gold deposits, yetthe company encountered potentially economic gold grades.
The drilling program has yet to test the contacts between the volcanoclastic rocks and the ultramafic rocks where the east-west structure intersects. These structural intersections, but not exclusively within, the ultramafics are essential for the formation of gold deposits in the
Bralorne Mining Camp .The technical team has delineated several important anomalous gold and base metal soil geochemistry targets where additional east-west structures occur and crosscut a property scale thrust fault.
Hole PR24-004 was the closest but did not test the lithological contact and intercepting structures targeted and still returned:
Hole Number | Core Length | Gold | ||
ft | oz/tonne | grams/tonne | ||
PR24-004 | 16.7 | 0.20 | 6.3 | |
Including | 3.6 | 0.63 | 19.5 | (Visible Gold) |
All 4 holes were contained within listwanite-altered ultramafics. When crosscutting the east-west structure, significant gold mineralization was encountered, including visible gold..
Hole PR24-001, Azimuth 24.3, dipping -45 degrees ended at 222.0 metres. At the 197-199 metre interval the hole encountered a zone of significant quartz veining and pyrite, arsenopyrite concentrations with minor galena, sphalerite, and traces of chalcopyrite mineralization. The ultramafic unit was silica flooded and represents a second east-west structure as indicated by magnetic surveys. Assay results returned 0.61 grams/tonne gold over a 2.0 metre core length but also contained highly anomalous concentrations of nickel, arsenic and zinc.
Hole PR24-002, Azimuth 320 degrees, dipping -45 degrees, ended at 198.0 metres. The hole encountered strong sulphide mineralization from 38.0-40.0 metres down-hole consisting of extensive arsenopyrite, sphalerite and traces of chalcopyrite. Assay results were0.20 oz/tonne gold over 6.56 feet (5.72 grams/tonne gold over 2.0 metres)including 0.39 oz/tonne gold over 3.61 feet(11.1 grams/tonne over 1.0 metres) from 39.0-40.0 metres.
Hole PR24-003,Azimuth 243 degrees, dipping -65 degrees, ended at 80.0 metres.The purpose of this hole was to intercept the east-west structure at depth, thereby providing an apparent dip. Strong sulphide mineralization was again intercepted from 58-60 metre interval within the silica flooded ultramafics. Assay results were mixed with gold values of 1.63 g/tonne gold over 1.0 metres with 0.15% Ni and > 0.5% As.
Hole PR24-004, Azimuth 275 degrees, dipping -45 degrees, ended at 200.9 metres and was designed totest the structural intersection of the newly recognized, brittle-ductile steeply dipping south, east-west trending structure and the north-east striking, moderate, north-west dipping structural thrust fault at the contact between ultramafic and volcanoclastic units. This typeof structural and lithological setting is one of the keys to the formation of the gold deposits in the
Figures 1 and 2 below shows assay results from the 103.0-108.1 metre (5.1 metres or 16.73 feet) interval. The true width is not known at this time.
Figure # 1 Cross-Section of Drill Hole PR24-004
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Figure 2. Map View of Drill Holes Showing Best Intercepts in hole PR24-004.
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Location
The PeerlessProperty is situated in the historic
Figure 3. Property Location.
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Quality Control
Diamond drill, HQ sized core was logged and evaluated near the property and samples designated for collection were selected by company geologists. HQ drill core was split with one-half of the core delivered by company geologists for analysis and the remaining kept for future studies. All drill core samples were submitted to
As well, code 1A1 gold fire analysis was also completed. This analysis entails a sample size of 5 to 50 grams can be used, but the routine size is 30 g for rock pulps, soils or sediments (exploration samples). The sample is mixed with fire assay fluxes (borax, soda ash, silica, litharge) and with Ag added as a collector and the mixture is placed in a fire clay crucible. The mixture is then preheated at 850°C, intermediate at 950°C and finished at 1060°C with the entire fusion process lasting 60 minutes. The crucibles are then removed from the assay furnace and the molten slag (lighter material) is carefully poured from the crucible into a mould, leaving a lead button at the base of the mould. The lead button is then placed in a preheated cupel which absorbs the lead when cupelled at 950°C to recover the Ag (doré bead) + Au.
Select samples were also resubmitted for additional gold analysis using the 1A4 and 1A3 procedures. 1A3 A representative 500g split (1,000g for 1A4-1000) is sieved at 100 mesh (149 micron) with fire assays performed on the entire +100 mesh and 2 splits on the -100 mesh fraction. The total amount of sample and the +100 mesh and -100 mesh fraction is weighed for assay reconciliation. 1A4 procedure consists of a 50-gram sample of rock pulps mixed with fire assay fluxes (borax, soda ash, silica, litharge) and with Ag added as a collector, and the mixture is placed in a fire clay crucible. The mixture is then preheated at 850°C, intermediate at 950°C and finished at 1060°C with the entire fusion process lasting 60 minutes. The crucibles are then removed from the assay furnace, and the molten slag (lighter material) is carefully poured from the crucible into a mould, leaving a lead button at the base of the mould. The lead button is then placed in a preheated cupel, which absorbs the lead when cupelled at 950°C to recover the Ag (doré bead) + Au. Au is separated from the Ag in the doré bead by parting with nitric acid. The resulting gold flake is annealed using a torch. The gold flake remaining is weighed gravimetrically on a microbalance.
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The Company also announces it has closed its previously announced private placement. The Company issued 1,237,500 units(the “Units”) of securities at a price of
The securities issued are subject to a four-month hold period.
Proceeds of the private placement will be usedfor working capital.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
“Harold Forzley”
CEO
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