FRONTLINE GOLD CORPORATION The soil sampling survey consisted of seven east-northeast-west-southwest lines over a distance of 2.8 km, with lines ranging in length from 75 to 150 meters and sample station spacing at 12.5 m. Either a humus sample or B horizon / clay sample were collected at each station. The latter were frequently collected in frost boils. The best results were obtained from frost boils which turned up mineralized rock (sampled in 2021, see Project Background below). Humus samples returned strongly anomalous results adjacent to these frost boils but also in low, marshy ground.
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The highest-value soil anomalies were obtained along the 1.1 km high-grade trend identified in 2021, but weaker anomalies were obtained to the north and south, suggesting that the trend continues (to possibly 2.8 km long and still open along strike). Depth of overburden may play a role in the weaker values on some lines, though mineralization may also not be as intense in these locations. Anomalies were frequently obtained at multiple stations on individual lines, suggesting wide mineralized zones or parallel horizons. See Figure 1 for the locations of soil lines relative to the 2021 Metallic Trend and summarized results. Individual thematic maps for each element of interest will be available shortly at www.frontlinegold.com/epworth and www.emeraldgeologicalservices.com/maps.
Final results for rock-grab samples collected during the program are pending and will be reported once received.
The Metallic Trend follows the contact zone between Upper Odjick Formation red shales and Lower Rocknest Formation dolomites, often forming a valley which can be up to 100 meters wide. Mineralization occurs within grey (reduced) Rocknest dolomite flanked by red (oxidized) dolomite. Redox boundaries are thought to be a crucial control on mineralization. Data collected during the 2022 program suggest that there are at least two parallel reduced, mineralized horizons along the Trend. Multi-station geochemical anomalies appear to support this. Where exposed on surface, the mineralized horizons are up to 12 meters wide and host sulphide-rich quartz-carbonate veins up to 0.4 meters wide. Alternatively, these 'parallel horizons' may be explained by repetition of a single horizon by folding or structural duplication by thrust faulting. Larger-scale folding and / or thrusting likely explains the parallel trends that exist to the west and east of the Metallic Trend (e.g. the Payback Trend, see Project Background below). Future diamond drilling programs should help establish the geometries of these zones and their vertical extent.
Project Background:
61.2% Cu & 5600 gpt Ag (Payback Showings)
19.22% Zn with 810 gpt Ag, 3% Cu & 1.86 gpt Au (Metallic Showing)
The Metallic trend was identified in 2021 while investigating the historical Metallic Showing (formerly named 'Dead Showing') in the northern part of the property, consisting of dolomite with sulphide-rich quartz-carbonate veining in outcrop. Mineralized angular float boulders, subcrop (felsenmeer, frost boil rings) and outcrop were found to extend much further to the south than previously identified, along a well-defined north-northwest-south-southeast-trending corridor (see Figure 2).
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