VANCOUVER, BC, May 29, 2024
/PRNewswire/ - GoldMining Inc. (the "Company" or
"GoldMining") (TSX: GOLD) (NYSE American: GLDG) is pleased
to announce that it has recently commenced drilling at its 100%
owned São Jorge Gold Project ("São Jorge" or the
"Project"), a large-scale (45,997 hectare) project located
within the prolific Tapajos Gold District in Pará State,
Brazil.
Highlights:
- The drilling program (the "Program") at the Project
consists of approximately 1,000 metres (m) of proposed diamond core
drilling and 3,000 m of power auger
drilling.
- The Program has the following objectives:
- Confirmatory drilling within and near the margins of the
existing São Jorge gold deposit* (the "Deposit"), to
test a reinterpretation of the structural controls on high-grade
mineralization; and
- Testing targets for potential new discovery along the
broader multi-kilometre NW-SE striking high strain corridor
that hosts the Deposit.
- The Program includes a mobile power auger drill rig to test for
bedrock sources of surficial soil geochemical anomalies and to
define targets for deeper core drilling.
- Auger drilling will focus on the broad surficial soil
geochemical footprint, expanded over the past 12 months, which
comprises a large 12 km x 7 km area of elevated gold ± copper
± molybdenum.
- Auger drilling is designed to penetrate through the soil
profile into the underlying saprolite zone, and vector into
potential bedrock hosted mineralization targets.
- São Jorge is located in the Tapajos Gold District, which hosts
multiple gold projects including producing mines, development
projects and exploration properties over approximately 200 km along
the Tocantinzinho - São Jorge Trend
(see Figure 1).
* Please see the
technical report titled "São Jorge Gold Project, Pará State,
Brazil: Independent Technical Report on Mineral Resources",
prepared for the Company and dated effective May 31, 2021, for
details on the São Jorge deposit mineral resource estimate, which
is available under the Company's profile at
www.sedarplus.ca.
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Tim Smith, Vice President of
Exploration of GoldMining, commented: "We are excited to
commence the first drilling program at the São Jorge Project in
more than ten years. We expect the Program will build upon our
recent exploration work that has expanded a regional scale gold and
copper footprint. The Program aims to confirm a new geological
model for the São Jorge deposit, which may help to optimize and
improve confidence in our mineral resource estimate. The proposed
drilling also tests a number of new target areas defined from our
extensive geochemical and geophysical datasets. The mobile
mechanized auger drill program is designed to expedite target
definition by allowing us to rapidly test beneath broad high-tenor
gold ± copper soil anomalies surrounding the São Jorge deposit,
enabling us to vector into bedrock targets for follow-up core
drilling. Overall, we're optimistic about the potential for new
discoveries at São Jorge given it remains currently relatively
underexplored, yet boasts indications of a significant mineral
system located within a prolific gold mining district."
Tapajos Gold District
São Jorge sits within the active and rapidly developing Tapajos
Gold District. This region is estimated to have produced over 20
million ounces of gold from artisanal mining of surface deposits,
according to the Brazil National Mining Agency. The paved
Cuiabá-Santarém Highway (Hwy BR-163) has reduced hurdles for more
traditional bedrock mine development in the region, including
Serabi Gold Plc.'s producing high-grade underground Palito Mine and
G Mining Ventures Corp.'s ("G Mining") Tocantinzinho open
pit mine which is nearing completion of construction and remains on
track for commercial production in H2-2024 (see G Mining news
release May 27, 2024).
São Jorge straddles Hwy BR-163 which includes a 138 kV powerline
corridor tied into the district electrical grid that was recently
constructed for Tocantinzinho. Exploration activities at São Jorge
are operated from a permanent camp located adjacent to the existing
Deposit and just 3 km from the highway.
Update on Activities
The Company has commenced the Program with the goal of
confirming a new structural interpretation which may help to
optimize modelling of the mineral resource. Structural analysis of
historic mapping and oriented core from drilling by previous
operators, has identified two principal vein/fracture orientations,
the intersection of which produces a steeply plunging high-grade
'shoot' geometry. Infill confirmatory oriented core drilling is
underway within the Deposit and near its margins to test this
interpretation which could provide evidence for a better
understanding of the controls on high-grade mineralization and
optimization of the resource modelling methodology.
The Company also plans to conduct core drilling along the broad
northwest-southeast striking São Jorge high-strain corridor (see
Figure 2), which has previously been drill tested over a strike
length of approximately 1.4 km in the area of the currently defined
Deposit, but which remains open and largely untested along
strike.
The São Jorge high-strain corridor occurs within a broader 12 km
x 7 km surface geochemical footprint defined by elevated gold ±
copper ± molybdenum, and the Company is conducting systematic
follow-up exploration activities over several high priority target
areas (see Figure 2), including ongoing soil sampling and
geological mapping, with a view to define and prioritize new
bedrock diamond core drilling targets. A mobile power auger drill
rig has recently been added to the Program to expedite the testing
of several high-tenor surficial geochemical targets. Auger drilling
can reach depths of around 10 - 20 metres vertical to effectively
penetrate through the colluvial/alluvial soil profile and into the
underlying saprolite zone. This efficient method of shallow
geochemical drilling can cover large areas rapidly and cost
effectively, and may ultimately allow the Company's exploration
team to vector into new potential bedrock mineralization
occurrences for follow-up diamond core drilling.
Qualified Person
Paulo Pereira, P. Geo., President
of GoldMining, has supervised the preparation of and approved the
scientific and technical information contained herein. Mr. Pereira
is a qualified person defined in National Instrument 43-101 –
Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI
43-101").
About GoldMining Inc.
The Company is a public mineral exploration company focused on
the acquisition and development of gold assets in the Americas.
Through its disciplined acquisition strategy, the Company now
controls a diversified portfolio of resource-stage gold and
gold-copper projects in Canada,
U.S.A., Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. The Company also owns approximately 21.5
million shares of Gold Royalty Corp. (NYSE American: GROY), 9.9
million shares of U.S. GoldMining Inc. (Nasdaq: USGO), and 26.7
million shares of NevGold Corp. (TSXV: NAU). See www.goldmining.com
for additional information.
Notice to Readers
Technical disclosure regarding São
Jorge has been prepared by the Company in accordance
with NI 43-101. NI 43-101 is a rule of the Canadian Securities
Administrators which establishes standards for all public
disclosure an issuer makes of scientific and technical information
concerning mineral projects. These standards differ from the
requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC")
and the scientific and technical information contained in this news
release may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by
domestic United States companies
subject to the SEC's reporting and disclosure requirements.
Cautionary Statement on Forward-looking Statements
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constitutes "forward-looking information" and "forward-looking
statements" within the meaning of applicable Canadian and U.S.
securities laws ("forward-looking statements"), which involve known
and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
the Company's actual results, performance and achievements to be
materially different from the results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied therein. Forward-looking statements, which are
all statements other than statements of historical fact, include,
but are not limited to, statements respecting the Company's
proposed Program, expectations regarding the Program and the
potential benefits thereof and the Company's expectations regarding
the Project. Any statements or information that express or involve
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then-current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and
forecasts about the business and the markets in which GoldMining
operates. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties, including: the inherent
risks involved in the exploration and development of mineral
properties, fluctuating metal prices, unanticipated costs and
expenses, risks related to government and environmental regulation,
social, permitting and licensing matters, any inability to complete
the Program as expected, the Company's plans with respect to São
Jorge may change as a result of further planning or otherwise,
and uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of
financing needed in the future. These risks, as well as others,
including those set forth in GoldMiningꞌs Annual Information Form
for the year ended November 30, 2023,
and other filings with Canadian securities regulators and the SEC,
could cause actual results and events to vary significantly.
Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements. There can be no assurance that
forward-looking statements, or the material factors or assumptions
used to develop such forward-looking statements, will prove to be
accurate. The Company does not undertake to update any
forward-looking statements, except in accordance with applicable
securities law.
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