Brixton Metals Corporation
(TSX-V: BBB, OTCQB:
BBBXF) (the “
Company” or
“
Brixton”) is pleased to announce additional
results from the 2023 Exploration Program on the Hog Heaven
Project, which is currently being operated under a definitive
Earn-in Agreement with Ivanhoe Electric Inc. (see news release
dated March 2nd, 2021). Ivanhoe Electric holds the option to
acquire up to 75% interest by completing USD$40 million of project
spending and paying Brixton USD$4.5 million. Hog Heaven is an
advanced-stage, high-sulphidation, epithermal copper-silver-gold
project with historical production and copper porphyry potential
located 50 miles southwest of Kalispell, in the state of Montana,
USA.
Highlights from Ivanhoe Electric’s February 5th,
2024 News Release:
- Drilling results to date expand high-sulphidation
mineralization and provide evidence to support the existence of a
porphyry deposit at the Hog Heaven Project
- Exploration Drill Hole HHD-007 Intersects 348 Meters Containing
0.43 g/t gold, 40.48 g/t silver, 0.22% lead, and 0.12% zinc, from
141 to 489 Meters or 348m of 1.08 g/t AuEq
- Including 1m of 2,180 g/t silver, 5.16 g/t gold, 6.00% lead,
6.14% zinc and 0.63% copper from 147.8 to 148.8 or 1m of
36.94 g/t AuEq
- Hole HHD-009 returned 145m of 0.91 g/t AuEq
(0.26 g/t gold, 27.47 g/t silver, 0.20% copper)
- Including 0.95m of 24.96 g/t AuEq (5.39 g/t
gold, 524 g/t silver, 7.99% copper)
- Since June of 2023, a total of 10,905 Meters in 12
drill holes have been completed
- Results are pending for Ivanhoe Electric’s TyphoonTM
geophysical survey on the project
- Porphyry-style stockwork quartz veining observed in numerous
clast fragments entrained within a late intrusion provides
additional evidence for a porphyry system. The objective of recent
work is to search for porphyry copper mineralization at depth.
Chairman and CEO Gary R. Thompson stated:
“Exploration drilling continues to intersect long intervals of
high-sulphidation gold-silver-copper-lead-zinc mineralization at
the Hog Heaven Project. High-sulphidation epithermal mineralization
is known to be associated with and generally located above copper
porphyry type deposits. We look forward to the next batch of drill
assays and Ivanhoe Electric’s Typhoon survey results from the
ongoing program at the Hog Heaven Project.”
About the Hog Heaven Cu-Ag-Au Project –
Montana, USA
Ivanhoe Electric’s current exploration drill
program at Hog Heaven, as first reported in our October 2023 news
release, has now completed twelve drill holes totaling 10,905
meters. Exploration drilling has stepped out to the west and
southwest, where mineralization remains open. One diamond drill rig
is currently on site and will operate through the winter as weather
permits. In November 2023, Ivanhoe Electric conducted its
proprietary TyphoonTM geophysical survey (results pending) covering
an approximately 10 square kilometer area, which was designed to
cover the core of known prospectivity.
Ivanhoe Electric and Brixton entered into an
earn-in agreement in 2021. Under the earn-in agreement, Ivanhoe
Electric may earn up to a 75% interest in the Hog Heaven Project by
making cash payments totaling USD$4.5 million and incurring an
aggregate of $40 million in exploration expenditures by 2032.
Ivanhoe Electric will earn an initial 51% interest by making a
total of USD$4.5 million in cash payments and incurring $15 million
in exploration expenditures. Ivanhoe Electric may earn the
additional 24% interest in the project by incurring a further
USD$25 million in exploration expenditures.
Brixton acquired the Hog Heaven project from Pan
American Silver in 2017 and conducted data
compilation-digitization, 3D-modelling, soil geochemical survey,
geological mapping, and geophysical surveys. In 2020, Brixton
drilled seven confirmation core holes at the project. Highlights
include drill hole HH20-02 that intersected a broad 224.85m zone of
high-sulphidation mineralization yielding 78.16 g/t Ag, 0.66 g/t
Au, 0.24% Cu (75.07m-299.92m) which includes the following
sub-intervals:
- 5.48m of 445.79 g/t silver, 1.41
g/t gold, 1.50% copper
- 2.13m 0f 917.36 g/t silver, 2.00
g/t gold, 3.06% copper
- 53.49m of 165.90 g/t silver, 1.28
g/t gold, 0.55% copper
- 13.56m of 185.80 g/t silver, 2.24
g/t gold, 0.76% copper
- 1.37m of 1,750 g/t silver, 5.39 g/t
gold, 2.65% copper
Historically, previous operators drilled 722
holes (mostly shallow depths). A positive feasibility study was
completed and a mine permit was received in 1989 to construct a
mine based on the shallow oxide gold-silver mineralization;
however, development did not proceed due to low metal prices in the
1990s. Select underground workings at the West Flathead mine
reported silver grades from fumaroles and fractures that ranged
from 300 ounces per ton to 3000 ounces per ton.
The Hog Heaven copper-silver-gold Project is an
advanced-stage exploration project which historically produced
high-grade silver, gold, and copper. Between 1913 and 1975,
Anaconda Copper Mining and lessees produced 6.7Moz Ag, 3,000 oz Au,
23M lbs Pb, and 0.6M lbs Cu from 0.23Mt of direct-ship ore, grading
29 opt Ag. The road-accessible property is located in Flathead
County, approximately 50 miles southwest of the town of Kalispell,
Montana.
For additional Hog Heaven Project details, click
here.
Qualified Person
Mr. Corey A. James, P.Geo., is a Senior Project
Geologist for the Company who is a qualified person as defined by
National Instrument 43-101. Mr. James has not verified the
referenced data disclosed in this press release other than
Brixton’s drilling reported and is reliant on Ivanhoe Electric
Inc., the operators of the Project for the technical information
presented herein.
Corporate Update
Brixton announces that it has terminated the
employment of Mr. Jason Shepherd from the position of VP Investor
Relations effective immediately.
About Brixton Metals
Corporation
Brixton Metals is a Canadian exploration company
focused on the advancement of its mining projects. Brixton wholly
owns four exploration projects: Brixton’s flagship Thorn
copper-gold-silver-molybdenum Project, the Hog Heaven
copper-silver-gold Project in NW Montana, USA, which is optioned to
Ivanhoe Electric Inc., the Langis-HudBay silver-cobalt-nickel
Project in Ontario and the Atlin Goldfields Project located in
northwest BC. Brixton Metals Corporation shares trade on the TSX-V
under the ticker symbol BBB, and on the OTCQB
under the ticker symbol BBBXF. For more
information about Brixton, please visit our website at
www.brixtonmetals.com.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Mr. Gary R. Thompson, Chairman and CEOTel:
604-630-9707 or email: info@brixtonmetals.com
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risks: the need for additional financing; operational risks
associated with mineral exploration; fluctuations in commodity
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External links:
https://brixtonmetals.com/brixton-metals-and-hpx-sign-usd44-5-million-definitive-earn-in-jv-agreement-on-the-hog-heaven-copper-silver-gold-project-montana-usa/
https://ivanhoeelectric.com/news/ivanhoe-electric-reports-recent-drill-results-from-its-initial-exploration-program-at-the-hog-heaven-project-in-montana/
https://brixtonmetals.com/hog-heaven/
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