BWR Exploration Inc. Provides Update on Little Stull Lake Gold Project NE Manitoba
02 March 2024 - 2:37AM
BWR Exploration Inc. (the “Company” or “BWR”) (TSX.V: BWR) is
pleased to announce that the final tranche of funding as outlined
in the “Contribution Agreement” dated October 25, 2021 and amended
March 24, 2023 with MMDF Corporation has been released; to date BWR
has received $300,000 grant from the Manitoba Mineral Development
Fund (“MMDF”), details of which were previously announced on
January 7, 2021. MMDF required that as per the Contribution
Agreement, BWR must submit a final report on the use of the MMDF
grant by the end of 2023, this report was completed and submitted
in early January, the final $5,000 holdback (pending release of the
report) was released to BWR on February 7, 2023.
Fall 2023 Site Visit: With
specific reference to use of funds from the third tranche, BWR
received clearance from Manto Sipi Cree Nation (“MSCN”) to engage
an independent environmental consulting group to participate in an
environment focused site visit to BWR’s exploration camp located at
Little Stull Lake in Northeastern Manitoba, within MSCN Ancestral
Land. The purpose of the site visit was to have representatives of
MSCN witness an independent review and provide eco-guidance with a
recommended course of action on a previously identified
environmental concern, where low levels of hydrocarbon in soil was
detected and reported in a small area within BWR’s general permit
camp site. BWR retained Pinchin Ltd., an environmental consulting
firm with offices in Winnipeg, to peer review the 2021 and 2022
Soil Report(s) completed and prepared by BWR, with the purpose of
developing an all-encompassing delineation and remediation plan for
the affected area. On October 19, 2023, Pinchin provided onsite
guidance and made the recommendation to complete a soil sampling
program surrounding and including the area previously identified by
BWR, to confirm and further delineate the nature and scope of the
environmental issue.
The sampling program was completed between
October 22 and October 26, 2023, as witnessed by a representative
of MSCN. Samples were systematically selected by Pinchin and
submitted to Bureau Veritas Laboratories (BV Labs) in Winnipeg,
Manitoba for analysis. BV Labs is an independent laboratory
accredited by the Standards Council of Canada and the Canadian
Association for Laboratory Accreditation. Pinchin further agreed to
propose (if engaged to do so) a go-forward environmental monitoring
program for the early-stage exploration program that BWR is
proposing on its Little Stull Lake project. The results of the
Pinchin site visit were reviewed and incorporated into a project
conclusion report that was submitted to MMDF, thus completing the
file as outlined in the Contribution Agreement as well as the
environmental site visit clearance permission by MSCN Chief and
Council in their letter of support dated September 14, 2023. BWR
has agreed to share this final MMDF funded report with MSCN in due
course.
Work Permit update: BWR’s 2024
early-stage exploration proposal involves diamond drilling several
exploratory holes; the start-up of this early-stage exploration
program has been contingent upon following the Consultation
Protocol Roadmap as agreed to between MSCN and the Crown, back in
November 2022.
BWR anticipates receiving a conditional work
permit from the Crown once consultation with the leadership of MSCN
and the MSCN community has concluded. The issuance of a work permit
would be contingent on MSCN voting in support of BWR’s proposal
during its community referendum, with voting scheduled to end on
March 14, 2024. If the referendum vote is “yes”, then the parties
will have a mandate to move expeditiously to negotiate a Memorandum
of Understanding (“MOU”). The MOU would lay out the basis for BWR
entering into an early-stage exploration agreement with MSCN.
The Consultation Protocol Roadmap involved BWR
meeting with leadership of MSCN as well as a series of
“in-community meetings” that concluded in early August 2023. BWR
received notice in late August that the community leadership had
decided to hold a referendum on BWR’s proposal, to determine
whether the majority of MSCN citizens are supportive of Chief and
Council entering into a Memorandum of Understanding / Exploration
Agreement with BWR as it pertains to the Little Stull Lake Gold
Project going forward with the proposed exploration program. In a
late August email, Chief and Council encouraged BWR to complete the
aforementioned environmental site visit and offered to have
representatives of the community observe or participate in the
environmental work program. This prompted the mid-October site
visit, after which the community leadership further advised that
they would hold an internal meeting to review and discuss the
project going forward with BWR. BWR has recently been advised that
the community held an internal meeting on February 8, 2024 during
which they set an original target date for the referendum at
February 29, 2024. BWR was informed on February 28th that the
on-line voting portal was opened on February 26th and will continue
until March 14.
About BWR Exploration Inc.: BWR
Exploration Inc. is a public company focused on exploring for base
and precious metals, with its flagship Little Stull Lake Gold
Project in NE Manitoba along with other exploration projects in
Northern Ontario, and Northern Quebec, Canada. Management of BWR
includes an accomplished group of exploration/mining specialists
with many decades of operational experience in the junior resource
sector in Canada and abroad. There are 106,010,461 shares currently
issued.
PDAC 2024: BWR Exploration Inc.
will be attending and participating in PDAC 2024 in Toronto, ON.
Please drop by BWR’s booth in the Investor Exchange area, booth
2418A on March 3 and 4.
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its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for
the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
For information about BWR Exploration Inc. please visit our
website: http://www.bwrexploration.com or call/email:
Neil Novak, P.Geo., President, CEO & Director,BWR
Exploration Inc.82 Richmond St. E, Toronto, ON M5C 1P1Office (416)
848 6866nnovak@bwrexploration.com
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