Goldcliff Reviews Precious Metals Portfolio
19 January 2023 - 1:16AM
George Sanders, President of Goldcliff Resource Corporation
(“Goldcliff” or the “Company”) (GCN: TSX.V, GCFFF: OTCBB PINKS) is
pleased to provide a review of Goldcliff’s precious metals assets
and plans for 2023. The focus of Goldcliff’s 2022 activity was at
the Kettle Valley epithermal gold/silver project located near Rock
Creek in southern British Columbia. While this project will
continue to be a priority, management feels it is appropriate to
review the Company’s entire portfolio of precious metals assets.
The multi-asset nature of Goldcliff provides shareholders with
exposure to many opportunities for exploration success. These
opportunities include the possibility of a new drill discovery at
Kettle Valley, exposure to silver at Ainsworth BC, new exploration
targets in a historic gold producing district at Hedley, BC and
strategic land positions in a Nevada historic camp that is
currently being explored by majors. The modest share count and
insider dominant capital structure together with a low market
capitalization provide shareholders with excellent leverage to
exploration success in a rising precious metals environment.
KETTLE VALLEY gold and silver
Industry professionals who have reviewed the Kettle Valley
project since the drill programme have expressed favourable
impressions of the geologic setting and surface sampling results.
These observers strongly encouraged Goldcliff to persist in
exploration and to disregard the lack of new discovery intercept in
only five drill holes. Our team has concluded that the holes
drilled were likely below the best target area and thus missed any
lateral controls. The Company’s next stage on the property will be
to push a drill trail along the mineralized top of the ridge. Any
float or outcrop uncovered along the way will be mapped and
sampled. Concurrent with this activity the Company will engage a
structural interpretation of this highly complex structural
environment. All of this activity will culminate in the selection
of further drill locations.
AINSWORTH silver
Goldcliff shareholders are exposed to a rising silver price
through the Company’s holdings in the historic Ainsworth silver
district near Kaslo, BC. Goldcliff is the largest claim holder in
the Ainsworth camp with approximately 4,455 hectares. The southern
part of the land position hosts the largest and highest grade
historic producers. The No. 1 mine was the largest silver producer
in the Ainsworth camp recovering just under 2 million ounces of
silver and BC Minfile records report a recovered grade of 49.6 oz
per ton silver.
A high resolution combined magnetic, VLF-EM, and spectrometer
airborne survey was carried out over southern parts of the property
during the summer of 2021. Interpretation of the airborne data has
indicated a number of small magnetic highs and moderate potassium
highs located within regions of quiet magnetic activity and low
(quiet) gamma ray total count. The No. 1 Mine as well as the Silver
Hoard/Dellie prospects correspond with small magnetic and potassium
highs within the quiet regions.
Goldcliff’s interpretation suggests that these quiet magnetic
regions also contain new geophysical targets situated in areas of
limestone within the mapped Milford Group sediments. The new
targets are associated with structure interpreted from both the
magnetic and spectrometer data. Further geologic mapping and
sampling is planned to select trench and/or drill targets for
follow up testing.
PANORAMA RIDGE gold
Goldcliff’s 100% owned Panorama Ridge gold project is a classic
example of “shadow of the headframe” geology. The gold occurrence
on Panorama Ridge previously discovered and developed by Goldcliff
is a mere four kilometers from the historic Nickel Plate gold mine
at Hedley, BC. The original Nickel Plate mine operated from the
early 1900s until 1955 and produced 1,500,000 ounces of gold at a
recovered grade of 13.95 g/t. An open pit mine was developed in the
mid 1980s and Mascot Gold produced an additional 1,000,000 ounces
from 1989 to 1997 at a recovered grade of 1.97 g/t. Since staking
the property in 2000, Goldcliff excavated 6,198 metres of trenching
and drilled 16,611 metres in 190 drill holes. Continuous and
consistent grades over 0.75 g/t gold were encountered from surface
to shallow depths up to 30 metres in two zones, the York-Viking and
the Nordic.
The property has been dormant since 2008. Further prospecting
and geochemical sampling were undertaken in September of 2022 for
assessment purposes. This work focused on areas of the property not
previously explored. Silicified, sulphide mineralization in float,
sub-crop and outcrop was located in three distinct areas, the
Cemetery zone and two topographic highs named South Ridge and North
Ridge which denotes their spatial relationship to Panorama Ridge.
Analytical results are pending.
NEVADA gold and silver
At Aurora West, district neighbours continue to generate
encouraging new exploration results. South of the main Aurora
historic mining areas, Headwater Gold Inc and funding partner
Newcrest Mining Ltd. have recently reported high grade gold
intercepts. These holes were deeper follow-up holes to the 2022
discovery of moderate grade. This new vein system was projected to
exist below a barren sinter cap. Several new discoveries in the
Walker Lane area of Nevada have occurred at depth below interesting
geology but containing very little precious metal values on
surface. This concept bodes well for the Aurora West claims where
several surface targets of lower grade value have been located.
In the main Aurora district, Hecla Mining Company has also
reported new high grade precious metals values in drilling of known
vein systems. Hecla has also targeted a drill program in the
Sawtooth area. This target is on the Aurora West claim boundary and
is a follow-up to a historic drill hole containing a highly
anomalous gold intercept.
At the Nevada Rand project an airborne geophysical survey
conducted in March 2022 confirmed that the Quartz Hill area is a
high priority target. A wildcat drill hole completed in early 2020
intersected 6.4 metres averaging 0.28 g/t gold at the shallow
vertical depth below surface of 63.06 metres. Recent new
discoveries in the Walker Lane region of Nevada have emerged from
follow up of marginal gold grades sampled on surface or in previous
drilling.
Goldcliff plans exploration on all projects in 2023. Our
technical team is developing programme priorities and
minimum/maximum budgets to respond to financing conditions.
Ed Rockel, P. Geo, qualified person as defined by National
Instrument 43-101 supervised the preparation and verification of
the technical information contained in this release.
For further information, please contact George W. Sanders,
President, at 250-764-8879, toll free at 1-866-769-4802 or email at
info@directroyalty.com.
GOLDCLIFF RESOURCE CORPORATION
Per: “George W. Sanders”
George W. Sanders, President
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