Trailbreaker Resources Ltd. (TBK.V) (Trailbreaker)
is pleased to announce the recent staking of the Swan property in
northwestern British Columbia (BC) and its inclusion in the newly
formed Atsutla Gold Project.
The Swan property covers a historically drilled
molybdenum porphyry prospect that has never been assayed for gold.
It is situated just 20 km northeast of the recent high-grade gold
discoveries at Trailbreaker’s Willie Jack property. Together, the
Willie Jack and Swan properties form the 100%-owned Atsutla
Gold Project, covering over 14,000 hectares of ground. The
project, named after the Atsutla mountain range, is located 70 km
south of the Yukon-BC border and 130 km northwest of Dease Lake,
BC.
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Willie Jack
In March of 2020, the Trailbreaker team
generated the Willie Jack target and conducted a first pass
reconnaissance program. The program lead to the discovery of
widespread gold mineralization across 6 kilometres with rock grab
samples assaying up to 164 g/t (4.78 oz/ton) gold (Au) and soils
sample results exceeding 800 ppb (0.8 g/t) Au (see Willie Jack news
released dated October 19th, 2020). Rock grab samples also returned
assays up to 257 g/t silver (Ag) and 1.7 % copper (Cu). The
mineralization discovered to date is related to the Mesozoic
intrusive batholiths that comprise the Atsutla mountain range, and
shares characteristics of both Cu-Au porphyry-type and
intrusion-related gold deposits.
Swan
Due to the success of the first pass results at
the Willie Jack property, Trailbreaker generated and staked the
Swan property which covers almost 4,300 hectares. The Swan property
is 100%-owned by Trailbreaker, with no underlying payments or
royalties. The Swan property overlies the regional scale
Teslin-Thibert strike-slip fault system that extends over 700 km
across the Yukon Territory and BC and marks the boundary between
the Quesnel and Cache Creek terranes.
The Swan claims cover a historical molybdenum
(Mo) porphyry prospect that was discovered in the late 1960s and
periodically explored during the past 50 years. Despite more than
500 soil and rock surface samples and almost 1,000 meters of
shallow diamond drilling, no geochemical analysis for gold
was ever completed. Historical geological mapping and
drill hole logs have shown a complex intrusive system with
widespread quartz-feldspar porphyritic monzonite cut by a variety
of felsic and mafic dikes. Molybdenite-pyrite mineralization is
closely associated with sheeted quartz veins, quartz stockwork and
breccia zones. The historical drilling at Swan intersected broad,
low to mid-grade molybdenite mineralization, returning up to 0.06%
Mo over 73m, including 0.97% Mo over 19m, as well as several
significant silver intercepts including >26 g/t Ag over 3
meters.
Historical work also included a detailed soil
geochemical survey completed in 2007 which outlined a large,
open-ended copper-silver-arsenic (Cu-Ag-As) soil anomaly that lies
outside of the drilled Mo prospect. Furthermore, a 1972 induced
polarization (IP) survey outlined a chargeability anomaly which
coincides with this soil anomaly and is interpreted to potentially
represent a pyritic halo above a buried copper porphyry
deposit.
Trailbreaker’s team believes the Swan and Willie
Jack property areas were previously overlooked for gold potential
due to low gold prices at the time. Trailbreaker plans to conduct a
thorough first-pass evaluation program in 2021.
Atsutla Gold Project
The Willie Jack and Swan properties represent
Trailbreaker Resources’ investment in an underexplored area of
British Columbia which has been historically overlooked for
district-scale gold mineralization. To consolidate exploration
plans, Trailbreaker has termed this area the “Atsutla Gold
Project”.
Geologically, the project is centered on the
regional-scale crustal Teslin-Thibert fault system marking the
boundary between the Quesnel and Cache Creek tectonic terranes. The
Quesnel terrane hosts numerous Cu-Au porphyry deposits along the
length of British Columbia, including the Copper Mountain, Highland
Valley, New Afton, Mount Polley, Mount Milligan, and Kemess
deposits and mines. The Cache Creek terrane hosts a variety of
mineralization styles, and includes the Gibraltar Cu-Mo-Au porphyry
deposit.
The combination of this favourable geologic
setting with the recent gold discoveries by Trailbreaker at Willie
Jack, supported by historic Mo porphyry results at Swan and
widespread placer gold documented in the project area, indicates
strong potential for multiple styles of gold mineralization.
New Trailbreaker Resources website and
presentations
Trailbreaker Resources’ new company website can
be found at www.TrailbreakerResources.com. An updated corporate
presentation, presentations for each of Trailbreaker’s properties,
as well as photos, maps and more, can be found there. See below for
further contact details and social media links.
Message from the President
“The Trailbreaker team has identified an area
with untapped potential and, in under one year, has brought forth
encouraging results and compelling evidence that the Atsutla Gold
Project area can be developed into a new gold district. We are
greatly looking forward to exploring the new ground at the Swan
property and seeing what historical work may have been missed. At
the same time, we will be exploring and advancing our Plateau,
Willie Jack, Skelly, and McMurdo properties and closely following
our royalties in our third-party projects that are being drilled
this year.”
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Daithi Mac GearailtPresident and Chief Executive Officer
Carl Schulze, P. Geo., Consulting Geologist with
Aurora Geosciences Ltd, is a qualified person as defined by
National Instrument 43-101 for Trailbreaker's BC and Yukon
exploration projects, and has reviewed and approved the technical
information in this release.
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