SASKATOON, SK, June 8, 2021 /CNW/ - Omineca Mining and Metals
Ltd. (TSXV: OMM) ("Omineca" or the "Company"), is pleased to
announce that it has appointed Mr. Bill Van
Breugel, P. Eng., as the Company's Lead Technical Advisor
for the Wingdam underground placer gold bulk sampling program,
currently underway and located 45 km east of Quesnel, BC, in the Cariboo Mining
District.
Working closely with Omineca's joint venture partner's
management, engineers and underground mining team, Mr. Van Breugel provides corporate oversight to the
mine plan and engineering at the Company's recently commenced
underground placer gold sampling program (see news release of
April 29, 2021).
Mr. Van Breugel is a mining engineer with over 40 years of
experience in the mining industry. He previously held the positions
as: Senior Mine Engineer for Cameco's Cigar Lake project and
Kinross Gold's Hoyle Pond project;
Engineering Lead at the BHP Jansen Project and Project Manager for
Goldcorp and Star Diamond Corporation.
2021 Wingdam Underground Gold Bulk Sample Program
The
2021 bulk sampling program is designed to continue the successful
placer gold test sample program initiated in 2012. That program
utilized ground freeze technology to recover 173.4 ounces of placer
gold from a single 2.4-metre by 2.4-metre by 23.4-metre-long drift
across the gold-bearing paleochannel located approximately 50
metres beneath Lightning Creek. The initial phase of the bulk
sample program for 2021, includes the first 300 metres of 17,000
metres of potential paleochannel on Omineca's claims.
About Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd.
Omineca Mining
and Metals Ltd.'s flagship Wingdam gold exploration and placer
recovery project is located along the Barkerville Highway 45 km
east of the town of Quesnel.
The property includes hard-rock tenures totaling over 50,000
hectares (500 square kms) and in excess of 15 linear kilometers of
placer claims, both encompassing the Lightning Creek valley where
topographic conditions created a thick overburden which preserved a
large portion of an underground channel with placer gold-bearing
gravels. Omineca also has a diamond drill program currently
underway exploring for the potential multiple hard rock sources of
the placer gold at Wingdam.
Forward Looking Statements
This release includes forward-looking statements regarding
Omineca and its business. Such statements are based on the current
expectations and views of future events of Omineca's management. In
some cases, the forward-looking statements can be identified by
words or phrases such as "may", "will", "expect", "plan",
"anticipate", "intend", "potential", "estimate", "believe" or the
negative of these terms, or other similar expressions intended to
identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking events and
circumstances discussed in this release may not occur and could
differ materially as a result of the failure to consummate the
project financing, the economic feasibility of the Wingdam Project,
known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties affecting Omineca,
including risks regarding the resource industry, economic factors
and the equity markets generally and many other factors beyond the
control of Omineca. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed.
Forward-looking statements and information by their nature are
based on assumptions and involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results,
performance or achievements, or industry results, to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by such forward-looking statement or
information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance
on any forward-looking statements or information. Forward-looking
statements speak only as of the date on which they are made and
Omineca undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any
forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information,
future events, or otherwise, except as required by applicable
securities laws.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor 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.
SOURCE Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd