Prosper Gold Corp. Commences Drilling at Golden Sidewalk Project
09 January 2024 - 12:00AM
Prosper Gold Corp. ("
Prosper Gold" or the
"
Company") (TSXV:PGX) is pleased to announce that
diamond drilling has commenced at the Golden Sidewalk Project, Red
Lake Mining District, Ontario.
Up to 2,500 metres will be drilled at several
previously untested targets within the greater Skinner Target Area
(see the Company's Dec. 12, 2023 news release for details). The
costs of the upcoming drill program will be offset by funding
support from the Ontario Junior Exploration Program (“OJEP”), which
will cover up to 50% of eligible exploration costs to a maximum of
$200,000 in respect of expenditures incurred by the Company.
Skinner
The Skinner Target Area is a 2.5 by 1.5
kilometre area of coincident high IP chargeability and resistivity
under glaciofluvial cover with numerous WNW-trending shear zones
with anomalous down-ice gold grain-in-till samples. Preliminary
drilling in this area in November of 2022 intersected broad shear
zones exhibiting silica-biotite-ankerite alteration and abundant
sulphide mineralization which was locally gold-bearing (see the
Company's Jan. 9, 2023 news release for details).
Despite glaciofluvial cover in this area till
sampling in 2021 by the Company achieved results up to 1,014 gold
grains (97% pristine) in sample GST-21-223 and 735 gold grains (95%
pristine) in sample GST-21-317 (see the Company’s May 17, 2022 news
release for details). Based on geological observations from the
field and from the 2022 drilling, the Company believes the area has
high-potential for higher-grade gold mineralization, particularly
proximal to the contact between Narrow Lake Assemblage volcanics
and the Trout Lake Batholith several hundred metres to the west of
the 2022 drilling where hornfelsed volcanics are more conducive to
brittle fracture. The Company will drill several discrete targets
associated with favourable geophysical signatures, highly anomalous
till samples and/or historically defined mineralized shear
zones.
About the Golden Sidewalk
The Golden Sidewalk is a 100% owned,
district-scale gold exploration project covering over 160 square
kilometres of contiguous mineral claims and mining leases in the
western Birch-Uchi Greenstone Belt, approximately 60 km east of Red
Lake, Ontario and 60 km northeast of Kinross Gold’s Dixie Project,
acquired from Great Bear Resources in 2022. The vehicle-accessible
project straddles 12 kilometres of the Balmer Assemblage – Narrow
Lake Assemblage unconformity, a regional-scale feature that has
been the Red Lake exploration guide, but which has seen limited
exploration in the project area. The “Golden Corridor” lies
immediately north of the unconformity and is characterized as a
highly prospective trend of coincident favourable magnetic and
resistivity lineaments supported by highly anomalous gold-in-till
samples covering 7.0 by 0.5 kilometres. An additional highly
prospective target area was defined in 2021, termed the Skinner
North Target Area, where 2022 channel sampling results include 9.69
gpt gold over 3.0 metres and 13.13 gpt gold over 1.8 metres and
till samples containing up to 1,014 gold grains, was drilled for
the first time in November of 2022. Historical drilling by previous
operators at the Bathurst Mine, Joe Vein, KT vein, Dunkin and
Vihonen prospects reported high-grade gold intercepts which have
yet to be followed up by Prosper Gold.
QA/QC Procedures
Quality assurance and quality control measures
implemented by the Company include the insertion of certified
reference materials in the sample sequence at a rate of 1 in 20 for
both blank material and certified reference standards. Analytical
results for reference standard and blank samples are scrutinized
internally to ensure adequate analytical precision and accuracy in
both sample preparation and instrumental procedures. A chain of
custody from drilling to laboratory is strictly monitored to ensure
sample and analytical integrity and reliability. Half-split core
samples are sent to AGAT Laboratories in Thunder Bay, Ontario,
where they are analyzed in 50-gram aliquots using Fire-Assay with
ICP-OES finish. Any overlimit analyses (>10 g/t Au) are
re-analyzed with a pulp metallic screen method designed to give the
most accurate representation of gold concentration in each sample.
AGAT Laboratories in Thunder Bay, ON, is an accredited testing
laboratory having been assessed by the Standards Council of Canada
(SCC) and found to conform with the requirements of ISO/IEC
17025:2017.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information in this
news release has been reviewed by Rory Ritchie, P.Geo.,
Vice-President of Exploration for Prosper Gold and a Qualified
Person under National Instrument 43-101.
For an overview of Prosper Gold please visit
www.ProsperGoldCorp.com
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Per: “Peter
Bernier” Peter
BernierPresident & CEO
For further information, please contact:
Peter BernierPresident & CEOProsper Gold
Corp.Cell: (250) 316-6644Email: Pete@ProsperGoldCorp.com
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