Stone Gold Inc. (
TSX-V: STG) (“
Stone
Gold” or the “
Company”) is pleased to
provide an exploration update regarding its contiguous
21,000-hectare Batchewana Bay District (“BBD”) unpatented claims
package situated 80 km. north of Sault Ste Marie Ontario.
Overview:
The Batchewana Bay District claims are located on the eastern
edge of the Late Proterozoic (1050-1115 Ma) Midcontinent Rift, most
of which trends beneath Lake Superior. Numerous past-producing and
present Cu, Ni and precious metal deposits are distributed around
Lake Superior adjacent and/or associated with the rift, including
the prolific native copper deposits of the Keweenawan Peninsula,
Michigan.
The district is situated within the Mamainse Point Formation of
the Keweenawan Group in the Proterozoic Southern Province, on the
eastern edge of the Mid Continental Rift. The western and central
part of the claims package straddles the NNW trending unconformity
between the Mamainse Point Formation to the west and rocks of the
Batchewana Greenstone Belt of the Archean Superior Province to the
east. The Keweenawan Group stratigraphy is characterized by shallow
westerly dipping sub-aerial flood basalts and intercalated
conglomerates intruded by felsic sub-volcanic intrusives and
breccias. Significant sections of the district were closed to
staking from 1972-2006, accordingly the area has seen only sporadic
mineral exploration since the 1970s.
The Batchewana Bay District is comprised of two major copper and
gold exploration and development projects:
1. The Copper Road Project: 19,000 Hectares
containing the former producing Tribag and Coppercorp Copper mines
and several historical prospective deposits. This area includes the
recently acquired Tribag and East Breccia properties. (News Release
March 10, 2021) The Tribag Mine was closed for staking from
1972-2006, and the Coppercorp Mine area closed for staking from
1972-2002.
2. Glenrock Gold Project: 2,000 hectares of
under-explored Archean greenstone belt containing multiple gold
targets and favourable historical drilling.
Figure 1.1: Batchewana Bay District
Copper Road Project:
The Copper Road Project encompasses multiple Proterozoic breccia
bodies containing numerous known copper showings, deposits and past
producers reporting historic resources within the approximately
19,000-hectares of claims that make up the project.
Historical Production:Tribag
Mine reported an official stated production of 1,218,000
tons grading 1.52% Cu.Coppercorp Mine reported
production of 1.020,000 million tons grading 1.16% copper, plus
silver and gold credits from 1965 to 1972.
Historical Unclassified prospective
deposits:In Energy Mines and Resources Canada
Mineral Bulletin MR223 entitled Canadian Mineral deposits
Not Being Mined in 1989, unclassified prospective resources are
given as:
Tribag Mine: Breton Breccia, 40 million tons at
0.2% copper above 1000 feet depth.East Breccia,
113 million tons at 0.13% copper, 0.05%MoWest Breccia. 1 million
tons at 0.23% WO3 plus 90,718 tons tailings at 0.6 to 1.0%
W*These are non NI 43-101 compliant historic estimates
which should not be relied upon, and presented for historical
context purposes only
Historical diamond drilling focused on copper in the breccia
bodies while ignoring the broader spectrum of mineralization
(Cu,Ag,W,Mo,Au,Re). Limited diamond drilling was performed on the
East Breccia by Boxer Gold Inc. in 2012 to confirm the presence of
copper and other minerals.
East Breccia 2012 Boxer Gold Diamond Drilling
Highlights: 67m @ 0.49% Cu, 0.01% Mo, 6.9 g/t Ag, 0.17g/t
Re, 109m @ 0.20% Cu, 0.014% Mo, 2.4 g/t Ag, 0.34 g/t Re
http://www.geologyontario.mndm.gov.on.ca/mndmfiles/afri/data/imaging/20000009248/20014293.pdf
The Tribag / East Breccia acquisition was accompanied by a
substantive database, the Company contracted Ronacher MacKenzie
Geoscience of Sudbury, Ontario to compile the historical drilling
data. (See Figure 1.2). This information is being integrated and
built into 3-D exploration models of selected drill delineated
mineralized bodies with their support; the highest grade and most
important to-date being the described Breton Breccia which makes up
the majority of the former Tribag Cu Mine production.
During 2021, the Company with the aid of Ronacher McKenzie
Geoscience and the Tribag / East Breccia vendors, has undertaken a
major review and compilation of the voluminous historic hardcopy
and digital database covering the claims package. The database
contains more than 800 drillholes, 2000+ surface rock and soil
samples, multiple ground magnetic, VLF, IP and gravity surveys plus
seven major airborne geophysical surveys flown since 1984. In
addition, the Company purchased from a third party a separate
historic digital database for the 3-D deposit modelling of at least
four Cu mineralized bodies within the Copper Road Project.
The exploration data is being integrated and 3-D modelled into
Arcview and Geoscience Analyst, and to-date has revealed the
presence of first priority exploration targets for confirming a
high-grade Cu mineralized body in the Tribag / East Breccia area,
and an enlarged open gold mineralization system at the Glenrock
Project. The Company is presently in negotiation with contractors
with the intention of completing 4,000 metres of diamond drilling
to test these two main target areas this coming winter. This
compilation work is ongoing and is expected to generate multiple
additional high-quality Cu or/and Au targets for further
drilling.
Figure 1.2: Copper Road: Former Tribag
Mine: Breton Breccia Grade Model (Non-Resource Historic Exploration
Model *)
* These results are presented based upon historic
drilling and modeling data which predate NI 43-101. It should not
be relied upon and is presented for information purposes only.
Diamond drilling is required to verify these results.
The Company intends to diamond drill four 500 metre+ holes twin
holes in Q1 2022 to confirm and evaluate the extent of copper and
secondary metal mineralization both within the presently defined
Breton Breccia and at depth.
Glenrock Gold Project:
Glenrock Gold Project consists of 2,500-hectares of claims
hosted in under-explored Archean Batchewana Bay Greenstone Belt
rocks on the south-eastern part of the Copper Road Project. As
outlined in previous Company news releases dated (Nov 9, Sept 11,
and Jan 30, 2020), the Glenrock Gold exploration target consists of
two parallel open zones of surface and near-surface drill indicated
gold occurrences and intersections hosted in E-W trending
transposed and intensely silicified meta-mafic volcanic rocks
associated with numerous narrow sheets of quartz veining.
Historic Drilling (Aurogin Resources 1997) includes:
- 33m @ 0.5 g/t Au
- 15m @ 1.3 g/t Au
- 6.4m @ 0.9 g/t Au
- 4m @ 6.3 g/t Au
The plan for exploration this winter is to diamond drill eight
150-300 metre holes testing the grade and extent of these two zones
both along strike and at depth.
Stone Gold President and CEO John Timmons comments, “The
consolidation of this district is long overdue. Our primary area of
focus, the Tribag Mine Zone has not been drilled in 50 years. Our
goal is to establish and increase historical grades and tonnage by
drilling the targets to depth and testing for a full spectrum of
mineralization.”
The information in this press release has been
reviewed and approved by Dr. Trevor Boyd, P. Geo., and a Qualified
Person for the technical information under NI 43-101 standards.
For further information, please contact:Mr. John
TimmonsPresident & CEOStone Gold Inc.Cellular (416) 931
2243Email: jtimmons@stonegold.caWeb: www.stonegold.ca
Stone Gold Inc. is engaged in the acquisition,
exploration and evaluation of properties for the mining of precious
and base metals in northern Ontario, Canada.
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