White Metal JV Partner Leocor Gold Plans Phase 1 Work Program on the Startrek Gold Property, Central Newfoundland
01 September 2021 - 10:00PM
White Metal Resources Corp. (TSXV: WHM)
(
FRA: CGK1) (
OTCMKTS: TNMLF)
(“White Metal” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that its
joint venture partner Leocor Gold Inc. (“Leocor”) has received its
exploration approvals for ground geophysics, line cutting, GT Probe
drilling (100 holes), and RAB drilling (10 holes), on the Startrek
Property (the “Property” or the “Project”), located about 20 km
east of the town of Gander, in the province of Newfoundland and
Labrador, and covering about 6,487 hectares. Leocor optioned the
Property from White Metal in October 2020 and can earn up to 70% in
the Property (see Company news release dated October 14, 2020). The
Property has been historically prospected for gold and more
recently, since 2014, for its base metal and antimony potential.
Michael Stares, President and CEO of White
Metal, commented, “I am pleased to see that Leocor is starting
their exploration program on the very prospective Startrek Gold
Property, and look forward to sharing their updates with our White
Metal shareholders. Newfoundland has seen a flurry of exploration
activity during the past year with the discovery by New Found Gold
Corp. and the Keats Zone. The Startrek Property has a lot of
untested gold zones that have seen little or no work. I am excited
to see the results of the various surveys that Leocor have
proposed.”
The Project contains three areas of interest,
the Western, Central and Eastern zones. More than 50 gold
occurrences have been discovered on the Property through historical
trenching and grab samples:
- Western Zone: gold mineralization
over a strike length of 2 km, with grab samples** up to 3.5 g/t Au
and averaging 437 ppb Au, in quartz stock work, with veins
featuring epithermal characteristics, arsenopyrite and minor
stibnite.
- Eastern Zone: traced over a strike
length of 2 km and displays characteristics of hydrothermal
alteration, with silicification, albite, and tourmaline. Assays
range from 12 ppb to 3.5 ppb Au and average 96 ppb Au.
- Central Zone: trenching by Rubicon
Minerals, which focused on gold showings in epithermal veining,
reported highly anomalous concentrations of gold, arsenic and
antimony, and sampling by White Metal returned grab samples** up to
41 g/t Au. The average of grabs and channels in the zone is
approximately 300 ppb Au.
**grab samples by their nature are selective and
not necessarily representative of the mineralization hosted on the
Property.
Leocor will be working with GroundTruth
Exploration Inc. (“GroundTruth” or “GT”) on the program, which will
unify the three areas with a common soil database, and holistically
define what we expect to be a significant mineralized footprint.
The GroundTruth method breaks down the exploration process into
phases, typically defined as follows:
Phase 1)
- Soil survey with 100 m line
separation and 25 m sample separation.
- Aeromagnetic and VLF-EM geophysical
survey.
- Lidar survey.
- Ground magnetic survey.
Phase 2)
- GT Probe drilling (around areas of
interest constituting potential targets).
- Induced Polarization geophysical
surveys across potential drill targets.
Phase 3)
- GT RAB drilling (typically 60 m
holes in fences across shallow targets).
Phase 4)
- Diamond or Reverse Circulation
drilling (once structure and orientation of targets are well
defined).
The overall recommended distribution of soils is
illustrated in Figure 1. In the north of the Property area, a
series of northwest trending lines cover license 027531M and part
of the adjacent 026779M license. These samples cover immediate work
requirements and for 026779M and are designed to look for
mineralization associated with several gold-bearing float samples,
the best of which is sample 18027 where smoky quartz and sulphide
are reported with 1106 ppb Au. The soil lines here are oriented
northwest across the general structural fabric of the district.
A graphic accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/fd1f1b88-e76e-4240-8e48-eb95518756fc
The proposed sampling on licenses 026779M and
022588M are illustrated in more detail in Figure 2 and are shown
relative to the northeast structural fabric of the district, that
is well defined in the underlying VLF-EM survey image. Sampling is
planned on 100 m line spacing and 25 m sample spacing. The program
is designed to find the relationships between the three main
mineralized zones, the Western Zone, Central Zone and Eastern Zone,
with the soil sample lines generally running perpendicular to the
main northeast to north-northeast structural trend and oblique to
the secondary east-northeast to east-west structural trend.
A graphic accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/5d3bd1f0-1447-4e3a-93d6-56bf2bcc9096
A more detailed description of the Startrek Gold
Property can be viewed on the White Metal Resources website:
(https://www.whitemetalres.com/startrek-gold-antimony-jv.html)
Qualified PersonTechnical
information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by
Dr. Scott Jobin-Bevans (P.Geo.), Vice President Exploration and a
Director of White Metal, who is a Qualified Person under the
definitions established by NI 43-101.
About White Metal Resources
Corp.:White Metal Resources Corp. is a junior exploration
company exploring in Canada and southern Africa. The Company’s two
key properties are the Flagship Tower Stock Gold Project in Thunder
Bay, Ontario, Canada and the Okohongo Copper-Silver Project in
Namibia, Africa. For more information about the Company please
visit www.whitemetalres.com.
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Directors
"Michael Stares"President & CEO
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StreetThunder Bay, ON P7B 4A8Phone: +1 (807) 358-2420
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Corp.Phone: +1 (604) 507-3377TF: +1 (866)
503-3377ir@whitemetalres.com
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