Bullfrog Gold Clarifies Its April 8, 2020 Press Release at the Request of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of ...
April 15 2020 - 8:00AM
via NEWMEDIAWIRE -- Bullfrog Gold Corp (BFGC:OTCQB; BFG:CSE;
11B:FSE) (“Bullfrog”, “BFGC” or the “Company”) wishes to clarify
its April 8, 2020 press release (the “April 8th Press Release”) at
the request of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of
Canada. The April 8th Press Release announced the
commencement of a drill program at the Company’s Bullfrog Project
(“Project”) located 125 miles NW of Las Vegas, Nevada. This
clarifying news release specifically identifies the deficient
disclosures, discloses why it is deficient, and provides the
required clarifying disclosure or states that the disclosure is
being retracted.
The April 8th Press Release included the following
statement:
“A few priority, but discretionary holes are
planned in our new Paradise Ridge exploration target located one
mile east of the Bullfrog Pit. Geological studies of this target
have identified an undrilled area 2,000 meters long and 350 meters
wide that has the identical host rocks as the 2+ million ounce
Bullfrog deposit, similar structures and gold in surface
samples.”
The news release in referencing “identical host
rocks” didn’t include any further information regarding the host
rocks and could be seen as misleading and promotional. The
Company wishes to now reference the US Geological Survey’s Bulletin
407 that clearly shows the same rock units that hosted the Bullfrog
deposit also occur in the Paradise Ridge target area.
Notwithstanding, the mineralization hosted in the Bullfrog deposit
is not necessarily indicative of mineralization that may be hosted
in the Paradise Ridge target and the reader should not infer that
this is the case. Testing the entire target will require much more
drilling in subsequent programs.
In the “About Bullfrog Gold Corp.” section of the
April 8th Press Release the Company included the following
statement:
“Bullfrog Gold Corp. is a Delaware corporation
that controls the commanding land and mineral positions in the
Bullfrog Mine area where Barrick Bullfrog Inc. produced 2.3 million
ounces of gold by conventional milling beginning in 1989 and
closing in early 1999, at which time the gold price was under
$300/ounce.”
The Company wishes to clarify this statement as it
only considers the price of gold at that time vs. current prices
and does not consider the current costs of exploitation. The
Company notes that the gold grades milled by Barrick were nearly
three times higher than current heap leach resource grades, nearly
all operating costs in 1999 were much lower than costs in 2020 and
front-end capital or exploitation costs are not included in the
statement.
In the same section of the April 8th Press
Release, the Company referred to estimated mineralization of
624,000 ounces of 0.7 g/tonne gold.
The use of the word mineralization and reporting
of additional unclassified mineralization between 0.20 g gold/t and
the base case cutoff grade of 0.36 g/t is not compliant with
National Instrument 43-101. Instead the news release should have
referred only to the base case measured and indicated resources of
525,400 ounces averaging 1.02 g/t using a 0.36 g/t cutoff as
reported in the Company’s Technical Report entitled Mineral
Resource Estimate, Bullfrog Gold Project, Nye County, Nevada and
dated August 9, 2017, which is available under the Company’s
profile at www.sedar.com. The Company’s resources for all
classifications are summarized below:
|
Total Project Resources |
|
|
|
Tonnes |
|
Gold |
Gold Oz |
Silver |
Silver Oz |
Classification |
Millions |
|
g/t |
000's |
g/t |
000's |
Measured |
2.46 |
|
0.91 |
71.7 |
2.66 |
210 |
Indicated |
13.61 |
|
1.04 |
453.7 |
2.58 |
1,130 |
Total M & I |
16.07 |
|
1.02 |
525.4 |
2.61 |
1340 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Inferred |
2.85 |
|
1.20 |
110.7 |
2.63 |
248 |
Based on a $1200 gold price, 0.36 g gold/t cutoff and 72%
gold recovery |
This section also included the following
statement:
“An annual production rate of at least 60,000
ounces is currently envisioned by management, or more depending on
success from drill programs.”
The Company wishes to retract the statement above
from its April 8th Press Release, as the Company does not have an
independent study to support the economic viability and technical
feasibility of the Project:
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking
Statements
This press release contains certain
"Forward-Looking Statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the
United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. All
statements, other than statements of historical fact, included
herein including those with respect to the objectives, plans and
strategies of the Company and those preceded by or that include the
words "believes," "expects," "given," "targets," "intends,"
"anticipates," "plans," "projects," "forecasts" or similar
expressions, are forward-looking statements that involve
various risks and uncertainties. Forward looking information in
this press release includes but is not limited to statements
regarding increased liquidity for the Company’s shareholders and
the application of metallurgical testing results.
Such forward-looking information and statements are based on
numerous assumptions, including among others, the Company's ability
to successfully maintain its listings, the stability of industry
and market costs and trends and the Company's ability to obtain all
regulatory approvals required for its planned objectives.
Furthermore, by their very nature, forward-looking information
involves a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and
other factors which may cause the actual plans, intentions, events,
results, performance or achievements of the Company to be
materially different from those expressed or implied by such
forward-looking information. Such risks, uncertainties and other
factors include, without limitation, those related to: (a) adverse
regulatory or legislative changes (b) market conditions, volatility
and global economic conditions (c) industry-wide risks (d) the
Company's inability to maintain or improve its competitive position
and (e) the ability to obtain financing needed to fund the
continued development of the Company's business.
We use certain terms in this valuation such as “mineralization”
and “mineral inventory estimates” that are not defined in Canadian
National Instrument 43-101; or recognized under the U.S. SEC
Industry Guide 7. The Company is presently an exploration stage
company. Exploration is highly speculative in nature,
involves many risks, requires substantial expenditures and may not
result in the discovery of mineral deposits that can be mined
profitably. Furthermore, the Company currently has no
resources or reserves on any of its properties. As a result,
there can be no assurance that such forward-looking statements will
prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could
differ materially from those anticipated in such statements.
Additional information regarding important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from the Company's expectations
is disclosed in the Company's documents filed from time to time
with the United States Securities & Exchange Commission.
Investors are urged to consider closely the disclosures in our Form
10-K and other SEC filings, which can be obtained from the SEC’s
website at http:www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml.
Qualified Person
David Beling, P.E. has 55 years of project and
corporate experience in the mining industry and is a qualified
person as defined by Canadian National Instrument 43-101 –
Standards of Disclosure or Mineral Projects. Mr. Beling has
prepared, supervised the preparation of, or approved the technical
information that forms the basis of the Company’s disclosures, but
is not independent of Bullfrog Gold Corp, as he is the CEO &
President and holds common shares and incentive stock options of
the Company. For further information, please contact David Beling,
CEO & President, at (970) 628-1670.
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