Golden Predator Announces 2019 Exploration Program at the 3 Aces Project, Yukon
February 21 2019 - 8:00AM
Golden Predator Mining Corp. (TSX.V:GPY,
OTCQX:NTGSF) (the “
Company”) announces
plans for its exploration and drilling program in the Central Core
Area of its 3 Aces Project in southeast Yukon. The program will
focus on following up the success of last year’s work which
extended the high-grade Hearts Zone down dip and along strike
towards the Clubs Zone. Bulk sampling is expected to enable the
2019 3 Aces exploration program to be self-funding.
2019 Exploration Objectives:
The 2019 exploration is designed to accomplish six specific
goals:
- Expand the strike and dip continuity of the 2.8km long
Hearts-Clubs corridor;
- Locate further high-grade mineralization within this
corridor;
- Confirm that intersections of northeast trending structures
with the northwest trending Hearts-Club corridor control high-grade
mineralization;
- Evaluate and improve targeting with geophysical tools,
primarily focused on magnetic features;
- Expand the Company’s knowledge and understanding of the primary
and secondary controls of mineralization within the high-grade
Spades Zone through continuing bulk sampling;
- Extend and expand the Spades mineralization along the more than
1km north-northwest trending structure already identified.
To view maps of the 3 Aces
project:
http://www.goldenpredator.com/_resources/maps/GPY-NR19-03-maps.pdf
3 Aces - Central Core Area Work
Plan:The primary focus of the 2019 season will be on the
2.8km long Hearts-Clubs corridor. Exploration plans for the
Hearts-Clubs corridor include:
- Extensive trenching and sampling along the strike of the
northwest trending structural zone, to maximize effectiveness of
subsequent drilling;
- Trenching and sampling of northeast cross structures
identified;
- Prioritization of diamond drill targets from surface
results;
- Step out drilling along current strike projection of the
Hearts-Clubs structural zone, increasing the strike and down dip
continuity throughout the 2.8 km corridor;
In addition, the 2019 program will see work in
the Spades Zone including:
- Additional trenching followed by RC drilling designed to extend
and expand the known mineralization along the north-northwest
trending Spades structure;
- Bulk sampling of up to the permitted 10,000 tonnes in the
Spades Zone and processing activities associated with the 2018 and
2019 bulk sample.
- Further testing of chemical-free processing at the
Company-owned plant located in Canada’s Yukon.
Building from the 2018
ProgramThe 2018 deep drilling in the Hearts Zone
consistently intercepted two parallel, planar, closely spaced
gold-bearing structures along 220m of strike and as much as 500m
down dip from the Hearts discovery outcrop. The structures were
intercepted by drilling where they were expected and reported
excellent widths of lower grade gold mineralization enveloping
localized high-grade gold mineralization. The envelopes reliably
signal the nearby presence of higher-grade material. The high-grade
mineralization is developed along structural flexures and/or
intersections with secondary structures. The trend of the down dip
projection of the Hearts outcrop corresponds with the surface
exposure of a Hearts-Clubs structural corridor and a coincident
magnetic anomaly which projects over 2.5 km of strike, trending
northwest into the Clubs Zone. The 2018 Hearts drilling has
demonstrated the potential for significant size along strike and at
depth. These observations gleaned from the 2018 program will
provide important targeting information for the next phase of
drilling.
The Company designed its 2018 bulk sample
program to reconcile actual grade against grade predicted by drill
results, confirm the pattern of gold distribution, improve
metallurgy, and begin to understand rock mechanics. A total of
approximately 9,800 tonnes of material was systematically excavated
in 2018 from a series of 2m benches in the Spades Zone.
Approximately 20% of the excavated material was transported to the
processing facility before year-end, with the remainder to be
transported in the coming months. It is expected the plant
will process the 2018 material into Q3/19 with results and progress
reports expected on a monthly basis beginning in April 2019.
Final reconciliation of recovery, tonnes and grade will be released
for each bench as well as for the combined 9,800 tonne sample
following complete processing and refining of the gold. Golden
Predator made an early decision to bulk sample at its 3 Aces
Project when it realized that much of the gold contained in its
veins is high grade (not uncommonly over one ounce per tonne) and
nuggety.
3 Aces Project, Yukon The
3 Aces Project is an orogenic gold project in southeast Yukon. The
Company has to date focused exploration on the 13.5 km2 Central
Core Area, a broad gold-in-soil anomaly, where numerous orogenic
gold-bearing quartz veins have been discovered. Exploration over
the past two years has systematically advanced the project by
establishing: (1) high gold grades can be reliably sampled; (2)
gold mineralization is in predictable stratigraphic structural
locations; (3) gold grades have robust continuity within the
recognized controlling features; and (4) most of the gold is
free-milling and readily recoverable by gravity concentration.
Results from the Central Core Area support a stratigraphic
structural model that predicts extensive lateral and vertical
continuity of the 3 Aces mineral system. The Company is developing
targeted drilling programs to establish continuity between the
Central Core Area and other mineralized zones along the 35 km
strike of the 3 Aces property. Orogenic gold deposits are among the
world’s largest and richest such as the California Mother Lode Belt
and the Juneau Gold Belt.
The technical content of this news release has
been reviewed and approved by Jeff Cary, CPG , an employee and a
Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and
of the Company.
Golden Predator Mining
Corp.Golden Predator Mining Corp. is a gold exploration
company focused on advancing key projects with significant
exploration upside, good infrastructure and community support. The
Company is actively advancing the Brewery Creek Project, Yukon, a
past-producer with a 2014 Preliminary Economic Assessment prepared
pursuant to NI 43-101. The 3 Aces Project hosts a high grade
orogenic gold system with visible gold at surface and strong
structural continuity at depth. Bulk sampling and processing
at the 50 tpd Company-owned processing plant has demonstrated gold
recoveries of over 85% using a chemical-free process. This green
gold provides for the production of .9999 fine gold coins from the
Yukon Mint, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Golden Predator.
For additional
information:
Janet Lee-Sheriff Chief Executive Officer (604) 260-5029
info@goldenpredator.comwww.goldenpredator.com
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forward-looking information that involve various risks and
uncertainties regarding future events. Such forward-looking
information can include without limitation statements express or
implied regarding projected grades and gold and silver recoveries
from the 2018 and proposed 2019 bulk sample program, that the
Project will advance through permitting and feasibility.
Actual results and future events could differ materially from
those anticipated in such information. These and all subsequent
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and opinions of management on the dates they are made and are
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