Clarity Metals Corp. (“
Clarity” or the
“
Company”) (CSE: CMET, OTC: CLGCF, FSE: 27G0) is
pleased to provide an update on its 100% owned Fecteau Gold Project
located in the Province of Québec (the
“Fecteau
Property” or
“Property”). Enthusiasm
remains high to continue to explore in the Abitibi region located
in western Québec, Canada.
The Fecteau Property is in the Urban-Barry belt,
in the east-central portion of the Abitibi sub-province adjacent to
Osisko Mining Inc.’s (“Osisko”) Windfall Gold
Project which contains 3.2 million ounces of gold probable reserves
(12,183 Mt @ 8.04 g/t Au), 4.0 million ounces of gold measured and
indicated resources (11,061 Mt @ 11.4 g/t Au) and 3.3 million
ounces of gold inferred resources (12,287 Mt @ 8.4 g/t Au)1. Osisko
recently announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement
in which Gold Fields Limited has agreed to acquire all of the
issued and outstanding common shares of Osisko in an all-cash
transaction valued at approximately $2.16 billion on a fully
diluted basis which is approximately a 55% premium to Osisko’s 20
day volume weighted average share price leading up to the
announcement of the transaction.2
The Abitibi sub-province is the largest
greenstone belt, with the one of the largest gold endowments, in
the world. It stretches across Ontario and Québec, spanning 700 km
southeast to northwest and 350 km north to south. It has produced
more than 200 million ounces with continuous operations in the belt
since 1901.345 Combining production to date and known reserves are
greater than 300 million ounces.6 There has been continuous mining
in the Abitibi for approaching 125 years. With over 80 base metals
mines and over 50 gold deposits, there are still new discoveries
occurring as exploration continues, with development on deposits to
the west of the Fecteau Property such as Bonterra Resources
Inc.’s (“Bonterra Resources”) Gladiator
Project and Osisko’s Windfall Lake Project. Osisko’s Windfall Lake
Project (12.1MT @ 8.06 g/t Probable Mineral Reserves7) and Bonterra
Resources’ Gladiator Project (7.4MT @ 5.21 g/t Measured and
Indicated Resources8) both of which are roughly 30 km to the west
and in similarly aged volcanic rocks (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Location of Fecteau Property showing nearby
projects.
To date, the Property has eleven mineral
showings identified, including:
- Lac Fecteau Est:
2.42g/t Au over 2.65m, 1.82 g/t Au over 4.9m in drill core
- Buteux-Marceau:
Anomalous grab samples, including 4.11 g/t Au and intersected 1.67
g/t over 0.35m from 59.95m
- Lac Pistolet:
Anomalous grab samples, including 1.08 g/t Au and 1.91% Cu
- Desgagné:
Anomalous samples, including 1.00 g/t Au trench sample over massive
sulphide
- Lac Fecteau Nord:
1.71 g/t Au over 1.5m in drill core
- Lac Fecteau
Porphyre: Anomalous grab samples, including 7.09 g/t
The Company believes that Fecteau Property has
shown potential from historic work on the Property and Clarity’s
last drill campaign intersected some solid results, including
high-grade mineralization in FEC-22-05, which intersected 14.91 g/t
Au from 149.4 to 150.4 and 5.98 g/t Au in FEC-22-13 over 0.6m from
168.8m in the Fecteau East showing9. With only $1.4M spent to date
on exploration at the Fecteau Property, Clarity believes it has
only started to test the potential of this system and build a
geologic model for the belt. Work to date has identified 11
showings, all of which the Company believes merit further
evaluation and that they have potential to expand.
Clarity’s intended next steps are to execute
3,500m of high priority drill targets identified for its next
program at the Fecteau Property. This aims to test a number of
targets favorable for both Au and base metal mineralization. In
particular, the proposed program intends to take substantial steps
out on mineralized trends and test at least 2 known trends and look
to investigate 2 new areas not previously drill tested.
The Fecteau Property has been shown to have
stratigraphy also favourable for VMS-style mineralization with
several semi-massive and massive sulphide intercepts in drilling.
To date predominantly comprised of pyrite and pyrrhotite, but with
several kilometers of untested strong conductors at the contact
between volcanic units represent one of the high priority target
areas for the next exploration program. One trend between the
intermediate and mafic volcanic rocks is a strong conductors
identified through modeling of VTEM EM data modeled with the
magnetic data and regional geology is on the northern portion of
property. Previous drilling from 1988 may have been collared too
far north, drilling over the contact and conductive rocks.
Additional Exploration
Targets:
Inclusion of the 2022 field work into the
Property’s dataset has been valuable in adding to the understanding
of the Fecteau Property on the whole. Clarity’s previous drilling
in 2022 included gold intercepts in holes FEC-22-05 and FEC-22-13
at the Fecteau East showing. The most prominent structure was
encountered in FEC-22-14, which intersected 0.80m of 1.08 g/t Au at
the Porphyre showing. Drill holes into the VMS targets successfully
intercepted exhalative material containing disseminated to locally
massive sulphides and returned anomalous Cu and Zn values in holes
FEC-22-04 and FEC-22-09.
The airborne triaxial magnetic data has also
been a key piece for lineament identification and structural
interpretation outside of the previous drilling to identify the
current drill targets, particularly around the main regional faults
and syncline. Further processing and interpretation of the previous
work has identified a number of still untested drill targets.
Considering this, the Company has laid out its next drill program
and is looking forward to the opportunity to test the mineral
potential. The success of these drill holes should allow for the
further refinement of the model for the Property, particularly
testing the VMS potential in the north of the project and further
delineation of the structural story around the Fecteau fault that
cuts the nose of the Fecteau syncline, which transects the
Property, as well as the concession fault which also
perpendicularly cuts the syncline.
On the Property, 17,815m have been drilled in
and around the surrounding area since the mid-1970s with an average
depth of only 207m.
Figure 2: Drilling on 2022 mag survey.
Figure 3: Drilling on bedrock geology.
Figure 4: Drill Target Areas for
2024
Qualified Person
Mr. Bertrand Brassard, P. Geo. (OGQ #1067), a
consultant of the Company, is a Qualified Person as defined in
National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral
Projects (“NI 43-101”) and has reviewed the
technical information in this news release.
About Clarity
Clarity Metals Corp. is a Canadian mineral
exploration project generator company focused on the acquisition,
exploration and development of precious and base metals projects.
Clarity’s exploration mandate is global and focused on countries
with established legal and regulatory systems supporting mining
investment. The Company is based in Vancouver, British Columbia,
and is listed on the CSE under the symbol “CMET”.
To learn more about Clarity Metals Corp. and its
projects please visit www.claritymetals.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“James Rogers”
Chief Executive Officer
Tel: 1 (833) 387-7436
Email: info@claritymetals.com
Website: www.claritymetals.com
This news release contains forward-looking
statements. All statements, other than statements of historical
fact that address activities, events or developments that the
Company believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the
future are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements
in this news release include statements regarding: further
exploration and exploration programs on the Property and
anticipated targets that may be generated from future exploration
programs, and statements regarding any prospective results similar
to or with favourable the underlying geology found today on
Bonterra Resources’ Gladiator Project and Osisko’s Windfall Lake
Project. The forward-looking statements reflect management’s
current expectations based on information currently available and
are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause
outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the
forward-looking statements including: that the Property may not
host gold in commercially viable grades; that the Property may not
host gold resources similar to those on Bonterra Resources’ and
Osisko’s adjacent properties; that the Company may not complete
further exploration programs on the Property as proposed or at all;
adverse market conditions; and other factors beyond the direct
control of the Company. Although the Company believes that the
assumptions inherent in the forward-looking statements are
reasonable, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future
performance and, accordingly, undue reliance should not be put on
such statements due to their inherent uncertainty. Factors that
could cause actual results or events to differ materially from
current expectations include general market conditions and other
factors beyond the control of the Company. The Company expressly
disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any
forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise, except as required by applicable
law.
Historical information contained in this news
release cannot be relied upon as the Company’s Qualified Person, as
defined under NI 43-101 has not prepared nor verified the
historical information.
This news release also contains information
about adjacent properties on which Clarity does not have the right
to explore or mine. Investors are cautioned that mineral deposits
on adjacent properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on
the Property.
The Canadian Securities Exchange
(operated by CNSX Markets Inc.) has neither approved nor
disapproved of the contents of this press release.
1 Andrieux, P. et al., “NI 43-101 Technical Report Feasibility
Study for the Windfall Project, Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebéc,
Canada” (Effective date November 25, 2022), filed under Osisko’s
profile on SEDAR+.
2 See Osisko’s August 12, 2024 news release filed under its
profile on SEDAR+.
3 Statistics Canada, “Production, shipments and value of
shipments of metallic and non-metallic minerals, annual” (October
7, 2024) online:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1610002201.
4 Monecke, T. et al. “Archean Base and Precious Metal Deposits,
Southern Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada 2017” Society of Economic
Geologists (Vol. 19, January 1, 2017).
5 Visual Capitalist, “Canada’s Gold Exploration Frontier: The
Abitibi Greenstone Belt” (May 9, 2021) online:
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/canadas-gold-exploration-frontier-the-abitibi-greenstone-belt/.
6 Resource World Magazine, “Abitibi Gold Belt: Canada’s primary
source of gold” (2020) online:
https://resourceworld.com/abitibi-gold-belt-canadas-primary-source-of-gold/.
7 Supra note 1.
8 Bhundhoo, V. et al., “Technical Report on the Gladiator and
Moroy Deposits and the Bachelor Mine and Preliminary Economic
Assessment on the Barry Deposit, Northwestern Quebec, Canada Report
for NI 43-101” (Effective date June 1, 2022), filed under
the Bonterra Resources Inc. profile on
SEDAR+.
9 See Clarity’s news release dated December 4, 2023 filed under
its profile on SEDAR+.
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