Beauce Gold Fields: Plans to Drill and Trench IP Anomalies on Rang de Léry, Site of 19th Century Mines and of Historic Large...
May 13 2020 - 10:37AM
Beauce Gold Fields (Champs D’Or en Beauce)
(TSX Venture: ¨BGF¨), (“BGF”), is pleased to
announce the company will commence its spring exploration program
in the western section (Rang de Léry) of the BGF property in the
town of St-Simon-Les-Mines located in the Beauce region of southern
Quebec later this month. The Rang de Léry area holds the
confluence of the Gilbert River and the Giroux creek, site of
intense 19th & 20th century placer gold mining operations and
site of the largest reported gold nuggets in Canada.
Patrick Levasseur, President and CEO of Beauce
Gold Fields said, "We are excited to get back to work on the
property now that the COVID-19 exploration restriction has been
lifted. We plan to test promising IP anomalies by trenching down to
possible outcrops and follow-up that with exploratory drill holes."
Mr. Levasseur further stated: "It has taken BGF a number of years
to piece together this large land package. Now that it is
assembled, we have commenced exploration and already have received
encouraging results. We can now start to focus on finding the
source.”
RANG DE
LÉRY, GIROUX CREEK
AREA
During November and December of 2019, the Company completed an
outcrop sampling and structural geology program and three
additional geoelectric induced polarization (IP) survey lines (BGF
press release January 3th 2020) in the western section (Rang de
Léry) of the BGF property. The IP results, from lines crossing the
Gilbert River, suggest the presence of a structural discontinuity
interpreted as south-westerly extension of the major fault that
strikes through the property (Fig. 1). Notably, the historical
placer gold channel and mining shafts that produced the largest
gold nuggets in Canadian mining history (50oz to 71oz) follow the
trend of the structure. Induced polarization anomalies (IP-III,
IP-IV and IP-V) suggest the presence of disseminated sulphide
mineralisation in folded volcaniclastic rocks and massive
sandstones located on a 400m long section from 500 to 900 m along
Line 2 crossing the Gilbert river (Figures 1 & 2).
Figure
1: https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/357b0f4b-486e-42ea-83ff-45f0fd8a4865
Figure 1. 2D inversion model of the electrical resistivity and
electrical chargeability (induced polarisation) data of Line 2
intersecting the Gilbert river in the sector of the confluence with
the Giroux creek. The strong IP anomalies coincide with folded
rocks near the river (IP-III, IP-IV, IP-V). Refer also to Figure
2.
The presumed sulphide mineralisation may be
associated with the presence of gold mineralization in the bedrock
similar to the visible gold extracted from quartz-rich
volcaniclastic rocks associated with the exposed fault line at the
Poulin trench located 1.5 km east of Giroux Creek (BGF press
release January 3th 2020). A quartz veined rock outcrop on
eastern bank of Ruisseau Giroux in the area surrounded by 19th
century placer gold mining shafts returned 124 ppb Au with
anomalous arsenic (As), a well-known gold pathfinder metal (Sample
6007-b) (Figure 3).
IP data will allow the Company to identify potentially
mineralized bedrock buried under glacial till overburden that can
be excavated for channel sampling and / or provide target data for
subsequent diamond drill programs.
Marc Richer-LaFlèche, Ph.D. Geo., a qualified
person as defined by NI 43-101, has reviewed and approved the
technical information presented in this release.
Figure
2: https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/9f1f24f6-a4f2-45e5-99e1-f09d886eecb0
Figure 2: Giroux Creek 19th Century Mine Shafts and
rock outcrop near the Gilbert river line 2 intersection
Figure
3: https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/4048342e-286a-408a-9344-a987f0a4cc01
Figure 3. Quartz veins with sulfides from sample
6007b. Giroux Creek area.
About Beauce Gold Fields
Beauce Gold Fields is a gold exploration company
focused on placer to hard rock exploration in the Beauce region of
Southern Quebec. The Company’s flagship property is the
St-Simon-les-Mines Gold project site of Canada’s first gold rush
which pre-dates the Yukon Klondike. The Beauce region hosted
some of the largest historical placer gold mines in Eastern North
America that were active from 1860s to the 1960s. It produced the
largest gold nuggets in Canadian mining history (50oz to 71oz).
Comprising 152 contiguous claims and 7 real
estate lots, the project area contains a six-kilometer-long placer
channel consisting of an unconsolidated gold-bearing auriferous
unit of a lower saprolite and an upper brown diamictite. The
Company has calculated a Gold Exploration Target for the entire
historical placer channel ranges between 61,000
ounces (2,200,000 m3 @ 0.87g Au/m3) and 366,000
ounces* (2,200,000 m3 @ 5.22 g Au/m3). Source: Beauce July
4th 2018 [43-101 Report].
The Company has identified a major Fault Line
that coincides with an interpreted fault structure across the
property. Evidence suggests the erosion of the Fault Line as a
probable source of the historical placer gold channel.
Beauce Gold Fields website
www.beaucegold.com
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"continue", "anticipate", "intend", "expect", "in the process" and
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expectations regarding mineral exploration. Such statements reflect
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For further information
contact
Patrick Levasseur, President and CEO Tel: (514)
262-9239 Bernard J. Tourillon, Chairman and COO Tel (514) 907-1011
www.beaucegold.com
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