Integra Resources Corp. (“Integra” or the “Company”)
(TSX-V:ITR; OTCQX:IRRZF) is pleased to announce the
commencement of the 2020 Exploration and Engineering programs at
the DeLamar Project, situated in Owyhee County in southwest Idaho.
“2019 was a milestone year for Integra in which
we grew the resources to 3.9 million ounces of gold equivalent in
M&I, along with 500,000 ounces of gold equivalent in inferred,
and portrayed strong economic forecasts around these resources with
a robust maiden PEA,” commented George Salamis, President and CEO
of Integra Resources. “Our aim in 2020 is straightforward and
aggressive; Integra will continue growing the resource base at
DeLamar with a dedicated exploration drill campaign aimed at both
high-grade and low-grade resource expansion, while at the
same time advancing the metallurgical, environmental and
engineering studies on the project to support future
pre-feasibility level studies and permitting,” continued Mr.
Salamis. “In short, Integra will focus on resource expansion
and on de-risking the Project further with engineering. In the
interim while we add value with this dual track strategy, the
Company aims to release a PEA study update in the second half of
2020 which expects to incorporate a sizable portion of unoxidized
mineralization that was not included in the maiden PEA mine plan
announced last year. The goal for the 2020 PEA update is to
demonstrate forecasted production levels well in excess of the
~125,000 ozs gold-equivalent average annual production level
highlighted in the 2019 PEA study. Integra will seek to define how
large a production scenario can be supported with the existing
resource base, while pointing to new avenues of growth and upside
with exploration.”
Final 2019 Florida Mountain
Metallurgical Drill Results
Further highlighting the high-grade gold-silver
potential at Florida Mountain, the Company is pleased to report
results from the final two drill holes from the 2019 Florida
Mountain metallurgical drill program in the table below.
Table 1. Final 2019 Florida Mountain Metallurgical Program Drill
Results
Drill Hole Number |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Interval (m) (1) |
g/t Au(3) |
g/t Ag(3) |
g/t AuEq(2) |
IFM-19-073 |
144.78 |
146.30 |
1.52 |
40.39 |
11.38 |
40.54 |
IFM-19-074 |
107.29 |
108.81 |
1.52 |
9.77 |
19.55 |
10.03 |
- Downhole thickness; true width varies depending on drill hole
dip; most drill holes are aimed at intersecting the vein structures
close to perpendicular therefore true widths are close to downhole
widths (approximately 80% conversion ratio)
- Gold equivalent = g Au/t + (g Ag/t ÷ 77.70)
- Intervals reported are uncapped
Numerous high-grade gold-silver intercepts
reported by the Company since the acquisition of Florida Mountain,
similar to today’s results, suggest that the near surface
high-grade results intercepted to date have the potential to
connect to high-grade unexplored veins within the basement
granites, beneath the current Florida Mountain open pit resource.
These high-grade veins will be a focus of drill testing in the
spring/summer of this year.
Table 2. Summary of 2018 and 2019 High-Grade
Florida Mountain Drill Results to Date
Drill Hole Number |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Interval (m) (1) |
g/t Au(3) |
g/t Ag(3) |
g/t AuEq(2) |
IFM18-001A |
310.29 |
313.33 |
3.04 |
7.68 |
1085.32 |
21.65 |
IFM18-012 |
23.77 |
26.82 |
3.05 |
4.30 |
819.19 |
14.84 |
IFM18-026A |
18.90 |
21.64 |
2.74 |
6.79 |
321.71 |
10.93 |
IFM19-050 |
16.4623.17 |
18.5924.84 |
2.131.68 |
19.586.82 |
68.1810.15 |
20.466.95 |
IFM19-054 |
55.47111.86 |
58.52113.39 |
3.051.52 |
3.069.70 |
253.6812.85 |
6.329.87 |
IFM19-057 |
5.188.239.45 |
6.719.4510.97 |
1.521.221.52 |
9.3112.875.17 |
3.4017.914.72 |
9.3513.105.23 |
IFM19-058 |
206.35 |
207.87 |
1.52 |
18.50 |
850.70 |
29.45 |
IFM19-062Incl: |
0.000.00 |
37.954.88 |
37.954.88 |
2.127.68 |
181.96623.86 |
4.4715.71 |
IFM19-064 |
26.5255.4768.28 |
29.2059.8969.80 |
2.683.511.52 |
7.090.467.08 |
27.43508.98795.73 |
7.457.0117.32 |
- Downhole thickness; true width varies depending on drill hole
dip; most drill holes are aimed at intersecting the vein structures
close to perpendicular therefore true widths are close to downhole
widths (approximately 80% conversion ratio)
- Gold equivalent = g Au/t + (g Ag/t ÷ 77.70)
- Intervals reported are uncapped
2020 Exploration Plan
The Company’s drill program in 2020 will focus
strongly on exploration upside, in contrast to 2019’s program which
included necessary infill, metallurgical and confirmatory drilling
in the lead up to the maiden PEA. In addition to rapidly advancing
the DeLamar Project since its acquisition in late 2017, Integra has
also quadrupled its land package to more than 27,000 acres. This
additionally acquired exploration ground hosts multiple high-grade
and bulk-tonnage low-grade targets identified through extensive IP
geophysics, soil geochemical sampling, historic data compilation,
and other studies. To view a target map of geochemical and IP data
for the DeLamar Project, please click on the following link:
https://www.integraresources.com/site/assets/files/2572/project_geochem_anomaly.pdf
The planned 2020 exploration work programs on
these targets include:
Florida Mountain Deposit: 7,000 m Drill
Program
Drilling at Florida Mountain will focus on
expanding near-surface oxide and transitional mineralization
adjacent to the existing resource, and testing for high-grade veins
at depth below the lower limits of the resource boundary. Drilling
targets within a recently discovered large 1,400 m x
600 m geochemical anomaly located directly east of the current
resource boundary has the potential to significantly expand the
mineralized zone near surface. In addition, high-grade vein
potential at Florida Mountain lies within a north-south oriented
corridor with a strike-length of over 6.1 km and a known vertical
dip extent of more than 460 m, which will begin to be drill tested
in 2020. Historical drilling by previous operators conducted at
Florida Mountain is shallow (less than 120 m vertical on average)
with the high-grade veins mined in the late 1800’s below this level
never having been explored by modern methods including
drilling.
War Eagle Mountain: 5,000 m Drill
Program
War Eagle Mountain has produced several of the
highest-grade drill results to date from the DeLamar Project (to
view the associated War Eagle press release, please click the
following link:
https://integraresources.com/site/assets/files/2740/2020-02-06_nr_itr_99nbdur56ns.pdf).
Located approximately 3 km from Florida Mountain Deposit, War
Eagle’s history is well documented as the one of the highest-grade
mines in the Western US during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. At
War Eagle, Integra’s drilling, together with a compilation of
historical work, has identified that gold and silver occurs in
several moderately to steeply plunging high-grade “shoots.” These
shoots are zones of higher-grade mineralization, developed due to
local structural influences, within a more extensive, comparatively
lower-grade zone. The intent of this summer’s 5,000 m drill program
at War Eagle will be to complete close-spaced drilling on these
mineralized shoots, tracing them to high-grade feeder veins in the
basement granite where historic high-grade mining took place, and
into areas where undrilled soil geochemical anomalies exist on
extension.
Preluding this drill program, the Company will
conduct additional soil geochemistry north, south and east of
current survey limits in addition to IP / Resistivity surveys and
geological mapping.
Blacksheep Area: 3,000 m Drill
Program
The Blacksheep area is located northwest of the
DeLamar Deposit and hosts multiple low-sulphidation epithermal
centers within a vast 5 km x 5 km area that is largely undrilled
and hosts similar geochemical and geophysical signatures to the
DeLamar and Florida Mountain Deposits. Significant soil geochemical
anomalies, along with IP anomalies, have delineated targets
throughout Blacksheep, in specific areas including Georgiana, Twin
Peaks, Statue and Spain Hills, Argentum and Lucky Days. Initial
rock chip sampling conducted by Integra in 2018 and 2019 has
returned gold assays typically ranging from 0.2 g/t to 4.5 g/t Au,
and silver values in several assays greater than 4,000 g/t
Ag. These target areas hosting the various soil geochemical
anomalies have sizable signatures akin to DeLamar and Florida
Mountain, the largest of which is approximately 2 km x 2 km.
In conjunction with the 3,000 m drill program at
Blacksheep, the Company will complete additional soil geochemical
sampling, IP/Resistivity survey lines and geological mapping.
DeLamar Deposit: 1,500 m
Drill Program With the recently commenced drilling
at the high-grade Henrietta target, situated 500 m west of the
DeLamar Deposit resource boundary, the Company plans to initially
complete 6 drill holes. The drilling is being conducted on
extension from 2018 drilling which intersected the highest-grade
silver to date on the Project, an intercept in IDM 18-066 of
1080.90 g/t Ag over 4.57 m, (see news release dated October 10,
2018). The Henrietta Target is host to a number of shallow,
hand-dug shafts dating back to the late 1800’s.
As the Company continues to gain a better
understanding of the unoxidized metallurgy at DeLamar Deposit,
subject to these findings, the Company may redistribute drilling
meterage to portions of the unoxidized zone at DeLamar Deposit. As
drilling conducted in 2018 demonstrated, the unoxidized zone at
DeLamar remains wide-open for expansion in various areas. Sullivan
Gulch is one such area, where true thicknesses of mineralization is
125+ m on average, with grades often excess of 1 g/t AuEq.
2020 Engineering Plan
The Company currently contemplates releasing an
updated PEA in the second half of 2020 that will incorporate
portions the 1.9 Moz AuEq of measured and indicated (“M&I”)
unoxidized material and 0.3 Moz AuEq of inferred unoxidized
material at the DeLamar Deposit into the updated economics and a
new mine plan. The PEA released in September 2019 did not include
this resource as the Company wanted to further test processing
options for this gold-silver mineralized material. The Company
believes that large portions of this resource can be included into
the PEA update, potentially showing amenability to both on-site
milling/leaching and off-site concentrate process. Extensive
metallurgical test-work has been conducted throughout the DeLamar
Deposit itself on this unoxidized material and the Company is
working closely with McLelland Labs in Reno, Nevada on processing
options for this material. Incorporating this material into the PEA
update has the potential to increase the currently forecasted
average annual production profile of 124,000 ozs AuEq to a
substantially larger production case scenario.
To view a table of the DeLamar Deposit in-pit
unoxidized gold and silver equivalent resources, please click the
following link:
https://www.integraresources.com/site/assets/files/2572/dm_06-2019_resources_tables_-_including_aueq.pdf
In parallel with the updated PEA and exploration
program at the DeLamar Project, the Company will continue to
de-risk and advance the Project towards pre-feasibility and
permitting on several other fronts. Various pre-feasibility level
studies have been initiated on the Project and will continue
throughout the year, including:
- Pre-feasibility level variability drilling and metallurgical
test work designed to show gold-silver recovery within the oxide
and transitional mineralization, for the purposes of heap
leaching
- Extensive metallurgical testwork to better define detailed heap
leach and unoxidized processing methods and provide engineering
confidence levels for future technical studies
- Various environmental baseline efforts designed to collect data
which will feed into the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”)
process
- Initial Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) and State of Idaho
engagement on work plans and outlining an expedited path forward
for submitting a Plan of Operations to the BLM
- Significant stakeholder engagement, continuing on from the 2019
stakeholder engagement initiatives.
Sampling and QA/QC
Procedure
Thorough QA/QC protocols are followed on the
Project, including insertion of duplicate, blank and standard
samples in the assay stream for all drill holes. The samples are
submitted directly to American Assay Labs in Reno, Nevada for
preparation and analysis. Analysis of gold is performed using fire
assay method with atomic absorption (AA) finish on a 1 assay ton
aliquot. Gold results over 5 g/t are re-run using a
gravimetric finish. Silver analysis is performed using ICP for
results up to 100 g/t on a 5 acid digestion, with a fire
assay, gravimetric finish for results over 100 g/t silver.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information
contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by E.
Max Baker PhD. (FAusIMM), Integra’s Vice President Exploration, of
Reno, Nevada, and is a “Qualified Person” (“QP”) as defined in
National Instrument 43- 101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral
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About Integra Resources
Integra Resources is a development-stage
mining company focused on the exploration and de-risking of
the past producing DeLamar Gold-Silver Project in Idaho, USA.
Integra Resources is led by the management team from
Integra Gold Corp. which successfully grew, developed and sold
the Lamaque Project, in Quebec, for C$600 M in
2017. Since acquiring the DeLamar Project, which includes
the adjacent DeLamar and Florida Mountain gold and silver
Deposits, in late 2017, the Company has demonstrated
significant resource growth and conversion while providing a robust
economic study in its maiden Preliminary Economic Assessment. The
Company is currently focused on resource growth through
brownfield and greenfield exploration and the start of
pre-feasibility level studies designed to advance the DeLamar
Project towards a potential construction decision. For additional
information, please reference the “Technical Report and Preliminary
Economic Assessment for the DeLamar and Florida Mountain Gold –
Silver Project, Owyhee County, Idaho, USA (October 22, 2019).”
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS George
Salamis President, CEO and Director
CONTACT INFORMATION Corporate Inquiries: Chris
Gordon, chris@integraresources.com Company
website: www.integraresources.com Office phone: 1 (604)
416-0576
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resource estimates and PEA; future growth potential of Integra; and
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These forward-looking statements, and any
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risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual
results, performance or achievements of the Company to be
materially different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking
information. Such factors include, among others: risks related to
the speculative nature of the Company’s business; the Company’s
formative stage of development; the Company’s financial position;
possible variations in mineralization, grade or recovery rates;
actual results of current exploration activities; actual results of
reclamation activities; conclusions of future economic evaluations;
business integration risks; fluctuations in general macroeconomic
conditions; fluctuations in securities markets; fluctuations in
spot and forward prices of gold, silver, base metals or certain
other commodities; fluctuations in currency markets (such as the
Canadian dollar to United States dollar exchange rate); change in
national and local government, legislation, taxation, controls
regulations and political or economic developments; risks and
hazards associated with the business of mineral exploration,
development and mining (including environmental hazards, industrial
accidents, unusual or unexpected formation pressures, cave-ins and
flooding); inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks
and hazards; the presence of laws and regulations that may impose
restrictions on mining; employee relations; relationships with and
claims by local communities and indigenous populations;
availability of increasing costs associated with mining inputs and
labour; the speculative nature of mineral exploration and
development (including the risks of obtaining necessary licenses,
permits and approvals from government authorities); and title to
properties. Although the forward-looking statements contained in
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