Juggernaut Exploration Ltd (JUGR.V) (OTCQB: JUGRF) (FSE:
4JE) (the “Company” or “Juggernaut”) is pleased to announce the
company has completed the drill program on the Gold Star property,
where drill hole GS-22-06 intersected sulphide mineralization in a
shear-hosted quartz vein over 5.8 m, and was successful in
expanding the footprint of the Goldilocks zone by 120 m along
strike to a total of 410 m with 160 m of vertical relief and 90 m
down-dip.
GOLD STAR DRILLING
Drill hole GS-22-06 on the Goldilocks discovery
intersected significant intervals of sulphide mineralization
including a 5.8 m mineralized interval from 165.5 m to 171.3 m
containing stringers and aggregations of pyrite and chalcopyrite
(Photo 1) and a
20 cm vein with chalcopyrite at 138 m
(Photo 2). The
mineralized intervals consist of sulphides occurring within
shear-hosted massive quartz veins surrounded by strongly foliated
quartz-chlorite schist hosted in a sequence of alternating
granodiorite and andesite units. (Photo
3)
The 2022 drill program successfully extended the
footprint of the Goldilocks zone by 120 m along strike to a total
of 410 m with 160 m of vertical relief and 90 meters of down-dip
extent. The most significant drill intercept (5.8 m of stringers
and aggregations of sulphides within shear-hosted quartz veins)
observed in hole GS-22-06 drilled towards the East-Northeast
suggests that the system is most prominent in that direction.
Mineralized intervals drilled during the 2022 drill campaign
contain the same style of textures and mineralization as hole
GS-22-05 reported in 2021 that intersected 10.795 gpt Au (14.31
AuEq) over 5.5 m including 29.2 gpt Au (38.37 AuEq) over 2.0 m.
The Gold Star Property is an original discovery
with no previous recorded work in the area and is situated 4.5 km
east of tidewater along the Central Coast of British Columbia
approximately 5.5 km from logging access roads, which provides for
good access to infrastructure. The Gold Star property is located in
a key geologic setting along a regional scale and under-explored
high-strain zone that contains a series of newly discovered gold
mineralized quartz-chlorite-sulphide veins up to 10 m wide
(See Video).
Extensive regions of snow-pack abatement and glacial recession
along the regional high-strain zone provide for large, recently
exposed areas with excellent discovery potential.
(Map 1).
100 % CONTROLLED BINGO PROPERTY LOCATED
IN THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE WITHIN THE ESKAY RIFT - 2022 PROGRAM WAS
SUCCESSFUL IN IDENTIFING MULTIPLE NEW TARGETS
The Company has conducted initial exploration
work on the Bingo property focussed on adding to existing targets
for the planned maiden drill campaign. The Bingo Main zone is an
original drill ready discovery containing gold mineralized grab,
chip and channel samples over an area of 420 metres x 320. The zone
is open both on strike and to depth. Multiple holes are planned
over a strike length of 550 m.
Historic highlights of the Bingo
property include:
- 83% of all the samples taken
contained gold mineralization
- Historical channel cut over 4.85
metres assayed 1.77 gpt Au, and 0.20 % Cu Drill ready
- Historical channel cut over 3.2
metres assayed 1.48 gpt Au and 0.37 % Cu Drill ready
- Between 2016 and 2018, 19 chips
samples were collected and assayed up to 9.79 gpt Au and 18 grab
samples that returned assay values up to 1.22 gpt Au
- Bingo presentation
The program on the Bingo property identified 18
new targets that were sampled and mapped and are drill ready,
assays pending (Map
2; Photo
4; Photo
5; Photo
6). A total of 15 channel and 13 grab
samples were collected over 300 m on a newly identified mineralized
shear zone (Map
3) and 55 grab samples and 13 Bulk Leach
Extractable Gold (BLEG) samples were collected on the rest of the
property. In addition, a ground magnetic survey over an area of 500
m by 750 m (15 line-kilometers; Map 4) and a soil
sampling grid consisting of 362 samples covering an area of 1250 m
by 750 m (soil grid with 50 m spacing) were performed. A
high-resolution drone mapping program is planned to be completed on
or before September 10. Once all the assay results are received and
all the data is processed, compiled, and interpreted, the company
will add the new targets into the inaugural drill campaign.
COMMENCEMENT OF WORK ON
MIDAS
The Company’s field crew has commenced work on
the Midas property, where it will prospect and map with the goal of
expanding the known footprint of the Kokomo discovery in
preparation for the planned maiden drilling. The Kokomo showing is
a newly discovered Eskay-style Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulphide
(VHMS) target 5 m wide and 30 m along strike where a 1 m chip
sample assayed 9.343 gpt Au, 117 gpt Ag, 1.58 % Cu and 1.77 % Zn
that remains open in all directions (Photo
7). The same or similar lithology extends
from the Kokomo discovery along strike for several hundred meters
and remains to be mapped and sampled. Recently processed Induced
Polarization (IP) 3D inversion returned chargeability and
resistivity anomalies coincident with the Kokomo showing that
extend for up to 350 m along strike and 200 m to depth
(Photo 8). The
Kokomo showing was discovered 700 m upslope in the drainage where a
Bulk Leach Extractable Gold (BLEG) sample assayed 29 ppb Au, 613
ppb Ag, 137 ppm Cu, 54.4 ppm Pb and 462 ppm Zn, by far the highest
BLEG sample on the property (Map
5).
Dan Stuart, President and CEO of
Juggernaut Exploration, states: “Drilling on Gold Star and
Gold Standard was successfully completed. The drill program
significantly expanded both the strike and depth on all 3 of 7
veins drill tested on Gold Standard all of which remain open. The
drilling on the Gold Star property on the Goldilocks discovery was
also successful in expanding the strike extent to a total of 410 m
with 160 m of vertical relief and 90 m down-dip. We look forward to
receiving the assay results from all 4 of our properties, all of
which have mineralized core and/or mineralized outcrops. Based on
the visual observations from the 2022 programs we are confident in
the remaining untapped discovery potential on all of our properties
that are 100% controlled. We look forward to the future with much
enthusiasm and continuing to build shareholder value through
continued exploration success.”
Qualified PersonRein Turna P.
Geo is the qualified person as defined by National Instrument
43-101, for Juggernaut Exploration projects, and supervised the
preparation of, and has reviewed and approved, the technical
information in this release.
OtherOriented HQ-diameter
diamond drill core from the drill campaign is placed in core boxes
by the drill crew contracted by the Company. Core boxes are
transported by helicopter to the staging area, and then transported
by truck to the core shack. The core is then re-orientated,
meterage blocks are checked, meter marks are labelled, Recovery and
RQD measurements taken, and primary bedding and secondary
structural features including veins, dykes, cleavage, and shears
are noted and measured. The core is then described and transcribed
in MX DepositTM. Drill holes were planned using Leapfrog GeoTM and
QGISTM software and data from the 2017-2019 exploration campaigns.
Drill core containing quartz, chlorite-schist, sulphide(s), or
notable alteration are sampled in lengths of 0.5 to 1.0 meters.
Core samples are cut lengthwise in half, one-half remains in the
box and the other half is inserted in a clean plastic bag with a
sample tag. Standards, blanks and duplicates were added in the
sample stream at a rate of 20%.
Grab, channels, chip and talus samples were
collected by foot with helicopter assistance. Prospective areas
included, but were not limited to, proximity to MINFile locations,
placer creek occurrences, regional soil anomalies, and potential
gossans based on high-resolution satellite imagery. The rock grab
and chip samples were extracted using a rock hammer, or hammer and
chisel to expose fresh surfaces and to liberate a sample of
anywhere between 0.5 to 5.0 kilograms. All sample sites were
flagged with biodegradable flagging tape and marked with the sample
number. All sample sites were recorded using hand-held GPS units
(accuracy 3-10 meters) and sample ID, easting, northing, elevation,
type of sample (outcrop, subcrop, float, talus, chip, grab, etc.)
and a description of the rock were recorded on all-weather paper.
Samples were then inserted in a clean plastic bag with a sample tag
for transport and shipping to the geochemistry lab. QA/QC samples
including blanks, standards, and duplicate samples were inserted
regularly into the sample sequence at a rate of 10%.
All samples, including core, rock grabs,
channels, and talus samples, are transported in rice bags sealed
with numbered security tags. A transport company takes them from
the core shack to the ALS labs facilities in North Vancouver (or
MSA labs facilities in Langley). ALS (and MSA) is either certified
to ISO 9001:2008 or accredited to ISO 17025:2005 in all of its
locations. At ALS (and MSA), samples were processed, dried,
crushed, and pulverized before analysis using the ME-ICP61 and
Au-ICP21 (ICP-130, ICA-5Ag, and FAS-124) methods. Overlimits were
re-analyzed using the ME-ICP61, Au-ICP21, and Ag-GRA21 (FAS-428,
ICA-6Ag, and FAS-425) methods. If Gold was higher than 5 gpt, the
labs would re-analyze using Metallic Screening Au-SCR24C (MSC-150)
method.
The reader is cautioned that grab samples are
spot samples which are typically, but not exclusively, constrained
to mineralization. Grab samples are selective in nature and
collected to determine the presence or absence of mineralization
and are not intended to be representative of the material
sampled.
For more information, please
contact:
Juggernaut Exploration Ltd.
Dan StuartPresident and Chief Executive
Officer
(604)-559-8028www.juggernautexploration.com
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