Millrock Receives Exploration Permit and Reports Progress at West Pogo Block, Goodpaster Gold Project, Alaska
November 04 2019 - 9:00AM
Millrock Resources Inc. (TSX-V: MRO, OTCQB: MLRKF) ("Millrock" or
the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on the progress it
has made on its Goodpaster Gold Project in Alaska, with particular
focus on the West Pogo Block.
Significant progress has been made since Millrock and N27
announced on October 17, 2019, that they had executed a Binding
Term Sheet concerning the Goodpaster Gold District exploration
project. Upon successful completion of the due diligence period,
and signing of a definitive agreement, N27 will begin earning an
interest in the project through exploration funding, and by making
N27 share issuances and cash payments as detailed in a previous
press release.
In 2020, Millrock and N27 are planning a US$5.0 million
exploration program that will include a thorough test of drill
targets established on the West Pogo Block.Figure
1 accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/6b1e1f0b-331c-44e6-b460-4b2a18c96cbe
Upon receipt of a US$250,000 exploration advance from N27, work
immediately began. Permits to construct drill roads and drill
exploratory holes were received the same week.
An upgrade to Millrock’s existing State of Alaska permit to use
the Pogo Gold Mine road was also received.
The road, which leads from the paved highway near the town of
Delta Junction, is a state-owned industrial road maintained by Pogo
Mine operator, Northern Star Resources. Millrock will enter a
Shared Use Agreement with Northern Star. This agreement will help
ensure safe road use through communication and defined travel
protocols and provide for pro-rata sharing of road maintenance
costs. A work campsite has been established at Mile 39 of the Pogo
Mine road. This will serve as a base for the work to be done on the
Goodpaster project in the coming months. A lay-down area has been
cleared at Mile 45.5, located where CSAMT Line 3 intersects the
mine road (as shown in Figure 3) south of the Aurora target areas.
This will serve as a place to stage equipment and supplies for the
planned first quarter 2020 drilling program.
A drill road, leading approximately 6.5 km north from the Pogo
Mine Road to the Aurora Creek target areas, is being constructed
from the Mile 45.5 lay-down. With the road in place, a water well
will be drilled in the Aurora Creek valley. The well will provide a
local water source for drilling during the winter months. A water
well contractor has been secured.Figure
2 accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/667680a4-3720-4409-bb65-1de4754f4b78
The following map illustrates the Aurora Creek target area on
Millrock’s West Pogo Block:Figure
3 accompanying this announcement is available at
https://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/ae29f818-91dc-4cb6-98e5-8fd305bd06cf
Millrock and N27 inspected drill cores drilled by prior
operators at the ER prospect (10 km west of the Pogo Gold Mine) and
Eagle prospect (30 km southwest of the Pogo Gold Mine). It appears
that prior workers did not geochemically sample a substantial
amount of core left at the prospect’s sites. Numerous sections of
the unsampled core are altered by mineralizing fluids, and host
arsenopyrite and bismuthinite (gold pathfinder elements arsenic and
bismuth minerals) laden quartz veins. The core is being recovered
and moved to the city of Fairbanks for re-logging and geochemical
sampling.
Millrock President & CEO commented: “Upon successful
completion of the drill road and water well by Millrock’s team, the
companies will be in a position to execute a $5.0 million drilling
program beginning as early as the first quarter of 2020. The
compelling drill targets offer shareholders of Millrock and N27 the
potential for share price appreciation. New drill intercepts
announced recently by Northern Star indicate a gold deposit (named
the Goodpaster deposit), with high-grade intersections, just east
of Millrock’s West Pogo Block, which is a subset of the overall
Goodpaster project. Northern Star’s Goodpaster deposit may trend
onto Millrock’s West Pogo block both in the strike directions and
down dip.”
Qualified Person The scientific and technical
information disclosed within this document has been prepared,
reviewed and approved by Gregory A. Beischer, President, CEO and a
director of Millrock Resources. Mr. Beischer is a qualified person
as defined in NI 43-101.
About Millrock Resources Inc.Millrock Resources
Inc. is a premier project generator to the mining industry.
Millrock identifies, packages, and operates large-scale projects
for joint venture, thereby exposing its shareholders to the
benefits of mineral discovery without the usual financial risk
taken on by most exploration companies. The company is
recognized as the premier generative explorer in Alaska, holds
royalty interests in British Columbia, Canada and Sonora State,
Mexico and is a significant shareholder of junior explorer ArcWest
Exploration Inc. Funding for drilling at Millrock’s exploration
projects is primarily provided by its joint venture
partners. Business partners of Millrock have included some of
the leading names in the mining industry: EMX Royalty, Centerra
Gold, First Quantum, Teck, Kinross, Vale, Inmet, Altius, Riverside
and PolarX.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD “Gregory Beischer”
Gregory Beischer, President & CEO
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:
Melanee Henderson, Investor Relations (604) 638-3164 (877) 217-8978
(toll-free)
Some statements in this news release contain forward-looking
information (within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation)
including, without limitation, management’s expectation that it
will form an exploration agreement after the due diligence period,
receive funding from N27, enter a Shared Use Agreement, complete
installation of a drill trail and water well during 2019, and begin
a drilling program in the first quarter of 2020. These statements
address future events and conditions and, as such, involve known
and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause
the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by the statements. Such factors include,
without limitation, Millrock’s ability to raise funds needed to
perform additional exploration on the claims staked and customary
risks of the resource industry.
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