Petrolympic initiate a Drilling Campaign on Vauquelin gold and base metals Property in Val-d’Or, Québec
September 12 2024 - 7:30AM
Petrolympic Ltd. (TSX.V:PCQ) (OTC:PCQRF) (the “Company”) is pleased
to announce a drilling program on the Vauquelin-Rayon d’Or Property
(the “Property”). The Property consists of 37 mining claims
totaling 2,129 hectares located 30 km east of the city of Val-d’Or,
Québec, on the eastern extension of the world-famous Cadillac Break
within the Val-d’Or Mining Camp (see Figure 1 below).
The Rayon d’Or gold zone was previously
discovered by drilling on the northwest side of Gueguen Lake. The
auriferous mineralization is associated to both disseminations,
veins and veinlets of sulphides (mostly pyrite and pyrrhotite)
within altered and fractured zones. The most significant values
obtained at shallow depth were: 12.74 g/t Au /
3.96 m (DDH 1), 3.83 g/t Au /
3.08 m (DDH 6W-C-5) and 3.37 g/t Au / 3.44
m (DDH V-89-75).
In 2023, a drilling program extended the
mineralized zones of Rayon d’Or over a distance of 100m towards the
southeast. Two strongly altered, sheared and fractured zones
reaching thicknesses of more than 20m are injected with numerous
quartz-carbonate-tourmaline veins mineralized with 1 to 10%
disseminated pyrite and locally traces of chalcopyrite returned
0.62 g/t Au /7.5m and 2.14 g/t Au
/9m including 6.25 g/t Au /3m
respectively (VAU-23-10).
Approximately 200m south of Rayon d'Or, a
quartz-carbonate-tourmaline-pyrite vein returned 5.48 g/t
Au over 1m along with a tourmaline-pyrite vein intersected
deeper along the hole which returned an intersection of
0.52 g/t Au over 3m (VAU-23-03).
This mineralized zone was extended approximately 450m towards the
SE with hole VAU-23-18 returning an intersection of 0.52 g/t Au
over 6m associated with a wide sheared and fractured zone injected
of quartz-carbonate-tourmaline-pyrite veins containing up to 10%
pyrite with locally thin semi-massive pyrite zones. The best
IP anomaly detected in 2022 is located along this NW-SE IP axis,
200m towards the southeast and is promising for a future
exploration program in this area (Figure 2).
Approximately 900m southeast of Rayon d’Or and
close to the east side of Gueguen Lake previous diamond drill hole
#82-6 intersected a 10 m wide fractured and mineralized zone which
returned a gold intersection of 2.06 g/t Au /
1.83 m, including 3.08 g/t Au / 0.61
m.
The southeast extensions of the gold bearing
structures of the Rayon d’Or deformation corridor were also
evidenced during a prospecting and biogeochemical sampling program
carried out on the central and eastern parts of the Property.
Anomalous gold, copper and zinc values coincide
with mineralized structures localized using Magnetic and Induced
Polarization Resistivity (Mag-IP) surveys in the southeastern
extension of Rayon d'Or and in the southeast portion of the
property where a complementary IP survey is proposed.
The 2024 drilling program was designed to test
priority targets provided by IP-Resistivity surveys east of Gueguen
Lake and to localize the lateral extension of the known Rayon d’Or
gold mineralized zones and new gold bearing structures discovered
during the 2022-2023 exploration program.
The previous drilling campaign therefore located
large, highly deformed and mineralized zones crossing the Vauquelin
property and increased the possibility of discovering interesting
gold zones similar to those already defined on neighboring
properties. This structural context is similar to that of the
Chimo mine owned by Cartier Resources and located less than 5 km
south of the Property (Figure 1). Like on the Vauquelin-Rayon d’Or
Property, mineralization at Chimo includes numerous gold zones
associated with structures present in three (3) deformation
corridors (Cartier Resources web site).
Probe Gold recently reported significant growth
in Gold Resources for all Val-d’Or east properties where Gold
resources are now totalling 6,728,600 ounces Measured and Indicated
(“M&I”) and 3,277,100 ounces Inferred along all trends and
deposits (Press Release of 2024, September 5).
Eldorado Gold Corporation has exercised its
option to acquire from Sparton Resources an initial 75% (seventy
five percent) interest in the Bruell gold project, east of Val
D’Or, Québec (April 22, 2024 GLOBE NEWSWIRE). This gold project is
located approximately 5km to the north of Vauquelin property.
Petrolympic is a gold exploration company with
projects located in Quebec. The Province of Quebec has consistently
ranked as one of the world’s best mining jurisdictions.
Qualified Person
André Tremblay, Ing.- géo.,
M.Sc.A. is the “Qualified Person” under National
Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the geological
information reported in this news release.
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REGULATIONS SERVICES PROVIDER HAVE REVIEWED OR ACCEPT
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE.
For further information, please
contact:
Mendel Ekstein,
President and CEO Petrolympic Ltd.
T: 845 656-0184
E: exis@petrolympic.com
CAUTIONARY STATEMENT REGARDING
FORWARD-LOOKING INFORMATION
Certain information contained or incorporated by
reference in this press release, including any information
regarding the proposed acquisition, constitutes "forward-looking
statements." All statements, other than statements of historical
fact, are to be considered forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are necessarily based on a number of
estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by the
Company, are inherently subject to significant business, economic,
geological and competitive uncertainties and contingencies.
Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such
forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions,
such statements are not guarantees of future performance. Known and
unknown factors could cause actual results to differ materially
from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Such
factors include but are not limited to: economic and global market
impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, fluctuations in market prices,
exploration and exploitation successes, continued availability of
capital and financing, changes in national and local government
legislation, taxation, controls, regulations, expropriation or
nationalization of property and general political, economic, market
or business conditions. Many of these uncertainties and
contingencies can affect our actual results and could cause actual
results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any
forward-looking statements made by, or on behalf of, us. Readers
are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of
future performance and, therefore, readers are advised to rely on
their own evaluation of such uncertainties. All of the
forward-looking statements made in this press release, or
incorporated by reference, are qualified by these cautionary
statements. We do not assume any obligation to update any
forward-looking statements.
Figure 1 – Location of Petrolympic’s Rayon
d’Or-Vauquelin Property in the Cadillac Break corridor within the
Val-d’Or Mining Camp.
Figure 2 – Location of the drill holes, IP and
zones investigated during the 2023 campaign in Rayon d’Or.
Photos accompanying this announcement are available at
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