Stratabound Announces Completion of Definitive Option Agreement and Commencement of Diamond Drilling on McIntyre Gold Project...
December 05 2019 - 8:15AM
Stratabound Minerals Corp. (TSXV: SB) (“Stratabound” or “the
Company”) is pleased to announce it has completed the transaction
for an option to acquire 100% of the mineral rights to the McIntyre
Gold Project located adjacent to Highway 180 about 80 kilometres
west of Bathurst, New Brunswick as previously announced November
13, 2019.
Stratabound and the owner of the claims have
signed a definitive option agreement which sets out the terms under
which Stratabound has the right and option to earn 100% interest in
the claims through cash payments, share issuances and work
commitments. Stratabound issued 300,000 common shares to the owner
upon signing the option agreement, and by the first anniversary of
signing Stratabound has committed to complete $50,000 in
exploration work at the property. Payments on the first, second,
third and fourth anniversaries of signing of $15,000, $15,000,
$30,000 and $40,000 respectively, are required to maintain the
option, which may be paid, at Stratabound’s election, up to 50% in
shares. Upon completion of the fourth anniversary payment
Stratabound will have earned 100% ownership in the claims.
Stratabound has also agreed to pay the owner a 2% net smelter
return royalty on production from the claims.
McIntyre Brook Diamond Drilling Program
Commenced
The Company is further pleased to announce it
has already commenced an initial diamond drilling program of about
500 metres over five holes across 300 metres of open-ended strike
of gold mineralization previously exposed by trenching and a
gold-in-soil anomaly at McIntyre Brook. As noted in the press
release of Nov. 13, 2019, The McIntyre Gold Project consists of two
known gold occurrences that occur 1.5 kilometres along strike of
each other, the McIntyre Brook and the Big Pit. The McIntyre Brook
occurrence features 40 significant gold values between 0.20 and
41.56 gpt gold out of a total 46 grab samples collected from
bedrock exposed in trenches along 300 metres of strike length. The
zone remains open at both ends and occurs within a 480 metre wide,
8 to 165 ppb gold-in-soil anomaly that remains open beyond 500
metres of strike length.
Renegotiation of Golden Culvert and Little
Hyland Option Agreements
The Company and the Optionors have completed an
amendment to restructure the option payment schedules for the
Golden Culvert and Little Hyland properties in the Yukon Territory.
The principal changes were to defer some of the payments from 2019
to later years, provide for Stratabound to receive a 40% interest
in the property after the 2021 payment, and to adjust the annual
payment date to December 12th of each year. The revised payment
schedule is shown below.
Payment Date |
Golden Culvert |
Rubus |
Little Hyland |
Total |
September 27, 2018 |
$100,000 (paid) |
- |
$60,000 (paid) |
$160,000 |
December 12, 2019 |
$60,000 |
- |
$45,000 |
$105,000 |
December 12, 2020 |
$100,000 |
$75,000 |
$130,000 |
$305,000 |
December 12, 2021 |
$200,000 |
$45,000 |
$150,000 |
$395,000 |
December 12, 2022 |
$350,000 |
- |
$200,000 |
$550,000 |
Total |
$810,000 |
$120,000 |
$585,000 |
$1,515,000 |
The Company has the right, at its discretion, to
make 50% of the annual payments by way of share issuances which it
has elected to do for the upcoming December 12th 2019
anniversary.
Stratabound President and CEO, R. Kim Tyler
commented, “We are extremely pleased to have acquired the option on
the McIntyre Project which is a potentially new and exciting
exploration opportunity. Furthermore, it strengthens the Company’s
presence in the Province of New Brunswick where the Company was
established. We look forward to receiving drill results in the
coming months that we expect will confirm results received from the
past surface work while also providing an indication of potential
at depth. We are also very pleased to have reached an amended
option agreement with the owners at our Golden Culvert and adjacent
Little Hyland properties in the Hyland Gold District of the eastern
Yukon. The amended agreement allows us relief on early payments
such that more funds go directly into developing the project and
provides for an earn-in along the way to completing all the
agreement terms.”
About Stratabound
Stratabound Minerals Corp. is a Canadian
exploration and development company focused on gold exploration at
its flagship Golden Culvert Project, Yukon Territory and its new
McIntyre Brook Project, New Brunswick, Canada. The Company also
holds a significant land position that hosts three base metals
deposits in the Bathurst base metals camp of New Brunswick
featuring the Captain Cobalt-Copper-Gold Deposit that hosts an NI
43-101 Measured+Indicated resource.
Stratabound management has a diversified track
record of exploration, development and operating successes that
will facilitate the development of the Company’s exploration
projects.
Mr. R. Kim Tyler, P.Geo., President and CEO of
Stratabound, and a “Qualified Person” for the purpose of NI 43-101,
was responsible for managing and supervising the exploration
program and has verified the data disclosed, including sampling,
analytical, and test data underlying the information or opinions
contained in this disclosure. Mr. Tyler has reviewed and approved
the contents of this news release.
For further information, please see the Golden
Culvert presentation and the NI 43-101 technical report on the
Stratabound web site, www.stratabound.com.
For further information contact:
R. Kim Tyler, President and
CEO705-822-9771ktyler@stratabound.cominfo@stratabound.comwww.stratabound.com
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subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that may cause actual results to differ materially from those
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actual results to vary materially include, but are not limited to,
inaccurate assumptions concerning the exploration for and
development of mineral deposits, currency fluctuations,
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