White Gold Corp. (TSX.V: WGO, OTC – Nasdaq Intl: WHGOF,
FRA: 29W) (the "Company") is pleased to announce results
from its 2019 regional soil sampling program which identified
multiple new high-priority gold targets, including a new high-grade
gold discovery, the Titan target. The Titan is located on the road
accessible Hen property, contiguous to the Company’s JP Ross
property, less than 15km WNW from the Vertigo discovery, Yukon,
Canada. Exploration results on the Titan include soil samples of up
to >100,000 ppb Au, the highest soil value ever recorded within
the Company’s White Gold District soil database comprised of
400,000+ soil samples. These soil samples are interpreted as being
in-place and representative of the bedrock below due to the
unglaciated nature of the area, indicating high priority targets
for upcoming follow up activity including probe, trenching and
RAB/RC drilling. The Company’s regional exploration program backed
by partners Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) and
Kinross Gold Corp (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC) is ongoing on several
high-priority gold targets, with activity including GT Probe
sampling, geophysical surveys, trenching, geologic mapping,
prospecting and RAB drilling, with related results to be released
in due course.
Highlights Include:
- New high-grade gold discovery on Titan target, Hen
property. Results exceed 100,000 ppb Au, highest ever in company’s
400,000+ soil sample database; located less than 15km WNW from
Vertigo discovery.
- Preliminary follow up exploration encountered
fine-grained visible gold in the subcrop of
strongly quartz-sericite altered mafic gneiss with up to 5%
disseminated magnetite.
- Multiple new high priority targets identified. Soil
sample results include; Nolan property up to 525.3 ppb Au, Wolf
Property up to 247.2 ppb Au, among others.
- Over 13,300 soil samples have been collected on 12 of
the Company’s regional properties this season.
- Follow up work on the Titan and other regional targets
is in progress; activity includes trenching, GT Probe sampling and
RAB drilling, with results to be released in due
course.
- Diamond drill results on Golden Saddle, Arc, Ryan’s
Surprise and Vertigo targets as well as RC drill results on the VG
Zone, to be released in coming weeks.
- Management to present at upcoming Beaver Creek Precious
Metals Summit and Denver Gold Forum.
Images to accompany this news release can be
found
at http://whitegoldcorp.ca/investors/exploration-highlights/.
"Our soil sampling program has continued to
successfully identify new gold zones and lead to significant
discoveries across our vast portfolio of properties,” stated Jodie
Gibson, VP of Exploration. “The Titan gold in soil grade at Hen is
the highest we have ever recorded in the White Gold District.
Ongoing follow-up activities which have also identified the
presence of visual gold make the Titan a very exciting and highly
prospective drill target. Located 15km from the Vertigo, this
discovery is further evidence of a potential major gold system in
the placer-rich Henderson Creek region that we are starting to tap
into.”
Titan Discovery:The Titan
target is located on the Hen property, adjacent to the JP Ross on
the west, and approximately 15km to the WNW of the Vertigo. A N-S
oriented soil grid was placed over the area (100m spaced lines x
50m spaced samples) to follow up on historic soils in the area with
anomalous gold (>100 ppb Au) & copper values.
Sampling returned values ranging from trace to
>100,000 ppb Au (>100 g/t Au); the highest soil value within
the Company’s soil database for the White Gold District comprised
of over 400,000 samples. A follow up fire assay on the >100,000
ppb Au sample and rock samples collected from the area are in
progress and the results are pending. The anomalous gold in soils
form an approximate 500m N-S trending target and occurs within a
circular magnetic low feature covering a 750m x 750m area and may
indicate a buried intrusion with potential for porphyry and/or
skarn style mineralization. A broad zone of anomalous Cu in soils
(>100 ppm Cu; up to 1,395 ppm Cu) is also coincident with the
magnetic feature, which appears to occur near the intersection of
N-S and NE trending faults.
Prior to the Titan, the highest soil sample in
the Company’s database was 9,019 ppb Au from the Donahue target on
the White Gold property. The maximum soil values from other
well-defined targets in the Company’s portfolio for comparison are
present below:
|
Property |
Target |
Max Soil Value - Au(ppb) |
|
|
White Gold Property |
Golden Saddle |
426 |
|
|
White Gold Property |
Arc |
1,241 |
|
|
JP Ross Property |
Vertigo |
3,167 |
|
|
QV Property |
VG |
1,277 |
|
|
Hen Property |
Titan |
>100,000 |
|
The Hen property is situated within a prolific
placer mining camp. Abundant, coarse placer gold has been recovered
from creek gravels on North Henderson Creek immediately east of the
Titan target. Additionally, the structural and geologic setting of
the Hen indicate mineralization in the area is congruent with
mineralized structures identified by the Company on the adjacent JP
Ross property.
Preliminary follow up investigation of the
highly anomalous gold in soil sample included the excavation of a
pit overtop of the >100,000 ppb Au soil sample to an approximate
depth of 90cm; the same depth as the soil sample. At that depth,
subcrop of strongly quartz-sericite altered mafic gneiss with up to
5% disseminated magnetite and fine-grained specks of visible gold
was encountered.
Additional ongoing follow up work on the target
is ongoing and includes geologic mapping and prospecting,
geophysical surveys and GT Probe sampling with a goal of defining
drill locations on the target for later this season.
Table 1: Hen Property Soil
Stats
|
Hen Property 2019 Soil Stats |
|
|
Total Samples |
801 |
|
|
Range - Au(ppb) |
Trace - >100,000 |
|
|
Samples >100 ppb Au |
5 |
|
|
Samples >50 ppb Au |
7 |
|
|
Range - Cu(ppm) |
7.9 – 1,395 |
|
|
Samples >500 ppm Cu |
9 |
|
|
Samples >100 ppm Cu |
71 |
|
Regional Exploration Update:A
total of 13,302 soil samples have been collected on 12 of the
Company’s regional properties. The sampling was conducted to follow
up and/or expand upon previous known anomalous areas, evaluate new
target areas, and/or for assessment purposes.
Multiple new trends and targets were defined
from this soil sampling with follow up work ongoing, including GT
Probe sampling, geophysical surveys, trenching, geologic mapping,
prospecting, and RAB drilling, with related results to be released
in due course.
A summary of the soils collected per property
and range of assays returned to date are detailed in Table 1 below.
Outside of the Hen, highlights include results from the Nolan, QV,
and Wolf properties, with these discussed in more detail below.
Table 1 – Summary of Regional Soil Assays
Received to Date
|
Project |
Total Samples |
Range - Au (ppb) |
|
|
Wolf |
666 |
Tr - 247.2 |
|
|
Wells |
319 |
Pending |
|
|
Hunker |
504 |
Pending |
|
|
Stewart |
513 |
Tr - 34.6 |
|
|
Pedlar |
1171 |
Tr - 70.8 |
|
|
Hen |
835 |
Tr - >100,000 |
|
|
Nolan |
3152 |
Tr - 525.3 |
|
|
Barker |
1742 |
Tr - 63 |
|
|
QV/Yellow |
1466 |
Tr - 106.2 |
|
|
Black Hills |
2650 |
Tr - 82.3 |
|
|
Dime |
284 |
Tr - 233.3 |
|
Regional Target Highlights:
Nolan:A total of 3,152 samples were collected
on the Nolan over four grids. The best results were returned from
two grids in the Mount Hart area on the southeastern end of the
property. The northern grid extended a historic grid 1,500m to the
east and returned clusters of anomalous results expanding known
soil anomalies in the area. The southern grid expanded the historic
grid 1,500m to the south and uncovered a new 550m NW trending zone
of anomalous gold in soils ranging from trace to 525.3 ppb Au. All
together, at least five distinct anomalous zones are currently
recognised on the Hart and dominantly occur within felsic-mafic
volcanic units adjacent to Cretaceous granitic intrusive:
Hart N1:
- Covers approx. 1,000m x 1,900m area
- Au ranges from trace to 534.2 ppb Au with coincident
Bi-Pb-Te
Hart N2
- Covers approx. 700m x 300m NW trending area.
- Au from trace to 620.6 ppb Au, gold only anomaly
Hart S1
- Approx. 1300m x 1000m, circular, anomaly
- Au from trace to 517.6 ppb Au with coincident Ag-As-Bi-Pb
Hart S2
- Linear 1,000m x 200m NE trending anomaly
- Au from trace to 645 ppb Au with coincident Cu
Hart S3
- New, approx. 550m x 100m NW trending anomaly
- Au from trace to 525.3 ppb Au, gold only anomaly
Wolf:A total of 666 samples collected over 1
grid designed to expand grid coverage and known anomalies to the NE
of the Wolf onto the Flow claims acquired from Independence Gold in
2018. The grid returned gold values ranging from trace to 247.2 ppb
Au and expanded the zone of anomalous gold in soils in the area by
approximately 1km. The anomaly occurs on the northern flank of Wolf
Mt. and covers an approximate 1,400m x 300m E-W corridor associated
with anomalous Ag, As, Bi, Pb +/- Cu and covers the contact of a
Cretaceous granitic intrusive, adjacent gneiss/schist, and
overlying felsic-intermediate volcanic units.
QV:A total of 1,466 soil samples were collected
over two grids on the QV and adjacent Yellow properties. The most
significant results were from a previously unsampled area in the
central portion of the QV property and included samples ranging
from trace to 106.2 ppb Au. This includes expansion of the Tetra
zone approximately 600m to the west, and the Tetra target now
covers a 1,300m x 1,000m area and is associated with an E-W
trending magnetic low interpreted as a potentially mineralized
structure. The Tetra target is located approximately 8.5km north of
the VG Zone, which hosts an Inferred Resource of 230,000 oz Au(1).
A total of 8 RC holes for 855m were drilled on the VG deposit by
the Company in 2019. Results for the RC drilling is expected to be
released in the coming weeks.
(1) See White Gold Corp. news release dated March 1, 2019,
available on SEDAR.
Upcoming Conferences Management of the Company
will be presenting at several upcoming conferences to provide a
corporate update, answer questions and provide details on the
recent discoveries and have also been selected for special group
presentations as follows: Precious Metals Summit Beaver
Creek Beaver Creek, Colorado - September 10-13, 2019
Presentation: Thursday, September 12, 2019 at1:45-2:00PM in Gerald
R. Ford Conference Center, Lower (Main) Level, Room 2 More
Information: https://www.precioussummit.com/event/2019-summit-colorado/
Denver Gold Forum Denver, Colorado – September
15-18, 2019 Presentation: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at
1:50-2:05PM in Hyatt Hotel, Room Centennial C (Explorer &
Developer Forum) More
Information: https://www.goldforumamericas.com/ Please reach
out to management if you would like to book a meeting at either of
these conferences.
QA/QCThe analytical work for
the 2019 program is being performed by ALS Canada Ltd. (ALS) and
Bureau Veritas Commodities Canada Ltd. (BV), both internationally
recognized analytical services provider, at their respective
Vancouver, British Columbia laboratories. Sample preparation
was carried out at their Whitehorse, Yukon facilities. All rock, GT
Probe, RC chip, and diamond core samples were submitted to
ALS and were prepared using procedure PREP-31H (crush 90% less than
2mm, riffle split off 500g, pulverize split to better than 85%
passing 75 microns) and analyzed by method Au-AA23 (30g fire assay
with AAS finish) and ME-ICP41 (0.5g, aqua regia digestion and
ICP-AES analysis). Samples containing >10g/t Au are reanalyzed
using method Au-GRAV21 (30g Fire Assay with gravimetric
finish). All soil samples were submitted to BV and were
prepared using procedure SS80 (dry at 60 C and sieve 100g at -80
mesh) and analyzed by method AQ201 (aqua regia digestion and ICP-MS
analysis).
The reported work will be completed using
industry standard procedures, including a quality assurance/quality
control (“QA/QC”) program consisting of the insertion of certified
standard, blanks and duplicates into the sample stream.
About White Gold Corp.The
Company owns a portfolio of 22,040 quartz claims across 35
properties covering over 439,000 hectares representing over 40% of
the Yukon’s White Gold District. The Company’s flagship White Gold
property has a mineral resource of 1,039,600 ounces Indicated at
2.26 g/t Au and 508,700 ounces Inferred at 1.48 g/t Au.
Mineralization on the Golden Saddle and Arc is also known to extend
beyond the limits of the current resource estimate. Regional
exploration work has also produced several other prospective
discoveries and targets on the Company’s claim packages which
border sizable gold discoveries including the Coffee project owned
by Newmont Goldcorp Corporation with a M&I gold resource(2) of
3.4M oz and Western Copper and Gold Corporation’s Casino project
which has P&P gold reserves(2) of 8.9M oz Au and 4.5B lb Cu.
For more information visit www.whitegoldcorp.ca.
(2) Noted mineralization is as disclosed by the
owner of each property respectively and is not necessarily
indicative of the mineralization hosted on the Company’s
property.
Qualified PersonJodie Gibson,
P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration for the Company is a
“qualified person” as defined under National Instrument 43-101
Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, and has reviewed and
approved the content of this news release.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward
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the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements,
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be forward-looking statements. In this news release,
forward-looking statements relate, among other things, the
Company’s objectives, goals and exploration activities conducted
and proposed to be conducted at the Company’s properties; future
growth potential of the Company, including whether any proposed
exploration programs at any of the Company’s properties will be
successful; exploration results; and future exploration plans and
costs and financing availability.
These forward-looking statements are based on
reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company
at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may
differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the
actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to
materially differ from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Such factors, among other things, include:; expected
benefits to the Company relating to exploration conducted and
proposed to be conducted at the Company’s properties; failure to
identify any additional mineral resources or significant
mineralization; the preliminary nature of metallurgical test
results; uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of
financing needed in the future, including to fund any exploration
programs on the Company’s properties; 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 formations 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 and mineral exploration; 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); the
unlikelihood that properties that are explored are ultimately
developed into producing mines; geological factors; actual results
of current and future exploration; changes in project parameters as
plans continue to be evaluated; soil sampling results being
preliminary in nature and are not conclusive evidence of the
likelihood of a mineral deposit; title to properties; and those
factors described in the most recently filed management’s
discussion and analysis of the Company. Although the
forward-looking statements contained in this news release are based
upon what management of the Company believes, or believed at the
time, to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure
shareholders that actual results will be consistent with such
forward-looking statements, as there may be other factors that
cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.
Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements and information. There can be no
assurance that forward-looking information, or the material factors
or assumptions used to develop such forward-looking information,
will prove to be accurate. The Company does not undertake to
release publicly any revisions for updating any voluntary
forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable
securities law.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange (the
“Exchange”) nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is
defined in the policies of the Exchange) accepts responsibility for
the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
Contact Information:David
D’Onofrio Chief Executive Officer White Gold Corp. (647) 930-1880
ir@whitegoldcorp.ca
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