White Gold Corp. (TSX.V: WGO, OTCQX: WHGOF, FRA:
29W) (the "Company") is pleased to announce the
commencement of the 2022 drill program at the Betty Ford and Mascot
targets on its Betty property. The Betty property is strategically
located in the southern part of the Company’s land package,
approximately 15 km northeast of Western Copper and Gold
Corporation’s (TSX: WRN, NYSE: WRN) Casino porphyry deposit
(Measured & Indicated Resources of 14.5 Moz gold & 7.6 Blbs
copper and Inferred Resources of 6.6 Moz gold and 3.3 Blb
copper(4)) and 40 km east of Newmont Corporation’s (NYSE: NEM, TSX:
NGT) Coffee gold deposit (Measured & Indicated Resources of
2.14 Moz gold and Inferred Resources of 0.23 Moz gold(3)). This
drill program forms part of the Company’s 2022 fully funded $6
million exploration program on its extensive and underexplored
350,000 hectare land package in the emerging White Gold District,
Yukon, supported by strategic partners Agnico Eagle Mines Limited
(TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) and Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX: K, NYSE:
KGC).
“Our 2021 maiden diamond drill program on the
Betty Ford target returned one of the best holes drilled in the
district, intersecting 3.46 g/t gold over 50m from near surface. We
are eager to follow up on this exciting discovery to further test
the extents of the broad gold zone encountered. We are also excited
to commence a maiden diamond drill program at the Mascot Target
that hosts three large gold mineralized zones, which we believe may
be indicative of the presence of a broader gold system. Our Betty
property is located in close proximity to existing large gold and
copper deposits along the same fault structure. We look forward to
further advancing this prospective and underexplored property,”
stated David D’Onofrio, Chief Executive Officer.
Maps accompanying this news release can be found
at https://whitegoldcorp.ca/investors/exploration-highlights/.
Highlights of 2022 Betty Drilling
Program Include:
- Approximately
2,200 m of diamond drilling and 1,650 m of reverse circulation (RC)
drilling is planned, focussing primarily on the Betty Ford and
Mascot targets (Figure 1).
- Drilling at the
Betty Ford target will test the depth and strike extents of the
gold mineralized zone identified in last season’s maiden diamond
drilling program which included 3.46 g/t Au over 50 m in hole
BETFD21D003 and 1.17 g/t Au over 48.0 m in BETFD21D001.
- Planned
drilling at the Mascot target, located approximately 5 km southeast
of Betty Ford, represents maiden diamond drilling on this target.
Drilling is focusing on 3 known gold mineralized zones (Page, Boop
and Davis), where historical RC drilling encountered significant
gold and silver mineralization including 2.62 g/t Au & 107 g/t
Ag over 41.1 m in hole BETR12-022 at Page, 29.75 g/t Au over 3.1 m
in BETR12-012 and 2.19 g/t Au over 10.7 m including 6.05 g/t Au
over 3.1m in BETR12-014 at Boop, and 1.48 g/t Au over 21.3 m in
BETR12-007 at Davis. See Prospector Metals Corp. (formerly Ethos
Gold Corp.) News Release dated June 26, 2012.
- Planned RC
drilling will also test several additional targets elsewhere on the
property including the Betty Black target located directly on the
Coffee Creek Fault approximately 5 km west-northwest of Betty Ford
and the Betty Grable target which may represent a strike extension
of the Betty Ford 1.5 km to the west.
- A video replay
providing a detailed overview of the 2022 exploration program can
be found on the Company’s website at:
https://whitegoldcorp.ca/media/videos/.
An overview of the planned 2022 Betty drill
program, was provided in a Company News Release dated May 18, 2022.
To date, the Company has completed the initial phase of diamond
drilling at the Ryan’s Surprise and Ulli’s Ridge targets on the
White Gold property, with further details provided in a Company
News Release dated June 13, 2022. Once the Betty drill program is
complete, the diamond drill rig will return to the White Gold
property to carry out an additional phase of drilling on Ryan’s
Surprise. RAB drilling is planned later in the season to test
targets along the Ryan’s Trend, a 6.5 km long NNW gold and arsenic
soil geochemical trend located approximately 2km west of the Golden
Saddle and Arc deposits which also hosts the Ryan’s Surprise and
Ulli’s discoveries. Assay results for all drill programs will be
released as they become available and are interpreted by the
Company.
About White Gold Corp.The
Company owns a portfolio of 17,584 quartz claims across 30
properties covering approximately 350,000 hectares representing
over 40% of the Yukon’s emerging White Gold District. The Company’s
flagship White Gold property hosts the Company’s Golden Saddle and
Arc deposits which have a mineral resource of 1,139,900 ounces
Indicated at 2.28 g/t Au and 402,100 ounces Inferred at 1.39 g/t
Au(1). Mineralization on the Golden Saddle and Arc is also known to
extend beyond the limits of the current resource estimate. The
Company’s recently acquired VG Deposit also hosts an Inferred gold
resource of 267,600 ounces at 1.62 g/t Au(2). Regional exploration
work has also produced several other new discoveries and
prospective targets on the Company’s claim packages which border
sizable gold discoveries including the Coffee project owned by
Newmont Corporation with Measured and Indicated Resources of 2.17
Moz at 1.46 g/t Au, and Inferred Resources of 0.50 Moz at 1.32 g/t
Au(3), and Western Copper and Gold Corporation’s Casino project
which has Measured and Indicated Resources of 14.5 Moz Au and 7.6
Blb Cu and Inferred Resources of 6.6 Moz Au and 3.3 Blb Cu(4). For
more information visit www.whitegoldcorp.ca.
(1) See White Gold Corp. technical report titled
“Technical Report for the White Gold Project, Dawson Range, Yukon
Canada”, Effective Date May 15, 2020, Report Date July 10, 2020,
prepared by Dr. Gilles Arseneau, P.Geo., and Andrew Hamilton,
P.Geo., available on SEDAR.(2) See White Gold Corp. technical
report titled “Technical Report for the QV Project, Yukon, Canada”,
Effective Date October 15, 2021, Report Date November 15, 2021,
available on SEDAR.(3) See Newmont Corporation news release titled
“Newmont Reports 2021 Mineral Reserves of 93 Million Gold Ounces
and 65 Million Gold Equivalent Ounces”, dated February 24, 2022:
https://www.newmont.com/investors/news-release/default.aspx.(4) See
Western Copper and Gold Corporation technical report titled “Form
43-101F1 Technical Report Preliminary Economic Assessment”,
Effective Date June 22, 2021, Report Date August 2, 2021 , prepared
by Daniel Roth, PE, P.Eng., Mike Hester, F Aus IMM, John M. Marek,
P.E., Laurie M. Tahija, MMSA-QP, Carl Schulze, P.Geo., and Daniel
Friedman, P.Eng., available on SEDAR.
Qualified Person Terry Brace,
P.Geo. and Vice President of Exploration for the Company is a
“qualified person” as defined under National Instrument 43-101 –
Standards of Disclosure of Mineral Projects and has reviewed and
approved the content of this news release.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward
Looking InformationThis news release contains
"forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements"
(collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of
the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements,
other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking
statements and are based on expectations, estimates and projections
as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves
discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs,
plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or
performance (often but not always using phrases such as "expects",
or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not
anticipate", "plans", “proposed”, "budget", "scheduled",
"forecasts", "estimates", "believes" or "intends" or variations of
such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or
results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to
occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may
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: the
expected benefits to the Company relating to the exploration
conducted and proposed to be conducted at the White Gold
properties; the receipt of all applicable regulatory approvals for
the Offering; 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;
ongoing uncertainties relating to the COVID-19 pandemic; and those
factors described under the heading "Risks Factors" in the
Company's annual information form dated July 29, 2020 available on
SEDAR. 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 TSXV nor its Regulation
Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the
TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
news release.
For Further Information, Please
Contact:
Contact Information:David
D’OnofrioChief Executive OfficerWhite Gold Corp.(647) 930-1880
ir@whitegoldcorp.ca
To Book a Meeting with Management:
https://whitegoldcorp.ca/contact/request-information/
A photo accompanying this announcement is available at
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