Drills Moved onto Globex’s High-grade Ironwood Gold Deposit
November 13 2024 - 9:01AM
GLOBEX MINING ENTERPRISES INC. (GMX – Toronto Stock
Exchange, G1MN – Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich,
Tradegate, Lang & Schwarz, LS Exchange, TTMzero,
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International in the US) is pleased to inform shareholders
that we have initiated our planned 17-hole, infill drill program on
our 100% owned Ironwood Gold Deposit located in Cadillac Township,
Quebec. The Ironwood deposit is located in close proximity of the
gold localizing Cadillac Break and Globex’s historical Wood and
Central Cadillac gold mines both of which have excellent
exploration drill potential.
The Ironwood deposit is currently an
inferred resource of 243,200 tonnes grading 17.26 g/t Au and 2.61
g/t Ag. (see Technical Report for The Mineral Resource
Estimate, Ironwood Project, Cadillac Township, Quebec, (NTS 32D01),
by Reno Pressacco, M.Sc. (A)., P.Geo., February 2008 for the
Pandora-Wood Joint Venture).
The aim of the drill program is to confirm and
upgrade the current Ironwood inferred resource and possibly test
for an extension of the zone. The 17-hole drill program will be
undertaken with two drills and is expected to total approximately
3000 m. Once drilling, logging and assaying are completed, further
metallurgical testing will be undertaken to better define various
methods of recovery of the gold and silver. The ore zone is within
a sulphidized iron formation with arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite and
pyrite contents of 12.2%, 8.6% and 6.4% respectively. Precious
metals occur as a gold/silver alloy freely within arsenopyrite and
to a lesser degree within pyrite. Several metallurgical tests have
been undertaken including cyanidation of a bulk sulphide
concentrate with a gold recovery of 97% and cyanidation of the bulk
concentrate produced a gold recovery factor of 93%. Flotation of a
high-grade concentrate with low arsenic content produced a gold
recovery of 86%. These tests were preliminary in nature and a more
exhaustive test work program is planned using mineralized core from
the current drill program to determine, based upon a number of
available custom milling and smelting avenues, more comprehensive
overall recovery factors.
Globex is initiating this drill program to
upgrade the resource as a first step toward possible production at
Ironwood. The deposit is small but hi-grade and is located near
infrastructure such as an all-season highway, power, skilled labour
and several gold mills. Despite the grade and location, there are
many risks involved in trying to bring this project to production.
They include, permitting under Quebec Mining Act, metallurgical
processing and recoveries yet to be detailed, the arsenical nature
of the ore, public acceptability that will need to be established
through the BAP system, completion of environmental and other
studies, choosing the best mining method and negotiating various
terms, considering ore sorting of waste material by magnetics,
colour sorting or other methods, establishing a relationship with a
local mill if we proceed in this way, to treat the ore and dispose
of the tailings in an environmentally sound manner, negotiating
pricing for the sale of the concentrate, precious metal prices,
financing, just to name a few. Another way forward yet to be
considered is DSO (Direct Smelting Ore), shipping the ore as mined,
crushed, screened and/or sized to a convenient size distribution
for a client’s processing offshore. This would eliminate the need
for milling. In other words, there is still a lot of work to
do.
Despite our optimism there is no guarantee that
the project will be put into production by Globex and if it does
how long it will take to achieve the required permitting, establish
onsite infrastructure, etc.
The Quebec Government currently has proposed a
series of changes to the Quebec Mining Act, which will directly
affect proposed mining projects and exploration. Globex will need
to study the potential effect of these law changes upon its efforts
to work out a mining and processing plan including potentially
disposal of the arsenic bearing tailings.
This press release was written by Jack Stoch, P.
Geo., President and CEO of Globex in his capacity as a Qualified
Person (Q.P.) under NI 43-101.
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