New Gold-Silver Discoveries on Surprise Creek
September 30 2019 - 8:10AM
Mountain Boy Minerals Ltd (“Mountain Boy” or the
“Company”) (TSX.V: MTB; Frankfurt: M9UA)
reports further new discoveries on the Surprise Creek project,
located in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia, 35 km northeast
of the deep-water port of Stewart, BC. Results from the first batch
of prospecting samples from the summer field program have extended
the known mineralized zones and identified additional zones of
interest in this emerging VMS district.
Highlights:
- Assays from the Grunwald zone assaying up to 6.1 g/t gold and
196 g/t silver as well as base metal values of up to 0.111% copper,
1.49% lead and 15.1% zinc.
- Extension of the Ataman base metal - barite zone 700 metres to
the south (Upper Ataman), with up to 0.3% copper, 5.46% lead, 1.24%
zinc, 147g/t silver and 1.04 g/t gold.
- Two new base metal zones north of the Ataman zone with up to
17.3% lead, 6.45% zinc and 126 g/t silver.
The Surprise Creek property encompasses 100 sq
km, beginning 3-kilometres north of Highway 37. The historic
high-grade silver Goat Mine borders the property to the south.
Exploration by multiple companies over a period of decades has
identified numerous silver-gold-base metal occurrences on the
property. Work by the Mountain Boy geological team over the past
year, along with input from a leading authority in this type of
geology (Dr. Bruce Gemmell) supports a geological model of an
extensive VMS district encompassing the Surprise Creek property as
well as MTB’s extensive BA property, located south of the
highway.
The Surprise Creek and the BA properties are
underlain by Jurassic Lower Hazelton intermediate and felsic
volcanic rocks and Upper Hazelton clastic sedimentary rocks.
Volcanogenic massive sulphide horizons and related feeder zones
have been identified on the property and consist of barite, pyrite,
sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, with significant silver and gold
values. Mineralization has been traced along a north trending zone
for eight kilometres extending from the historic Goat Mine in the
south, through the Grundwald, Upper Ataman and Ataman showings and
the newly discovered showings located on the next two ridges to the
north.
The showings are believed to be hosted in the
same package of rocks as the historic Eskay Creek deposit located
70 kilometres to the northwest, which exploited a stratiform
volcanogenic massive-sulphide deposit at the base of the Salmon
River Formation and produced 2.18 million tonnes of ore with an
average grade of 46 g/tonne Au and 2267 g/tonne Ag (BC Geological
Survey 2008). The contact between the Salmon River Formation and
the underlying Mount Dillworth Formation has been mapped on the MTB
property.
Select sample results are presented in Table
1.
Table 1: Select rock samples.
Sample No |
Zone |
Au (ppb) |
Ag (g/tonne) |
Cu (ppm) |
Pb (ppm) |
Zn (ppm) |
Hg (ppm) |
DG19-016R |
Grunwald |
6100 |
44.4 |
1110 |
835 |
59000 |
1220 |
DG19-012R |
Grunwald |
5400 |
20.5 |
502 |
80.3 |
239 |
400 |
DG19-011R |
Grunwald |
978 |
196.0 |
776 |
3260 |
151000 |
1350 |
AW19-007 |
Grunwald |
732 |
69.4 |
784 |
577 |
191 |
230 |
KD19-049R |
Grunwald |
582 |
0.65 |
9.1 |
28.9 |
17.8 |
300 |
KD19-070R |
Grunwald |
142 |
125.0 |
303 |
4330 |
26800 |
>10000 |
LT19-097R |
Grunwald |
53 |
54.3 |
232 |
12300 |
1730 |
5240 |
LT19-089R |
Grunwald |
-2 |
25.4 |
76 |
14900 |
149 |
170 |
AW19-021 |
Upper Ataman |
1040 |
3.25 |
119 |
503 |
2460 |
40 |
AW19-017 |
Upper Ataman |
155 |
19.8 |
131 |
3230 |
11200 |
3550 |
AW19-023 |
Upper Ataman |
131 |
147.0 |
189 |
54600 |
11800 |
8830 |
AW19-016 |
Upper Ataman |
44 |
2.92 |
69.8 |
47.7 |
12400 |
630 |
AW19-018 |
Upper Ataman |
38 |
2.84 |
38.9 |
491 |
11200 |
1810 |
DG19-021R |
Upper Ataman |
12 |
39.1 |
57.5 |
8000 |
10400 |
2590 |
DG19-023R |
Upper Ataman |
8 |
106.0 |
147 |
29900 |
4210 |
1370 |
DG19-022R |
Upper Ataman |
-2 |
31.8 |
2990 |
133 |
375 |
1850 |
DG19-005R |
New Discovery |
126 |
121.0 |
190 |
2110 |
12100 |
>10000 |
DG19-007R |
New Discovery |
82 |
162.0 |
63.2 |
173000 |
64500 |
>10000 |
DG19-006R |
New Discovery |
43 |
76.8 |
109 |
12800 |
30900 |
4280 |
LT19-011R |
New Discovery |
-2 |
41.8 |
61.9 |
14700 |
9860 |
>10000 |
DG19-009R |
New Discovery2 |
36 |
82.4 |
1150 |
11800 |
122 |
1210 |
AW19-002 |
Jagiello |
-2 |
57.4 |
63.2 |
324 |
40.1 |
560 |
Assays are still pending for 82 rocks
samples.
The Surprise Creek Project is drill ready with
identified targets and a drilling permit in place.
The technical disclosure in this release has
been read and approved by Andrew Wilkins, B.Sc., P.Geo., a
qualified person as defined in National Instrument 43-101.
On behalf of the Board of Directors:
Lawrence RoulstonPresident &
CEO(604) 914-2142
For further information, contact: Nancy
CurryVP Corporate
Development
(604)
220-2971
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