White Gold Corp. (TSX.V: WGO, OTC: WHGOF, FRA:
29W) (the “
Company”) is pleased to announce
significant soil geochemistry results from the Company's 2020
exploration program outlining significant gold anomalies on its
Nolan property, located approximately 50km west of Dawson City,
Yukon and 15km east of the Alaska border. The Nolan is a large
property comprised of 2,219 claims across 43,778 hectares in the
active Sixtymile placer gold camp on which several kilometre scale
gold anomalies have now been identified. This work formed part of
the Company’s 2020 exploration program backed by strategic partners
Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) and Kinross Gold
Corporation (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC) on its extensive 420,000 hectare
land package in the prolific White Gold District, Yukon, Canada.
Highlights Include:
- The Nolan
property is located in the active Sixtymile placer gold camp of
west Yukon, which has produced over 500,000 ounces of placer gold
to date.
- The property hosts
multiple large targets with the potential for several mineral
deposit types including orogenic gold, epithermal precious and base
metal veins and porphyry Cu-Mo-Au.
- 2020 Exploration
work included ground magnetics, VLF-EM surveys and 1,648 infill
soil geochemistry samples in the Mount Hart area, with values of up
to 1120 ppb Au, which has further enhanced several multi-element
anomalies within a large (5km N-S x 3.5km E-W) anomalous area that
will be further evaluated this coming season.
- The Company
also announces its participation in several upcoming virtual
conferences and invites interested parties to register to learn
more about the Company’s unique district-scale gold exploration
opportunity with significant defined resources, recent discoveries
and new discovery potential in the prolific White Gold District,
Yukon, Canada
“We are very pleased with the delineation of
these targets in this area of significant placer mineralization. It
is further evidence of the expansiveness of gold mineralization in
the White Gold District, and the effectiveness of our exploration
methodologies. The exploration methodologies and results to date
are encouraging based on the similarities to those that have led to
the discovery of significant deposits within the White Gold
District. We are excited to advance these targets with additional
testing and first ever diamond drilling in the coming months,”
commented David D’Onofrio, CEO of the Company.
Figures accompanying this news release can be
found at:
http://whitegoldcorp.ca/investors/exploration-highlights/
Nolan Property
The Nolan property covers a large area measuring
30km north-south by up to 22 km east-west (Figure 1). The northern
portion of the property north of the Sixty Mile River is accessible
from the Top of the World Highway which extends westwards from
Dawson City to Alaska, and local placer mining roads and trails.
Access to the central and southern areas of the property is
accessible by helicopter. The property hosts several defined gold
exploration targets including the Cali, Nine, Nine Southeast,
Boucher and Mount Hart targets.
Property Geology
The Nolan property is underlain primarily by
Late Devonian to Early Carboniferous (Mississippian) rocks of the
Simpson Range and Finlayson Assemblage (Figure 2). The Simpson
Range comprises meta-intrusive (diorite, granodiorite and tonalite)
orthogneisses and is most widespread in the eastern and central
areas of the property. The northern and western portions of the
property are underlain by the Finlayson Assemblage. In the north,
Finlayson rocks consist of dark grey to black carbonaceous
metasedimentary rocks including metaquartzite, and in the central-
to southwestern part of the property the Finlayson comprises
intermediate to mafic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. These
units are overlain by younger Late Cretaceous volcanic rocks of the
Carmacks Group, which comprises basalt, breccia, andesite,
porphyry, dacite and trachyte. On the Nolan property, the Carmacks
Group is restricted to the Mount Hart area in the south, where a
conglomerate unit forms its base. More extensive areas of the
Carmacks Group occur immediately west of the property, as well as
to the east and southeast. Late Cretaceous intrusive rocks of the
Prospector Mountain Suite, comprising granite, granodiorite,
diorite and monzonite, form a series of east-west trending plutons
extending westwards from Mount Hart.
The most prominent fault structure recognized on
the Nolan property is an interpreted extension or splay of the
Sixtymile-Pika Fault, a regional 150km long northeast trending
strike-slip sinistral-normal fault that extends westward into
Alaska. The Sixtymile-Pika Fault is an important structure, having
controlled Late Cretaceous porphyry, skarn and epithermal style
mineralization. The Cali target located in the north-central part
of the property lies directly on or adjacent to the Sixtymile-Pika
Fault, as do several other gold occurrences (e.g. Glasmacher and
Per) located west of the property.
2020 Exploration Program
The 2020 exploration program included ground
magnetics and VLF-EM surveys totaling 247 line km on three separate
grids (Mount Hart = 190km, Boucher Main = 25km, and Boucher SW =
32km), and infill soil geochemistry sampling at 25m spacings on
100m spaced survey lines in the Mount Hart area.
At total of 1,648 infill soil samples were
collected in the Mount Hart area, where previous soil sampling had
been at 50m sample spacings on 100m spaced survey lines. The area
of infill sampling covered an area measuring 4.8km north–south and
from 0.9km to 3.7km east-west, with the longer survey lines located
in the south.
A general summary of the soil sampling results
at Mount Hart is provided below, as well as brief descriptions of
the Cali and Boucher targets.
Mount Hart Target
Extensive soil sampling has outlined a large
multi-element soil geochemistry anomaly in the Mount Hart area
measuring 5km north-south and up to 3.5km east-west with values of
up to 1120 ppb Au, 14.8 ppm Ag, 1543 ppm As, 81 ppm Sb, 42.2 ppm Bi
and 1677 ppm Pb. The relationship between the distribution of
individual elements is currently being assessed in the context of
underlying geology, including lithologies and structures, and
geophysics. Several areas are anomalous in gold only (Figure 3),
while elsewhere there are strongly coincident Ag, As, Sb, Bi and Pb
anomalies (Figures 4A-7B). Anomalous Cu and Mo in the Mount Hart
area, combined with observed porphyry-style hydrothermal
alteration, indicate the potential for buried porphyry Cu-Mo-Au
mineralization. The majority of anomalous soil samples are
underlain by rocks of the Late Cretaceous Carmacks Group and coeval
intrusions of the Late Cretaceous Prospector Mountain Suite which
underly the west-central portion of the Mount Hart soil grid,
suggesting a link to a Late Cretaceous mineralizing event.
Cali Target
The Cali target forms a large 250m x 2.5km long
northeast-trending multi-element (Au-As-Sb-Bi-Cu-Pb-Zn) soil
anomaly, including maximum values of 515 ppb Au, 1436 ppm As, 2184
ppm Cu, 1225 ppm Pb and 2670 ppm Zn. The strongest base metal
values appear to occur in sub-zones within the larger anomaly,
which remains open along strike particularly to the southwest. The
soil anomaly is located over footwall orthogneisses on the south
side of the Sixtymile-Pika Fault, and mineralization does not
appear to extend into the hanging wall metaquartzites. In 2017 the
Company drilled 22 short (< 100m) RAB holes on the Cali target,
with several holes intersecting anomalous gold, silver and copper
warranting follow up exploration.
Boucher Target
In the northeastern portion of the Boucher
target soil grid, there is a somewhat annular Cu-Mo-Au-Bi anomaly
with values up to 2171 ppm Cu, 44 ppm Mo, 165 ppb Au and 39 ppm Bi.
The area of anomalous copper values measures approximately 900m
north-south x 700m east-west. The underlying geology of the Boucher
area is not well known due to a lack of outcrop, however the metal
association is indicative of a porphyry Cu-Mo-Au mineralizing
system. The area has been mapped by the Yukon Geological Survey as
being underlain by orthogneisses of the Simpson Range Suite.
Exploration Plans for 2021
Planned exploration work for the 2021 season
includes geological mapping and prospecting, fixed-wing airborne
LiDAR surveys, detailed structural and geochemical interpretations,
GT Probe soil-bedrock interface sampling, induced polarization and
resistivity surveys, and first-ever diamond drilling on the Cali
target. Additional details on the program will be provided in due
course.
Upcoming Virtual
Conferences
The Company is pleased to announce participation
in the following upcoming virtual conferences, where interested
parties can learn more about the Company’s unique district-scale
gold exploration opportunity with significant defined resources,
recent discoveries and new discovery potential in the prolific
White Gold District, Yukon, Canada. Registration and event details
can be found below:
Mines & Money EMEA Online
Roadshow Registration:
https://minesandmoney.com/online/roadshow.php
Date: May 13, 2021
Time: 8am to 8pm GMT
Mines & Money North American Online
Roadshow Registration:
https://minesandmoney.com/online/roadshow.php
Date: May 18, 2021
Time: 8am to 8pm EST
121 Mining EMEA Investment
Online Registration:
https://www.weare121.com/121mininginvestment-london/
Date: May 25-27th
Time: 7am to 7pm GMT
Mines & Money 5@5
London Registration:
https://minesandmoney.com/5-at-5/register.php
Date: May 27, 2021
Time: 5pm to 6pm GMT
Very Independent Research Metals
Conference
2021 Registration:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5185425892218867469 Date:
June 15, 2021 Time:
12:15pm EST
121 Mining APAC Investment
Online Registration:
https://www.weare121.com/121mininginvestment-hk/
Date: June 15-18th
Time: 6pm to 8pm HKT
QA/QCAnalytical work for the
2020 soil sampling program on the Nolan property was performed by
Bureau Veritas Canada Ltd., an internationally recognized
analytical services provider, at its Vancouver, British Columbia
laboratory. Sample preparation was completed at its Whitehorse,
Yukon facility, using procedure SS80 (dry at 60° C and sieve 100g
to -80 mesh). The analytical procedure used was AQ-201 (15g, aqua
regia digestion and ICP-ES/MS analysis).
About White Gold Corp.The
Company owns a portfolio of 21,111 quartz claims across 31
properties covering over 420,000 hectares representing over 40% of
the Yukon’s prolific 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 a historic
Inferred gold resource of 230,000 ounces at 1.65 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”, dated July 10, 2020, prepared by Dr. Gilles Arseneau,
P.Geo., and Andrew Hamilton, P.Geo., available on SEDAR. (2) See
Comstock Metals Ltd. technical report titled “NI 43-101 TECHNICAL
REPORT on the QV PROJECT”, dated August 19, 2014, prepared by Jean
Pautler, P.Geo., and Ali Shahkar, P.Eng., available on SEDAR. (3)
See Newmont Corporation press release titled “Newmont Reports 2019
Gold Mineral Reserves of 100 Million Ounces, Largest in Company
History”, dated February 13, 2020, available on SEDAR.(4) See
Western Copper and Gold Corporation press release titled “Western
Copper and Gold Announces Significant Resource Increase at Casino”,
dated July 14, 2020, 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
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or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not
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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/
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