BGM intersects 12.40 g/t Au over 7.00 metres at Shaft Zone

2018-01-24 / @newswire

 

INFILL DRILLING INTERSECTS 7.28 G/T AU OVER 12.50 METRES

TORONTO, Jan. 24, 2018 /CNW/ - Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: BGM) (the "Company" or "Barkerville") is pleased to announce additional drilling results from the 2017 Phase II Island Mountain exploration and infill drilling program at the Company's flagship Cariboo Gold Project. The Company is currently exploring and delineating the Shaft Zone with seven drill rigs. Detailed drilling results, a drill hole location plan map and vertical sections are presented at the end of this release. The exact geometry and hence true width of the mineralized zones cannot be assuredly concluded at this time therefore core lengths are reported.

Drilling Highlights

  • IM-17-217: 7.28 g/t Au over 12.50 meters
  • IM-17-217: 16.67 g/t Au over 5.20 meters
  • IM-17-219: 12.40 g/t Au over 7.00 meters
  • IM-17-223: 11.15 g/t Au over 7.30 meters
  • IM-17-224: 8.71 g/t Au over 3.00 meters

The Company is pleased to report new mineralization expansion from the ongoing drilling at Island Mountain. Phase II drillhole IM-17-219 intersected 12.40 g/t Au over 7.00 meters at a vertical depth of 280 meters from surface. This new intersection is 135 meters down dip from previously reported hole IM-17-016 that assayed 5.62 g/t Au over 11.40 meters and 12.27 g/t Au over 7.45 meters. These correlating intercepts are a potential new vein corridor at Island Mountain.

Additional drill highlights include 7.28 g/t Au over 12.50 meters intersected in IM-17-217 at a vertical depth of 400 meters from surface, demonstrating wide corridors of mineralization at depth in the Shaft Zone. Drilling below 300 vertical meters is widely spaced in this area and additional drilling is warranted to expand known mineralization at depth. 

Shaft Zone - Corridors Discussion

The sandstone hosted veining which constitutes the newly named Alpha, Beta and Gamma Corridors of the Shaft Zone are manifested as an anastomosing network of high vein density with an overall sub-vertical dip and northeast strike. Based upon drilling results to date, estimated horizontal widths of the corridors are variable and range from 5 to 35 meters. These corridors, as well as others that are developing in the Shaft and Valley Zones have been defined from surface to a vertical depth of 600 meters and remain open for expansion to depth and down plunge. Drillhole spacing in the corridors currently averages 25 meters between drilling sections with vertical drilling separations ranging from 20 to 75 meters with hole spacing increasing to depth. Gold grades are intimately associated with vein-hosted pyrite as well as pyritic, intensely silicified wall rock haloes in close proximity to the veins.

Qualified Persons

Exploration activities at the Cariboo Gold Project are administered on site by the Company's Exploration Manager, Maggie Layman, P.Geo. As per National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, Paul Geddes, P.Geo. Vice President Exploration, is the Qualified Person for the Company and has prepared, validated and approved the technical and scientific content of this news release. The Company strictly adheres to CIM Best Practices Guidelines in conducting, documenting, and reporting its exploration activities on the Cariboo Gold Project.

Quality Assurance – Quality Control

Once received from the drill and processed, all drill core samples are sawn in half, labelled and bagged.  The remaining drill core is subsequently stored on site at the Company's secure facility in Wells, BC. Numbered security tags are applied to lab shipments for chain of custody requirements. The Company inserts quality control (QC) samples at regular intervals in the sample stream, including blanks and reference materials with all sample shipments to monitor laboratory performance. The QAQC program was designed and approved by Lynda Bloom, P.Geo. of Analytical Solutions Ltd., and is overseen by the Company's Qualified Person, Paul Geddes, P.Geo, Vice President Exploration.

Drill core samples are submitted to ALS Geochemistry's analytical facility in North Vancouver, British Columbia for preparation and analysis. The ALS facility is accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard for gold assays and all analytical methods include quality control materials at set frequencies with established data acceptance criteria. The entire sample is crushed and 250 grams is pulverized. Analysis for gold is by 50g fire assay fusion with atomic absorption (AAS) finish with a lower limit of 0.01 ppm and upper limit of 100 ppm. Samples with gold assays greater than 100 ppm are re-analyzed using a 1,000g screen metallic fire assay. A selected number of samples are also analyzed using a 48 multi-elemental geochemical package by a 4-acid digestion, followed by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS).

About Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.

The Company is focused on developing its extensive land package located in the historical Cariboo Mining District of central British Columbia. Barkerville's mineral tenures cover 1,950 square kilometres along a strike length of 67 kilometres which includes several past producing hard rock mines of the historic Barkerville Gold Mining Camp near the town of Wells, British Columbia. The QR Project, located approximately 110 kilometres by highway and all weather road from Wells was acquired by Barkerville in 2010 and boasts a fully permitted 900 tonne/day gold milling and tailings facility. Test mining of the Bonanza Ledge open pit was completed in March of 2015 with 91,489 tonnes of material milled producing 25,464 ounces of gold. The Company has completed several drilling and exploration programs over the past 20 years and has compiled this data with all historical information in order develop geologic models which are assisting management in defining new deposits in the Cariboo Gold Project. An extensive drill program is currently underway with the goal of delineating additional high grade gold mineralization.

Cautionary Statement on Forward -Looking Information

Neither the TSX Venture Exchange ('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 release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein. This news release contains forward-looking information which is not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking information involves risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward looking information in this news release includes, but is not limited to, the Company's objectives, goals or future plans, statements regarding exploration results and exploration plans. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, capital and operating costs varying significantly from estimates, the preliminary nature of metallurgical test results, delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other project approvals, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, changes in equity markets, inflation, fluctuations in commodity prices, delays in the development of projects and the other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry, and those risks set out in the Company's public documents filed on SEDAR. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.

Table 1: Length weighted gold composites for Shaft Zone Phase II drillholes:

HOLE-ID

FROM (M)

TO (M)

CORE LENGTH (M)

AU (G/T)

IM-17-195

114.20

114.85

0.65

8.87

IM-17-195

170.90

174.00

3.10

17.21

INCLUDING

170.90

171.40

0.50

5.60

AND

172.30

172.80

0.50

96.60

IM-17-195

186.30

187.30

1.00

14.42

INCLUDING

186.80

187.30

0.50

19.05

IM-17-200

102.20

103.95

1.75

42.56

INCLUDING

103.10

103.95

0.85

63.70

IM-17-200

131.10

133.90

2.80

12.07

INCLUDING

131.10

132.40

1.30

13.70

IM-17-200

206.20

208.20

2.00

9.38

INCLUDING

207.50

208.20

0.70

21.60

IM-17-200

237.40

239.70

2.30

21.04

INCLUDING

237.40

237.90

0.50

48.90

AND

239.20

239.70

0.50

47.80

IM-17-200

243.80

244.70

0.90

13.05

IM-17-200

341.00

342.00

1.00

4.62

IM-17-200

347.70

349.00

1.30

6.82

IM-17-200

389.10

390.00

0.90

4.84

IM-17-201




ASSAYS PENDING

IM-17-204




ASSAYS PENDING

IM-17-209




ASSAYS PENDING

IM-17-212

37.50

38.20

0.70

6.55

IM-17-212

73.50

74.00

0.50

12.80

IM-17-212

104.70

105.20

0.50

51.20

IM-17-212

113.65

114.20

0.55

43.20

IM-17-212

202.40

203.00

0.60

7.14

IM-17-212

440.50

441.55

1.05

17.05

IM-17-212

471.00

471.70

0.70

16.80

IM-17-212

503.05

504.30

1.25

39.60

IM-17-212

673.95

674.60

0.65

8.94

IM-17-213




ASSAYS PENDING

IM-17-215




ASSAYS PENDING

IM-17-216




ASSAYS PENDING

IM-17-217

271.50

272.00

0.50

16.90

IM-17-217

301.00

303.85

2.85

5.31

INCLUDING

301.00

302.00

1.00

10.85

IM-17-217

332.75

334.50

1.75

5.65

INCLUDING

333.40

334.50

1.10

6.60

IM-17-217

396.20

397.00

0.80

18.15

IM-17-217

522.40

523.15

0.75

5.83

IM-17-217

532.25

534.50

2.25

9.82

INCLUDING

532.25

533.25

1.00

20.40

IM-17-217

549.50

550.00

0.50

22.30

IM-17-217

551.65

554.00

2.35

58.11

INCLUDING

553.30

554.00

0.70

106.50

IM-17-217

567.00

579.50

12.50

7.28

INCLUDING

567.00

567.50

0.50

29.50

AND

569.00

570.00

1.00

6.68

AND

574.30

575.00

0.70

51.70

AND

579.00

579.50

0.50

27.10

IM-17-217

586.30

586.80

0.50

61.40

IM-17-217

589.65

590.20

0.55

4.17

IM-17-217

607.10

612.30

5.20

16.67

INCLUDING

607.10

608.10

1.00

39.40

AND

610.45

611.00

0.55

10.35

AND

611.00

612.30

1.30

31.60

IM-17-217

634.35

635.30

0.95

13.70

IM-17-217

726.20

726.80

0.60

5.20

IM-17-218




ASSAYS PENDING

IM-17-219

7.60

8.30

0.70

5.18

IM-17-219

36.00

38.25

2.25

16.07

INCLUDING

37.00

38.25

1.25

24.70

IM-17-219

313.35

320.35

7.00

12.40

INCLUDING

314.40

315.30

0.90

51.30

AND

318.60

319.35

0.75

13.75

AND

319.85

320.35

0.50

9.37

IM-17-220

88.80

90.10

1.30

11.37

IM-17-220

148.50

150.50

2.00

4.76

INCLUDING

149.50

150.50

1.00

6.71

IM-17-220

152.80

154.00

1.20

5.15

IM-17-221




ASSAYS PENDING

IM-17-222

72.90

74.40

1.50

4.53

IM-17-222

194.10

194.60

0.50

4.89

IM-17-222

203.40

203.90

0.50

5.68

IM-17-223

99.40

100.00

0.60

13.95

IM-17-223

155.00

156.80

1.80

7.55

INCLUDING

156.10

156.80

0.70

9.33

IM-17-223

165.50

167.80

2.30

11.68

INCLUDING

165.50

166.30

0.80

30.40

IM-17-223

189.30

190.00

0.70

5.99

IM-17-223

216.30

216.80

0.50

19.10

IM-17-223

337.50

338.00

0.50

6.60

IM-17-223

339.00

339.50

0.50

6.56

IM-17-223

347.90

350.20

2.30

10.68

INCLUDING

349.20

350.20

1.00

12.90

IM-17-223

355.50

362.80

7.30

11.15

INCLUDING

355.50

356.25

0.75

13.00

AND

357.50

358.10

0.60

61.60

AND

361.30

362.80

1.50

20.30

IM-17-223

374.35

376.00

1.65

6.30

INCLUDING

374.35

375.00

0.65

11.40

IM-17-223

413.00

415.35

2.35

11.76

INCLUDING

414.50

415.35

0.85

23.30

IM-17-224

17.20

18.70

1.50

7.07

INCLUDING

17.20

18.00

0.80

8.02

IM-17-224

38.50

41.50

3.00

8.71

INCLUDING

40.00

41.00

1.00

11.00

AND

41.00

41.50

0.50

23.90

IM-17-224

108.70

111.00

2.30

20.64

IM-17-224

108.70

109.20

0.50

58.80

IM-17-224

122.50

123.20

0.70

14.40

IM-17-224

167.15

167.90

0.75

6.49

IM-17-224

198.00

199.50

1.50

14.10

IM-17-224

295.00

297.00

2.00

4.85

INCLUDING

295.00

296.00

1.00

5.95

IM-17-224

465.50

466.55

1.05

43.50


True widths cannot be accurately determined from the information available therefore core lengths are reported. Intervals not recovered by drilling were assigned zero grade. Top cuts have not been applied to high grade assays.

 

Table 2: Drillhole Collar Orientations:

HOLE-ID

AZIMUTH

DIP

IM-17-195

137.60

-46.20

IM-17-200

138.40

-44.40

IM-17-212

133.70

-45.00

IM-17-217

138.10

-43.30

IM-17-219

142.10

-65.90

IM-17-220

140.00

-54.00

IM-17-222

136.90

-64.50

IM-17-223

137.70

-44.80

IM-17-224

136.90

-64.90

 

Drillhole Location Map (CNW Group/Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.)

Island Mountain Vertical Section (CNW Group/Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.)

Delta Corridor Longitudinal Section (CNW Group/Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.)

Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (CNW Group/Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.)

SOURCE Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.

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