BGM Intersects 24.16 G/t Au Over 14.55 Meters on Island Mountain

2018-04-11 / @newswire

 

2018 DRILL RESULTS ALSO INCLUDE INTERSECTION OF 14.69 G/T AU OVER 15.80 METERS

TORONTO, April 11, 2018 /CNW/ - Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: BGM) (the "Company" or "Barkerville") is pleased to announce drilling results from the 50,000-meter 2018 Island Mountain exploration and delineation programs at the Company's flagship Cariboo Gold Project.   Detailed drilling results, a drill hole location plan map and vertical sections are presented at the end of this release. True widths are estimated to be 50 to 75% of reported core length intervals. The Company currently has seven drill rigs exploring and delineating mineralized vein corridors on Island Mountain. An eighth drill rig is exploring regional targets 6 km south east of Barkerville Mountain.

Drilling Highlights

  • IM-18-001: 101.98 g/t Au over 2.15 meters
  • IM-18-001: 7.65 g/t Au over 10.60 meters
  • IM-18-005: 14.69 g/t Au over 15.80 meters
  • IM-18-006: 10.87 g/t Au over 6.00 meters
  • IM-18-006: 24.16 g/t Au over 14.55 meters
  • IM-18-009: 52.65 g/t Au over 2.50 meters
  • IM-18-010: 19.64 g/t Au over 3.85 meters
  • IM-18-019: 11.35 g/t Au over 6.30 meters
  • IM-18-022 34.57 g/t Au over 4.20 meters

Vein Zone Continuity on Island Mountain

The 2018 drill program at Island Mountain is designed to infill and expand known vein corridors on the property. Continuity and extensions of mineralized vein corridors on Island Mountain is demonstrated from recent results. Island Mountain hole IM-18-006 intersected 24.16 g/t Au over 14.55 meters, 140 meters up dip of IM-18-019 that assayed 11.35 g/t Au over 6.30 meters. These intercepts are within and adjacent to modelled vein corridors. IM-18-005 intersected 14.69 g/t Au over 15.80 meters, 35 meters up dip from a modelled vein corridor and IM-18-010 that assayed 19.64 g/t Au over 3.85 meters.

Corridors Discussion

Mineralized quartz veins on the Cariboo Gold Project are hosted within the sandstones and are an anastomosing network of high vein density with an overall sub-vertical dip and northeast strike. Recent modelling of the vein corridors Island Mountain proposes 64 mineralized vein corridors. These vein corridors have estimated horizontal width of 3 meters and a strike length of up to 300 meters. These corridors have been defined from surface to a vertical depth of 600 meters and remain open for expansion at depth and down plunge. Drill hole 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 at 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 Project Geologists, Kyle Orr and Felipe Castaneda. As per National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, Maggie Layman, 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, Maggie Layman, 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 mineral rights package located in the historical Cariboo Mining District of central British Columbia. Barkerville's Cariboo Gold Project mineral tenures cover 1,950 square kilometres; along a strike length of 67 kilometres which includes several past producing placer and hard rock mines, making it one of the most well-endowed land packages in British Columbia. Since the management change in mid-2015, the Company has unlocked the fundamental structural controls of gold mineralization. The Company's Brownfield's exploration team is focused on developing and delineating a mineable resource within the 7 kilometers of principle project area located near the town of Wells, British Columbia.  The Company's Greenfield's team is developing quality exploration assets throughout the remaining land package through systematic, scientific, exploration.  The operation's team is focused on developing and mining the Bonanza Ledge and BC Vein deposits on Barkerville Mountain.  This operation allows the company to generate near term cash flow, train a local work force, keeps the present mining permit active, and de-risk's the project through staged production growth.  Processing of material from these deposits is processed at the QR mill.  QR is a fully owned, permitted mill and tailings facility, located approximately 110 kilometres away from Wells, and can be accessed by an all-season road.

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 from Island Mountain







HOLE ID


         FROM

               TO

  CORE LENGTH (M)

    AU (G/T)

IM-18-001


64.75

67.90

3.15

5.52


INCLUDING

64.75

65.35

0.60

12.65



139.20

139.70

0.50

21.00



144.70

145.90

1.20

5.74



191.30

194.35

3.05

4.52


INCLUDING

191.30

192.30

1.00

7.96


AND

193.35

194.35

1.00

5.74



348.45

350.60

2.15

101.98


INCLUDING

348.45

349.10

0.65

18.50


AND

350.00

350.60

0.60

345.00



372.85

373.55

0.70

6.42



378.15

388.75

10.60

7.65


INCLUDING

378.15

378.90

0.75

48.60


AND

382.10

383.30

1.20

12.30


AND

385.05

385.65

0.60

7.80


AND

387.60

388.75

1.15

8.45



397.35

397.85

0.50

37.50



412.75

414.25

1.50

6.71

IM-18-002


66.60

67.10

0.50

6.69



136.85

138.00

1.15

11.10



158.50

160.00

1.50

15.50



210.90

212.20

1.30

28.60



255.25

256.00

0.75

7.32

IM-18-003


68.20

70.40

2.20

6.35


INCLUDING

68.20

69.15

0.95

8.57


AND

69.90

70.40

0.50

10.80



132.20

132.90

0.70

20.70



140.85

141.35

0.50

10.25



160.00

161.00

1.00

7.70



218.50

219.35

0.85

4.80

IM-18-004


42.00

42.60

0.60

5.11



68.40

69.65

1.25

10.85



92.60

93.20

0.60

5.21



122.80

125.35

2.55

9.11


INCLUDING

123.30

124.80

1.50

11.75



137.50

138.50

1.00

8.12



141.85

142.35

0.50

4.32



156.85

158.15

1.30

29.10

IM-18-005


36.70

37.20

0.50

23.70



38.30

39.00

0.70

29.40



42.50

44.50

2.00

6.51



42.50

43.00

0.50

3.84



44.00

44.50

0.50

20.30



51.50

52.15

0.65

10.20



57.95

59.00

1.05

39.00



121.00

121.80

0.80

11.00



162.90

178.70

15.80

14.69


INCLUDING

162.90

164.00

1.10

7.46


AND

164.00

164.50

0.50

199.00


AND

168.05

168.95

0.90

59.70


AND

169.50

171.00

1.50

22.70


AND

174.40

174.90

0.50

17.35


AND

178.00

178.70

0.70

16.75



193.85

194.40

0.55

31.30



196.20

197.00

0.80

11.60

IM-18-006


99.00

105.00

6.00

10.87


INCLUDING

99.00

100.00

1.00

7.51


AND

101.00

101.50

0.50

45.00


AND

103.30

103.80

0.50

17.45


AND

103.80

104.30

0.50

35.10



116.00

117.50

1.50

18.15



162.00

162.50

0.50

7.26



175.00

176.00

1.00

5.91



182.20

196.75

14.55

24.16


INCLUDING

182.20

183.00

0.80

63.40


AND

186.60

187.20

0.60

75.10


AND

187.20

188.00

0.80

33.50


AND

194.10

195.00

0.90

17.45


AND

195.00

196.00

1.00

164.00


AND

196.00

196.75

0.75

11.50



248.00

248.90

0.90

14.10



282.00

283.40

1.40

9.61



291.00

291.50

0.50

6.77



297.00

298.50

1.50

4.66


INCLUDING

298.00

298.50

0.50

6.74

IM-18-006-1


183.50

184.00

0.50

11.90



187.80

191.50

3.70

25.96


INCLUDING

189.65

190.40

0.75

59.70

IM-18-007


238.00

239.05

1.05

6.95

IM-18-008


55.00

55.50

0.50

5.00



149.10

150.50

1.40

9.91



319.75

320.25

0.50

9.50

IM-18-009


43.75

46.25

2.50

52.65


INCLUDING

44.25

45.75

1.50

85.60



51.10

51.85

0.75

11.75



57.10

58.00

0.90

5.78



68.50

69.00

0.50

4.74



80.95

81.50

0.55

8.32



94.15

95.30

1.15

16.70



96.70

97.30

0.60

18.25



200.95

201.50

0.55

7.10



269.30

270.15

0.85

12.45



277.40

278.10

0.70

8.27



406.00

407.40

1.40

4.76

IM-18-010


17.70

20.20

2.50

44.66


INCLUDING

17.70

18.20

0.50

166.50


AND

18.20

18.80

0.60

28.60



140.75

141.85

1.10

10.70



185.00

186.40

1.40

5.80



215.60

219.45

3.85

19.64


INCLUDING

215.60

216.15

0.55

18.10


AND

217.95

218.45

0.50

41.90


AND

218.45

219.45

1.00

35.30



249.90

250.40

0.50

22.00



269.00

269.55

0.55

32.60



279.40

279.90

0.50

4.92



289.85

291.00

1.15

4.65



299.65

300.15

0.50

4.30

IM-18-011

NO SIGNIFICANT ASSAYS




IM-18-012


107.25

107.75

0.50

41.60



194.30

197.20

2.90

26.13


INCLUDING

195.00

196.00

1.00

44.90



228.50

229.00

0.50

89.90



233.90

234.50

0.60

88.60



237.35

237.90

0.55

21.60

IM-18-013


104.50

105.95

1.45

14.90

IM-18-014


97.25

99.00

1.75

9.04



116.00

116.60

0.60

16.55



342.00

342.85

0.85

7.46



387.00

388.35

1.35

5.50


INCLUDING

387.85

388.35

0.50

7.99

IM-18-015


415.40

416.75

1.35

17.00

IM-18-016


132.75

135.30

2.55

24.58


INCLUDING

132.75

133.75

1.00

9.09


AND

134.25

135.30

1.05

51.00



150.00

151.25

1.25

8.66



222.00

224.25

2.25

9.31



285.50

286.00

0.50

10.90



313.05

313.90

0.85

7.63



326.35

327.50

1.15

5.09

IM-18-017


46.30

47.20

0.90

17.95

IM-18-018


15.50

17.10

1.60

5.40



43.00

43.70

0.70

14.10



145.45

147.75

2.30

25.94


INCLUDING

147.00

147.75

0.75

67.00



152.30

152.80

0.50

26.70



177.20

177.70

0.50

22.90



289.85

290.50

0.65

22.00



302.40

303.05

0.65

7.64



315.70

316.45

0.75

7.95



341.50

343.00

1.50

5.45

IM-18-019


23.50

24.55

1.05

53.70



69.00

70.50

1.50

8.93



124.40

125.00

0.60

10.35



129.25

131.25

2.00

12.04


INCLUDING

129.25

130.10

0.85

14.80


AND

130.60

131.25

0.65

12.50



311.10

317.40

6.30

11.35


INCLUDING

311.10

312.00

0.90

38.70


AND

313.55

314.20

0.65

19.85


AND

314.20

314.70

0.50

29.50


AND

316.70

317.40

0.70

7.69



329.00

329.85

0.85

22.90



339.80

340.30

0.50

13.05



364.50

365.00

0.50

18.75



408.20

414.75

6.55

5.98


INCLUDING

408.20

408.70

0.50

24.60


AND

411.00

411.55

0.55

6.50


AND

413.00

414.00

1.00

11.20


AND

414.00

414.75

0.75

10.45

IM-18-020


97.30

98.20

0.90

9.26

IM-18-021


108.60

112.00

3.40

19.45


INCLUDING

108.60

109.20

0.60

5.29


AND

111.00

112.00

1.00

61.10

IM-18-022


134.50

136.00

1.50

16.55



145.00

147.65

2.65

12.03


INCLUDING

145.00

145.50

0.50

32.80


AND

147.00

147.65

0.65

21.10



160.90

165.10

4.20

34.57


INCLUDING

162.00

162.60

0.60

139.50


AND

162.60

164.00

1.40

33.50

 

True widths are estimated to be 50 to 75% of reported core length intervals. 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-18-001

131

-54

IM-18-002

142

-46

IM-18-003

149

-45

IM-18-004

151

-45

IM-18-005

140

-52

IM-18-006

124

-50

IM-18-006-1

124

-50

IM-18-007

127

-57

IM-18-008

135

-45

IM-18-009

134

-50

IM-18-010

143

-48

IM-18-011

135

-53

IM-18-012

148

-51

IM-18-013

121

-65

IM-18-014

134

-54

IM-18-015

130

-51

IM-18-016

146

-60

IM-18-017

140

-59

IM-18-018

130

-54

IM-18-019

131

-61

IM-18-020

137

-55

IM-18-021

140

-61

IM-18-022

129

-67

 

Island Mountain Zone Drilling (CNW Group/Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.)

Island Mountain Vertical 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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