Serengeti Completes 2020 Drilling Program at Kwanika: Resource & Exploration Upside Successfully Identified

 

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Oct. 20, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Serengeti Resources Inc. (SIR: TSX-V) ("Serengeti" or "the Company") reports that additional mineralized zones have been intersected in resource step-out drillholes at Kwanika, and the drilling program is now complete for 2020. A total of 4,350 metres were drilled in 9 holes testing a number of exploration targets and resource expansion opportunities. All core samples have been shipped to the analytical laboratory and all results are pending. The advanced resource-stage Kwanika project is ~26,000 hectares, held by Kwanika Copper Corporation (KCC)* and is located in the northern Quesnel Trough of British Columbia which hosts numerous porphyry copper-gold deposits.

Highlights

• A total of 9 drill holes for 4,350 metres, tested five exploration and resource expansion targets.
• Holes K-197 and K-202 expanded mineralization south from Central Zone resource along the Central Fault and demonstrates it remains open in that direction.
• Hole K-198 yielded a long mineralized interval within and below the proposed mining shape, and encountered the bounding fault further west than anticipated, potentially expanding the Central Zone underground mining shape**.
• K-201 confirms near surface continuity of Cu-Mo mineralization within the South Zone resource.

• K-196 intersected two mineralized intervals, including a new at one at depth, 500 m north of the Central Zone, opening exploration potential in that direction.
  

See Figure 1 2020 Drill Plan

Table 1: Kwanika 2020 Drill Hole Parameters
Hole ID	Azimuth (deg.)	Dip (deg.)	Length (m)	Elev. (m)	NAD83 UTM E	NAD83 UTM N	Target
K-196	268	-60	861	1011	351714	6156881	Central Zone/Central Fault – North: Exploration
K-197	268	-70	419	985	351650	6156000	Central Zone/Central Fault – South: Resource Expansion
K-198	240	-55	965	993	351688	6156312	CZ West Deep Extraction Level: Infill, resource expansion, engineering
K-199	173	-60	170	986	351568	6156035	Central Zone/Central Fault – South: Resource expansion
K-200	183	-60	278	986	351568	6156035	Central Zone/Central Fault – South: Resource expansion
K-201	090	-45	202	1010	352263	6154825	South Zone West Fault: Resource infill
K-202	215	-75	426	986	351608	6156064	Central Zone/Central Fault – South: Resource expansion
K-203	269	-70	179	1026	351000	6155267	Pinchi Fault – South: Exploration
K-204	268	-75	851	1011	351714	6156881	Central Zone/Central Fault – North: Exploration

David Moore, President and CEO of Serengeti commented, “We look forward to receiving the assay results from the recently completed program and these will be released in batches beginning with the first two holes when they are available from the laboratory. We believe turning the focus at Kwanika back to exploration and resource expansion this year will be successful in adding value to the project. The Serengeti team set out to demonstrate upside at Kwanika and believe those objectives were accomplished by demonstrating that the Central Zone resource remains open for expansion to the south and furthermore determined that a bounding fault that limits the resource to the west, lies further west than previously modeled, hence potentially bringing already identified resource into an eventual mine plan. The South Zone was also tested for near surface better grade material and a deep target to the north of the Central Zone continues to offer the possibility of additional resource discoveries on the property. Adding additional exploration upside, geophysics at the Rottacker target, 22 km to the south has identified an IP chargeability anomaly coincident with a previously identified geological and geochemical target and now represents a high priority target for future drilling.”

Table 2: Kwanika 2020 Drill Hole Results    Assays pending for all holes
Hole ID	Length (m)	Observations
K-196	861	Two zones of strong potassic alteration; presence of Cu-sulphides confirmed by XRF
K-197	419	Strong potassic alteration; intercept of Cu-sulphides confirmed by XRF
K-198	965	Long intercept of Cu sulphides confirmed by XRF; Intersected Pinchi Fault further west than anticipated
K-199	170	Hole deviated more than anticipated; hole abandoned
K-200	278	Central Zone/Central Fault – South; intersected narrow interval of Cu sulphide at faulted unconformity
K-201	202	South Zone West Fault; near surface intercept of Cu-Mo sulphides confirmed by XRF
K-202	426	Central Zone/Central Fault – South; Cu sulphide intercept confirmed by XRF
K-203	179	Pinchi Fault – South; geophysical target tested, no mineralization encountered
K-204	851	Central Zone/Central Fault – North; at depth, largely intersected a dyke swarm interpreted to lie east of the mineralized domain

*Serengeti is sole funding this year’s Kwanika program. As a consequence, the Company’s ownership of KCC will increase to approximately 67%, with POSCO International Corp. holding ~33%.

** See Serengeti NR -2019-01, dated March 03, 2019 and companion 43-101 Technical Report filed on SEDAR, April 18, 2019.

Qualified person

The field and analytical programs described herein were supervised by Serengeti Resources staff and the technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with Canadian regulatory requirements as set out in National Instrument 43-101, and reviewed by the company’s qualified person, Quinn Harper, P.Geo., Chief Geologist of Serengeti Resources, who has supervised the preparation of, and approved the scientific and technical information in the news release.

ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD

David W. Moore, P. Geo.
President, CEO and Director

About Serengeti Resources Inc.

Serengeti is a mineral exploration company managed by an experienced team of professionals with a solid track record of exploration success. The Company is currently advancing its majority-owned, advanced Kwanika copper-gold project and exploring its extensive portfolio of properties in north-central British Columbia. A number of these other projects are available for option or joint venture and additional information can be found on the Company’s website at www.serengetiresources.com.

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