Canadian Orebodies Inc. (the “Company”) (TSXV: CORE) is pleased to
provide an update on the 2019 fall exploration program at the
Company’s 240 km2 Pic Project located near Marathon, Ontario.
The Company’s regional exploration crew was
mobilized to the Porphyry Lake and Camp 27 areas to follow up on a
number of anomalous grab samples collected in 2017 and 2018, which
returned up to 7.8 g/t Au and 27.3 g/t Au respectively from each of
the two areas. A rock sampling, soil sampling, and geological
mapping program was carried out in the Porphyry Lake area, and the
crew performed a rock, soil, and lake sediment sampling program
during the same time period at the Camp 27 area. Additionally, the
Beggs Lake and Contact Lake areas were revisited, with results
discussed further below.
The regional soil and grab sampling program
uncovered a significant zone of gold enrichment in soil and bedrock
in the Porphyry Lake area, located approximately 4 km northeast of
the Wire Lake Gold System. The mineralization near Porphyry Lake
appears to share some similarities with gold mineralization in the
Wire Lake Gold System.
- Comparable to the Wire Lake Gold System, gold mineralization in
the Porphyry Lake area is spatially associated with porphyry dykes
emplaced in the volcanic sequence;
- Gold grades in grab samples in the Porphyry Lake area range
between nil and 27.3 g/t. (the reader is cautioned that grab
samples are selective by nature and may not be representative of
mineralization present on the Pic property).
A compilation map of the Pic Project is
available at:
https://canadianorebodies.com/site/assets/files/2011/picproject-compilation-2020.pdf
Porphyry Lake Area
In the Porphyry Lake area, grab samples up to
12.4 g/t Au and soil samples up to 104 ppb Au (humus) / 31 ppb Au
(B horizon) were returned from the 2019 program, with
widespread Au mineralization in rock and soil samples being
returned over an east-west extent of approximately 450m, and over a
north-south extent of approximately 400m, which include samples
collected in 2017 and 2018.
The majority of mineralized samples are located
in a magnetic high west of Porphyry Lake, with some in a magnetic
low corresponding to the east-southeast trending Fallen Lake Fault
north of the lake. The magnetic high could be explained by an
interpreted property-scale package of folded iron formation and
metavolcanics, here seemingly corresponding to the eastern limb of
a northeast-plunging synform. The Porphyry Lake area is located
along strike from the Mag Lake area ~2km northeast of the lake,
where several outcrops of sheared iron formation were observed in
2019, and where 222ppb Au was returned from a 1m wide quartz vein
and 3.5% Zn & 61ppb Au were returned from iron formation in
2018.
Gold is generally hosted in
quartz/quartz-carbonate-veined mafic volcanics, as is the case with
sample A756201 from 2018 which returned 7.8 g/t Au, and with sample
A705063 from 2019 which returned 12.4 g/t Au. The latter sample was
angular float, but not far to the north similar quartz in sheared
mafic volcanic outcrop returned 913ppb Au. 10-20m wide feldspar
porphyry dykes have also been identified in the area and sheared
mafic volcanics near the contacts have returned up to 1.2 g/t Au
(sample A705011). Several northeast-trending lineaments were
observed west of the lake which may be masking alteration zones,
feldspar porphyry dykes and/or iron formation. The presence of
feldspar porphyry dykes is reminiscent of the Wire Lake Gold Zone
4km to the south-southwest, though no structural link has been
established between the two areas to-date.
All told there appears to be a broad alteration
system with veining and gold mineralization in the Porphyry Lake
area which represents an important new exploration target. More
exploration is required to determine the extent, geometry and
timing of folding. The sparsely explored area between Porphyry Lake
and Mag Lake, representing about 1.5km of strike length, is an
interesting target for future exploration programs.
Camp 27 Area
In the Camp 27 area, grab samples up to 452ppb
Au and soil samples up to 26ppb Au (humus) and 42ppb Au (B horizon)
were returned from the 2019 program.
Sample A756242 which returned 27.3 g/t Au from
2018, was collected on the west shore of 27 Lake and consisted of
several sub-parallel north-northeast trending quartz +/-
quartz-carbonate +/- albite stringers with pyrite and chalcopyrite
in altered mafic volcanics, over ~0.5m. The 2019 program was not
able to locate additional quartz veining to the north or south in
outcrop.
Sample A704619 returned 452ppb Au and was
collected on the north shore of 27 Lake, 270m east of the 27.3 g/t
Au sample and consisted of quartz veining in rusty sericite schist.
In this area there appear to be several parallel zones of
intermediate-felsic volcanics (possibly the host rock of the
sericite schist) within a broader package of mafic volcanics. A 1m+
wide shear zone of rusty sericite schist was located 30m east of
the 452ppb Au sample, trending north-south and traced over 200m
along strike from just north of the lake towards the Fallen Lake
Fault. This zone returned up to 318ppb Au (sample A704649) from
quartz veining, dips 70 degrees to the west, and is open to the
east, where it disappears in a 10-15m wide, north-south-trending,
swampy lineament.
3 lake sediments were collected at 27 Lake
during the summer which returned up to 54ppb Au. It is important to
note that this sample was taken immediately south of the formerly
mentioned 200m+ shear zone and there does not appear to be any
significant water flow into 27 Lake.
Beggs Lake Area
During the summer of 2019, an orientation
humus and B horizon soil sampling program was conducted in the
Beggs Lake Stock to follow up on gold targets identified in 2017
and 2018, including the ABC Occurrence (2017, 109 g/t Au), the GC
Vein (2018, 8.2 g/t Au, 227gpt Ag), the Super 7 Zone (2017, 492ppb
Au), and the Super 7 Extension Zone (2018, 327ppb Au, 352ppm W). To
the Company’s knowledge, humus samples have never been
systematically collected in the Beggs Lake Stock and one purpose of
the program was to compare results from different soil horizons to
better plan for future programs. Soil lines were oriented east-west
to cross-cut north-northeast trending zones, whereas all previous
soil programs in the Beggs Lake Stock to date (except for a B
horizon survey conducted in 2017 between Beggs Lake and Roccian
Lake) have been oriented north-south, subparallel to the majority
of lineaments and quartz vein systems.
Within the Beggs Lake Stock, humus samples
generally returned greater and more consistent gold values (up to
44ppb Au in the vicinity of the ABC Occurrence / GC Vein) than B
horizon, which was more difficult to collect. Two
southwest-northeast soil lines were run over the Alpha North
Occurrence (15.3 g/t Au, 2018), north of Beggs Lake. It consisted
of a quartz stringer in weakly sheared mafic volcanics at 285
degrees, subparallel to the contact of the Beggs Lake Stock with
the surrounding metavolcanics. Soils in this area returned up to
29ppb Au from humus.
While camped at Beggs Lake 5 lake sediment
samples were collected at that location, which returned up to 33ppb
Au and averaged 29ppb Au.
The Beggs Lake Stock and surroundings remain a
target of interest. The showings/zones mentioned above represent a
small portion of all the known gold showings within the Stock. Of
particular note is the North Ridge vein system, which returned
80ppb / 84m in diamond drill hole BR-2018-007 from the fall of
2018. This vein system lines up with the Smoke Lake Gold System to
the south, which returned 5.4 g/t Au over 10.4m, including 12.0 g/t
Au over 4.3m, in drill hole BR-2019-013 in the spring of 2019 (See
news release dated June 11, 2019). In light of recent discussion
about potential folding, it is possible that the Beggs Lake Stock
intruded into the nose of an antiformal structure during late-stage
deformation and was subsequently fractured along or subparallel to
the axial plane, providing a conduit for gold-bearing fluids. The
interpreted axial plane extends south to Smoke Lake and may help
explain the gold system there.
Contact Lake Area
In the summer of 2019, a small humus and B
horizon orientation soil sampling program was conducted east and
southeast of Contact Lake to follow up on gold targets identified
in 2017 and 2018, including the Contact Lake Gold Occurrence (CLGO,
2017, 11.9 g/t Au), the Contact East Iron Formation (2018, 428ppb
Au) and the Quartz Slope Zone 200m east of the CLGO (2018, 229ppb
Au). Soil lines were designed to test a south-southeast trending
structure and mag feature which corresponds to iron formation and
mafic volcanics, based on samples taken and field mapping. Results
returned up to 34ppb Au from humus and 22ppb Au from B horizon. A
soil orientation survey carried out in 2018, which returned up to
774ppb Au from humus, was oriented parallel to this south-southeast
structure across an east-northeast shear zone hosting the CLGO,
which consisted of quartz veins and felsic dykelets within a mafic
volcanic shear. Currently it is unclear which orientation is more
important in this area, because gold mineralization appears to be
associated with both east-northeast and north-northwest trending
structures. The north-northwest structures are more prominent, but
the east-northeast structures have so far returned the
highest-grade results. Proximity to the granite contact may also
play a role in the gold mineralization in this area.
It is not clear if these iron formations and
mafic volcanics are part of the same interpreted folded package of
rocks mentioned above; in that case there might be a fold nose
northwest of Contact Lake / northeast of Mag Lake.
While camped at Contact Lake, 5 lake sediment
samples were collected at that location, which returned up to 34ppb
Au and averaged 23ppb Au.
Analytical methods and Quality
Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC”) Measures
Grab samples were transported in security-sealed
bags for analyses or dropped directly by company personnel to
Activation Laboratories Ltd. facilities in Thunder Bay and Timmins,
Ontario. Individual samples are labeled, placed in plastic sample
bags and sealed. Groups of samples are then placed into durable
rice bags and then shipped. Routine gold analyses are fire assay
with an AA (atomic absorption) finish, whereas samples with visible
gold or rich in quartz veins and sulfides are analysed using
1-kilogram screen fire assay. The remaining coarse reject portions
of the samples remain in storage if further work or verification is
needed.
Qualified Person
This press release has been prepared under the
supervision of Mr. Quentin Yarie (P.Geo.), who is a consultant to
the Company and a “qualified person” (as such term is defined in
National Instrument 43-101). Mr. Yarie has verified the technical
data disclosed in this press release.
About Canadian Orebodies
Inc.
Canadian Orebodies is a Canadian-based mineral
exploration company with a portfolio of properties in Ontario and
Nunavut. Canadian Orebodies is focused on generating shareholder
value through the advancement of its two Hemlo area projects: the
Pic Project and the North Limb.
For more information please contact:
Fraser Laschinger, Interim CEO & CFOCanadian
Orebodies Inc.(416) 644-1747http://www.canadianorebodies.com
Forward-Looking StatementsCertain information set
forth in this news release may contain forward-looking statements
that involve substantial known and unknown risks and uncertainties,
including, but not limited to, exploration results, potential
mineralization, statements relating to mineral resources, and the
Company’s plans with respect to the exploration and development of
its properties. These forward-looking statements are subject to
numerous risks and uncertainties, certain of which are beyond the
control of Canadian Orebodies, including, but not limited to, the
impact of general economic conditions, industry conditions,
volatility of commodity prices, risks associated with the
uncertainty of exploration results and estimates, currency
fluctuations, dependency upon regulatory approvals, the uncertainty
of obtaining additional financing and exploration risk. Readers are
cautioned that the assumptions used in the preparation of such
information, although considered reasonable at the time of
preparation, may prove to be imprecise and, as such, undue reliance
should not be placed on forward-looking statements.
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