Goliath Resources Limited (TSX-V: GOT) (OTCQB: GOTRF) (FSE:
B4IF) (the
“Company” or
“Goliath”) is pleased to give a summary of the
successful 2024 field season at its 100% controlled Golddigger
Property (the “Property”), Golden Triangle, B.C. Highlights of the
2024 season include the delineation of the new high-grade Bonanza
Gold Triangle, the visible gold in and strong sulphide
mineralization observed in the new Deep Zone, the Reduced Intrusion
Related Gold mineralization and textures observed within
porphyritic dykes and plutons in drill hole and outcrop, and the
successful inaugural drill program at Treasure Island. Assays are
pending for 62 holes (out of 64) drilled this year at Surebet, as
well as 17 holes with RIRG style mineralization in dykes and 14
separate holes relogged that were drilled between 2021 – 2023. In
addition, assays are pending for the 12 holes drilled at Treasure
Island in 2024.
Roger Rosmus, Founder and CEO of Goliath
Resources, states: “We are excited about the drilling
program for 2024 which we believe is our most successful to date at
the Golddigger project. Of particular note, is the high percentage
of visible gold and/or abundant visible gold in our drill core this
year plus intercepting the high-grade area modeled where Bonanza
Shear Zone and the Surebet Zone look to meet. Based on the two
different dip directions for Surebet and Bonanza, it appears to be
high-grade gold mineralizing zones, with exceptional amounts of
visible gold, over a large area that we are now calling the Bonanza
High-Grade Gold Triangle. Our drilling and geological team did a
fantastic job completing 38,125m with 9 drill rigs running at the
peak of the 2024 drilling season. In addition, advancement in the
series of stacked zones at the Surebet discovery with impressive
continuity, predictability and widespread distribution of visible
gold, we were also able to drill at several of our regional
exploration targets. Our deepest drilling to date, below the
Surebet discovery shows that the visible gold mineralization
continues to 1239 meters below surface into what we are calling the
Deep Zone. We are delighted to have discovered a RIRG style of
mineralization on our Golddigger project that could provide
additional value to our shareholders. So far, we have made multiple
discoveries of a series of different styles of mineralization at
Golddigger that impresses us as they are all in close proximity
which suggests a dynamic, long lived, powerful, multiple event
mineralizing system at depth that remains open; hence, the more we
drill the system gets bigger with ever season”.
Bonanza Gold Triangle
The new Bonanza High-Grade Gold Triangle
delineates a zone of substantial gold and sulphide mineralization
within a triangle measuring 720 x 612 x 410 meters, demonstrating
the high-grade gold potential of this excellent mineralized system
that remains open. The continuity of this thick high-grade gold
horizon has been drill tested with 19 holes where GD-24-197 assayed
34.03 g/t AuEq (1.09 oz/t AuEq) over 9 meters ~true width and
GD-24-235 assayed 35.04 g/t AuEq (1.13 oz/t AuEq) over 5.25 meters
~true width. The new Bonanza Gold Triangle is located at the
structural intersection of the Surebet Zone with the Bonanza Zone
and outcrops on the surface 200 meters above the valley bottom at
an elevation of 900 meters above sea level. Assays for 17 holes
(out of 19) from the new Bonanza Gold Triangle are pending.
Deep Zone
The new Deep Zone discovered at 1239 m below
surface contains multiple quartz-sulphide veins and breccias with
chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite demonstrating the tremendous
additional untapped discovery potential of the Surebet system that
remains wide open. The deepest downhole mineralized interval
intercepted to date comes from a depth of 890 meters downhole
(1.239 kilometers below the surface) and consists of a 1.75-meter
interval from 890.90 – 892.65 meters with quartz veins containing
significant amounts of chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite and
remains wide open. Assays for the drill hole that intersected the
new Deep Zone are pending.
Reduced Intrusion Related
Gold
Significant amounts of Visible Gold, bismuth
mineralization, and molybdenite have been identified in veins
hosted in intermediate porphyritic dykes in multiple drill holes.
Relogging and sampling of the same type of material in dykes from
drill core from 2021-2023 included 17 holes for a total of >850
800 samples. Similar mineralization was also observed on the
surface at the newly discovered Blue Origin zone. This discovery
comprises a series of veins up to 20 cm wide containing bismuth
minerals, molybdenite and chalcopyrite, hosted in a felsic
intrusion located 4 kilometers to the south of the Surebet
discovery. This intrusion could be spatially related to Surebet as
an uplifted part of the potential feeder source below the 1.8 km2
area that remains open. Based on the newly discovered Visible Gold,
bismuth minerals, and molybdenite in the felsic to intermediate
porphyritic dykes on Surebet as well as in the intrusions
surrounding Surebet (i.e. Blue Origin) that strongly resemble a
Reduced Intrusion-Related Gold system (RIRG), the Company has
increased its 100 % controlled land package from 66,000 ha to
91,518 ha (28 % increase) to include open ground amenable to this
type of mineralization. Assays for all 24 holes containing
mineralized dykes as well as all the surface samples from Blue
Origin are pending.
Jackpot
The Jackpot showing is located 1.4 km to the
east of Surebet and similarly to the Bonanza Gold Triangle it lies
at the intersection between the highly prolific Bonanza Shear and a
southwest dipping sulphide mineralized shear zone where multiple
samples assayed >5 g/t AuEq. A sample with a 1 cm nugget of
visible gold was collected on the jackpot showing from the same
vein where sample ST116183 assayed 21.5 oz/t AuEq or 667.40 gpt
AuEq (636.00 gpt Au, 1690.00 gpt Ag, 7.96 % Cu, 2.22 % Pb). The
target remains open in all directions due to overburden and
vegetation cover and was tested with 6 drill holes this season. All
assays from this area are currently pending.
Treasure Island
Extensive high-grade quartz-sulphide
mineralization on the original Treasure Island discovery with
channel samples that assayed up to 28.08 gpt AuEq and grab samples
that assayed up to 11.08 gpt AuEq has been traced in drill holes
for 450 m of strike that remains open in all directions with 2938
meters drilled from 4 pads. The mineralized intervals average 29.99
meters wide and on average include 6.79 meters of moderate,
semi-massive and massive sulphide mineralization in quartz-sulphide
breccia over 450 m strike extent that remains open. The strong
sulphide mineralization encountered in drill holes is comparable to
what was observed in a surface channel cut, which assayed up to
28.08 gpt AuEq (20.60 gpt Au, 63.60 gpt Ag and 5.04 % Cu) over 0.85
meters. Future work on Treasure Island will include a geophysical
survey to identify the extent and geometry of the mineralized
horizons at depth as well as additional drilling in 2025. Assays
are pending for all holes drilled on Treasure Island.
Golddigger Property
The Golddigger Property is 100% controlled
covering an area of 91,518 ha hectares and is in the world class
geological setting of the Eskay Rift, within 3 kilometers of the
Red Line in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia. This area and
proximity have hosted some of Canada’s greatest mines that include
Eskay Creek, Premier and Snip. Other significant and well known
deposits in the Golden Triangle include Brucejack, Copper Canyon,
Galore Creek, Granduc, KSM, Red Chris, and Schaft Creek. Goliath
controls 56 kilometers of the Red Line which is a geologic contact
between Triassic age Stuhini rocks and Jurassic age Hazelton rocks
used as key markers when exploring for gold-copper-silver
mineralization.
The Surebet discovery has exceptional continuity
and excellent metallurgy with gold recoveries of 92.2% inclusive of
48.8% free gold from gravity alone, at a 327-micrometer crush (no
deleterious elements and no cyanide required to recover the gold
based on metallurgical work completed to date).
It is in an excellent location in close
proximity to the communities of Alice Arm and Kitsault where there
is a permitted mill site on private property. It is situated on
tide water with direct barge access to Prince Rupert (190
kilometers via the Observatory inlet/Portland inlet). The town of
Kitsault is accessible by road (190 kilometers from Terrace, 300
kilometers from Prince Rupert) and has a barge landing, dock, and
infrastructure capable of housing at least 300 people, including
high-tension power.
Additional infrastructure in the area includes
the Dolly Varden Silver Mine Road (only 7 kilometers to the East of
the Surebet discovery) with direct road access to Alice Arm barge
landing (18 kilometers to the south of the Surebet discovery) and
high-tension power (25 kilometers to the east of Surebet
discovery). The city of Terrace (population 16,000) provides access
to railway, major highways, and airport with supplies (food, fuel,
lumber, etc.), while the town of Prince Rupert (population 12,000)
is located on the west coast and houses an international container
seaport also with direct access to railway and an airport with
supplies.
RSU Grant
The Company has granted an aggregate of
2,875,000 restricted share units to officers and directors of the
Company, which will vest equally over three years, with first
vesting occurring after one year. The grant of the restricted share
units are subject to the Company's omnibus equity incentive
plan.
Other
Pursuant to the Company’s private placement of
common shares completed on September 10, 2024, Crescat Capital LLC
(“Crescat”), an insider of the Company, subscribed for 900,901
common shares at a price of $1.11 per share. The insider private
placement was exempt from the valuation and minority shareholder
approval requirements of Multilateral Instrument 61-101 Protection
of Minority Security Holders in Special Transactions (“MI 61-101“)
by virtue of the exemptions contained in sections 5.5(a) and
5.7(1)(a) of MI 61-101 in that the fair market value of the
consideration for the securities of the Company which were issued
to Crescat did not exceed 25% of its market capitalization.
About CASERM (Center To Advance The
Science Of Exploration To Reclamation In Mining)
Goliath is a paying member and active supporter
of CASERM, an organization that represents a collaborative venture
between Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech aimed at
transforming the way that geoscience data are used in the mineral
resource industry. Research focuses on the integration of diverse
geoscience data to improve decision making across the mine life
cycle, beginning with the exploration for subsurface
resources continuing through mine
operation as well as closure and environmental remediation. As a
CASERM member, the Company requested a study and written report to
be performed by Colorado School of Mines analysing Surebet’s origin
of mineralization that confirmed in its report, an extensive
intrusive feeder source at depth for the high-grade gold
mineralising fluids at Surebet.
Qualified Person
Rein Turna P. Geo is the qualified person as
defined by National Instrument 43-101, for Goliath Resource Limited
projects, and supervised the preparation of, and has reviewed and
approved, the technical information in this release. Mr. Turna is
also a director of the Company.
About Goliath Resources
LimitedGoliath Resources is an explorer of precious metals
projects in the prolific Golden Triangle of northwestern British
Columbia. All of its projects are in world class geological
settings and geopolitical safe jurisdictions amenable to mining in
Canada. Goliath is a member and active supporter of CASERM which is
an organization that represents a collaborative venture between
Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech. Goliath’s key strategic
cornerstone shareholders include Crescat Capital, Mr. Rob McEwen
and Mr. Eric Sprott.
For more information please
contact:
Goliath Resources Limited Mr. Roger
Rosmus Founder and CEO Tel:
+1.416.488.2887roger@goliathresources.com
www.goliathresourcesltd.com
Disclaimer
The reader is cautioned that grab samples are
spot samples which are typically, but not exclusively, constrained
to mineralization. Grab samples are selective in nature and
collected to determine the presence or absence of mineralization
and are not intended to be representative of the material
sampled.
Portable XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) readings are
semi-quantitative measurements and calibrations of the equipment in
the field not always allow to compare results to certified
reference materials but are used as guideline to augment the
understanding of the mineralization observed. These measurements
are not intended to be representative of the geochemical
composition of the material measured. XRF readings are carried out
using a handheld device and could be influenced by external
factors.
Oriented HQ-diameter or NQ-diameter diamond
drill core from the drill campaign is placed in core boxes by the
drill crew contracted by the Company. Core boxes are transported by
helicopter to the staging area, and then transported by truck to
the core shack. The core is then re-orientated, meterage blocks are
checked, meter marks are labelled, Recovery and RQD measurements
taken, and primary bedding and secondary structural features
including veins, dykes, cleavage, and shears are noted and
measured. The core is then described and transcribed in MX
DepositTM. Drill holes were planned using Leapfrog GeoTM and QGISTM
software and data from the 2017-2022 exploration campaigns. Drill
core containing quartz breccia, stockwork, veining and/or
sulphide(s), or notable alteration are sampled in lengths of 0.5 to
1.5 meters. Core samples are cut lengthwise in half, one-half
remains in the box and the other half is inserted in a clean
plastic bag with a sample tag. Standards, blanks and duplicates
were added in the sample stream at a rate of 10%.
Grab, channels, chip and talus samples were
collected by foot with helicopter assistance. Prospective areas
included, but were not limited to, proximity to MINFile locations,
placer creek occurrences, regional soil anomalies, and potential
gossans based on high-resolution satellite imagery. The rock grab
and chip samples were extracted using a rock hammer, or hammer and
chisel to expose fresh surfaces and to liberate a sample of
anywhere between 0.5 to 5.0 kilograms. All sample sites were
flagged with biodegradable flagging tape and marked with the sample
number. All sample sites were recorded using hand-held GPS units
(accuracy 3-10 meters) and sample ID, easting, northing, elevation,
type of sample (outcrop, subcrop, float, talus, chip, grab, etc.)
and a description of the rock were recorded on all-weather paper.
Samples were then inserted in a clean plastic bag with a sample tag
for transport and shipping to the geochemistry lab. QA/QC samples
including blanks, standards, and duplicate samples were inserted
regularly into the sample sequence at a rate of 10%.
All samples are transported in rice bags sealed
with numbered security tags. A transport company takes them from
the core shack to the ALS labs facilities in North Vancouver. ALS
is either certified to ISO 9001:2008 or accredited to ISO
17025:2005 in all of its locations. At ALS samples were processed,
dried, crushed, and pulverized before analysis using the ME-MS61
and Au-SCR21 methods. For the ME-MS61 method, a prepared sample is
digested with perchloric, nitric, hydrofluoric, and hydrochloric
acids. The residue is topped up with dilute hydrochloric acid and
analyzed by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission
spectrometry. Overlimits were re-analyzed using the ME-OG62 and
Ag-GRA21 methods (gravimetric finish). For Au-SCR21 a large volume
of sample is needed (typically 1-3kg). The sample is crushed and
screened (usually to -106 micron) to separate coarse gold particles
from fine material. After screening, two aliquots of the fine
fraction are analysed using the traditional fire assay method. The
fine fraction is expected to be reasonably homogenous and well
represented by the duplicate analyses. The entire coarse fraction
is assayed to determine the contribution of the coarse gold.
Widths are reported in drill core lengths and
the true widths are estimated to be 80-90% and AuEq metal values
are calculated using: Au 2398.13 USD/oz, Ag 28.118 USD/oz, Cu 4.10
USD/lbs, Pb 2067.5 USD/ton and Zn 2669 USD/ton on July 28th, 2024.
There is potential for economic recovery of gold, silver, copper,
lead, and zinc from these occurrences based on other mining and
exploration projects in the same Golden Triangle Mining Camp where
Goliath’s project is located such as the Homestake Ridge Gold
Project (Auryn Resources Technical Report, Updated Mineral Resource
Estimate and Preliminary Economic Assessment on the Homestake Ridge
Gold Project, prepared by Minefill Services Inc. Bothell,
Washington, dated May 29, 2020). Here, AuEq values were calculated
using 3-year running averages for metal price, and included
provisions for metallurgical recoveries, treatment charges,
refining costs, and transportation. Recoveries for Gold were 85.5%,
Silver at 74.6%, Copper at 74.6% and Lead at 45.3%. It will be
assumed that Zinc can be recovered with the Copper at the same
recovery rate of 74.6%. The quoted reference of metallurgical
recoveries is not from Goliath’s Golddigger Project, Surebet Zone
mineralization, and there is no guarantee that such recoveries will
ever be achieved, unless detailed metallurgical work such as in a
Feasibility Study can be eventually completed on the Golddigger
Project.
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policies of the TSX Venture Exchange), nor the OTCQB Venture Market
accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
release.
Certain statements contained in this press
release constitute forward-looking information. These statements
relate to future events or future performance. The use of any of
the words "could", "intend", "expect", "believe", "will",
"projected", "estimated" and similar expressions and statements
relating to matters that are not historical facts are intended to
identify forward-looking information and are based on Goliath’s
current belief or assumptions as to the outcome and timing of such
future events. Actual future results may differ materially. In
particular, this release contains forward-looking information
relating to, among other things, the ability of the Company to
complete financings and its ability to build value for its
shareholders as it develops its mining properties. Various
assumptions or factors are typically applied in drawing conclusions
or making the forecasts or projections set out in forward-looking
information. Those assumptions and factors are based on information
currently available to Goliath. Although such statements are based
on management's reasonable assumptions, there can be no assurance
that the proposed transactions will occur, or that if the proposed
transactions do occur, will be completed on the terms described
above.
The forward-looking information contained in
this release is made as of the date hereof and Goliath is not
obligated to update or revise any forward-looking information,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise,
except as required by applicable securities laws. Because of the
risks, uncertainties and assumptions contained herein, investors
should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The
foregoing statements expressly qualify any forward-looking
information contained herein.
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invitation, or recommendation to subscribe for or purchase any
securities and neither this announcement nor anything contained in
it shall form the basis of any contract or commitment. In
particular, this announcement does not constitute an offer to sell,
or a solicitation of an offer to buy, securities in the United
States, or in any other jurisdiction in which such an offer would
be illegal.The securities referred to herein have not been and will
not be will not be registered under the United States Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act”), or any state
securities laws and may not be offered or sold within the United
States or to or for the account or benefit of a U.S. person (as
defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act) unless
registered under the U.S. Securities Act and applicable state
securities laws or an exemption from such registration is
available.
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