White Gold Corp. (TSX.V: WGO, OTC: WHGOF, FRA:
29W) (the “
Company”) is pleased to announce
significant soil geochemistry results from 2020 soil sampling at
its Betty property. The property is strategically located
contiguous to and 15km northeast of Western Copper and Gold
Corporation’s (TSX: WRN, NYSE: WRN) Casino deposit (14.5 Moz gold
& 7.1 Blbs copper (Measured & Indicated) and 6.6 Moz gold
and 3.3 Blb copper (Inferred), and 40km east of Newmont
Corporation’s (NYSE: NEM, TSX: NGT) Coffee Gold deposit which host
gold resources of 2.17 Moz Indicated & 0.50 Moz Inferred
(Figure 1). The Betty property consists of 860 claims totalling
17,127 hectares that cover the strike extension of the
east-trending dextral strike-slip Coffee Creek Fault which exerts
important structural controls on mineralization at the Coffee
deposit. This work formed part of the Company’s 2020 exploration
program backed by strategic partners Agnico Eagle Mines Limited
(TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) and Kinross Gold Corp (TSX: K, NYSE: KGC) on
its extensive 420,000 hectare land package in the prolific White
Gold District, Yukon, Canada.
Highlights Include:
- The Betty property is located on
the eastern extension of the Coffee Creek Fault, which hosts
Newmont’s Coffee deposit containing gold resources of 2.17 Moz
Indicated and 0.50 Moz Inferred.
- The Betty property hosts multiple
targets with potential for several mineral deposit types including
orogenic gold and precious and base metal veins.
- 2020 exploration work included
ground magnetic surveys and 2,030 infill soil geochemistry samples
in several areas which has further enhanced several anomalies on
the property that will be further evaluated this coming
season.
- 2021 follow up exploration to
include first ever diamond drilling.
- The Company also announces its
participation in several upcoming virtual conferences and invites
interested parties to register to learn more about the Company’s
unique district-scale gold exploration opportunity with significant
defined resources, recent discoveries and new discovery potential
in the prolific White Gold District, Yukon, Canada.
“We are very pleased with these additional
results from our Betty property. These results in addition to the
previous work performed, and the property’s close proximity to
large gold and copper deposits are very encouraging. We are very
excited to diamond drill test these targets this year and further
demonstrate the expansiveness of gold mineralization in the White
Gold District, and the effectiveness of our exploration
methodologies” stated David D’Onofrio, CEO of the Company.
Figures accompanying this news release can be
found at:
http://whitegoldcorp.ca/investors/exploration-highlights/
Betty Property
The Betty property covers an area measuring 15km
north-south by up to 18km east-west. Equipment and materials can be
staged from the Casino airstrip or from the Britannia Creek barge
landing, located near the northwest corner of the property. The
property hosts several early-stage exploration targets including
the Betty Ford, Betty White, Betty Grable, Betty Black and Mascot
targets. The Betty property located approximately 65km southeast of
the Company’s flagship Golden Saddle and Arc Deposits, which have a
combined mineral resource of 1,139,900 ounces Indicated at 2.28 g/t
gold and 402,100 ounces Inferred at 1.39 g/t gold.
Geology
The Betty property is underlain primarily by
Late Devonian metasedimentary rocks of the Snowcap Assemblage which
have been intruded by the Middle Cretaceous Dawson Range
granodiorite and diorite in the southern portion of the property.
The Snowcap Assemblage rocks consist of a folded package of
quartzite(s), biotite gneiss/schist, quartz feldspar gneiss, augen
gneiss, and minor marble and hornblende gneiss. The units form an
open, east-west trending, isoclinal antiform with units on the
southern limb having a gentle dip to the south and units on the
northern limb having a moderate to steep dip to the north.
The structural and geological framework of the
Betty and Hayes property located immediately to the east is
characterized by 4 major fault arrays: 1) WNW-trending Yukon River
Shear Zone (YRSZ); 2) E-W trending Coffee Creek fault; 3)
NW-trending Big Creek fault; and 4) NE-trending Dip Creek fault.
The Coffee Creek and Big Creek fault systems are highly prospective
structures that, respectfully, control orogenic gold at Newmont's
Coffee Gold deposit and porphyry and epithermal gold mineralization
at Triumph Gold Corp.’s (TSX.V: TIG) Nucleus and Revenue deposits
to the southeast. Furthermore, the YRSZ constitutes a major crustal
break within the Yukon-Tanana terrane, while the Dip Creek fault
develops southeast of the Casino Cu-Au-Mo porphyry deposit
transecting the Dawson Range in a NE-orientation. A new detailed
structural interpretation of the Betty – Hayes properties is
currently ongoing and is expected to significantly enhance the
understanding of property- and target-scale structural controls on
mineralization.
2020 Exploration Program
The 2020 Betty exploration program included
ground magnetics and VLF-EM surveys totaling 343 line kilometres on
two separate grids, and infill soil geochemistry sampling on six
separate grids at 25m spacings on 100m spaced survey lines (Figure
2 & 3).
At total of 2,030 infill soil samples were
collected where previous soil sampling had been at 50m sample
spacings on 100m spaced survey lines. The areas infilled covered
areas ranging from 400m x 600m to 3100m (east-west) x 2400m (north
– south).
A summary of the soil sampling results on the
Betty property is provided below, as well as brief descriptions of
the Betty Ford, Betty White and Mascot targets.
Betty Ford Target
The Betty Ford zone occurs approximately 700m to
the south of the Betty White target and is associated with an
east-west trending 300m x 200m gold in soil anomaly along a steep
north facing slope. Work to date indicates the anomaly, which has
gold in soil values of up to 461 ppb, is associated with fractured,
quartz-sericite-pyrite altered, micaceous quartzite. RAB drilling
in 2018 intersected near-surface mineralization grading 0.94 g/t Au
over 24.39m in hole BETFRDRAB-001, and 1.08 g/t Au over 50.29m in
hole BETFRDRAB-002. A second area of anomalous soil geochemistry at
Betty Ford, which remains to be drill tested, lies 250m to the ENE
and exhibits lower gold values but strong lead and silver values
(up to 853 ppm Pb and 28 ppm Ag).
Betty White Target
The Betty White target consists of a > 800m
long, NE trending Au, As, and Sb soil anomaly across a north facing
hillside above Sunshine Creek. The zone is currently interpreted as
a NE trending fault/shear zone and gold mineralization at surface
has been partially outlined over 400m of the trend from GT Probe
sampling, and limited rotary air blast (RAB) drilling. The
mineralization is hosted within a E-NE striking, gently south
dipping (~20°) package of biotite schist-gneiss, quartzite, minor
hornblende gneiss, and cross-cutting, mafic feldspar porphyry
dikes, and is associated with a 125m wide zone of strong sericite
+/- carbonate alteration containing disseminated to
fracture-controlled pyrite and arsenopyrite. The strongest gold
mineralization occurs over a 25m wide interval within the broader
alteration halo and is associated with strong silicification,
increased sulphide content, increased folding and crenulation of
the rock units, and mm-scale quartz veinlets and brecciation.
Results from 2018 RAB drilling by the Company include 0.47 g/t Au
over 22.86m in hole BETWHTRAB-019 and 1.80 g/t Au over 4.57m in
hole BETWHTRAB-021.
Mascot Target
The Mascot target area is located in the
southern portion of the property and is hosted within Dawson Range
intrusive rocks. Several sub-zones including the Page, Boop, Rubble
and Davis zones have been defined through soil geochemistry over a
3km trend, with two distinct multi-element suites. The Davis zone
is defined by Au-As-Ag-Pb-Zn +/- Sb, while the Rubble and Page are
defined by Au-As-Bi-Sb. The Boop appears to have an overlap between
these two signatures.
The mineralization appears to be related to
narrow (<5m) fault/fracture zones with narrow selvages of
quartz-sericite-carbonate alteration within the granodiorite.
Mineralization typically consists of disseminated to massive
sulphides (pyrite > arsenopyrite ± sphalerite ± galena ±
chalcopyrite) along cm-scale veinlets with the strongest
mineralization associated with silicification. The Mascot area saw
significant reverse circulation (RC) drilling in 2012 by Ethos Gold
Corp. Significant results (Figure 4) included 1.48 g/t Au over
21.30m in hole BETR12-007 at the Davis zone, 29.75 g/t Au over
3.10m in hole BETR12-012 at the Boop zone, and 2.62 g/t Au over
41.10m in hole BETR12-022 at the Page zone (1).
(1) See Ethos Gold Corp. press release titled
“Ethos Drilling Yields New Yukon Gold Discovery: 7.1 g/t Au with
209 g/t Ag over 13.7 Metres”, dated June 26, 2012, available on
SEDAR.
Exploration Plans for 2021
Planned exploration work for 2021 consists of
first-ever diamond drilling on several targets on the Betty
property, as well as a new detailed structural interpretation.
Additional details on the program will be provided in the coming
weeks.
Upcoming Virtual
Conferences
The Company is pleased to announce participation
in the following upcoming virtual conferences, where interested
parties can learn more about the Company’s unique district-scale
gold exploration opportunity with significant defined resources,
recent discoveries and new discovery potential in the prolific
White Gold District, Yukon, Canada. Registration and event details
can be found below:
121 Mining EMEA Investment
Online Registration:
https://www.weare121.com/121mininginvestment-london/
Date: May 25-27th
Time: 7am to 7pm GMT
Mines & Money 5@5
London Registration:
https://minesandmoney.com/5-at-5/register.php
Date: May 27, 2021
Time: 5pm to 6pm GMT
Very Independent Research Metals
Conference
2021 Registration:
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/5185425892218867469 Date:
June 15, 2021 Time:
12:15pm EST
121 Mining APAC Investment
Online Registration:
https://www.weare121.com/121mininginvestment-hk/
Date: June 15-18th
Time: 6pm to 8pm HKT
QA/QC
Analytical work for the 2020 soil sampling
program on the Betty property was performed by Bureau Veritas
Canada Ltd., an internationally recognized analytical services
provider, at its Vancouver, British Columbia laboratory. Sample
preparation was completed at its Whitehorse, Yukon facility, using
procedure SS80 (dry at 60° C and sieve 100g to -80 mesh). The
analytical procedure used was AQ-201 (15g, aqua regia digestion and
ICP-ES/MS analysis).
About White Gold Corp.The
Company owns a portfolio of 21,111 quartz claims across 31
properties covering over 420,000 hectares representing over 40% of
the Yukon’s prolific White Gold District. The Company’s flagship
White Gold property hosts the Company’s Golden Saddle and Arc
deposits which have a mineral resource of 1,139,900 ounces
Indicated at 2.28 g/t Au and 402,100 ounces Inferred at 1.39 g/t
Au(1). Mineralization on the Golden Saddle and Arc is also known to
extend beyond the limits of the current resource estimate. The
Company’s recently acquired VG Deposit also hosts a historic
Inferred gold resource of 230,000 ounces at 1.65 g/t Au(2).
Regional exploration work has also produced several other new
discoveries and prospective targets on the Company’s claim packages
which border sizable gold discoveries including the Coffee project
owned by Newmont Corporation with Measured and Indicated Resources
of 2.17 Moz at 1.46 g/t Au, and Inferred Resources of 0.50 Moz at
1.32 g/t Au(3), and Western Copper and Gold Corporation’s Casino
project which has Measured and Indicated Resources of 14.5 Moz Au
and 7.6 Blb Cu and Inferred Resources of 6.6 Moz Au and 3.3 Blb
Cu(4). For more information visit www.whitegoldcorp.ca.
(1) See White Gold Corp. technical report titled
“Technical Report for the White Gold Project, Dawson Range, Yukon
Canada”, dated July 10, 2020, prepared by Dr. Gilles Arseneau,
P.Geo., and Andrew Hamilton, P.Geo., available on SEDAR. (2) See
Comstock Metals Ltd. technical report titled “NI 43-101 TECHNICAL
REPORT on the QV PROJECT”, dated August 19, 2014, prepared by Jean
Pautler, P.Geo., and Ali Shahkar, P.Eng., available on SEDAR. (3)
See Newmont Corporation press release titled “Newmont Reports 2019
Gold Mineral Reserves of 100 Million Ounces, Largest in Company
History”, dated February 13, 2020, available on SEDAR.(4) See
Western Copper and Gold Corporation press release titled “Western
Copper and Gold Announces Significant Resource Increase at Casino”,
dated July 14, 2020, available on SEDAR.
Qualified Person Terry Brace,
P.Geo. and Vice President of Exploration for the Company is a
“qualified person” as defined under National Instrument 43-101 –
Standards of Disclosure of Mineral Projects and has reviewed and
approved the content of this news release.
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Looking InformationThis news release contains
"forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements"
(collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of
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occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may
be forward-looking statements. In this news release,
forward-looking statements relate, among other things, the
Company’s objectives, goals and exploration activities conducted
and proposed to be conducted at the Company’s properties; future
growth potential of the Company, including whether any proposed
exploration programs at any of the Company’s properties will be
successful; exploration results; and future exploration plans and
costs and financing availability.
These forward-looking statements are based on
reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company
at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may
differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the
actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to
materially differ from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Such factors, among other things, include: the
expected benefits to the Company relating to the exploration
conducted and proposed to be conducted at the White Gold
properties; the receipt of all applicable regulatory approvals for
the Offering; failure to identify any additional mineral resources
or significant mineralization; the preliminary nature of
metallurgical test results; uncertainties relating to the
availability and costs of financing needed in the future, including
to fund any exploration programs on the Company’s properties;
business integration risks; fluctuations in general macroeconomic
conditions; fluctuations in securities markets; fluctuations in
spot and forward prices of gold, silver, base metals or certain
other commodities; fluctuations in currency markets (such as the
Canadian dollar to United States dollar exchange rate); change in
national and local government, legislation, taxation, controls,
regulations and political or economic developments; risks and
hazards associated with the business of mineral exploration,
development and mining (including environmental hazards, industrial
accidents, unusual or unexpected formations pressures, cave-ins and
flooding); inability to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks
and hazards; the presence of laws and regulations that may impose
restrictions on mining and mineral exploration; employee relations;
relationships with and claims by local communities and indigenous
populations; availability of increasing costs associated with
mining inputs and labour; the speculative nature of mineral
exploration and development (including the risks of obtaining
necessary licenses, permits and approvals from government
authorities); the unlikelihood that properties that are explored
are ultimately developed into producing mines; geological factors;
actual results of current and future exploration; changes in
project parameters as plans continue to be evaluated; soil sampling
results being preliminary in nature and are not conclusive evidence
of the likelihood of a mineral deposit; title to properties;
ongoing uncertainties relating to the COVID-19 pandemic; and those
factors described under the heading "Risks Factors" in the
Company's annual information form dated July 29, 2020 available on
SEDAR. Although the forward-looking statements contained in this
news release are based upon what management of the Company
believes, or believed at the time, to be reasonable assumptions,
the Company cannot assure shareholders that actual results will be
consistent with such forward-looking statements, as there may be
other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated,
estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue
reliance on forward-looking statements and information. There can
be no assurance that forward-looking information, or the material
factors or assumptions used to develop such forward-looking
information, will prove to be accurate. The Company does not
undertake to release publicly any revisions for updating any
voluntary forward-looking statements, except as required by
applicable securities law.
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TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
news release.
For Further Information, Please
Contact:
Contact Information:David
D’OnofrioChief Executive OfficerWhite Gold Corp.(647) 930-1880
ir@whitegoldcorp.ca
To Book a Meeting with Management:
https://whitegoldcorp.ca/contact/request-information/
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