White Gold Corp. (TSX.V: WGO, OTCQX: WHGOF, FRA:
29W) (the "Company") is pleased to report assay results
for the maiden diamond drilling program on its Ulli’s Ridge target
located approximately 3 km southwest of the Company’s flagship
Golden Saddle and Arc deposits and 11 km south of the Company’s VG
deposit. The Golden Saddle and Arc deposits have a combined 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), and the VG deposit hosts an
Inferred gold resource of 267,600 ounces at 1.62 g/t Au(2). This
maiden diamond drilling was part of the Company’s fully funded 2021
exploration program backed by partners Agnico Eagle Mines Limited
(TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) and Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX: K, NYSE:
KGC) on its extensive 420,000 hectare land package in the emerging
White Gold District, Yukon.
The Ulli’s Ridge target is located immediately
south of the Ryan’s Surprise target, with both targets situated on
a 6.5 km long x 1.0 km wide northwest-southeast trend of anomalous
gold and arsenic in soils, which extends from the Ulli’s Ridge
target in the south to the Teacher showing in the north (Figure 1).
The Ryan’s Surprise target has been a focus of diamond drilling
over the past two field seasons, and in 2021 drilling was expanded
southwards to the Ulli’s Ridge target. The goal of these drill
programs was to identify new zones of gold mineralization with the
potential to increase the Company’s significant gold resources.
Highlights Include:
- 2021 diamond
drilling at the Ulli’s Ridge target comprised 7 holes totalling
1,408.7m which tested an approximately 550m strike length where
early season 2021 rotary air blast (RAB) drilling encountered
encouraging gold mineralization including 4.67 g/t Au over 6.10m
and 1.35 g/t Au over 21.33m.
- All holes
intersected gold mineralization with significant results including:
-
WHTULR21D004: 6.94 g/t Au over 19.50m, including
39.10 g/t Au over 1.50m and 45.40 g/t Au over 0.83m
-
WHTULR11D005: 1.36 g/t Au over 18.50m including
5.19 g/t Au over 3.50m
-
WHTULR21D001: 2.04 g/t Au over 5.13m
-
WHTULR21D002: 1.03 g/t Au over 8.00m and 2.44 g/t
Au over 4.10m
-
WHTULR21D003: 1.91 g/t Au over 4.49m
-
WHTULR21D006: 4.26 g/t Au over 1.70m
-
WHTULR21D007: 1.81 g/t Au over 3.87m and 2.50 g/t
Au over 4.65m
- Drilling at
Ulli’s Ridge has now identified gold mineralization along an
approximately 650m strike length with mineralization remaining open
along strike and at depth.
- All intercepts
are at relatively shallow depths and when compared to the Ryan’s
Surprise target which continues to intersect high-grade
mineralization at greater depths, the Ulli’s Ridge target has
significant expansion potential.
- A video
overview from management discussing these results in more detail
can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNTCVUIXdTQ
- The Company is
currently planning its fully funded 2022 exploration program, with
details to be released in due course.
Figures accompanying this news release can be
found at:
https://whitegoldcorp.ca/investors/exploration-highlights/
Shawn Ryan, Chief Technical Advisor stated, “The
significance of the high-grade gold found in Hole 4, which is also
associated with high arsenic values, and very similar to rocks
found around the Teacher showing to the north, is that it
introduces a new style of high-grade gold target to follow up on.
Historically, gold-arsenic anomalies were classified as Arc Style,
which generally represented lower gold grade (< 2 g/t Au)
potential, and therefore have seen limited exploration. When we
look at the 99 percentile arsenic soil anomalies (> 200 ppm) we
can clearly see a 6.5 km trend running in a NNW direction from
Ulli’s Ridge to the Teacher Showing. Most of these gold-arsenic
anomalies have never been prospected or looked at to date. This
upcoming summer’s prospecting work will directly target this
arsenic trend which hopefully leads to more new high grade gold
discoveries.”
“We are very pleased with the results from our
maiden drill diamond drill program at Ulli’s Ridge as they continue
to demonstrate the extensiveness of gold mineralization in this
area. Ulli’s is situated on a multi-kilometre gold in soil anomaly
which hosts several other prospective targets in close proximity to
our flagship deposits” stated David D’Onofrio, CEO. “Our 2021
program was very successful in identifying and expanding new areas
of gold mineralization with the potential to increase White Gold’s
significant resource base. I congratulate our team on making
another new discovery in this prolific and underexplored district
and look forward to following up on these exciting results.”
2021 Diamond Drilling Program
The 2021 diamond drilling program at Ulli’s
Ridge comprised 7 holes totalling 1,408.7m with hole lengths
ranging from 161.5m to 265.0m and was designed to test an
approximately 550m strike length (Figure 2) where early season 2021
RAB drilling returned encouraging results including 4.67 g/t Au
over 6.10m from 6.10m downhole in hole WHTULR21RAB006 and 1.35 g/t
Au over 21.33m from 67.06m downhole in WHTULR21RAB005 (see Company
news release dated November 01, 2021). All 7 diamond drill holes
were drilled to the north-northeast (025°) at a dip of -50° (Table
2) to test multiple interpreted northwest-striking and shallowly to
moderately southwest-dipping (025-060°) mineralized structures.
Results
The 2021 Ulli’s Ridge diamond drilling program
successfully encountered gold mineralization along a 550m strike
length at relatively shallow depths, to a maximum of 225m below
surface. Mineralization remains open along strike and at depth and
recent drilling further demonstrates the exploration potential
along the property-scale gold soil geochemical trend located west
of the Golden Saddle deposit and east of the Yukon River.
The strongest drilling results were returned
from the southeasternmost hole, WHTULR21D004, which was drilled to
test beneath RAB hole WHTULR21RAB006 (4.67 g/t Au over 6.10m).
WHTULR21D004 intersected 6.94 g/t Au over 19.50m from 64.50m
downhole, including high-grade subintervals of 39.10 g/t Au over
1.50m and 45.40 g/t Au over 0.83m (Figures 3 and 3A to 3C). A
narrow high-grade zone was also encountered higher in the hole,
returning 10.30 g/t Au over 0.70m from 35.20m.
Hole WHTULR21D007 was drilled approximately 225m
northwest of WHTULR21D004 and intersected multiple zones of
mineralization grading from 1.5-2.9 g/t Au over widths of
0.5-4.65m. Narrow (0.5-1.0m) higher-grade subintervals within these
zones grade from 5.7-9.0 g/t Au.
The remainder of the drilling included a cluster
of five drill holes that tested an approximately 225m strike
length, including holes WHTULR21D001, 002, 003, 005 and 006. Of
these holes, WHTULR21D005 delivered the strongest results with a
zone of 1.36 g/t Au over 18.50m from 139.50m, which included a
higher-grade subinterval of 5.19 g/t Au over 3.50m. Highlights from
other holes included 2.04 g/t Au over 5.13m from 9.00m in
WHTULR21D001, 2.44 g/t Au over 4.10m from 125.50m in WHTULR21D002,
1.91 g/t Au over 4.49m from 53.86m in WHTULR21D003, and 4.26 g/t Au
over 1.70m from 219.60m in WHTULR21D006.
Interpretation
Each of the 2021 diamond drill holes was
surveyed with a borehole optical televiewer (OTV) which provides
high-resolution digital imagery of the hole walls and provides key
structural orientation data on lithological contacts, foliations,
fractures, shear zones, veins, etc. This structural data was then
integrated with drill core logs, digital core photos, and
analytical results to produce a working model.
The OTV data show that structures strike
consistently to the north-northwest, but two dominant dips and dip
directions are evident (Figure 4): Set 1) foliations and certain
parallel to subparallel veins, fractures, and breccia/shear zones
dip shallowly (10-30°) to the east-northeast; and Set 2) veins and
fractures dip steeply (60-70°) to the west-southwest. Although gold
mineralization is associated with both sets of structures, gold
grades may differ between the two sets. For example, the very
high-grade gold intercepts in hole WHTULR21D004, which included
39.10 g/t Au over 1.50m and 45.40 g/t Au over 0.83m, are clearly
associated with mineralized quartz veins and breccia/shear zones
that dip shallowly to the east-northeast (Set 1). Consequently, the
significantly higher-grade gold intercept in this hole may be
explained by having drilled partially oblique to several of these
high-grade veins. Nevertheless, high gold grades are also sometimes
associated with Set 2 structures, as evidenced by a steeply
west-southwest dipping mineralized vein in hole WHTULR21D005 that
graded 15 g/t Au over 1.00m. More closely spaced drilling is
required to better model these mineralized zones, determine gold
grade variations, and estimate true thicknesses.
Given the encouraging results from the 2021 drill program,
additional diamond drilling is warranted to further test the
mineralized zones both along strike and at depth.
Table 1: Summary of Significant 2021 Diamond Drilling
Gold Assay Results at the Ulli’s Ridge Target.
Hole ID |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Length (m)* |
Au (g/t) |
WHTULR21D001 |
9.00 |
14.13 |
5.13 |
2.04 |
Inc. |
9.00 |
10.00 |
1.00 |
5.59 |
And |
13.20 |
14.13 |
0.93 |
3.70 |
|
39.15 |
42.20 |
3.05 |
1.02 |
Inc. |
40.40 |
41.20 |
0.80 |
3.34 |
|
63.00 |
66.05 |
3.05 |
1.19 |
Inc. |
64.00 |
65.08 |
1.08 |
2.63 |
WHTULR21D002 |
13.00 |
23.00 |
10.00 |
0.64 |
Inc. |
13.00 |
15.00 |
2.00 |
1.15 |
|
47.00 |
49.00 |
2.00 |
2.46 |
|
111.00 |
119.00 |
8.00 |
1.03 |
|
125.50 |
129.60 |
4.10 |
2.44 |
WHTULR21D003 |
37.50 |
43.00 |
5.50 |
0.60 |
|
53.86 |
58.35 |
4.49 |
1.91 |
WHTULR21D004 |
35.20 |
35.90 |
0.70 |
10.30 |
|
64.50 |
84.00 |
19.50 |
6.94 |
Inc. |
65.50 |
67.00 |
1.50 |
39.10 |
And |
74.25 |
79.55 |
5.30 |
10.52 |
Inc. |
75.25 |
76.08 |
0.83 |
45.40 |
|
96.00 |
99.75 |
3.75 |
0.60 |
|
106.00 |
106.70 |
0.70 |
2.74 |
|
161.00 |
161.50 |
0.50 |
4.52 |
WHTULR21D005 |
55.45 |
61.85 |
6.40 |
1.17 |
Inc. |
55.45 |
56.90 |
1.45 |
1.92 |
Inc. |
60.05 |
61.85 |
1.80 |
2.10 |
|
139.50 |
158.00 |
18.50 |
1.36 |
Inc. |
139.50 |
143.00 |
3.50 |
5.19 |
Inc. |
140.50 |
141.50 |
1.00 |
15.00 |
|
183.05 |
184.60 |
1.55 |
1.61 |
|
264.30 |
265.00 |
0.70 |
3.33 |
WHTULR21D006 |
65.95 |
67.40 |
1.45 |
1.15 |
|
219.60 |
221.30 |
1.70 |
4.26 |
Inc. |
220.80 |
221.30 |
0.50 |
7.00 |
WHTULR21D007 |
33.70 |
34.30 |
0.60 |
1.93 |
|
65.13 |
69.00 |
3.87 |
1.81 |
Inc. |
68.00 |
69.00 |
1.00 |
6.16 |
|
117.40 |
118.55 |
1.15 |
2.89 |
Inc. |
118.05 |
118.55 |
0.50 |
5.70 |
|
148.30 |
149.10 |
0.80 |
1.48 |
|
164.55 |
169.20 |
4.65 |
2.50 |
Inc. |
166.05 |
166.55 |
0.50 |
8.99 |
*Note: All drill hole intercepts reported herein
are core lengths. Currently there is insufficient data to estimate
true thicknesses.
Table 2. Collar Details for 2021 Diamond
Drill Holes at the Ulli’s Ridge Target.
Hole ID |
Collar Location (UTM NAD83, Zone 7) |
Dip |
Azimuth |
Length |
|
Easting(m) |
Northing(m) |
Elevation(m) |
(deg) |
(deg) |
(m) |
WHTULR21D001 |
574,274 |
7,003,923 |
673 |
-50 |
25 |
168.2 |
WHTULR21D002 |
574,338 |
7,003,901 |
696 |
-50 |
25 |
175.0 |
WHTULR21D003 |
574,391 |
7,003,867 |
719 |
-50 |
25 |
161.5 |
WHTULR21D004 |
574,581 |
7,003,580 |
643 |
-50 |
25 |
193.0 |
WHTULR21D005 |
574,233 |
7,003,830 |
675 |
-50 |
25 |
265.0 |
WHTULR21D006 |
574,135 |
7,003,868 |
631 |
-50 |
25 |
253.0 |
WHTULR21D007 |
574,459 |
7,003,768 |
714 |
-50 |
25 |
193.0 |
TOTAL |
7 holes |
1,408.7 |
QA/QCAnalytical work for the
2021 diamond drilling program was performed by ALS Canada Ltd., an
internationally recognized analytical services provider, at its
North Vancouver, British Columbia laboratory. Sample
preparation was carried out at its Whitehorse, Yukon facility. All
diamond drill core samples were prepared using procedure PREP-31H
(crush 70% less than 2mm, riffle split off 500g, pulverize split to
better than 85% passing 75 microns) and analyzed by method Au-AA23
(30g fire assay with AAS finish) and ME-ICP41 (0.5g, aqua regia
digestion and ICP-AES analysis). Samples containing >10 g/t Au
were reanalyzed using method Au-GRAV21 (30g Fire Assay with
gravimetric finish).
The reported work was completed using industry
standard procedures, including a quality assurance/quality control
(“QA/QC”) program consisting of the insertion of certified
standards, blanks, and duplicates into the sample stream.
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 emerging 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 an Inferred gold
resource of 267,600 ounces at 1.62 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”, Effective Date May 15, 2020, Report Date July 10, 2020,
prepared by Dr. Gilles Arseneau, P.Geo., and Andrew Hamilton,
P.Geo., available on SEDAR.(2) See White Gold Corp. technical
report titled “Technical Report for the QV Project, Yukon, Canada”,
Effective Date October 15, 2021, Report Date November 15, 2021,
available on SEDAR.(3) See Newmont Corporation news release titled
“Newmont Reports 2020 Mineral Reserves of 94 Million Gold Ounces
Replacing 80 Percent of Depletion”, dated February 10, 2021:
https://www.newmont.com/investors/news-release/default.aspx.(4) See
Western Copper and Gold Corporation news 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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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
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at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may
differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and
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actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to
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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
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fluctuations in currency markets (such as the Canadian dollar to
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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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For Further Information, Please
Contact:
Contact Information:David
D’OnofrioChief Executive OfficerWhite Gold Corp.(647) 930-1880
ir@whitegoldcorp.ca
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