Freeman Drills Highest Grade Zone to Date: 2.5 g/t Au Over 151 Metres Including 25 g/t Au Over 8.7 Metres
Freeman Gold Corp. (CSE: FMAN) has announced significant assay results from the final 20 diamond drill holes of its 2020 drill program at the Lemhi Gold Project in Idaho. Highlights include the highest-grade intercept of 2.5 g/t Au over 151m from drill hole FG20-017C, and other notable results show intersections such as 1.2 g/t Au over 42.6m and 1.4 g/t Au over 48.4m. These findings will contribute to a maiden resource estimate that incorporates both historical and new data. The drill program has validated historical mineralization and is expected to enhance resource confidence.
- Highest grade intercept of 2.5 g/t Au over 151m reported at Lemhi.
- Successful confirmation of historically defined mineralization.
- Increased drill density provides robust basis for maiden resource estimate.
- High-grade shallow oxide gold mineralization across all drill holes.
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- Freeman releases the highest grade intercept ever drilled at Lemhi from the remaining 20 diamond drill holes of the 2020 35-hole drill program
- Highlights include: 2.5 g/t Au over 151m, including 25 g/t Au over 8.7m (FG20-017C); 1.2 g/t Au over 42.6m (FG20-012C); 0.9 g/t Au over 72.4m, including 2.1 g/t Au over 21.1m (FG20-026C); and 1.4 g/t Au over 48.4m, including 2.1 g/t over 22m (FG20-032C)
- As a result of the 2020 drill program and increased drill density the maiden resource estimate will include drill assay results from both historical (355 holes – approx. 70,000 metres) and new drilling (35 holes – 7,200 metres)
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SALMON, Idaho, March 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - Freeman Gold Corp. (CSE: FMAN) (OTCQB: FMANF) (FSE: 3WU) ("Freeman" or the "Company") is pleased to provide assay results of core from the remaining 20 diamond drill holes of the 35 hole 2020 program on Freeman's
All holes drilled to date have intersected high-grade shallow oxide gold mineralization. Drill hole FC20-017C intersected 2.5 g/t Au over 151m, representing the highest gold content in any single hole drilled at Lemhi based on a gold times core length metric (grams Au x total mineralized length = 377.5). Selected highlighted results from the 13 holes are 2.5 g/t Au over 151m, including 25 g/t Au over 8.7m (FG20-017C); 1.2 g/t Au over 42.6m (FG20-012C); 0.9 g/t Au over 72.4m, including 2.1 g/t Au over 21.1m (FG20-026C); and 1.4 g/t Au over 48.4m, including 2.1 g/t over 22m (FG20-032C).
Drill sections can be found on our website at https://freemangoldcorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/2020-Drill-Sections-March-2021.pdf or by clicking here.
Table 1 – Significant Drill Results
Drill Hole ID | Azimuth, Dip (degrees) | Total Depth (m) | Depth (m) | Interval (m) | Average Grade (g/t Au) | ||
From | To | ||||||
FG20-012C | -90 | 360 | 264 | 56.9 | 99.5 | 42.6 | 1.2 |
including | 56.9 | 70.0 | 13.2 | 2.5 | |||
and | 139.6 | 234.5 | 94.9 | 0.4 | |||
including | 139.6 | 150.0 | 10.4 | 2.1 | |||
including | 143.7 | 148.1 | 4.4 | 4.2 | |||
FG20-017C | 270 | -75 | 203 | 29.0 | 180.0 | 151.0 | 2.5 |
including | 29.0 | 33.1 | 4.1 | 4.9 | |||
including | 45.0 | 48.0 | 3.0 | 14.5 | |||
including | 74.0 | 82.7 | 8.7 | 25.0 | |||
including | 121.0 | 137.0 | 16.0 | 3.4 | |||
including | 127.0 | 131.0 | 4.0 | 8.3 | |||
including | 175.0 | 177.0 | 2.0 | 5.3 | |||
FG20-018C | 360 | -90 | 178 | 12.0 | 47.0 | 35.0 | 0.3 |
and | 112.3 | 163.0 | 50.7 | 0.4 | |||
including | 112.3 | 124.0 | 11.7 | 1.0 | |||
FG20-019C | 360 | -90 | 170 | 52.0 | 56.0 | 4.0 | 1.2 |
including | 78.0 | 127.1 | 49.1 | 0.9 | |||
including | 78.0 | 81.0 | 3.0 | 2.3 | |||
including | 101.9 | 105.0 | 3.1 | 2.9 | |||
FG20-020C | 360 | -90 | 201 | 75.0 | 110.0 | 35.0 | 0.3 |
including | 83.0 | 84.0 | 1.0 | 4.2 | |||
including | 109.0 | 110.0 | 1.0 | 3.6 | |||
FG20-021C | 360 | -90 | 170 | 32.9 | 57.9 | 25.0 | 0.6 |
including | 32.9 | 34.0 | 1.1 | 3.1 | |||
including | 47.0 | 53.0 | 6.0 | 1.7 | |||
and | 129.1 | 133.0 | 3.9 | 1.3 | |||
FG20-022C | 360 | -90 | 223 | 4.0 | 34.1 | 30.1 | 1.0 |
including | 22.0 | 28.0 | 6.0 | 4.6 | |||
and | 198.0 | 203.3 | 5.3 | 1.1 | |||
FG20-023C | 360 | -90 | 212 | 2.1 | 26.6 | 24.5 | 0.5 |
including | 24.9 | 26.6 | 1.7 | 3.5 | |||
and | 95.0 | 98.1 | 3.1 | 0.9 | |||
and | 120.3 | 122.8 | 2.5 | 1.1 | |||
and | 174.5 | 194.4 | 20.0 | 0.6 | |||
FG20-024C | -90.0 | 360.0 | 222.0 | 143.0 | 215.0 | 72.0 | 0.4 |
including | 180.0 | 181.0 | 1.0 | 10.2 | |||
including | 205.1 | 208.0 | 2.9 | 1.4 | |||
FG20-025C | 360 | -90 | 238 | 17.8 | 69.0 | 51.3 | 0.3 |
including | 26.0 | 28.0 | 2.0 | 1.9 | |||
and | 116.0 | 127.0 | 11.0 | 0.6 | |||
and | 189.6 | 206.0 | 16.4 | 0.5 | |||
FG20-026C | 360 | -90 | 227 | 21.3 | 38.1 | 16.7 | 0.8 |
and | 101.0 | 173.4 | 72.4 | 0.9 | |||
including | 139.0 | 160.1 | 21.1 | 2.1 | |||
including | 141.0 | 149.9 | 8.8 | 4.1 | |||
including | 171.3 | 173.0 | 1.7 | 5.0 | |||
FG20-027C | 360 | -90 | 235 | 9.0 | 72.5 | 63.5 | 0.5 |
including | 63.0 | 72.5 | 9.5 | 1.9 | |||
including | 68.0 | 72.5 | 4.5 | 2.8 | |||
and | 192.1 | 212.0 | 20.0 | 0.5 | |||
FG20-028C | 360 | -90 | 197 | 20.0 | 21.0 | 1.0 | 2.0 |
and | 76.0 | 77.0 | 1.0 | 1.2 | |||
and | 95.0 | 192.0 | 97.0 | 0.5 | |||
including | 149.0 | 174.0 | 25.0 | 1.1 | |||
including | 155.0 | 156.0 | 1.0 | 10.9 | |||
FG20-029C | 360 | -90 | 249 | 48.0 | 66.0 | 18.0 | 1.1 |
FG20-030C | 360 | -90 | 214 | 4.0 | 123.0 | 119.0 | 0.4 |
including | 73.0 | 95.0 | 22.0 | 1.0 | |||
including | 75.8 | 78.1 | 2.3 | 2.9 | |||
including | 109.2 | 123.0 | 13.9 | 1.1 | |||
and | 145.0 | 150.9 | 5.9 | 1.0 | |||
and | 167.0 | 173.1 | 6.1 | 0.9 | |||
FG20-031C | 360 | -90 | 228 | 39.0 | 87.2 | 48.2 | 0.4 |
including | 71.2 | 74.0 | 2.8 | 2.4 | |||
and | 180.0 | 188.1 | 8.1 | 2.1 | |||
FG20-032C | 360 | -90 | 70 | Lost hole | |||
FG20-033C | 360 | -90 | 199 | 112.3 | 161.0 | 48.8 | 1.4 |
including | 116.0 | 138.0 | 22.0 | 2.1 | |||
including | 155.8 | 160.3 | 4.6 | 4.0 | |||
FG20-034C | 360 | -90 | 182 | 102.3 | 110.0 | 7.6 | 2.3 |
and | 132.0 | 141.0 | 9.0 | 1.5 | |||
including | 133.0 | 135.0 | 2.0 | 4.0 | |||
FG20-035C | 360 | -90 | 199 | 8.7 | 189.0 | 180.4 | 0.5 |
20.0 | 23.0 | 3.0 | 3.9 | ||||
50.0 | 53.0 | 3.1 | 2.7 | ||||
128.5 | 167.0 | 38.5 | 1.1 | ||||
149.5 | 153.0 | 3.5 | 6.6 |
*Intervals are core-length. True width is estimated between 90-95 percent (%) of core length. |
Will Randall, President and CEO, commented, "The 2020 diamond drill program at Lemhi not only confirmed the vast and comprehensive historical database, but also added confidence. This gives us an excellent basis upon which to complete our maiden compliant resource estimate, with the joint objective of maximizing the resource count, increasing the resource confidence categories, and identifying areas for future growth. Our team is working on the interpretation and modelling and we will have further updates as these results come in.
Geologically, the Lemhi Gold Project lies within the Idaho-Montana porphyry belt, a northeast-trending alignment of metallic ore deposits and mines related to granitic porphyry intrusions. These extend north-easterly across Idaho and are related to the Trans-Challis fault system, a broad (20-30 km-wide) system of en-echelon northeast-trending structures extending from Boise Basin more than 270 km into Montana. At Lemhi, gold mineralization is hosted in Mesoproterozoic quartzites and phyllites within a series of relatively flat-lying lodes consisting of quartz veins, quartz stockwork and breccias and is located along the western edge of an intrusion. Mineralized lodes are associated with low angle faults, folding and shear zone(s). The mineralized zones have varying amounts of sulphides (pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, molybdenum, and occasionally arsenopyrite) where free gold is common. Gold mineralization at Lemhi is open at depth and on strike in all directions.
All drill core and rock samples were sent to ALS Global Laboratories (Geochemistry Division) in Vancouver, Canada, an independent and fully accredited laboratory (ISO 9001: 2008) for analysis for gold by Fire Assay and multi-element Induction Coupled Plasma Spectroscopy (select drill holes). Freeman has a regimented Quality Assurance, Quality Control ("QA/QC") program where at least
Core photos and drill sections can be found at www.freemangoldcorp.com.
The technical content of this release has been reviewed and approved by Dean Besserer, P. Geo., the VP Exploration of the Company and a Qualified Person as defined by the National Instrument 43-101.
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