HighGold Provides Exploration Update on Recently Consolidated Munro-Croesus Land Position, Timmins Area, Ontario
HighGold Mining Inc. (TSX-V:HIGH, OTCQX:HGGOF) has updated its Munro-Croesus Project, now encompassing 32 km² in Ontario's Timmins gold camp, following the addition of three mineral properties. The company plans systematic exploration, starting with data synthesis and target refinement. Recent final drill results from its 2020 program revealed gold intersections up to 11.01 g/t over 1.1 meters. HighGold aims to generate high-quality drill targets for a $3.7M drill program funded by a recent capital raise, focused on expanding known resources in a historically underexplored area.
- Addition of three new mineral properties expands Munro-Croesus Project to 32 km².
- Drill results show significant gold intersections, including 11.01 g/t Au over 1.10 meters.
- Strategic land consolidation enhances exploration potential in a historically underexplored area.
- Plans for systematic exploration to refine drill targets and develop new models.
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HighGold Mining Inc. (TSX-V:HIGH, OTCQX:HGGOF) (“HighGold” or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on the newly-assembled significant land position at its Munro-Croesus Project (the “Project”) located in the +100Moz Timmins gold camp, Ontario, Canada. Included in this update are final drill results for the 2020 Timmins drill program. The Company recently announced the addition of three new mineral properties to the Project (see Company press release dated February 22, 2021) which now brings the strategic land position total size to 32 km2 (or 3,187 ha). This consolidation initiative is part of an ongoing strategy by the Company to tie-up the patchwork of patented and unpatented mining claims surrounding the historic Croesus Gold Mine into one contiguous package and enhance the exploration potential of the Project. The Company has completed ten separate land deals in pursuit of this goal.
Figure 1 – Location of HighGold Projects in Timmins Gold Camp, Ontario
The Munro-Croesus Project is situated along Highway 101 in the heart of the Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada's premier gold mining jurisdiction (Figure 1). The Project is between the Black Fox Mine Complex operated by McEwen Mining Inc. and the Fenn-Gibb Project being developed by Mayfair Gold Corp.
Systematic Exploration and Target Development
With the land consolidation now largely complete, the Company plans to systematically explore the Project, starting with: i) the synthesis of comprehensive data sets to better understand the regional setting of the Project in the context of the main Porcupine-Destor, Pipestone and Munro Faults; ii) refine current drill targets, and; iii) develop new conceptual models for controls of the historic bonanza grade gold mineralization. Completed and planned studies include:
- Completed - Property-wide airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey (VTEM Survey)
- Completed - LiDAR survey and drone imagery
- Completed - Geological mapping, sampling and mechanical trenching of known quartz veins
- Completed - First pass short-hole orientation drilling on the original core claim block
- Planned - Compilation of all geological and geochemical data across the new land package
- Planned - Property-wide structural study on fault and vein kinematics by SRK Consulting Inc.
- Planned - Ground IP geophysical survey
“Despite having the attractive features of: 1) ideal location in a mature mining district, 2) major regional gold-bearing fault structures, 3) historic Croesus mine production at an average grade of 95.3 g/t Au, and 4) neighboring multi-million-ounce deposits – the Munro-Croesus land package has seen very limited past exploration,” commented President and CEO Darwin Green. “HighGold is the first explorer to consolidate the claims into a single large property under one owner and we are excited to launch a systematic and methodical approach to exploration within this prospective underexplored segment of the east Timmins Gold camp. Our near-term objective is to generate multiple high-quality targets in preparation for a large drill program funded by the
Final Munro-Croesus 2020 Drill Program Results
The Company also reports the receipt of final assay results from the 2020 Fall Drill Program (the “Program”) at Munro-Croesus. The Program was designed as a preliminary test of targets adjacent to the historic Croesus Mine underground workings and other vein targets within a one-kilometer radius identified during the 2020 Fall trench sampling program. The drilling strategy targeted historic trenches with the objective of better understanding the geometry, continuity, and geological characteristics of exposed quartz veins that have seen no work for many decades, and in many cases no prior drilling.
Thirty-one (31) short drill holes totaling 2,645 meters in completed in October 2020. Assays have been received for remaining 22 holes highlights reported below and in Table 1.
#4 Vein Intersections
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3.16 g/t Au over 4.2 meters (MC20-46) (previously reported on Dec 22nd), including
- 11.01 g/t Au over 1.10 meters
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2.85 g/t Au over 2.7 meters (MC20-48), including
- 6.67 g/t Au over 0.9 meters
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2.36 g/t Au over 0.8 meters (MC20-54), including
- 7.55 g/t Au over 0.2 meters
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5.81 g/t Au over 0.9 meters (MC20-56), including
- 9.80 g/t Au over 0.4 meters
- 5.00 g/t Au over 0.4 meters (MC20-58)
- 6.98 g/t Au over 0.3 meters (MC20-58)
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3.86 g/t Au over 1.4 meters (MC20-60), including
- 9.03 g/t Au over 0.5 meters
- 6.37 g/t Au over 0.3 meters (MC20-62)
- 0.49 g/t Au over 4.8 meters (MC20-62) (Deeper Footwall to #4 Shaft Vein)
#2 Vein Intersections
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0.60 g/t Au over 4.0 meters (MC20-64), including
- 1.02 g/t Au over 1.4 meters
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0.44 g/t Au over 6.7 meters (MC20-66), including
- 1.09 g/t Au over 1.5 meters
- 1.14 g/t Au over 0.3 meters (MC20-66)
- 1.17 g/t Au over 0.9 meters (MC20-66)
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0.36 g/t Au over 5.50 meters (MC20-66), including
- 1.34 g/t Au over 0.90 meters
Discussion of Results
#4 Vein Target
The #4 Vein Target area is located one kilometer from the Croesus Gold Mine area and represents one of the new targets being evaluated by the Company on the greater Munro-Croesus property. The #4 Vein was developed during the 1916-1919 era with an inclined shaft to a reported depth of 100 feet. The quartz vein structure is exposed on surface and historic channel sampling from 1929 returned 5.14 g/t Au over 4.78 meters, including 10.62 g/t Au over 1.12 meters. Drilling has now extended the strike length of the #4 Vein to approximately 60 meters and to a depth of 25 meters where it remains open in all directions.
#2 Vein Target
The #2 Vein is located 400 meters southeast of the #4 Vein and has been defined over a strike length of 480 meters through outcrop mapping and trenching, averages 1.5 metres in width, strikes northeast, and dips moderately to the southeast. No historic drilling has been identified on this target. The vein is part of a stacked quartz-carbonate vein zone (approximately 20 meters true thickness) within strongly quartz-albite-sericite-altered variolitic basalt. Vein #2 is set-up to systematically drill pending the results of a structural study.
Next Steps for the Company
The 2020 Phase 1 orientation drill program successfully confirmed the near-surface continuity and orientation of both the #4 Vein and #2 Vein structures as well as the potential of the near-mine environment around the historic Croesus Gold Mine workings. This information will be used to plan follow-up drilling in 2021 to identify potential zones of wider and higher-grade mineralization along strike and at depth of the known targets.
Drill hole locations are shown in Figures 2 and 3 with Significant Assay Results summarized in Table 1.
About HighGold’s Timmins Properties
HighGold owns
About HighGold
HighGold is a well-funded mineral exploration company focused on high-grade gold projects located in North America. HighGold’s flagship asset is the high-grade Johnson Tract Gold (Zn-Cu) Project located in Southcentral Alaska, USA. The Company also controls a portfolio of quality gold projects in the greater Timmins gold camp, Ontario, Canada that includes the Munro-Croesus Gold property, which is renowned for its high-grade mineralization, and the large Golden Mile and Golden Perimeter properties. HighGold’s experienced Board and senior management team, are committed to creating shareholder value through the discovery process, careful allocation of capital, and environmentally/socially responsible mineral exploration.
On Behalf of HighGold Mining Inc.
“Darwin Green”
President & CEO
Readers are cautioned that the Company has no interest in or right to acquire any interest in the Black Fox Mine complex, the Ross Mine or the Fenn-Gib deposit, and that mineral deposits, and the results of any mining thereof, on adjacent or similar properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on the Company's properties or any potential exploitation thereof.
Qualified Person and Quality Assurance
Ian Cunningham-Dunlop, P.Eng., VP Exploration for HighGold Mining Inc. and a qualified person (“QP”) as defined by Canadian National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this release.
Samples of drill core were cut by a diamond blade rock saw, with half of the cut core placed in individual sealed polyurethane bags and half placed back in the original core box for permanent storage. Sample lengths typically vary from a minimum 0.2-meter interval to a maximum 1.5-meter interval, with an average 0.5 to 1.0-meter sample length. Drill core samples were delivered by truck in sealed woven plastic bags to ALS Geochemistry laboratory facility in Timmins, Ontario for sample preparation with final analysis at ALS Geochemistry Analytical Lab facility in North Vancouver, BC. ALS Geochemistry operate meeting all requirements of International Standards ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and ISO 9001:2015. Gold was determined by fire-assay fusion of a 50 g sub-sample with atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Samples that returned values >100 ppm gold from fire assay and AAS were determined by using fire assay and a gravimetric finish. Various metals including silver, gold, copper, lead and zinc were analyzed by inductively-coupled plasma (ICP) atomic emission spectroscopy, following multi-acid digestion. The elements copper, lead and zinc were determined by ore grade assay for samples that returned values >10,000 ppm by ICP analysis. Silver was determined by ore grade assay for samples that returned >100 ppm.
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Table 1 – Munro-Croesus Project – Fall 2020 Drill Results (All Holes)
Drill Hole |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Length (m) |
Au (g/t) |
Target |
Croesus Shaft Area |
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MC20-36* |
No Significant Values |
Croesus Shaft - North |
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MC20-37* |
No Significant Values |
Croesus Shaft - North |
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MC20-38* |
4.00 |
4.70 |
0.70 |
0.86 |
Croesus Shaft - North |
MC20-39* |
No Significant Values |
Croesus Shaft - North |
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MC20-40* |
7.90 |
8.20 |
0.30 |
0.73 |
Croesus Shaft - South |
MC20-41* |
2.80 |
7.80 |
5.00 |
1.03 |
Croesus Shaft - South |
Incl. |
4.50 |
6.50 |
2.00 |
2.26 |
Croesus Shaft - South |
MC20-42* |
3.10 |
11.00 |
7.90 |
0.71 |
Croesus Shaft - South |
Incl. |
3.10 |
3.50 |
0.40 |
8.25 |
Croesus Shaft - South |
MC20-43* |
3.30 |
3.80 |
0.50 |
190.51 |
Croesus Shaft - South |
Incl. |
3.50 |
3.80 |
0.30 |
311.00 |
Croesus Shaft - South |
MC20-44 |
No Significant Values |
Croesus Flow |
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Walsh Vein |
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MC20-45 |
13.80 |
14.50 |
0.70 |
0.56 |
North Walsh Vein |
MC20-47 |
22.30 |
23.40 |
1.10 |
1.77 |
North Walsh Vein |
MC20-49 |
No Significant Values |
Mid Walsh Vein |
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MC20-51 |
No Significant Values |
Mid Walsh Vein |
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MC20-53 |
No Significant Values |
Deep Walsh Vein |
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MC20-55 |
No Significant Values |
Deep Walsh Vein |
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Basket Target (West of Walsh Vein) |
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MC20-57 |
76.00 |
77.10 |
4.80 |
0.11 |
Basket |
MC20-59 |
129.20 |
129.50 |
0.30 |
1.07 |
Basket |
#4 Vein |
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MC20-46* |
3.40 |
7.60 |
4.20 |
3.16 |
#4 Vein |
Incl. |
5.90 |
7.00 |
1.10 |
11.01 |
#4 Vein |
And |
10.00 |
11.00 |
1.00 |
0.56 |
#4 Vein |
MC20-48 |
5.80 |
8.50 |
2.70 |
2.85 |
#4 Vein |
Incl. |
6.10 |
7.00 |
0.90 |
6.67 |
#4 Vein |
MC20-50 |
7.50 |
8.70 |
1.20 |
2.00 |
#4 Vein |
MC20-52 |
41.50 |
42.60 |
1.10 |
0.83 |
#4 Vein |
MC20-54 |
5.00 |
5.50 |
0.50 |
0.65 |
#4 Vein |
And |
22.20 |
23.00 |
0.80 |
2.36 |
#4 Vein |
Incl. |
22.20 |
22.40 |
0.20 |
7.55 |
#4 Vein |
MC20-56 |
19.10 |
20.00 |
0.90 |
5.81 |
#4 Vein |
Incl. |
19.60 |
20.00 |
0.40 |
9.80 |
#4 Vein |
And |
33.80 |
34.10 |
0.30 |
3.57 |
#4 Vein |
And |
41.90 |
42.10 |
0.20 |
1.54 |
#4 Vein |
MC20-58 |
20.60 |
21.00 |
0.40 |
5.00 |
#4 Vein |
And |
23.60 |
23.90 |
0.30 |
6.98 |
#4 Vein |
MC20-60 |
21.90 |
23.30 |
1.40 |
3.86 |
#4 Vein |
Incl. |
22.80 |
23.30 |
0.50 |
9.03 |
#4 Vein |
MC20-61 |
24.00 |
24.50 |
0.50 |
0.60 |
#4 Vein |
MC20-62 |
24.30 |
24.60 |
0.30 |
6.37 |
#4 Vein |
And |
145.70 |
150.50 |
4.80 |
0.49 |
#4 Vein (Footwall) |
#2 Vein |
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MC20-63 |
20.40 |
20.70 |
0.30 |
0.54 |
#2 Vein |
And |
29.40 |
30.20 |
0.80 |
0.60 |
#2 Vein |
MC20-64 |
27.60 |
31.60 |
4.00 |
0.60 |
#2 Vein |
Incl. |
27.60 |
29.00 |
1.40 |
1.02 |
#2 Vein |
MC20-65 |
No Significant Values |
#2 Vein |
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MC20-66 |
9.30 |
16.00 |
6.70 |
0.44 |
#2 Vein |
Incl. |
9.30 |
10.80 |
1.50 |
1.09 |
#2 Vein |
And |
32.30 |
32.60 |
0.30 |
1.14 |
#2 Vein |
And |
39.10 |
39.70 |
0.60 |
0.77 |
#2 Vein |
And |
60.70 |
61.60 |
0.90 |
1.17 |
#2 Vein |
And |
85.70 |
91.20 |
5.50 |
0.36 |
#2 Vein |
Incl. |
85.70 |
86.60 |
0.90 |
1.34 |
#2 Vein |
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