SCOTTIE RESOURCES OUTLINES 2024 EXPLORATION PLAN
Scottie Resources Corp. outlines its 2024 exploration plan, with a budget of $4.5 million for expansionary drilling at Blueberry and D-Zone targets, defining a high-grade gold resource at the Scottie Gold Mine Project. The program includes robust TerraSpec spectroscopy focusing on the Texas Creek intrusive. President Brad Rourke emphasizes the aim to establish a resource at the mine and expand exploration success.
Fully financed $4.5 million exploration plan.
Expansionary drilling at Blueberry and D-Zone targets.
Efforts to define a high-grade gold resource at the Scottie Gold Mine Project.
Robust TerraSpec program to establish fertile window around Texas Creek intrusive.
Clear plan to consolidate exploration successes and link local deposits.
Program dependent on initial field observations and market conditions.
Uncertainty in scalability of program depending on market changes.
Highlights:
- Fully financed
M budget$4.5 - Expansionary drilling of the Blueberry Zone (~2,500 metres)
- Underground validation of historic drilling at the Scottie Gold Mine and defining a high-grade resource for the deposit
- Continued drilling of the Scottie Gold Mine P-Zone (~1,000 metres)
- Step-out drilling on D-Zone targets (~1,500 metres)
- Initial testing of the new high-grade gold showing discovered in 2023 located
between the Scottie Gold Mine and D-Zone (~1,000 metres) - Robust TerraSpec program (short-wave infrared spectroscopy) designed to establish
the fertile window around the Texas Creek intrusive
President and CEO, Brad Rourke commented: "Fully financed, our program this year is designed to efficiently consolidate and leverage Scottie's exploration successes at Blueberry and D-Zone into a robust framework that directly links the Scottie Gold Mine and other local deposits with these discoveries. Another key component of the program will be to establish a resource at the Scottie Gold Mine to underpin value and demonstrate a pathway for a global project-scale resource encompassing the belt of high-grade deposits that occur along the margin the Texas Creek aged intrusive stock - notably Blueberry, D-Zone, and Bend. With a healthy treasury and a clear plan to demonstrate value, we are well positioned to benefit from opportunities unfolding in the area."
2024 Exploration Program
The exploration program will commence in late-June (snow melt dependant). Drilling will commence with one diamond drill targeting the Blueberry Contact Zone for expansion, and a fly-drill will focus on targets requiring helicopter access, e.g. D-Zone and the Scottie Gold Mine. Total initial meterage budgeted is about 6,000 metres, spread across multiple targets, the allocation being dependant upon initial field observations and results. The program is being developed with the ability to easily scale up, should the market conditions change.
The TerraSpec program (short-wave infrared spectroscopy) will be following up on positive initial results from a small pilot program on the Blueberry Contact Zone that indicated a link between clay/mica minerals and proximity to the high-grade ore shoots. The 2024 TerraSpec program will expand on these results in order to assess other deposits in the Scottie Gold Mine and their relation to the adjacent Texas Creek intrusive. The program will combine data from surficial transects, analysis of historic drill core, and the 2024 drill holes.
In addition to work on the Scottie Gold Mine Project, the company will be carrying out a concerted greenfield exploration program on the Georgia Project where a new showing was discovered in 2023. The showing is located 3 kilometres south of the historic Georgia River Mine where a grab sample hosting visible gold ran 165 g/t gold. The location the 1.5 metre wide, banded quartz-carbonate-chlorite vein, is approximately 3 kilometres along strike of the historic Georgia River Mine. Additional field work is also planned on the Cambria Project which is located between Ascot's Premier Project and their Red Mountain deposit, the project hosts multiple small past-producing high-grade silver-rich polymetallic mines.
About the Scottie Gold Mine Project
Exploration of the Scottie Gold Mine Project over the past 5 years has produced exceptional drill results through the discovery of high-grade gold in four new zones (Blueberry Contact Zone, Domino, D-Zone, P-Zone) and the expansion of previously drill confirmed targets (Scottie Gold Mine, C-Zone, Bend Vein, Stockwork). When depicted on a map of property scale geology (Figure 1) there is a clear spatial relation between the outcropping and drill-confirmed high-grade gold targets and the contact with the Jurassic aged, Texas Creek Plutonic suite intrusion. The new 2023 surface discovery of gold-rich vein style mineralization between the Scottie Gold Mine and the C & D-Zones further supports this relationship. Geological work in the area has established strong connections between the various deposits. The chemical, mineralogical, structural, and age relationships of the deposits and host rocks support a genetic model whereby all deposits are linked to the same mineralizing event.
About the Blueberry Contact Zone
The Blueberry Contact Zone is located just 2 kilometres northeast of the
Quality Assurance and Control
Results from samples taken during the 2023 field season were analyzed at SGS Minerals in
Dr. Thomas Mumford, P.Geo., a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed the technical information contained in this news release on behalf of the Company.
Scottie owns a
The Company's focus is on expanding the known mineralization around the past-producing mines while advancing near mine high-grade gold targets, with the purpose of delivering a potential resource.
All of the Company's properties are located in the area known as the Golden Triangle of
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