SRC Provides Ballarat 2024 Exploration Update
Stakeholder Gold Corp. (TSXV: SRC) has announced results from its 2024 exploration program at the Ballarat Gold Project in Yukon Territory. Key findings include the Skye Gold Zone, featuring two gold soil trends extending 1.9 km and 1.3 km, and the Loki Copper Zone, showing a 2.3 km x 530 m zone of anomalous copper. The company completed a property-wide drone magnetic survey covering 2,008 line-km, revealing important structural controls. The Ballarat Property spans 18,741 Ha in the White Gold District and is strategically located near major mining projects. Management plans to begin drilling both zones in early 2025.
Stakeholder Gold Corp. (TSXV: SRC) ha annunciato i risultati del programma di esplorazione 2024 presso il Ballarat Gold Project nel territorio dello Yukon. I principali risultati includono la Skye Gold Zone, che presenta due tendenze aurifere nel suolo che si estendono per 1,9 km e 1,3 km, e la Loki Copper Zone, che mostra una zona anomala di rame di 2,3 km x 530 m. L'azienda ha completato un'indagine magnetica aerea dell'intera proprietà che copre 2.008 km di linea, rivelando importanti controlli strutturali. La proprietà di Ballarat si estende su 18.741 Ha nel Distretto del White Gold ed è strategicamente posizionata vicino ai principali progetti minerari. La direzione prevede di iniziare le perforazioni in entrambe le zone all'inizio del 2025.
Stakeholder Gold Corp. (TSXV: SRC) ha anunciado los resultados de su programa de exploración de 2024 en el Proyecto de Oro Ballarat en el Territorio de Yukon. Los hallazgos clave incluyen la Zona de Oro Skye, que presenta dos tendencias de suelo aurífero que se extienden 1,9 km y 1,3 km, y la Zona de Cobre Loki, que muestra una zona anómala de cobre de 2,3 km x 530 m. La compañía completó un estudio magnético aéreo en toda la propiedad que abarca 2.008 km de línea, revelando importantes controles estructurales. La propiedad de Ballarat abarca 18.741 Ha en el Distrito White Gold y está estratégicamente ubicada cerca de proyectos mineros importantes. La dirección planea comenzar las perforaciones en ambas zonas a principios de 2025.
Stakeholder Gold Corp. (TSXV: SRC)는 유콘 준주에 있는 발라라트 금 프로젝트의 2024년 탐사 프로그램 결과를 발표했습니다. 주요 발견 사항으로는 스카이 금 존이 있으며, 이는 각각 1.9km와 1.3km 길이의 두 가지 금 토양 경향이 있습니다. 또한 로키 구리 존은 2.3km x 530m의 비정상적인 구리 지대를 보여주고 있습니다. 회사는 2,008선킬로미터를 커버하는 전 지구 드론 자기 조사 를 완료하여 중요한 구조적 제어를 밝혔습니다. 발라라트 자산은 화이트 골드 지구에 위치하며 18,741 헥타르에 걸쳐 있으며 주요 광산 프로젝트 근처에 전략적으로 위치하고 있습니다. 경영진은 2025년 초에 두 구역에서 시추를 시작할 계획입니다.
Stakeholder Gold Corp. (TSXV: SRC) a annoncé les résultats de son programme d'exploration 2024 au projet aurifère de Ballarat dans le territoire du Yukon. Les principales découvertes incluent la Zone d'Or Skye, qui présente deux tendances de sol aurifère s'étendant sur 1,9 km et 1,3 km, ainsi que la Zone de Cuivre Loki, montrant une zone anormale de cuivre de 2,3 km x 530 m. L'entreprise a réalisé une enquête magnétique aérienne couvrant 2 008 kilomètres-ligne, révélant d'importants contrôles structurels. La propriété de Ballarat s'étend sur 18 741 hectares dans le district de White Gold et est stratégiquement située près de grands projets miniers. La direction prévoit de commencer les forages dans les deux zones début 2025.
Stakeholder Gold Corp. (TSXV: SRC) hat die Ergebnisse seines Explorationsprogramms 2024 im Ballarat Gold Projekt im Yukon-Territorium bekannt gegeben. Zu den wichtigsten Erkenntnissen gehört die Skye Gold Zone, die zwei Goldböden mit Längen von 1,9 km und 1,3 km aufweist, sowie die Loki Kupfer Zone, die eine anomale Kupferzone von 2,3 km x 530 m zeigt. Das Unternehmen hat eine umfassende magnetische Drohnenerhebung, die 2.008 Linienkilometer umfasst, durchgeführt, wodurch wichtige strukturelle Kontrollen aufgedeckt wurden. Das Ballarat-Gelände erstreckt sich über 18.741 Hektar im White Gold District und ist strategisch günstig in der Nähe wichtiger Bergbauprojekte gelegen. Das Management plant, Anfang 2025 mit der Bohrung in beiden Zonen zu beginnen.
- Discovery of significant Skye Gold Zone with two extensive gold soil trends (1.9 km and 1.3 km)
- Identification of large Loki Copper Zone (2.3 km x 530 m) with potential similarities to Minto Cu-Ag-Au mine
- Strategic location near proposed Northern Gateway Road and major mining projects
- 100% ownership of 18,741-hectare contiguous claim position
- Planned drilling program for early 2025 on both zones
- No drilling results or resource estimates available yet
- Early-stage exploration project with unproven economic viability
Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - November 12, 2024) - Stakeholder Gold Corp. (TSXV: SRC) ("Stakeholder" or the "Company") is pleased to announce results and interpretation for the 2024 exploration program undertaken on the Company's
The 2024 summer exploration program on Ballarat was designed to provide further information on gold and copper anomalies first identified in 2016, and then subsequently confirmed with more extensive testing during the 2023 exploration season. Highlights of the 2024 program include:
- Skye Gold Zone: Identification of key structural controls associated with the 1.9 km and 1.3 km gold in soil trends. The two subparallel gold in soil trends defining the Skye Gold Zone extend west-southwest off of the route proposed for the Northern Gateway Road, where the road traverses the northern section of the Company's claim holdings.
- Loki Copper Zone: Identification of a 2.3 km x 530 m zone of anomalous copper in soils associated with a WNW trending Jurassic aged intrusive unit. The associated intrusive unit is assigned to the Minto suite and indicates the potential for mineralization similar to the Minto Cu-Ag-Au mine which is found ~92 km SE of the Ballarat Property. The Loki Copper Zone is located east of Ballarat Creek within the southeast sector of the Company's contiguous claim holdings, and approximately 1 km east of the route proposed for the Northern Gateway Road where it traverses the southern section of the Company's claim holdings.
- Identification of multiple further potential target areas based on soil geochemistry and/or structural settings within previously un/under explored portions of the property.
2024 Exploration Program
The 2024 Ballarat exploration program was comprised of ground-based VLF surveys on the Skye Gold Zone, grid soil sampling on the Loki Copper Zone and a property wide drone magnetic survey. Results of the work programs are discussed in more detail here:
Property Wide Drone Magnetic Survey
The Company completed a property scale drone magnetic survey to aid in geologic and structural interpretation. The survey was conducted using the MagPlane deployed by Overhead Intelligence Corp. with work overseen by GroundTruth Exploration Inc. The MagPlane, is a fast unmanned magnetometry system with a maximum velocity >80km/hr that integrates a boom-mounted magnetometer with an advanced laser altimeter. A total of 2,008 line-km were flown over 100 m spaced lines (N-S) and 1,000 m spaced tie lines (E-W) covering greater than
The magnetic survey highlighted multiple previously unknown structures. Of particular importance are a series of E-W and NE trending faults in the central portion of the property interpreted at 2nd to 3rd order structures between the regional scale Thistle Creek and Ballarat Creek faults. These interpreted faults correlate with known gold in soil anomalies on the property and are likely primary controls to gold mineralization in the area. This structural setting is very similar, and related, to known zones of gold mineralization on the White Gold Property, including the Golden Saddle deposit, located 30 km to the northwest.
Figure 1: Drone magnetic survey of the Ballarat Property showing 1VD magnetics and structural interpretation.
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Skye Gold Zone
The Skye Gold Zone is located in the central portion of the Ballarat Property and consists of two, NE-SW trending, sub parallel gold in soil anomalies extending approximately 1.9 km and 1.3 km respectively. The two sub parallel gold in soil anomalies are detected in association with locally established indicator minerals Mo, Pb, and/or Te. The anomalous gold in soils are hosted within sericite altered quartz-feldspar gneiss with quartz veining and disseminated to vein-controlled pyrite mineralization. These gold in soil anomalies, and particularly clusters of >50 ppb gold along them, are associated with a series of E-W and NE oriented structures which have been highlighted with the 2024 drone magnetic survey. The intersections of the two structural sets appear to be key locations for alteration and mineralization and provide at least three priority areas for drilling across the Skye Zone. Nine ground-based VLF survey lines were completed over these three priority target areas in 2024. The VLF survey data is currently being processed and will aid in refining the targets for follow-up work which will include drill testing.
Figure 2: Gold in soils on the Skye Zone with structural interpretation.
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Loki Copper Zone
The Loki Copper Zone is located 7 km SE of the Skye Zone and is an emerging copper target discovered during ridge and spur soil sampling in 2023. Exploration in 2024 consisted of a grid soil sampling survey and included 1,663 samples collected on 100 m spaced lines with 50 m sample intervals targeting 'C' horizon material. The sampling returned individual results ranging from 6.3 to 1,867 ppm Cu and highlight a significant WNW trending zone of >100 ppm Cu in soils over an area of 2.3 km x 530 m which is coincident with weakly elevated silver and an elongated magnetic high outlined in the drone imagery. Based on regional mapping, the copper in soil anomaly covers an intrusive unit assigned to the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Minto Intrusive Suite. This suite includes a separate large intrusion(s) which hosts mineralization in the Minto Cu-Ag-Au mine located approximately 92 km to the southeast of the Ballarat Property and may indicate the potential for similar mineralization in the Loki target area.
Figure 3: Copper in soils on the Loki zone with regional geology.
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Further Targets
A series of smaller gold in soil anomalies (up to 200 ppb Au) 2 km east of the Skye Zone now appear to be associated with the same structural controls as the Skye Zone and warrant additional follow up work (1). In addition, potential structures were also noted to extend through the previously explored NW and East zones and reassessment of data from these areas is also now ongoing as a result of the new structural information.
(1) See the Company's news release dated Oct. 20th, 2023. Available on SEDAR.
"The defining characteristic most pleasing to management that results from the 2024 exploration work season is size. This is the case for both the Skye Gold Zone and, separately, for the Loki Copper Zone. It is evident to us that we have meaningful discovery potential for both gold and copper on company claims in the Heart of the White Gold District," stated Christopher Berlet, President & CEO of Stakeholder.
"We have progressed exploration work on the Ballarat Property systematically over several exploration seasons and have now been rewarded with evidence of at least two extensive mineralized targets, each of which are located within a short distance of the proposed route for the Norther Gateway Road on company claims. The Ballarat Property itself is located proximal to some of the largest commercial extractive development projects in the Yukon Territory and Stakeholder company claims now show evidence of supporting further large prospective discovery targets for both gold and, resulting from the 2024 exploration work program, for copper."
"Our intention is to begin drilling on the Skye Gold Zone and, separately, the Loki Copper Zone as soon as possible in early 2025, and to carry on with the exploration work which has now identified yet further targets of merit on company claims."
Figure 4: Ballarat Property target areas with gold in soils.
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Ballarat Property
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Figure 5: Ballarat Property regional location
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QAQC and QP Statement
The analytical work for the 2024 program was performed by Bureau Veritas Commodities Canada Ltd., an internationally recognized analytical services provider, at its Vancouver, British Columbia laboratory. Sample preparation was carried out at the company's Whitehorse, Yukon facility. All soil samples were prepared using procedure SS80 (dry at 60 C and sieve 100g at -80 mesh) and analyzed by method AQ201 (aqua regia digestion and ICP-MS analysis). The 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 field duplicates into the sample stream.
Jodie Gibson, M.Sc., P.Geo. is the Qualified Person for the Company, as defined by NI 43-101, and has reviewed and approved the contents of this press release.
For further information please contact:
Stakeholder Gold Corporation
416 525 - 6869
cberlet@stakeholdergold.com
Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains forward-looking information. All information, other than information of historical fact, constitute "forward-looking statements" and includes any information that addresses activities, events or developments that the Corporation believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future including the Corporation's strategy, plans or future financial or operating performance.
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