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Balmoral Announces Discovery Of New, Broad, Shallow Zone Of Gold Mineralization Along Bug Gold Trend

 

 

 

 

 

Balmoral Resources Ltd. (TSX: BAR) (OTCQX: BALMF) today announced that the first drill holes of the summer 2017 program on its Detour Gold Trend Project in Quebec have discovered a significant extension to the Bug Gold Trend on its Martiniere Property. The initial four holes testing the new Bug NW gold discovery (see Figure 1) yielded gold mineralized intercepts ranging from 16.39 to 64.70 metres in down-hole width, at grades ranging from 0.39 to 1.58 g/t gold. As with the known deposits located along the Trend these broad gold mineralized intervals include higher-grade vein mineralization which returned intercepts including 17.13 metres grading 3.26 g/t gold (which includes 0.50 metres grading 94.20 g/t gold), 1.05 metres grading 13.13 g/t gold and 0.87 metres grading 31.00 g/t gold from three separate holes.

 

 

“We are very excited to have discovered a new, broad zone of gold mineralization at shallow depths along the Bug Gold Trend. The Bug NW discovery opens the system for further expansion into an untested area of the property which had previously been considered less prospective. Permits for an additional 19 holes along trend from the new discovery have been received and follow-up drilling is expected to commence in the next few days” said Darin Wagner, President and CEO of Balmoral Resources.

 

 

The Bug NW gold zone is geologically similar to the known deposits along the trend and demonstrates a very rapid increase in width to the northwest across a potential intrusion filled fault corridor (see Figure 2). There is no historic drilling along the currently projected strike of the new discovery to the west-northwest or down dip.

 

 

 

Hole Section Azimuth Dip From To Interval* Gold Zone
#       (Metres) (Metres) (Metres) (g/t)  
Bug Northwest – New Discovery
MDE-17-290 NA 015 -57 78.28 79.15 0.87 31.00  
        205.71 259.03 53.32 0.39 U & L
MDE-17-291 NA 015 -64 221.25 285.67 64.42 0.57 U & L
including       229.74 277.58 47.84 0.71
which includes       251.08 252.40 1.32 4.13
and       261.13 261.90 0.77 6.40
        305.44 349.83** 44.39 0.52 New Shear
        314.03 343.85 29.82 0.71
which includes       314.54 315.02 0.48 7.81
MDE-17-297A NA 021 -63 39.25 49.69 10.44 0.39  
        201.23 268.63 67.40 1.02 U&L Bug
including       236.59 253.72 17.13 3.26
which includes       250.77 253.72 2.95 16.69
which includes       253.22 253.72 0.50 94.20
MDE-17-298 NA 021 -75 292.31 308.70 16.39 1.58 Upper
including       302.25 303.30 1.05 13.13
        315.27 316.27 1.00 2.19 HW
Bug South                
MDE-17-292 3+55S 240 -51 423.06 424.00 0.94 3.65 HW
        452.22 453.30 1.08 9.63  
        459.68 472.85 13.17 1.86 Upper
including       460.24 460.71 0.47 20.50
and       465.81 466.18 0.37 5.00
and       471.17 471.96 0.79 10.95
        504.76 511.89 7.13 1.30 Lower
including       505.53 506.15 0.62 4.46
MDE-17-293 4+45SE 232 -51 468.97 479.34 10.37 6.95 Upper
including       468.97 473.99 5.02 14.27
which includes       471.75 473.99 2.24 30.30
        503.52 522.93 19.41 1.01 Lower
which includes       507.71 509.02 1.31 6.23
and       513.42 514.16 0.74 5.60
MDE-17-294 3+85S 240 -51 26.87 27.94 1.07 14.30 New
        472.26 473.65 1.39 5.11  
        506.58 507.83 1.25 4.22 HW
        529.17 530.96 1.79 8.57 Upper
        545.87 548.15 2.28 1.00 Lower
MDE-17-295 4+45SE 230 -51 78.47 79.32 0.85 35.30 New
        486.22 487.07 0.85 33.90  
        516.40 517.24 0.84 30.60 HW
        545.02 545.72 0.70 1.22 Upper
        568.94 570.97 2.03 1.05 Lower

 

* Reported drill intercepts are not true widths. At this time there is insufficient data with respect to the shape of the mineralization to calculate true orientations in space. All values presented uncapped.

** Hole terminated in mineralized interval

 

 

In addition to cutting the Bug NW discovery, drill hole MDE-17-291 intersected a lower zone of strong shearing and gold mineralization. This sheared and altered zone returned an intercept of 44.39 metres grading 0.52 g/t gold, including 0.48 metres grading 7.81 g/t gold. This new discovery was not intersected in the other three holes testing the NW Zone suggesting that the mineralized shear system has a different orientation than the Bug Gold Trend. Follow up drilling will also attempt to further evaluate this second new discovery.

 

 

Bug South Deposit Results

 

 

Balmoral is also pleased to report that it continues to successfully extend the Bug South gold deposit down plunge. Results from the first four holes of the summer drill program at Bug South include a highlight intercept of 10.37 metres grading 6.95 g/t gold from the Upper Zone of the Bug South deposit, which includes a very high-grade core of 2.24 metres grading 30.30 g/t gold (see Figure 1 and Figure 3).

 

 

In addition to the positive results from the down plunge drilling, high-grade gold mineralization was intersected near the collar of two of the holes reported. Intercepts of 1.07 metres grading 14.30 g/t gold and 0.85 metres grading 35.30 g/t gold were returned from the within 75 metres of surface in a newly tested area located 350-400 metres east of the main Bug Gold Trend. These results, and a number of other recently reported high-grade gold intercepts located a similar distance east of the Bug Gold Trend, support the presence of a second north-northwest oriented gold mineralized trend on the property which provides yet another target for expansion of the Martiniere gold system in the near surface.

 

 

Hole MDE-17-296 was a stratigraphic hole designed to facilitate a better understand of the volcanic stratigraphy in proximity to the Lower Steep deposit to aid future drilling. It encountered several zones of weakly anomalous gold mineralization, commonly associated with distinct geological contacts. The intersection of these contacts with the cross-cutting Bug Gold Trend are targets for future testing.

 

 

Drilling continues with two drills currently active on the Detour Gold Trend Project. The first is currently completing additional down-plunge testing of the Bug South deposit and the second is completing several exploration holes on the nearby Detour East Property. Drilling is anticipated to continue through the end of September.

 

 

Quality Control

 

 

Mr. Darin Wagner (P.Geo.- B.C., Ont., Res. Permit Que.), President and CEO of the Company, is the non-independent qualified person for the technical disclosure contained in this news release. Mr. Wagner has supervised the work programs on the Martiniere and Detour East properties since inception, visited the properties on multiple occasions, discussed and reviewed the results with senior on-site geological staff, reviewed the data from the drill core from the holes contained in today’s release and reviewed the available analytical and quality control results.

 

 

Balmoral has implemented a quality control program for all of its drill programs, to ensure best practice in the sampling and analysis of the drill core, which includes the insertion of blind blanks, duplicates and certified standards into sample stream. NQ sized drill core is saw cut with half of the drill core sampled at intervals based on geological criteria including lithology, visual mineralization and alteration. The remaining half of the core is stored on-site at the Company’s Martiniere field camp in Central Quebec. Drill core samples are transported in sealed bags to ALS Minerals’ Val d’Or, Quebec analytical facilities. Gold analyses are obtained via industry standard fire assay with atomic absorption finish using 30 g aliquots. For samples returning greater than 5.00 g/t gold follow-up fire assay analysis with a gravimetric finish is completed. The Company has also requested that any samples returning greater than 10.00 g/t gold undergo screen metallic fire assay. Following receipt of assays, visual analysis of mineralized intercepts is conducted and additional analysis may be requested. ALS Minerals is ISO 9001:2008 certified and the Val d’Or facilities are ISO 17025 certified for gold analysis.

 

 

About Balmoral Resources Ltd.

 

 

Balmoral is a well-funded, Canadian-based company actively delineating and expanding a series of gold deposits on its Martiniere Property located within the prolific Abitibi greenstone belts in Quebec, Canada. The Martiniere Property is just one of several large, highly prospective properties comprising the Company’s 1,000 km2 Detour Gold Trend Project. Employing a drill focused exploration strategy in one of the world’s preeminent mining jurisdictions, Balmoral is following an established formula with a goal of maximizing shareholder value through discovery and definition of high-grade, Canadian gold and base metal assets.

 

Posted September 18, 2017

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