Drilling Highlights – Golddigger Property:
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Goliath Resources Limited (TSX-V: GOT) (OTCQB: GOTRF) (FSE: B4IF) is pleased to report additional drill results for 5 drill holes from its successful 2024 field season at its 100% controlled Golddigger Property (the “Property”), Golden Triangle, B.C. Excellent results from drill holes GD-24-260, GD-24-275, GD-24-252, and GD-24-242 clearly confirm the increase of mineralization within the Bonanza High-Grade Gold Zone which was expanded from 180,000 m2 (720 x 612 x 410 meter triangular area) to 341,000 m2 (835 x 685 x 612 x 410 meter polygon area) and remains wide open. High-grade gold mineralization with excellent continuity and predictability has also been confirmed in the Surebet and Golden Gate Zones, all of which remain wide open. Assays are still pending for a total of 89 out of 105 drill holes that are expected to be released in the immediate future once received, compiled and interpreted.
Dr. Quinton Hennigh, Technical Advisor of Goliath Resources, states: “Drill intercepts from the Bonanza Shear Zone continue to generate remarkable gold values that strongly indicate this important structural zone is a likely feeder to the overall Surebet gold system. While other larger structures such as the Surebet Shear and the Golden Gate Zone are important, and should in no way be discounted, the Bonanza Shear is living up to its namesake. Not only are exceptional gold grades present, but the Bonanza lode, a relatively flat-oriented structure, displays robust thicknesses. Given the numerous drill intercepts that have penetrated this lode to date, it is clearly expansive, too, measuring at least 800 meters along strike and 600 meters down dip. Many assays from these holes will be returning over the coming weeks, but already, it is clear that Goliath needs to carry out a systematic drill campaign in 2025 to test this entire area as well as for extensions of the system as it remains open. We now have supporting evidence that gold in the Surebet system is likely fed by a gold-rich reduced intrusion. Goliath now needs to fully explore the Bonanza Zone, as well as each and every gold-bearing structure that is encountered in order to determine where all the fluids that emanated from this intrusion carried and deposited high-grade gold. Goliath is clearly on the right track.”
Roger Rosmus, Founder and CEO of Goliath Resources, states: “The more we drill, the bigger and higher grade the Surebet system gets. This has been clearly demonstrated by 100% of the holes drilled intercepting targeted zones or multiple stacked veins of mineralization, of which 92% contained visible gold and or abundant visible gold including coarse-grained visible gold as seen in GD-24-260 drilled this year. It’s our best ever Bonanza grade drill hole to date that reminds of the original drill holes from Eskay Creek & Aurelian Resources with our exceptional 39.00 meter intercept of 34.52 g/t AuEq (1.11 oz/T AuEq). We look forward to outlining the full extent of this world-class discovery with future drilling as it remains wide open in all directions. We firmly believe what has been found to date is only a tip of the iceberg. The feeder-source to this extensive high-grade system is indicated to be a reduced intrusion which would be a significant material addition to the potential scale and geometry of the Surebet Discovery. This new gold system continues to exceed our expectations based on the shear size and area containing multiple stacked high-grade veins like a layer cake, including the newly discovered mineralized veins containing visible gold 480 meters below the valley floor level that remains wide open. The system continues to deliver exceptional results consistent with the characteristics of a district scale Tier 1 high-grade gold asset. We are also very keen to report assays from our maiden drill program from the high-grade Treasure Island volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) style discovery included in the 89 remaining holes as they become available in the near future.”
During the 3 months drill season in 2024, the area of high-grade gold mineralization within the known Bonanza Zone (formerly described as the Bonanza High-Grade Gold Triangle) has been expanded and nearly doubled from a triangular area measuring 720 x 612 x 410 meters to a polygon area measuring 835 x 685 x 612 x 410 meters that remains wide open. All 64 holes drilled in 2024 have intercepted significant mineralization with 92% of the holes (or 59 out of 64 holes) containing occurrences of visible gold and/or abundant visible gold including coarse-grained visible gold, demonstrating the excellent continuity and predictability of this extensive high-grade gold system that remains wide open in all directions.
Table 1: Highlights for drill holes reported in this news release.
Hole ID | Zone | From (m) | To (m) | Interval (m) | Au (g/t) | Ag (g/t) | Cu (%) | Pb (%) | Zn (%) | AuEq (g/t) | |
GD-24-260 | Surebet | Interval | 434.00 | 440.35 | 6.35 | 2.89 | 5.46 | 0.01 | 0.14 | 0.06 | 2.96 |
Including | 435.86 | 439.26 | 3.40 | 5.39 | 9.82 | 0.02 | 0.25 | 0.11 | 5.51 | ||
Including | 435.86 | 438.25 | 2.39 | 7.60 | 13.29 | 0.02 | 0.35 | 0.14 | 7.76 | ||
Including | 437.32 | 438.25 | 0.93 | 17.42 | 23.07 | 0.02 | 0.61 | 0.31 | 17.71 | ||
Bonanza | Interval | 517.00 | 556.00 | 39.00 | 34.47 | 3.96 | 0.00 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 34.52 | |
Including | 534.00 | 544.00 | 10.00 | 132.78 | 12.98 | 0.00 | 0.04 | 0.11 | 132.94 | ||
Including | 535.00 | 543.00 | 8.00 | 165.84 | 16.07 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.13 | 166.04 | ||
GD-24-275 | Surebet | Interval | 288.00 | 294.00 | 6.00 | 4.88 | 9.94 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.34 | 5.00 |
Including | 289.58 | 294.00 | 4.42 | 6.60 | 13.07 | 0.01 | 0.03 | 0.44 | 6.76 | ||
Including | 289.58 | 293.00 | 3.42 | 8.50 | 16.71 | 0.02 | 0.04 | 0.56 | 8.71 | ||
Bonanza | Interval | 428.00 | 439.00 | 11.00 | 11.70 | 25.66 | 0.05 | 0.69 | 0.63 | 12.01 | |
Including | 430.00 | 438.00 | 8.00 | 16.05 | 35.03 | 0.07 | 0.94 | 0.87 | 16.48 | ||
Including | 431.00 | 436.90 | 5.90 | 21.60 | 46.86 | 0.09 | 1.27 | 1.15 | 22.18 | ||
GD-24-252 | Bonanza | Interval | 433.92 | 452.10 | 18.18 | 3.26 | 8.56 | 0.02 | 0.17 | 0.29 | 3.36 |
Including | 435.95 | 451.10 | 15.15 | 3.89 | 10.13 | 0.03 | 0.20 | 0.34 | 4.01 | ||
Including | 440.13 | 451.10 | 10.97 | 5.13 | 9.46 | 0.02 | 0.20 | 0.28 | 5.25 | ||
Including | 442.15 | 451.10 | 8.95 | 5.61 | 10.23 | 0.02 | 0.23 | 0.32 | 5.74 | ||
Golden Gate | Interval | 530.04 | 538.00 | 7.96 | 2.48 | 2.97 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.36 | 2.51 | |
Including | 532.00 | 537.00 | 5.00 | 3.94 | 4.46 | 0.01 | 0.04 | 0.57 | 3.99 | ||
GD-24-242 | Surebet | Interval | 328.00 | 342.00 | 14.00 | 4.03 | 7.22 | 0.01 | 0.06 | 0.11 | 4.12 |
Including | 331.15 | 342.00 | 10.85 | 4.99 | 7.29 | 0.01 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 5.08 | ||
Including | 331.15 | 336.61 | 5.46 | 8.26 | 12.35 | 0.01 | 0.13 | 0.17 | 8.41 | ||
Bonanza | Interval | 443.00 | 448.00 | 5.00 | 1.10 | 1.21 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.09 | 1.11 | |
Golden Gate | Interval | 582.00 | 586.11 | 4.11 | 5.26 | 24.61 | 0.03 | 0.20 | 2.38 | 5.56 | |
GD-24-280 | Bonanza | Interval | 148.00 | 151.00 | 3.00 | 0.91 | 0.72 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.92 |
The continuity and predictability of this newly expanded thick high-grade gold horizon has previously been drill tested where GD-23-197 assayed 34.03 g/t AuEq (1.09 oz/t AuEq) over 9 meters (released October 17, 2023), GD-24-235 assayed 35.04 g/t AuEq (1.13 oz/t AuEq) over 5.25 meters (released July 30, 2024), GD-24-249 assayed 30.55 g/t AuEq (0.98 oz/t AuEq) over 8.95 meters (released December 12, 2024) and GD-24-262 assayed 13.90 g/t AuEq (13.85 g/t Au and 3.59 g/t Ag) over 7.60 meters (released January 7, 2025). The new Bonanza High-Grade Gold Zone outcrops on the surface 200 meters above the valley floor level at an elevation of 900 meters above sea level.
The Bonanza High-Grade Gold Zone remains open in all directions, including to depth, where the new Deep Zone was discovered at 1,239 meters downhole from the Bang On Pad and only 480 meters below the valley floor level. This zone contains multiple quartz-sulphide veins and breccias with chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite demonstrating the tremendous additional untapped discovery potential of the Surebet system that remains wide open. The mineralized zones contain significant amounts of chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite and remains wide open. Assays for all holes that intersected the new Deep Zone are pending.
The Company looks forward to continuing to expand the mineralization at Surebet and increase the understanding of the geometry and controls of the mineralization with additional modelling as results become available in the immediate future. The discovery of the RIRG mineralization (released December 12, 2024) clearly indicates proximity to the source of this extensive mineralizing system. Drilling in 2025 will focus on expanding the mineralization in all directions, including to depth towards the potential source for the fluids responsible for the extensive high-grade gold-silver mineralization on the Surebet discovery.
Table 2: Collar information for drill holes reported in this news release.
Hole number | CRS | Easting (m) | Northing (m) | Elevation (m) | Azimuth (deg) | Dip (deg) | Length (m) |
GD-24-280 | NAD83 / UTM zone 9N | 457881 | 6162621 | 1175 | 200 | 55 | 281 |
GD-24-275 | NAD83 / UTM zone 9N | 457365 | 6162758 | 1509 | 135 | 75 | 687 |
GD-24-260 | NAD83 / UTM zone 9N | 457364 | 6162753 | 1503 | 165 | 55 | 619 |
GD-24-252 | NAD83 / UTM zone 9N | 457444 | 6162778 | 1512 | 110 | 80 | 671 |
GD-24-242 | NAD83 / UTM zone 9N | 457447 | 6162776 | 1512 | 120 | 63 | 862 |
Golddigger Property
The Golddigger Property is 100% controlled and covers an area of 91,518 hectares in the world class geological setting of the Eskay Rift, within 3 kilometers of the Red Line in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia. This area has hosted some of Canada’s greatest mines including Eskay Creek, Premier and Snip. Other significant and well-known deposits in the Golden Triangle include Brucejack, Copper Canyon, Galore Creek, Granduc, KSM, Red Chris, and Schaft Creek. Goliath controls 56 kilometers of the Red Line which is a geologic contact between Triassic age Stuhini rocks and Jurassic age Hazelton rocks used as key markers when exploring for gold-copper-silver mineralization.
The Surebet discovery has exceptional continuity and excellent metallurgy with gold recoveries of 92.2% with 48.8% of it as free gold from gravity alone at a 327-micrometer crush (no cyanide required to recover the gold). The metallurgy completed to date shows no deleterious elements are present.
The Property is in an excellent location in close proximity to the communities of Alice Arm and Kitsault where there is a permitted mill site on private property. It is situated on tide water with direct barge access to Prince Rupert (190 kilometers via the Observatory inlet/Portland inlet). The town of Kitsault is accessible by road (190 kilometers from Terrace, 300 kilometers from Prince Rupert) and has a barge landing, dock, and infrastructure capable of housing at least 300 people, including high-tension power.
Additional infrastructure in the area includes the Dolly Varden Silver Mine Road (only 7 kilometers to the East of the Surebet discovery) with direct road access to Alice Arm barge landing (18 kilometers to the south of the Surebet discovery) and high-tension power (25 kilometers to the east of Surebet discovery). The city of Terrace (population 16,000) provides access to railway, major highways, and airport with supplies (food, fuel, lumber, etc.), while the town of Prince Rupert (population 12,000) is located on the west coast and houses an international container seaport also with direct access to railway and an airport.
About CASERM (Center To Advance The Science Of Exploration To Reclamation In Mining)
Goliath is a paying member and active supporter of CASERM, an organization that represents a collaborative venture between Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech aimed at transforming the way that geoscience data is used in the mineral resource industry. Research focuses on the integration of diverse geoscience data to improve decision making across the mine life cycle, beginning with the exploration for subsurface resources continuing through mine operation as well as closure and environmental remediation. As a CASERM member, the Company requested a study and written report to be performed by Colorado School of Mines analysing Surebet’s origin of mineralization. The study confirmed an extensive intrusive feeder source at depth for the high-grade gold mineralising fluids at Surebet.
Qualified Person
Rein Turna P. Geo is the qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, for Goliath Resource Limited projects, and supervised the preparation of, and has reviewed and approved, the technical information in this release. Mr. Turna is also a director of the Company.
About Goliath Resources Limited
Goliath Resources is an explorer of precious metals projects in the prolific Golden Triangle of northwestern British Columbia. All of its projects are in world class geological settings and geopolitical safe jurisdictions amenable to mining in Canada. Goliath is a member and active supporter of CASERM which is an organization that represents a collaborative venture between Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech. Goliath’s key strategic cornerstone shareholders include Crescat Capital, Mr. Rob McEwen and Mr. Eric Sprott, Mr. Larry Childress and a Global Commodity Group based in Singapore.
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