Integra Resources Corp. (TSXV:ITR) (OTCQB:IRRZF) is pleased to announce that it has completed a maiden NI 43-101 resource estimate on the newly acquired Florida Mountain Gold and Silver Deposit located 8.5 km east of Integra’s DeLamar Deposit in southwestern Idaho. For the purposes of NI 43-101 reporting, Florida Mountain and DeLamar are now considered to be part of the global DeLamar Project, based on the reasonable expectation that if put into production, and as in the past, the two deposits would likely share common infrastructure.
The maiden resource estimate at Florida Mountain is defined by 840+ historical drill holes drilled to an average depth of just 130 meters, incorporating more than 108,000 meters of historic drilling. The study delineates the existing ‘open-pit’ oxide, partly oxidized and unoxidized mineralization at Florida Mountain which is hosted within felsic volcanics. The resource estimations for Florida Mountain and DeLamar were completed by Mine Development Associates of Reno, Nevada.
George Salamis, President and CEO of Integra Resources, stated, “Given Florida Mountain’s 8.5 km proximity to the DeLamar Deposit, and the significant resource recently announced at DeLamar late last year, the maiden gold-silver resource at Florida Mountain provides substantial synergies for the Company as it advances its Idaho land package and expanding resource portfolio. The exploration upside at Florida Mountain is significant: below this low-grade pit-constrained resource, only two of several possible veins interpreted from available drilling were mined historically in the late 1880’s at cut-offs of more than 15 g/t Au with average grades often exceeding 30 g/t Au. Stope widths reportedly ranged from 5 meters to less than 1 meter in width. Underground workings and historic drilling demonstrate that the vein system has strike lengths in excess of 2 km and depth extensions in excess of 500 meters, extending down through the rhyolite and basalt into the underlying Idaho Granite basement.”
A sensitivity analysis of the grade and tonnage relationships at varying pit-constrained cut-off grades is shown in Table 1 below. A final 43-101 Technical Report will be filed on SEDAR within 45 days.
Table 1. Sensitivity analysis of grade and tonnage at varying pit-constrained cut-off grades on the Florida Mountain Deposit
Cutoff (g AuEq/t) |
Tonnes | g Au/t | oz Au | g Ag/t | oz Ag | AuEq Avg Grade g/t |
AuEq oz |
0.30 | 36,605,000 | 0.57 | 675,000 | 14.12 | 16,621,000 | 0.74 | 871,000 |
0.40 | 25,701,000 | 0.71 | 583,000 | 17.08 | 14,109,000 | 0.91 | 749,000 |
0.50 | 18,543,000 | 0.85 | 505,000 | 20.14 | 12,005,000 | 1.08 | 646,000 |
0.75 | 9,661,000 | 1.20 | 373,000 | 27.56 | 8,562,000 | 1.53 | 474,000 |
1.00 | 5,710,000 | 1.57 | 289,000 | 34.77 | 6,383,000 | 1.98 | 364,000 |
Table 2. DeLamar Project Inferred Mineral Resource at a 0.3 g/t AuEq cut-off grade
Tonnes | g Au/t | oz Au | g Ag/t | oz Ag | AuEq g/t | AuEq oz | |
Florida Mtn | 36,605,000 | 0.57 | 675,000 | 14.12 | 16,621,000 | 0.74 | 870,000 |
DeLamar | 117,934,000 | 0.41 | 1,592,000 | 24.30 | 91,876,000 | 0.70 | 2,673,000 |
Total | 154,539,000 | 0.45 | 2,267,000 | 21.92 | 108,497,000 | 0.71 | 3,543,000 |
Key Florida Mountain Deposit Highlights:
George Salamis, noted, “The low sulphidation epithermal system at Florida Mountain shows higher gold to silver ratios than those found at DeLamar. In terms of future potential amenability to heap leaching of this new low-grade resource, Kinross had previously conducted column leach test work on Florida mineralization which showed excellent gold and silver recoveries. The strategic advantage of having two significant resources in place at DeLamar and now Florida Mountain provides increased flexibility for Integra moving forward. The Company is in a unique position to start a drill program with an impressive resource already established at both DeLamar and Florida Mountain.”
Key Florida Mountain Resource Estimation Parameters:
Table 3. Highlighted Drill Intercepts Below Current Mining Surface at the Florida Mountain Deposit
Hole | From (m) | To (m) | Thickness (m) | g/t Au | g/t Ag |
FT10 | 27.4 | 73.2 | 45.8 | 1.99 | 97.13 |
incl | 27.4 | 30.5 | 3.1 | 14.05 | 54.85 |
F25 | 42.7 | 48.8 | 6.1 | 17.76 | 50.56 |
F125 | 138.7 | 158.5 | 19.8 | 12.83 | 22.69 |
F180 | 111.3 | 112.8 | 1.5 | 27.77 | 8.23 |
*Drill intercept lengths only are reported in the tabulations; it is estimated that true widths will be less than 75% of the reported widths
To view an idealized cross section with geological and structural interpretation at Florida Mountain, please click the following link:
https://www.integraresources.com/site/assets/files/2509/fmbj_ew_cross_vfinal.pdf
History of Florida Mountain
As stated in the company’s recent NI 43-101 report authored by MDA (to view the report, please click here: (https://integraresources.com/site/assets/files/2388/43-101.pdf), historic underground mining at Florida Mountain is estimated to have produced a total of 133,000 oz of high-grade gold and 15.4 million oz of high-grade silver from 1883 to 1910 (Bonnichsen et al. undated, cited in Gierzycki 2004a). Records from these historic mining operations document that stopes were mined at cut-offs of over 15 g/t Au, many of which reported average grades in excess of 30 g/t Au.
More recent historic exploration at Florida Mountain commenced in the 1970s and continued through to 1994 when Kinross commenced open-pit mining the site. Material was mined from three areas near the crest of Florida Mountain, named the Tip Top, Stone Cabin, and Blackjack open pits, as shown in the following link: (https://www.integraresources.com/site/assets/files/2468/2018-02-09-nrm1-itr.pdf). Past mineralized material from Florida Mountain, which was mined through 1998, was hauled 8.5 kilometers and processed at the DeLamar mill. Gierzycki (2004) estimated that 124,500 oz of gold and 2.6 million oz of silver were produced from Florida Mountain through to the end of mining in 1998. In 1998, as a result of low precious metal prices, the DeLamar Project, including the Florida Mountain Mine, was placed on care and maintenance and since then the site of former open pit mining has been fully reclaimed. No drilling has been conducted on the property since 1997.
Geology and Mineralization of Florida Mountain
As a well-known low-sulphidation gold-silver epithermal system, the geology of the Florida Mountain area is generally similar to that of the DeLamar area with the important exception that the Late Cretaceous Idaho granite crops out on the flanks of Florida Mountain and was extensively penetrated by workings of the historic underground mines. Field relations demonstrate the lower basalt flows partially buried an erosional, paleo-topographic high of Silver City granite. Surface exposures and maps of the underground workings, as well as early drilling at Florida Mountain, led Lindberg (1985) to infer the granite forms a northeast-trending ridge beneath a relatively thin capping of quartz latite, tuff breccia, and one or more flows of rhyolite. As at the DeLamar area, both fissure veins and the bulk-mineable type of mineralization are present at Florida Mountain and have contributed to past gold and silver production.
Florida Mountain Metallurgy
During the 1980s, NERCO conducted column-leach and agitation-leach tests on samples of mineralized drill core from the Sullivan, Stone Cabin, and Clarke areas of Florida Mountain. The results of the column-leach tests, which were run for approximately 60 days, are summarized in Table 17.2. of the DeLamar NI 43-101 report (to view the full report, please click here: https://integraresources.com/site/assets/files/2388/43-101.pdf. As indicated in the report, gold and silver recoveries in these tests ranged from 52% to 95% for gold, and 32% to 54% for silver on crush fractions ranging from 0.25 to 2 inches, indicating potential amenability of Florida Mountain mineralization to future low-cost heap-leaching methods.
Integra plans on conducting further metallurgical test work on Florida Mountain mineralization in the future.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Gary Edmondo of Reno, Nevada, who serves as Integra’s Chief Geologist, and is a “qualified person” within the meaning of National Instrument 43- 101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
About Integra Resources
Integra Resources Corp. is a development-stage company engaged in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties in the Americas. The primary focus of the Company is advancement of it’s DeLamar Project, consisting of the neighbouring DeLamar and Florida Mountain Gold and Silver Deposits in the heart of the historic Owyhee County mining district in south western Idaho. The first exploration program in over 25 years is currently underway on the DeLamar Project with more than 20,000 meters planned for 2018. The management team comprises the former executive team from Integra Gold Corp. The 43-101 technical report on DeLamar is available here:
https://integraresources.com/site/assets/files/2388/43-101.pdf
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