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Maple Gold Intersects 24.4 g/t Gold over 1 Metre Within 11.4 g/t Gold over 3 Metres in Phase II Drilling at Eagle and Provides Operational and Corporate Updates

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Maple Gold Intersects 24.4 g/t Gold over 1 Metre Within 11.4 g/t Gold over 3 Metres in Phase II Drilling at Eagle and Provides Operational and Corporate Updates

 

 

 

 

 

Maple Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX-V: MGM) (OTCQB: MGMLF) (FSE: M3G) is pleased to report initial assay results from the first drill hole of the Company’s Phase II drill program at its 100%-controlled Eagle Mine Property  in Québec, Canada. The Phase II program consisted of four master diamond drill holes and one daughter diamond drill hole totalling ~4,700 metres to test potential extensions of mineralization along and beneath the past-producing, high-grade Eagle-Telbel mine trend. The Company is also pleased to announce the appointment of Kiran Patankar as Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately.

 

Highlights:

  • Drill hole EM-22-009 intersected 11.4 grams per tonne gold over 3 m, including 24.4 g/t Au over 1 m, to the north of the modeled main Eagle-Telbel mine horizon in the hanging wall microgabbro (see Figure 1 for drill hole locations)
  • The new EM-22-009 intercept and other notable high-grade historical intercepts hosted in the same microgabbro unit (including hole 16-77: 26.7 g/t Au over 2.5 m and hole 16-71: 26.4 g/t over 1.4 m within 14.3 g/t over 2.9 m) all point to the potential significance of this favourable structural-stratigraphic target
  • Limited historical drilling in the hanging wall (see Figure 1) was not typically assayed for gold as previous operators were not focused on this mineralization style and target type
  • The Company has drilled ~16,450 m out of approximately 30,000 m planned in 2022 across its Québec project portfolio; Eagle assays have now been reported for ~5,400 m (representing 59% of completed Eagle drilling)

 

“These initial Phase II assays include the best result thus far from our 2022 drilling at Eagle and the location of the intercept holds great significance for our exploration targeting going forward, including Phase III drilling later this year,” stated Matthew Hornor, President and CEO of Maple Gold. “While core cutting has recently been impacted by electrical issues at site, we are implementing temporary and permanent solutions to improve efficiency and we expect the assay backlog to ease in the coming weeks. I am also delighted to welcome Kiran in his expanded role with the Company and we look forward to his experience as we navigate through our strategic and corporate finance initiatives.”

 

Interpretation and Summary of Results

 

The highlighted intercept in EM-22-009 is located to the north of the main modeled Eagle mine horizon in the hanging wall microgabbro. There is limited historical drilling in the hanging wall at Eagle and drill holes were not typically assayed for gold as previous operators were not focused on this mineralization style and favourable structural-stratigraphic target type. The new EM-22-009 intercept and other notable high-grade historical intercepts hosted in the same microgabbro unit (see Figure 2) are further indications of additional styles of gold mineralization at Eagle beyond the known Eagle-Telbel style mined historically and suggest multiple gold events that may provide for broader gold distribution than previously interpreted.

 

Figure 1: Geologic plan view map highlighting EM-22-009 intercept, completed Phase I/II drill holes at Eagle, historical drilling, known gold distribution >2 g/t Au and line of section in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Cross section (100 m total width) highlighting EM-22-009 intercept and historical intercepts in the hanging wall microgabbro north of the main Eagle mine horizon.

 

The EM-22-009 intercept is significant because these results are not found within the broadly conformable horizon mined at Eagle in the past, but instead within a microgabbro some distance to the north, which is characterized by an increase in intensity of alteration and deformation associated with a quartz-carbonate-pyrite vein zone (see Plates 1 and 2), which the Company’s geologists believe is structurally-controlled and therefore inconsistent with the syn-volcanic exhalative style of mineralization used as a predictive model in the past. Thus, in addition to pursuing favorable stratigraphic horizons (syn-volcanic exhalative gold mineralization), it is now justifiable to pursue superimposed structural targets (orogenic gold mineralization) as well.

 

The Company’s Phase I/II drilling at Eagle has confirmed that in addition to the conformable semi-massive pyrite horizon mined historically at Eagle-Telbel, multiple additional zones which may or may not be conformable, overlapping with the Harricana Deformation Zone, are also prospective. This includes not only the microgabbro interval, but also the Harricana Group sediments still further to the north. The Harricana Group sediments to Cartwright Group basalts contact may represent a further, largely untested target (see Figure 2).

 

Phase III drilling at Eagle, which is expected to commence in Q4/2022, will follow-up not only on the best results of the first two drilling phases, but also on the results of previous downhole electromagnetic surveys, on ranked airborne EM targets from the recently competed Mag-EM survey (see news from July 19, 2022), and on a recently completed high-resolution drone magnetic survey.

 

Plate 1: Drill core from EM-22-009 at 991.3m; sedimentary interval within microgabbro unit, in 1m interval that graded 6.66 g/t Au. Note quartz-ankerite veinlets cutting sulfide bands. Visually similar to historically mined mineralization but located well to the north of the main Eagle mine horizon.

Plate 2: Mineralized interval within sample from 992-993m that graded 24.4 g/t Au, in mixed altered microgabbro (left side) and sediment (right side).

 

Complete assay results from EM-22-009 are included in Table 1 below.

 

Operational Update

 

Due to recent electrical issues at site, the Company has faced challenges with its core saws resulting in a temporary backlog of assay results. The Company has contracted third-party core cutting providers to secure its immediate needs, has procured standby equipment, and is making necessary upgrades to ensure long-term efficiencies and redundancies so that similar problems are avoided in the future.

 

Executive Appointment

 

Maple Gold is pleased to announce the appointment of Kiran Patankar as Chief Financial Officer of the Company replacing Gregg Orr. Mr. Patankar has held the position of Senior Vice President, Growth Strategy with the Company since 2021 and will continue to apply his skills and experience to the execution of corporate strategy and evaluation of strategic initiatives. He is an accomplished mining executive with more than 15 years of progressively senior investment banking and public company executive experience including responsibility for executing M&A and corporate finance transactions totaling more than $3 billion, project evaluation and development, contract negotiation, stakeholder engagement and corporate governance. Mr. Patankar holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Geological Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines.

 

Option Issuance

 

The Company has approved the grant to certain employees and officers of stock options (“Options”) to purchase an aggregate of 1,050,000 common shares of the Company at an exercise price of $0.26 per common share. The Options have a 5-year term and vest 1/3 immediately, 1/3 in 12 months and 1/3 in 24 months from the date of grant until fully vested.

 

 

Qualified Person

The scientific and technical data contained in this press release was reviewed and prepared under the supervision of Fred Speidel, M. Sc., P. Geo., Vice-President Exploration of Maple Gold. Mr. Speidel is a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. Mr. Speidel has verified the data related to the exploration information disclosed in this press release through his direct participation in the work.

 

Quality Assurance and Quality Control

The Company implements strict Quality Assurance and Quality Control protocols at Eagle covering the planning and placing of drill holes in the field; drilling and retrieving the NQ-sized drill core; drillhole surveying; core transport; core logging by qualified personnel; sampling and bagging of core for analysis; transport of core from site to the Val d’Or, Québec AGAT laboratory; sample preparation for assaying; and analysis, recording and final statistical vetting of results. For a complete description of protocols, please visit the Company’s QA/QC webpage at www.maplegoldmines.com.

 

About Maple Gold

 

Maple Gold Mines Ltd. is a Canadian advanced exploration company in a 50/50 joint venture with Agnico Eagle Mines Limited to jointly advance the district-scale Douay and Joutel gold projects located in Québec’s prolific Abitibi Greenstone Gold Belt. The projects benefit from exceptional infrastructure access and boast ~400 km2 of highly prospective ground including an established gold resource at Douay (SLR 2022) that holds significant expansion potential as well as the past-producing Eagle, Telbel and Eagle West mines at Joutel. In addition, the Company holds an exclusive option to acquire 100% of the Eagle Mine Property.

 

The district-scale property package also hosts a significant number of regional exploration targets along a 55 km strike length of the Casa Berardi Deformation Zone that have yet to be tested through drilling, making the project ripe for new gold and polymetallic discoveries. The Company is well capitalized and is currently focused on carrying out exploration and drill programs to grow resources and make new discoveries to establish an exciting new gold district in the heart of the Abitibi.

 

Posted August 16, 2022

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