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Sirios Signs a $14.8M Option Agreement with Sumitomo Metal Mining Canada Ltd. for its Aquilon Gold Project

 

 

 

 

 

Management of SIRIOS RESOURCES INC. (TSX-V: SOI) is pleased to announce the signing of a property option agreement with Sumitomo Metal Mining Canada Ltd, pursuant to which has agreed to grant to Sumitomo an option to acquire up to an 80% interest, following an investment totaling $14.8M on the Aquilon gold property, located in Eeyou Istchee James Bay in Quebec.

 

Dominique Doucet, chief executive officer of Sirios, stated: “We are honoured and very pleased to start working with Sumitomo to kick off a rigorous and systematic exploration program on the Aquilon property. We believe that this property is very prospective and remains underexplored considering the variety of favourable geological contexts in which numerous high-grade gold showings have been discovered. We rank Aquilon as a high-priority project for Sirios and we look forward to advancing the project with our partner having the financial and technical capacities to develop the numerous discoveries into an important mining project.”

 

Summary of the Option agreement

 

Pursuant to the agreement, Sumitomo can earn an initial 51% interest in the project by paying a sum of $200,000 at signing to Sirios and incurring an aggregate of $4.6 million in mineral exploration expenditures, on or before the third anniversary of the option agreement. Sirios will be the operator during this earn-in period, entitled to a 10% management fee. A firm commitment of $1.6-million will be spent on the property during this earn-in period.

 

Sumitomo can earn an additional 29% interest in the project, for an aggregate of 80%, by incurring an additional aggregate of $10 million in mineral exploration expenditures, on or before the sixth anniversary of the option agreement.

 

Following the earn-in of an 80% interest, Sumitomo and Sirios will form a joint venture in respect of the project. In the event a joint venture participant’s interest is diluted to below 10%, it will convert its joint venture interest to a net smelter return royalty of 2%.

 

About the Aquilon project

The Aquilon gold property is 100% owned by Sirios and consists of 140 mineral claims covering an area of 68 km2. It is located in Eeyou Istchee James Bay, Quebec, 10 km south of the Laforge-1 hydroelectric power station and is easily accessible by all-season roads. To date, 32 gold showings have been discovered on the property. Drill intercepts on the Aquilon project are among the highest gold grades reported in Quebec, which includes 12,906.5 g/t Au over 0.20 m (Lingo showing), 3,527.4 g/t Au over 0.40 m (Moman showing) and 133.67 g/t Au over 0.82 m (Fleur-de-Lys showing) (ref. press releases of 26/06/2008 and 19/01/2011).

 

The scientific and technical content of this press release has been reviewed and approved by Roger Moar, P.Geo., qualified person under National Instrument 43-101.

 

About Sirios

 

Sirios Resources Inc. is a Canadian-based mining exploration company focused on developing its portfolio of high-potential gold properties in the Eeyou Istchee James Bay region of Quebec.

 

Posted December 19, 2022

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