Galway Metals drills 12.8 m of 11.8 g/t Au at Clarence
2017-10-10 10:04 ET – News Release
Mr. Robert Hinchcliffe reports
GALWAY METALS INTERSECTS 11.8 G/T AU OVER 12.8M AND 6.1 G/T AU OVER 15.1M AT CLARENCE STREAM
Galway Metals Inc. has provided assay results from 21 diamond drill holes (3,118 metres) from its Clarence Stream gold property located in southwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Galway secured an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the property on August 3, 2016, and on September 26, 2017, the Company released an updated National Instrument (NI) 43-101 resource statement prepared by SRK Consulting (U.S.), Inc., which included a maiden pit constrained resource estimate (click here to view resource update).
Highlights of the latest drill results, which are not included in the updated resource, are as follows:
South Zone (Figure 1)
11.8 g/t Au over 12.8 metres (m), including 105.0 g/t Au over 1.2 m starting at a vertical depth of 73 m,
6.1 g/t Au over 15.1 m, including 27.3 g/t Au over 2.3 m starting at a vertical depth of 13 m,
0.7 g/t Au over 43.0 m, including 8.3 g/t Au over 1.0 m starting at a vertical depth of 78-108 m,
7.6 g/t Au over 12.0 m, including 41.8 g/t Au over 1.8 m starting at a vertical depth of 35 m and
17.4 g/t Au over 5.9 m, including 39.8 g/t Au over 2.0 m, and 1.1 g/t Au over 7.5 m, and 2.5 g/t Au over 5.5 m, starting at a vertical depth of 9.5 m.
North Zone (Figure 2)
2.0 g/t Au over 9.7 m, including 15.1 g/t Au over 1.0 m starting at a vertical depth of 35 m, and
1.4 g/t Au over 5.6 m, starting at a vertical depth of 46.5 m.
Robert Hinchcliffe, President and CEO of Galway Metals, said, “Clarence Stream contains a high-grade pit-constrained resource that we believe can be significantly expanded, and also contains the potential for satellite discoveries along the Sawyer Brook Fault System. Looking at the latest drill results, with widths up to 43.0 meters at 100 meters from surface, we see real potential to expand the depth of the pit.”
Numerous Targets Identified; First Target Drilled with Assays Pending
The resources at Clarence Stream are contained within 2.5-km of Galway’s 65-km strike length. There are many additional strong targets identified that exhibit coincident highly anomalous glacial tills, soils, boulders and chip samples, along magnetic lows. The first satellite target was recently drilled with 11 holes at Jubilee, located five-km southwest of the South Zone, with assays pending. The Company believes that by exploring additional untested targets, a new emerging gold district in New Brunswick could be uncovered.
Drill Results: Wide, Near-Surface, High-Grade Intersects
The drill intersections highlighted below are significant because they enhance the pit-constrained resource by being wider and/or higher-grade than the existing surrounding drill results. Wider intersections are particularly important in driving the depth of the pit-constrained resource deeper.
CLARENCE STREAM SOUTH ZONE DRILL HOLE RESULTS Au From To Int. TW Au (cut) Hole ID (m) (m) (m) (m) (g/t) (g/t) CS 17-366 17.5 32.6 15.1 14.6 6.1 4.2 including 21.3 23.6 2.3 2.2 27.3 15.0 30.0 31.0 1.0 1.0 8.6 CS 17-365 26.0 38.0 12.0 11.6 1.0 including 34.0 35.0 1.0 1.0 2.6 CS 17-363 130.0 132.8 2.8 2.5 3.6 including 130.8 131.8 1.0 0.9 7.6 CS 17-362 61.3 64.5 3.2 3.1 11.6 including 61.3 62.5 1.2 1.2 26.8 CS 17-361 62.0 63.0 1.0 1.0 1.7 CS 17-360 103.4 115.8 12.4 12.0 11.8 6.6 including 103.4 104.5 1.1 1.0 105.0 40.0 CS 17-359 42.6 43.6 1.0 1.0 1.2 50.0 62.0 12.0 11.7 7.6 6.8 including 56.7 58.5 1.8 1.7 41.8 36.5 CS 17-358 13.1 19.0 5.9 5.7 17.4 16.3 including 14.1 17.3 3.2 3.1 31.4 29.8 47.0 54.5 7.5 7.3 1.1 including 53.0 53.5 0.5 0.5 4.1 60.0 65.5 5.5 5.3 2.5 114.0 115.0 1.0 1.0 1.2 CS 17-357 56.0 57.0 1.0 1.0 2.4 150.0 153.0 3.0 2.9 0.8 CS 17-356 65.5 66.5 1.0 1.0 2.0 89.0 91.8 2.8 2.7 2.1 CS 17-355 44.0 45.0 1.0 1.0 1.2 110.0 153.0 43.0 42.2 0.7 including 117.0 118.0 1.0 1.0 8.3 including 129.5 130.5 1.0 1.0 2.3 including 149.0 150.0 1.0 1.0 3.3
The above drill holes have assays pending before and after the intervals given (i.e. the above intersections were rushed to the assay lab whereas the rest of the intersections were not).
CLARENCE STREAM NORTH ZONE DRILL HOLE RESULTS Au From To Int. TW Au (cut) Hole ID (m) (m) (m) (m) (g/t) (g/t) AD 17-128 49.5 59.2 9.7 8.9 2.0 including 50.8 51.8 1.0 0.9 15.1 AD 17-130 92.3 96.7 4.4 3.6 1.9 AD 17-131 108.5 115.6 7.1 6.1 0.6 including 108.5 109.8 1.3 1.1 1.8 AD 17-134 65.5 71.3 5.8 4.9 1.4 71.3 79.6 8.3 7.1 0.4 AD 17-135 51.6 53.1 1.5 1.3 3.1
Notes: Hole CS17-366 is cut to 17.0 /t, while the other South Zone top cuts in this press release are 40.0 g/t; they were determined in different domains as provided by SRK in the resource estimate released September 26, 2017. The lower cut-off grade for drill intersects provided above, and applied in the pit-constrained resource estimate, was determined by SRK at 0.42 g/t Au. Drill holes AD17-129, 132, 133, and 136, and CS17- 364 did not return significant assays. For a complete list of all Galway drill results at Clarence Stream and the historical drill hole locations, refer to the North Zone table, South Zone table and Historical Drill Location table on the Company’s website at www.galwaymetalsinc.com.
The drill intersects highlighted below are significant because they enhance the pit-constrained resource by being wider and/or higher-grade than the existing surrounding drill results. For example:
Hole CS17-366, which returned 6.1 g/t Au over 15.1 m, is located 20 metres (m) vertically above earlier hole CS05-138 that contained 4.7 g/t Au (2.4 cut) over 8.0 metres (m).
Hole CS17-365, which returned 1.0 g/t Au over 12.0 m, is located 25 m vertically above earlier hole CS05-139 that contained 1.1 g/t Au over 7.5m.
Hole CS17-363, which returned 3.6 g/t Au over 2.8 m, is located 30 m vertically below earlier hole CS05-170 that contained 1.0 g/t Au over 8.0 m and is open below for 120 m.
Hole CS17-362, which returned 11.6 g/t Au over 3.2 m, is located midway between earlier holes CS17-361 and CS01-24 (50m gap) that returned no significant values.
Hole CS17-360, which returned 11.8 g/t Au over 12.4 m, is located midway between earlier holes CS07-262 (7.3 g/t Au over 3.5 m) and CS01-38 (3.8 g/t Au over 5.5 m) (50 m gap).
Hole CS17-359, which returned 7.6 g/t Au over 12.0 m, is located midway between earlier holes CS01-48 (2.0 g/t Au over 39.4 m) and CS01-38 (3.8 g/t Au over 5.5 m) (50 m gap).
Hole CS17-358, which returned 17.4 g/t Au over 5.9 m, is located 30m vertically above earlier hole CS01-44 that returned 5.1 g/t Au (3.3 cut) over 42.9 m. It is thought that hole CS17-358 only intersected the south edge of the zone.
Hole CS17-355, which returned 0.74 g/t Au over 43.0 m, is located midway between earlier holes CS01-45 (0.7 g/t Au over 7.5 m) and CS01-55 (9.4 g/t Au over 1.5 m) (50 m gap).
Holes CS17-356, 357, and 361 intersected low-grade intervals similar to surrounding holes. Hole CS17-364 is located in a waste gap between shoots of mineralization.
Holes CS17-355 and CS17-360 are particularly important because the widths attained should drive the depth of the pit-constrained resource deeper (12.4-43.0 m now vs. 4.6-14.7 m previously). Holes CS17-365 and CS17-366 are important because they are wide intersections very close to surface where moderate widths were found before (12.0-15.1 m now vs. 4.5-5.0 m previously).
In the North Zone, hole AD 17-128, which returned 2.0 g/t Au over 9.7 m, is located midway in the 102 m gap between holes AD 17-127 (14.6 g/t Au over 10.2 m) and CS02-99 (1.1 g/t Au over 19.1 m), within a low-grade portion of the pit-constrained block model. Holes CS17-130, 131, 134, and 135 extend the southern limb of the North Zone 50 m to the north and east. Hole CS17-131 appears to join the two south pits together. Holes AD 17-129, 132, 133, and 136 are located in waste gaps between shoots of mineralization.
1,873 metres were drilled in 12 holes in the South Zone. One hole is pending. 1,245 metres were drilled in 9 holes in the North Zone.
Clarence Stream Geology and Mineralization
Clarence Stream is located along, and controlled by, the Sawyer Brook Fault boundary of the Gander and Avalon terranes of the Canadian Appalachians in Palaeozoic age intrusive and sedimentary rocks, which are the primary hosts of gold mineralization. The deposits are intrusion-related quartz-vein hosted fault-controlled gold with pyrite, base metal sulphides, and stibnite plus anomalous concentrations of bismuth, arsenic, antimony and tungsten, with sericitization and chloritization. Gold is present in two main areas-the South Zone along the Sawyer Brook Fault and the North Zone 3.5 km NW. The South Zone is steeply dipping, east-northeast trending, with two horizons identified to date, and multiple shoots extending over more than 2.5 km with the resource extending to a maximum depth of 336 metres to date along contacts and within sheared and altered metagabbro and microgranite sills and dikes that crosscut the meta-sedimentary rocks and are related to the Saint George Batholith to the south (presence of hornfels + veined and altered auriferous microgranite dikes + high concentrations of Bi, As and Sb). The North Zone consists of four lenses that appear to be part of the same shallow dipping horizon up to 37.4 metres thick within a one km by two km area to a maximum depth of 90 metres, and is hosted within metagreywacke and argillite, and in quartz veins with stringers and semi-massive stibnite, arsenopyrite, and pyrite.
Review by Qualified Person, Quality Control and Reports
Michael Sutton, P.Geo., is the Qualified Person who supervised the preparation of the scientific and technical disclosure in this news release on behalf of Galway Metals Inc. All core, chip/boulder samples, and soil samples are assayed by Activation Laboratories, 41 Bittern Street, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada, who have ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. All core is under watch from the drill site to the core processing facility. All samples are assayed for gold by Fire Assay, with gravimetric finish, and other elements assayed using ICP. The Company’s QA/QC program includes the regular insertion of blanks and standards into the sample shipments, as well as instructions for duplication. Standards, blanks and duplicates are inserted at one per 20 samples. Approximately five percent (5%) of the pulps and rejects are sent for check assaying at a second lab with the results averaged and intersections updated when received. Core recovery in the mineralized zones has averaged 99%.
Hole ID Total depth (m) South zone drilling CS17-355 201 CS17-356 210 CS17-357 222 CS17-358 171 CS17-359 118 CS17-360 171 CS17-361 120 CS17-362 120 CS17-363 186 CS17-364 150 CS17-365 102 CS17-366 102 North zone drilling AD17-128 126 AD17-129 126 AD17-130 141 AD17-131 150 AD17-132 150 AD17-133 150 AD17-134 99 AD17-135 132 AD17-136 171
Hole ID Total depth (m) Historical drilling CS05-138 72.0 CS05-139 75.0 CS05-170 102.0 CS01-24 101.5 CS07-262 195.0 CS01-38 114.3 CS01-48 102.1 CS01-44 102.1 CS01-45 126.5 CS01-55 193.5 CS02-99 44.8
About the Company
Galway Metals is well capitalized with two gold projects in Canada, Clarence Stream, an emerging gold district in New Brunswick, and Estrades, the former producing, high-grade VMS mine in Quebec. The Company began trading on January 4, 2013, after the successful spinout to existing shareholders from Galway Resources following the completion of the US$340 million sale of that company. With substantially the same management team and Board of Directors, Galway Metals is keenly intent on creating similar value as it had with Galway Resources.
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