Mr. Alex Klenman reports
LEOCOR GOLD PLANS DRILL PROGRAMS AT THE DORSET GOLD PROJECT AND COPPER CREEK PROJECT, BAIE VERTE DISTRICT, NEWFOUNDLAND AND ANNOUNCES PRIVATE PLACEMENT
Leocor Gold Inc.
has provided details of its plans for summer exploration programs at its Baie Verte project, which comprises both the Dorset gold project and the Copper Creek project, among others, located in north-central Newfoundland, Canada.
The company is targeting its Baie Verte holdings with multiple drill programs this summer. The scope and details (drill type, metreage, exact locations) are currently under discussion and will be released upon finalization in the coming weeks.
The Dorset gold project is already established as containing several known gold zones, and presents additional, highly prospective exploration targets. The 2024 program will be designed to test priority zones within a prominent one-kilometre-by-two-kilometre gold-in-soil anomaly delineated by Leocor in 2022. Copper Creek is a copper target with compelling historical results. The company is eager to begin detailed prospecting within areas of interest and systematically testing known zones of copper mineralization.
Dorset gold project
Located south of the Pine Cove gold mine, Dorset features multiple zones of high-grade gold mineralization. The company completed a rotary air blast (RAB) drill program in late 2022 that tested six different target areas for gold and/or copper mineralization with 18 drill holes. The program was designed to follow up on previously announced soil and GT (GroundTruth Exploration) probe results.
Highlights from the 2022 RAB program include:
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Sharpie Ridge target: 2.32 grams per tonne gold over 10.67 metres, including 10.2 g/t Au over 1.52 m. New target that is open along strike and at depth;
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Braz NE target: 3.18 g/t Au over 4.57 m from surface. New target that is open along strike and at depth;
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Dorset Main target: 1.41 g/t over 7.62 m. Confirming geometry of the mineralized zone.
The Dorset project is highly prospective for additional high-grade gold zones and the 2024 program will be designed to test some of the priority zones within a prominent one by two km gold-in-soil anomaly delineated by Leocor in 2022.
Copper Creek claims
The Copper Creek portion of the Baie Verte project has had little copper-focused work completed over the past few years and provides excellent exploration potential. In 2021, the company completed exploration work at Dorset and Copper Creek that included soil sampling, GT probe sampling, geophysics, lidar and high-resolution drive imagery surveys. Highlights of the program include:
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Multiple targets identified along seven km northeast-trending zone of anomalous gold in soils and a four km subparallel trend of anomalous copper (plus/minus gold) in soils with results up to 1,601 parts per billion gold and 2,862 parts per million copper.
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Indications of two styes of mineralization on the project including VMS-style (volcanogenic massive slphide) copper (plus/minus gold-zinc) mineralization and structurally controlled gold mineralization with similarities to the nearby Pine Cover mine.
Shawn Ryan, Leocor's technical adviser, said at the time: "Here we have an area that has seen a lot of previous exploration work, from gold to base metal and the detailed 2021 soil program outlined a brand new 6.5 km mineralized gold trend that has not been previous seen. And the soil work also outlined a nice base metal copper-zinc target measuring 1,200 m by 400 m sitting directly across from the old Terra Nova base metal deposit. Having one of these anomalies is impressive but having two is exceptional."
Historic results at Copper Creek include grab sample values of
1,019 to 9,414 ppm Cu and assays of up to 4.4 per cent Cu while channel sampling yielded assays of up to 0.85 per cent Cu over two m (Dunsworth, 2004).
Channel sampling, by Anaconda, returned assays of up to 0.196 per cent Cu over two m (Dunsworth, 2004). However, further southwestward extension of the T5 site, by Chan, in 2007 (via a two by 14 m trench) revealed a notable increase in sulphide content and grades; samples from a one m wide subzone of semi-massive to massive sulphide (60 to 70 per cent pyrite) returned several assays in the range of 1.46 per cent to 7.1 per cent Cu.
Prospecting performed in 2015, along the access road, trending 100 to 300 m northwest of the T5 site, resulted in the discovery of several roadside ditch exposures of chalcopyrite mineralized, sheared/chloritized, gabbro to micro gabbro, which returned sample assays of 1.3 per cent and 3.22 per cent Cu as well as several values in the range of 1,760 to 9,770 ppm Cu. Soil sampling, also carried out in 2015 -- involving several 100 to 200 m spaced sample lines
emplaced across the general strike of the above mineralized chlorite and chlorite-sericite-quartz schist zones -- returned consistently anomalous Cu results of 100 to 762 ppm. Three closely spaced soil samples taken over the T5 site (prior to the 2004 trenching) returned Cu assays of 237 ppm, 522 ppm and 586 ppm Cu.
About Leocor's Baie Verte project
The Baie Verte Peninsula represents one of the more productive and historical gold and base metal mining districts in Canada. The former Terra Nova base metal mine -- one of several copper mines of the region, which operated during the late 1880s to early 1900s -- lies 200 metres west of Leocor's Copper Creek claims. Former gold mining operations in the area include the Goldenville mine (of 1903 to 1906), located eight km northeast of the property, and the more recent Nugget Pond mine (1997 to 2000) of the eastern Baie Verte Peninsula area. Currently producing mines in the area include the Rambler base metal gold mine (1961 to present), located 14 km east-southeast of Baie Verte, and the Pine Cove and Stogertite mines (collectively, 2011 to present) located 1.6 km and 5.4 km northeast of the current property.
The Baie Verte project combines the
Dorset, Dorset Extension, Five Mile Brook
and
Copper Creek
projects consisting of 14 mineral licences, totalling 80 claims, and covering 1,995 hectares (19.95 square km).
The Dorset gold project is a 275 ha gold exploration project, located south of the Pine Cove gold mine, and features multiple zones of high-grade gold mineralization. The main Dorset zone includes three
historic showings, referred to as Dorset 1, 2 and 3 showings. High-grade grab samples from Dorset 1 returned 407.9, 349.2, 147.1, 143.9, 138.2 and 108 g/t Au, among others. Grab samples from Dorset 2 returned 167, 96.12, 84.3, 49.7, 23.8, 4.33 and 1.33 g/t Au
(MacDougall and Walker, 1988).
Historic select sampling
at the Braz zone returned
values of 314 g/t Au, 40 g/t Au, 31.4 g/t
Au, 21.2 g/t Au, 19.2 g/t Au and 14.8 g/t Au.
Historic
channel sampling across the vein
returned 9.5 g/t Au over 0.4 m, 5.7 g/t Au over 0.5 m and 1.2 g/t Au over 0.65 m.
Weighted
averages of historic rock sampling encompassing vein and mineralized wall rock returned values of 5.8 g/t Au over 1.9 m, 3.1 g/t Au over two m and 2.5 g/t Au over 1.5 m
(MacDougall, 1990).
Copper Creek (1,025 ha) hosts several gold prospects and copper occurrences associated with extensive alteration/shear zones developed within a thrust-faulted sequence of quartz-iron-carbonate-fuchsite-altered gabbros, ultramafics and mafic volcanics, of the Advocate (ophiolite) complex, and intermediate to silicic volcaniclastics and tuffs and micro gabbroic dikes/sills, of the Flatwater Pond (cover sequence) group.
Five Mile Brook (350 ha) has been subject to minimal exploration in the past but shows potentially important geological continuity to the company's Dorset gold project, which lies directly contiguous to the northern boundary.
Private placement
The company also announces that it intends to conduct a private placement of up to 30 million units, at a price of five cents per unit for gross proceeds of up to $1.5-million. Each unit will comprise one common share of the company, and one-half of one common share purchase warrant exercisable at a price of 10 cents for a period of 36 months.
The company intends to use the gross proceeds to advance the exploration and development of its gold and copper projects in Newfoundland, and for general working capital purposes.
In connection with the placement, the company may pay finders' fees to eligible third parties who have assisted in introducing subscribers to the company. All securities to be issued in connection with the placement will be subject to a four-month-and-one-day statutory hold period in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Qualified person
The technical information contained in this press release has been reviewed and approved by Mike Kilbourne, PGeo, and Jodie Gibson, PGeo, both independent qualified persons as defined in National Instrument 43-101.
About Leocor Gold Inc.
Leocor Gold is a British Columbia-based resource company involved in the acquisition and exploration of precious metal projects, with a current focus in Atlantic Canada. Leocor, through outright ownership and earn-in agreements, currently controls several gold-copper projects in prime exploration ground located within the prolific Baie Verte mining district. Leocor's Baie Verte portfolio includes the Dorset, Dorset Extension, Copper Creek and Five Mile Brook projects, creating a contiguous nearly 2,000-hectare exploration corridor. The company also controls district-scale land packages in north-central Newfoundland, known as Robert's Arm, Hodge's Hill and Leamington, representing over 144,000 hectares (1,440 square kilometres) of prospective exploration ground.
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