White Gold Corp. (TSX.V: WGO, OTCQX: WHGOF, FRA:
29W) (the "Company") is pleased to report additional
positive assay results from the 2022 drill program at the Betty
Ford target, on its Betty property from BETFD22RC004 which
intersected 8.94 g/t Au over 18.29m from 35.05m depth, including
21.73 g/t Au over 6.10m from 45.75m depth. The Betty property
(Figure 1) is contiguous to and approximately 40km east of Newmont
Corporation’s Coffee Gold deposit (Measured & Indicated
Resources of 2.14 Moz gold and Inferred Resources of 0.23 Moz
gold(3)) and 15km northeast of Western Copper and Gold
Corporation’s Casino porphyry deposit (Measured & Indicated
Resources of 14.8 Moz gold & 7.6 Blbs copper and Inferred
Resources of 6.3 Moz gold and 3.1 Blb copper(4)). These assays
represent positive results from the Company’s 2022 fully funded $6
million exploration program on its extensive and underexplored
350,000 hectare land package in the emerging White Gold District,
Yukon, supported by strategic partners Agnico Eagle Mines Limited
(TSX: AEM, NYSE: AEM) and Kinross Gold Corporation (TSX: K, NYSE:
KGC).
“We are very excited to have encountered
additional near surface very high-grade gold over significant
widths at the Betty Ford Target. This hole was located over 100m
from the exciting high grade hole last year (3.46g/t over 50m) with
the zone remaining open along strike. These results represent the
highest grades encountered on the Betty Ford target to date and
have further extended the strike length. We look forward to
continuing to explore this exciting target in such close proximity
to other very significant deposits,” stated David D’Onofrio,
CEO.
Maps accompanying this news release can be found
at https://whitegoldcorp.ca/news/.
Highlights:
- Hole
BETFD22RC004 on the Betty Ford target intersected 8.94 g/t
Au over 18.29m from 35.05m depth, including 21.73 g/t Au over 6.10m
from 45.75m depth, which has extended gold mineralization
along strike to the west for a total of 165m and remains open.
- 2022 drilling at Betty Ford focused
on testing the depth and strike extents of the gold mineralized
zone identified in last season’s maiden diamond drilling program
which included 3.46 g/t Au over 50.0m in hole BETFD21D003
and 1.17 g/t Au over 48.0m in BETFD21D001.
- Additional
results from the 2022 exploration program will be announced in due
course as results are received and interpreted. The 2022 program
has been designed to advance prospective new targets on the Betty
and other properties and to increase the Company’s significant gold
resources on the White Gold property.
Betty Ford 2022 Results
The 2022 Betty Ford drill program comprised 5
diamond drill holes totalling 933.0m and 2 RC holes totalling
201.16m (Figure 2). Reverse circulation (RC) hole BETFD22RC004 was
drilled from the same drill pad as hole BETFD21D001 (1.17 g/t Au
over 48.0m) at an azimuth of 230° (southwest) and dip of -50°. The
hole intersected near surface gold mineralization (Figure 3)
grading 8.94 g/t Au over 18.29 from 35.05m downhole, which included
a high-grade subinterval of 21.73 g/t Au over 6.10m from 45.72m
downhole (see Table 1). This extends the gold mineralized zone on
the Betty Ford an additional 35m along strike to the west, with the
total strike length currently at 165m.
Additional details on the Betty Ford target are
provided in a news release issued by the Company on November 28,
2022 (available on SEDAR). The Company continues to review and
interpret data to better understand the geology and nature of gold
mineralization at the Betty Ford target. Over the coming months the
Company’s geologists and consultants will be carrying out a
thorough review and detailed interpretation of all existing
exploration and drilling data. Follow-up diamond drilling at the
Betty Ford target next season will focus on tracing the
near-surface extensions of the gold zone that has now been
identified in multiple holes.
Table 1. Summary of Gold Assay Results
for Hole BETFD22RC004 at the Betty Ford Target.
Hole ID |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Length (m)* |
Au (g/t) |
BETFD22RC004 |
35.05 |
53.34 |
18.29 |
8.94 |
Incl. |
45.72 |
51.82 |
6.10 |
21.73 |
and |
99.06 |
100.58 |
1.52 |
1.99 |
* Note: All drill
hole intercepts reported herein are core lengths. Currently there
is insufficient data to estimate true thicknesses. |
Betty Ford Target
The Betty Ford target is located at the centre
of the Betty property and forms an approximately 1km long east-west
trending gold-in-soil anomaly with gold values ranging from trace
up to 1,961 ppb Au. Bedrock exposure in this area is extremely
limited and existing property-scale geology maps indicate the area
is underlain predominately by metasedimentary rocks comprising
quartzite and muscovite and/or biotite schists. The Betty property
is strategically located on the eastern extension of the Coffee
Creek Fault, which hosts Newmont’s Coffee deposit.
In 2018 a 6-hole RAB drilling program by the
Company tested the central portion of the soil anomaly and 3 holes
encountered gold mineralization including 0.94 g/t Au over 24.39m
in BETFRDRAB18-001, 1.08 g/t Au over 50.29m in BETFRDRAB18-002, and
0.75 g/t Au over 13.72m in BETFRDRAB18-003. Maiden diamond drilling
in 2021 intersected a newly identified polylithic breccia unit that
hosts significant near-surface gold mineralization (see Company
news release dated Nov. 17, 2021, available on SEDAR). Hole
BETFD21D001 intersected an upper zone of 9.03 g/t Au over 1.0m from
6.0m downhole and 1.17 g/t Au over 48.0m from 19.0m downhole, while
hole BETFD21D003, located 100m to the east, intersected 3.46 g/t Au
over 50.0m from 33.0m downhole, including a higher-grade core of
4.47 g/t Au over 30m from 44.0m. The 2022 diamond drilling and RC
drilling was designed to further evaluate the Betty Ford target to
determine the extent and continuity of mineralization.
About the Betty PropertyThe
Betty property comprises 860 quartz claims which cover an area of
17,127 hectares and is strategically located contiguous to and 15km
northeast of Western Copper and Gold Corporation’s Casino porphyry
deposit and 40 km east of Newmont Corporation’s Coffee Gold
deposit.
The property hosts several early-stage
exploration targets including the Betty Ford, Betty White, Betty
Grable, Betty Black and Mascot targets. The property was originally
staked in 2010 and since that time has seen intermittent
exploration. Early work from 2010 to 2013 was carried out by Ethos
Gold Corp. (“Ethos”) which completed soil geochemistry surveys
(coarse grid), airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys, the
acquisition of high-resolution satellite imagery, trenching and
reverse circulation (RC) drilling. The majority of Ethos’s work was
focused in the Mascot target area leaving large portions of the
property underexplored. More recent work has included mapping and
prospecting, infill soil geochemistry sampling, ground geophysical
surveys (Induced Polarization-Resistivity, and Magnetics – VLF-EM),
LiDAR surveys, GT probe sampling and RAB drilling in 2018.
Significant historical RC & RAB drilling results include 2.62
g/t Au over 41.1m in hole BETR12-022, 29.75 g/t Au over 3.1m in
BETR12-012 and 2.19 g/t Au over 10.7m in BETR12-014 in Ethos RC
drilling at the Mascot target, and 1.08 g/t Au over 50.29m in hole
BETFRDRAB18-002 in 2018 RAB drilling by the Company at the Betty
Ford target.
The Betty property is underlain primarily by
Late Devonian metasedimentary rocks of the Snowcap Assemblage which
have been intruded by the Middle Cretaceous Dawson Range
granodiorite and diorite in the southern portion of the property.
The structural geological setting of the property area is complex
with 4 major fault arrays being recognized: 1) WNW-trending Yukon
River Shear Zone (YRSZ); 2) E-W trending Coffee Creek fault; 3)
NW-trending Big Creek fault; and 4) NE-trending Dip Creek fault.
The earliest faults are W to WNW trending, southerly verging thrust
faults (later movement is dextral strike slip) including the Coffee
Creek Fault and Yukon River Shear Zone, and NW trending oblique
second order faults. Later fault systems include the NW-trending
Big Creek Fault and the NE-trending Dip Creek Fault. Additional
2nd and 3rd order faults also developed at this time, possibly
in the Mid to Late Cretaceous. The most important structures
controlling gold mineralization as outlined by soil geochemistry
appear to be 2nd and 3rd order NE trending and W trending
structures. These areas include the Betty Ford, Betty White, Betty
Grable and Mascot zones. More rarely gold mineralization appears to
be associated with regional scale structures as is the case with
the Betty Black zone on the Coffee Creek Fault. Based on soil
geochemistry and structural interpretations, the property is
prospective for several styles of mineralization including orogenic
gold, intrusion-related gold, and porphyry copper (Au/Mo)
mineralization.
QA/QCAnalytical work for the
2022 RC drilling program was performed by Bureau Veritas, an
internationally recognized analytical services provider, at its
North Vancouver, British Columbia laboratory. Sample preparation
was carried out at its Whitehorse, Yukon facility. All RC chip
samples were prepared using the PRP70-250 package, where samples
were weighed, dried, and crushed to greater than 70% passing a 2mm
sieve, then pulverized to greater than 85% passing 75 microns).
Samples were then analyzed in accordance with BV’s FA430 and MA250
packages, for both gold analysis by fire assay (30g fire assay with
AAS finish) and ultra-trace multi-element ICP analysis (0.25 g, 4
acid digestion and ICP-MS analysis).
The reported sampling program work was completed
using industry standard procedures, including a quality
assurance/quality control (“QA/QC”) program consisting of the
insertion of standards and blank samples into the sample stream. BV
also runs a comprehensive QA/QC program of standards, duplicates,
and blanks within each sample stream.
About White Gold Corp.The
Company owns a portfolio of 17,584 quartz claims across 30
properties covering approximately 350,000 hectares representing
over 40% of the Yukon’s emerging White Gold District. The Company’s
flagship White Gold property hosts the Company’s Golden Saddle and
Arc deposits which have a mineral resource of 1,139,900 ounces
Indicated at 2.28 g/t Au and 402,100 ounces Inferred at 1.39 g/t
Au(1). Mineralization on the Golden Saddle and Arc is also known to
extend beyond the limits of the current resource estimate. The
Company’s recently acquired VG Deposit also hosts an Inferred gold
resource of 267,600 ounces at 1.62 g/t Au(2). Regional exploration
work has also produced several other new discoveries and
prospective targets on the Company’s claim packages which border
sizable gold discoveries including the Coffee project owned by
Newmont Corporation with Measured and Indicated Resources of 2.17
Moz at 1.46 g/t Au, and Inferred Resources of 0.50 Moz at 1.32 g/t
Au(3), and Western Copper and Gold Corporation’s Casino project
which has Measured and Indicated Resources of 14.8 Moz Au and 7.6
Blb Cu and Inferred Resources of 6.3 Moz Au and 3.1 Blb Cu(4). For
more information visit www.whitegoldcorp.ca.
(1) See White Gold Corp. technical report titled
“Technical Report for the White Gold Project, Dawson Range, Yukon
Canada”, Effective Date May 15, 2020, Report Date July 10, 2020,
prepared by Dr. Gilles Arseneau, P.Geo., and Andrew Hamilton,
P.Geo., available on SEDAR.(2) See White Gold Corp. technical
report titled “Technical Report for the QV Project, Yukon, Canada”,
Effective Date October 15, 2021, Report Date November 15, 2021,
available on SEDAR.(3) See Newmont Corporation news release titled
“Newmont Reports 2021 Mineral Reserves of 93 Million Gold Ounces
and 65 Million Gold Equivalent Ounces”, dated February 24, 2022:
https://www.newmont.com/investors/news-release/default.aspx.(4) See
Western Copper and Gold Corporation technical report titled “Casino
project, Form 43-101F1 Technical Report Feasibility Study, Yukon
Canada”, Effective Date June 13, 2022, Issue Date August 8, 2022,
prepared by Daniel Roth, PE, P.Eng., Mike Hester, F Aus IMM, John
M. Marek, P.E., Laurie M. Tahija, MMSA-QP, Carl Schulze, P.Geo.,
Daniel Friedman, P.Eng., Scott Weston, P.Geo., available on
SEDAR.
Qualified Person Terry Brace,
P.Geo. and Vice President of Exploration for the Company is a
“qualified person” as defined under National Instrument 43-101 –
Standards of Disclosure of Mineral Projects and has reviewed and
approved the content of this news release.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward
Looking InformationThis news release contains
"forward-looking information" and "forward-looking statements"
(collectively, "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of
the applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements,
other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking
statements and are based on expectations, estimates and projections
as at the date of this news release. Any statement that involves
discussions with respect to predictions, expectations, beliefs,
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or "does not expect", "is expected", "anticipates" or "does not
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such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or
results "may" or "could", "would", "might" or "will" be taken to
occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may
be forward-looking statements. In this news release,
forward-looking statements relate, among other things, the
Company’s objectives, goals and exploration activities conducted
and proposed to be conducted at the Company’s properties; future
growth potential of the Company, including whether any proposed
exploration programs at any of the Company’s properties will be
successful; exploration results; and future exploration plans and
costs and financing availability.
These forward-looking statements are based on
reasonable assumptions and estimates of management of the Company
at the time such statements were made. Actual future results may
differ materially as forward-looking statements involve known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the
actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to
materially differ from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking
statements. Such factors, among other things, include:the expected
benefits to the Company relating to the exploration conducted and
proposed to be conducted at the White Gold properties; the receipt
of all applicable regulatory approvals for the Offering; failure to
identify any additional mineral resources or significant
mineralization; the preliminary nature of metallurgical test
results; uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of
financing needed in the future, including to fund any exploration
programs on the Company’s properties; business integration risks;
fluctuations in general macroeconomic conditions; fluctuations in
securities markets; fluctuations in spot and forward prices of
gold, silver, base metals or certain other commodities;
fluctuations in currency markets (such as the Canadian dollar to
United States dollar exchange rate); change in national and local
government, legislation, taxation, controls, regulations and
political or economic developments; risks and hazards associated
with the business of mineral exploration, development and mining
(including environmental hazards, industrial accidents, unusual or
unexpected formations pressures, cave-ins and flooding); inability
to obtain adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; the
presence of laws and regulations that may impose restrictions on
mining and mineral exploration; employee relations; relationships
with and claims by local communities and indigenous populations;
availability of increasing costs associated with mining inputs and
labour; the speculative nature of mineral exploration and
development (including the risks of obtaining necessary licenses,
permits and approvals from government authorities); the
unlikelihood that properties that are explored are ultimately
developed into producing mines; geological factors; actual results
of current and future exploration; changes in project parameters as
plans continue to be evaluated; soil sampling results being
preliminary in nature and are not conclusive evidence of the
likelihood of a mineral deposit; title to properties; ongoing
uncertainties relating to the COVID-19 pandemic; and those factors
described under the heading "Risks Factors" in the Company's annual
information form dated July 29, 2020 available on SEDAR. Although
the forward-looking statements contained in this news release are
based upon what management of the Company believes, or believed at
the time, to be reasonable assumptions, the Company cannot assure
shareholders that actual results will be consistent with such
forward-looking statements, as there may be other factors that
cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended.
Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements and information. There can be no
assurance that forward-looking information, or the material factors
or assumptions used to develop such forward-looking information,
will prove to be accurate. The Company does not undertake to
release publicly any revisions for updating any voluntary
forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable
securities law.
Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation
Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the
TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
news release.
For Further Information, Please
Contact:
Contact Information:David
D’OnofrioChief Executive OfficerWhite Gold Corp.(647) 930-1880
ir@whitegoldcorp.ca
To Book a Meeting with Management:
https://whitegoldcorp.ca/contact/request-information/
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