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Located on JP Ross Property

JP Rose property map

Size

2,849 claims covering approximately 57,000 hectares

Work to Date

Soil Sampling, airborne DIGHEM,Trenching, LiDAR, IP-Resistivity, GT Probe, RAB drilling, RC Drilling, Diamond Drilling

Target (Mineralization)

Gold, Arsenic, Silver, Bismuth and Lead anomalies in soil.

The road accessible JP Ross property is located approximately 70km south of Dawson City, Yukon, and consists of 2,849 claims totalling 57,125 hectares which cover numerous placer gold creeks. Historic exploration performed on the property by Underworld Resources and Kinross includes geochemical surveys, trenching, airborne magnetic and radiometric surveys, and 8,592 m of diamond drilling in 64 holes. Fourteen (14) target areas are currently known, and large portions of the property are underexplored (see Yukon assessment report Nos. 096204 and 096204 for more information). The JP Ross property also contains one of the Company’s recent discoveries - the Vertigo target. 

Exploration work on the JP Ross property in 2020 included soil sampling (4,940 samples), GT Probe sampling (335 samples), ground magnetics and VLF-EM surveys (36.4 line km), 29 trenches totalling 1,114 linear metres utilizing a Kubota excavator and 11 trenches totalling 384 linear metres utilizing a CanDig mini-excavator, and 13 RAB holes totalling 614.8 m.   

The mechanical trenching programs were aimed at both refining and expanding known structurally controlled gold mineralization on multiple targets to help with future drill planning. Highlights include results from the Stage Fright target where trench JPRSF20T009 encountered a high-grade zone grading 8.88 g/t Au over 2.5 m, and trench JPRSF20T010 which exposed two separate mineralized zones grading 1.06 g/t Au over 2.5 m, and 1.83 g/t Au over 2.5 m and the Sabotage target, where five of seven trenches encountered gold mineralization including 3.40 g/t Au over 1.5 m in trench JPRSAB20T023, 1.15 g/t Au over 8.5 m in trench JPRSAB20T025, and 1.06 g/t Au over 2.1 m and 15.00 g/t Au over 0.8 m in trench JPRSAB20T029. Trenching on the North Frenzy target traced a north-south striking zone of mineralized quartz vein breccias with anomalous gold over a strike length of 600 m. CanDig trenching at the Vertigo target identified a new mineralized zone grading 2.16 g/t Au over 21.0 m, including higher grade subzones of 5.69 g/t Au over 3.0 m and 4.15 g/t Au over 5.0 m in trench JPRVER20T020. RAB drilling at JP Ross encountered gold mineralization in every hole with mineralized zones ranging from 0.20-3.29 g/t Au over widths of 1.5-9.1 m. 

Highlights from the GT Probe samples include those at the RJ target (formerly Notorious), a newly discovered zone located approximately 1.5 km west of the North Frenzy, and 500 m east of the intersection of two interpreted, property-scale sinistral faults. Results of initial GT Probe sampling in this area are very encouraging with multiple samples returning gold values in the range of 0.17 g/t Au to 24.4 g/t Au and trace up to 45.7 g/t Ag. The highest-grade probe sample site at 24.4 g/t Au and 45.7 g/t Ag was investigated by digging a 1.5 m deep hand pit and a series of rock samples encountered at all depths were collected. The two deepest samples at 1.4 m and 1.5 m depths returned the highest gold and silver values of 18.2 g/t Au and 33.6 g/t Ag and 4.376 g/t Au and 9.8 g/t Ag respectively, and the samples are also anomalous in copper and other elements including As, Bi, Te, W, Mo, and Pb. This site is located at the end of a GT Probe line and remains open.

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