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Latest Island Man Results
Latest Island Man Results BARKERVILLE INTERSECTS 11.36 G/T AU OVER 12.36 METRES AND 56.31 G/T AU OVER 4.10 METRES IN ISLAND MOUNTAIN PHASE I DRILLING NEW REPLACEMENT MINERALIZATION DISCOVERED
VANCOUVER, BC– December 15, 2016 – Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: BGM) (the “Company” or “Barkerville”) is pleased to announce additional results from the ongoing Phase I Island Mountain exploration drilling program at the Company’s flagship Cariboo Gold Project. Three drill rigs are currently operating on Island Mountain, with a fourth rig on Barkerville Mountain testing the 800 metre long KL Zone gold in soil anomaly. The results from the new drilling are presented in Table 2. A drill hole location plan map and longitudinal section are presented at the end of this release.
Highlights of the new drilling include: 12.91 g/t Au over 2.50 metres in BGM-16-537, 56.31 g/t Au over 4.10 metres in BGM-16-553, 11.23 g/t Au over 2.84 metres in BGM-16-555, 34.72 g/t Au over 2.75 metres in BGM-16-556, 11.36 g/t Au over 12.36 metres in BGM-16-567. Reported core lengths represent 50-90% true widths.
Island Mountain Phase I Drilling
The ongoing 20,000 metre Phase I exploratory and stratigraphic drill program on Island Mountain is having continued success in discovering extensions to and defining new vein systems that were historically never developed or explored, and has also outlined new occurrences of massive sulphide replacement bodies. At the Aurum and Mosquito Creek mines, past exploration and mining was primarily focused on the replacement hosted gold as opposed to the veining due to the higher gold tenor and as such, the extents of the vein sets were never fully considered.
New Replacement Mineralization Discovered
A previously unknown body of massive pyrite replacement mineralization has been discovered 75 metres northwest of the Mosquito Creek Mine in drillhole BGM-16-553 which averaged 56.31 g/t Au over 4.10 metres. The intersection occurs only 85 metres vertically below surface and opens a new exploration target along strike towards the northwest. Gold grade continuity within this massive sulphide replacement mineralization is remarkably continuous as illustrated in Table 1.
Table 1: Raw assays and length weighted gold composite for drillhole BGM-16-553:
Core lengths represent 50-90% true widths. Rock not recovered by drilling was assigned zero grade and not included in the composites. Top cuts have not been applied to high grade assays.
Approximately 40 metres down plunge of BGM-16-553, drillhole BGM-16-556 intersected additional replacement mineralization grading 34.72 g/t Au over 2.75 metres including 121.00 g/t Au over 0.60 metres. The northwestern extension to the mine stratigraphy was previously interpreted to be truncated at the Aurum Fault and hence mine development was not undertaken to explore for additional mineralization across this structure. Past operators only undertook widely spaced, shallow exploratory drilling in this area. This new mineralization remains untested down plunge and along strike.
Drilling Continues to Identify New Veining
New auriferous quartz veining was intersected by BGM-16-567 grading 11.36 g/t Au over 12.36 metres including 34.23 g/t Au over 4.00 metres located 70 metres vertically below surface in an undeveloped and undrilled portion of the Aurum Mine. Approximately 70 metres along strike to the southeast, BGM- 16-564 also intersected additional high grade veins averaging 41.73 g/t Au over 2.10 metres including 88.90 g/t Au over 0.95 metres. These intersections were further corroborated by drillhole BGM-16-537 which delineated numerous other vein sets including 12.91 g/t Au over 2.50 metres and also 10.83 g/t Au over 2.65 metres located 65 metres footwall to the Aurum Mine at a vertical depth of 330 metres below surface.
Chris Lodder, President and CEO of Barkerville, states that with this initial phase of drilling on Island Mountain now complete, our exploration team has developed a solid geologic understanding to guide drilling though the 2017 infill and exploration programs on Island Mountain.
Qualified Persons
Exploration activities at the Cariboo Gold Project are jointly administered on site by the Company’s Project Managers, Maggie Layman, P.Geo. and Wanda Carter, P.Geo. As per National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, Paul Geddes, P.Geo. Vice President Exploration, is the Qualified Person for the Company and has prepared, validated and approved the technical and scientific content of this news release. The Company strictly adheres to CIM Best Practices Guidelines in conducting, documenting, and reporting its exploration activities on the Cariboo Gold Project.
https://www.barkervillegold.com/investors/news/barkerville-intersects-11-36-g-t-au-over-12-36-metres-and-56-31-g-t-au-over-4-10-metres-in-island-mountain-phase-i-drilling-new-replacement-mineralization-discovered