Bravada begins drilling at Wind Mountain project. Bravada Gold begins drilling at Wind Mountain project
2020-12-10 11:15 ET - News Release
Mr. Joseph Kizis Jr. reports
BRAVADA COMMENCES DRILLING AT THE WIND MOUNTAIN GOLD/SILVER PROJECT, NEVADA
Drilling is under way at Bravada Gold Corp.'s 100-per-cent-owned Wind Mountain gold/silver project in northwestern Nevada. Three or four reverse-circulate drill holes are planned to depths ranging from 360 metres to 580 metres as the first relatively deep test of the interpreted feeder zone of this large hydrothermal system.
The feeder target is interpreted as the likely source of gold/silver-bearing hydrothermal fluids that deposited disseminated gold/silver previously mined in open pits by Amax Gold, as well as the remaining resources defined by Bravada. Evidence for the target concept is from Amax's shallow condemnation drill holes and from Bravada's geological mapping, geochemical sampling, magnetic geophysics and nearby 2017/2018 deep drill holes. Disseminated gold and silver mineralization on the Wind Mountain property is exposed over a strike length of more than six kilometres, indicating a robust gold system that spread laterally over a large area within permeable host sediments; however, a high-grade feeder zone has not been discovered to date and that is the objective of this campaign.
About Wind Mountain
The Wind Mountain property is in northwestern Nevada approximately 160 kilometres northeast of Reno in a sparsely populated region with excellent logistics, including county-maintained road access and a power line to the property. It is a historic past-producing, bulk-tonnage gold-silver mine. An independent resource estimate and preliminary economic evaluation for Wind Mountain commissioned by Bravada in 2012 reported:
- 570,000 ounces of gold and 14.7 million ounces of silver in the indicated category; and,
- 354,000 ounces of gold and 10.1 million ounces of silver in the inferred category.
See the attached table and news release NR-06-12 dated April 11, 2012, for details of the resource update. Mineral resources that are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. Inferred resources are considered too speculative geologically to have economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be classified as mineral reserves. There is no assurance that any part of the resources will ultimately be converted to mineral reserves.
Mine Development Associates compiled the technical report and PEA. Thomas Dyer, PE, is a senior engineer for MDA and is responsible for sections of the technical report involving mine designs and the economic evaluation, and Steven Ristorcelli, CPG, is a principal geologist for MDA and is responsible for the sections involving the mineral resource estimate. These are the qualified persons of the technical report for the purpose of Canadian NI 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Economic Analyses of Mineral Projects. Details of the PEA produced by Mine Development Associates of Reno can be found on SEDAR, as previously reported (see NR-07-12 dated May 1, 2012). Note that although the PEA was encouraging, it is preliminary in nature, it includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves, and there is no certainty that the PEA will be realized.
About Bravada Gold Corp.
Bravada is an exploration company with a portfolio of high-quality properties in Nevada, one of the best mining jurisdictions in the world. Bravada has successfully identified and advanced properties with the potential to host high-margin deposits while successfully attracting partners to finance later stages of project development. Bravada's value is underpinned by a substantial gold and silver resource with a positive PEA at Wind Mountain, and the company has significant upside potential from possible new discoveries at its exploration properties.
Since 2005, the company signed 32 earn-in joint-venture agreements for its properties with 19 publicly traded companies, as well as a similar number of property-acquisition agreements with private individuals. Bravada currently has 10 projects in its portfolio, consisting of 810 claims for approximately 6,500 hectares in two of Nevada's most prolific gold trends. Most of the projects host encouraging drill intercepts of gold and already have drill targets developed. Several videos are available on the company's website that describe Bravada's major properties, answering commonly asked investor questions.
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