Gooday Metals Creek, today is meet your neighbour day Galleon Gold expands Timmins land position to 7,500 hectares
Feb 8, 2022
"One of the facets of the West Cache project that has always been exciting for us is its blue-sky potential," said R. David Russell, President and CEO of Galleon Gold.
"We have demonstrated our ability to increase the known resource area as well as discover new mineable mineralization - and we have only explored 8% of the property package. By adding to our land position, we reinforce that we are planting our flag in the Timmins Camp, and believe we are in the early stages of developing the next significant mine complex in the area. Following our recent announcement of the Project's maiden Preliminary Economic Assessment, we will continue to plan for the initial mine development, at the same time the team has been identifying new targets near the current resource with inexpensive surface exploration techniques. A multi-stage exploration program is being developed for the 2022-2023 field season to identify targets at a regional scale within the consolidated land package."
Galleon Gold Corp. has entered into an agreement to acquire 91 mineral claims and 12 patent claims totaling 1,470 hectares contiguous to the company's existing property position at its West Cache Gold Project in Timmins.
The addition of the Mineral Claims consolidates the company's land position 13 kilometers West of Timmins and expands the total claim package to 7,540 hectares. Figure 1 provides the location of the new ground in relation to the West Cache Gold Project and adjacent mining claims that comprise the Company's Ogden Property. The West Cache Property has recently been approved for land lease status.
Figure 1 - Galleon Gold's Land Position in the Timmins Gold Camp
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Terms of the Agreement
Pursuant to the terms of the Agreement with 2205730 Ontario Inc. ("PrivateCo"), the Company will issue PrivateCo 2,000,000 common shares of Galleon Gold (the "Galleon Shares") to obtain a 100% interest in the Mineral Claims. The transaction is expected to close by the end of February and is subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. The Galleon Shares will be subject to a hold period of four months and a day under applicable Canadian securities laws.
About the Ogden Property
Southeastern Ogden Township, historically known as the Racetrack Property, has seen far less exploration than the northern part of Ogden Township. Historic geophysical and geochemical surveys have been completed over portions of the Property beginning in the early 1980s, with only five drill holes testing multiple soil anomalies over the 1,470-hectare property. The Property is underlain with andesites and rhyolites of the Deloro Metavolcanic Assemblage with associated iron formations and tuffaceous units. Porphyritic granodiorite and syenite intrusions have been identified in the western and northeastern portions of the Property as well as N-S and NE-SW trending diabase dikes. Regional structures, including the Mountjoy River Fault and Paradis Creek Fault trend across the eastern claim block.
Galleon Gold intends to follow-up on historic gold and base metal targets identified in quartz veins and sulphide-rich porphyritic intrusions from previous exploration programs. The potential for gold-mineralized iron formations exists in the northern part of the claim group, which borders Metals Creek's Ogden Property to the north. The Property is accessed from Timmins by secondary roads off Dalton Road / Wawiatin Road to the west and Pine Street South from the east.
About the West Cache Gold Property
The Property is situated in the Western Porcupine Gold Camp along the Destor-Porcupine Fault Zone ("DPFZ") in the Abitibi greenstone belt. The Property is predominantly underlain with Archean rocks of the Tisdale and Deloro Assemblages (metavolcanics), Porcupine Assemblage (metasediments) and quartz feldspar porphyry of the Porcupine Intrusive Suite. Paleoproterozoic Matachewan diabase dikes trend north-south to northwest-southeast across the Property. The main break of the DPFZ trends east-west through the eastern part of the Property and is offset to the south in the western portion of the Property by the Mattagami River Fault. Gold mineralization is characterized by roughly east-west trending "shear" zones, dipping 60° to 80° to the north, and is associated with pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite. To-date, the quartz feldspar porphyry unit and associated contacts with the metasedimentary units have been the focus of exploration activities, with large areas of Tisdale and Deloro metavolcanics yet to be explored, including the Rusk contact zone, which is associated with gold mineralization at the Timmins West Complex, approximately 7 km southwest of the Property.
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