Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 26, 2018) - Minaurum Gold Inc. (TSXV: MGG) ("Minaurum") is pleased to
announce the first high grade gold discovery at the Alamos silver project in Mexico. The newly discovered Alessandra vein zone lies
in the eastern part of the project, approximately 1 km southeast of the Ana zone (see News Release dated June 5, 2018). Alessandra
measures more than 4 metres wide in surface exposures, and can be traced for 1.1 km, with a topographic linear suggesting it
extends at least another 1 km to the south-west.
"The discovery of bonanza gold grades for the first time at the Alamos project
corroborates the numerous mentions of high-grade gold in historical reports," stated Darrell Rader, President and CEO
of Minaurum. "The Alessandra vein system adds an exciting new facet to the district-scale of the project
and we look forward to testing it in our ongoing drill program."
The Alessandra vein zone is a 1 to 4 m-wide, east-dipping vein zone hosted in faulted lower Cretaceous limestone. It has been
traced in surface exposures for 1.1 km along strike and pronounced topographic linears suggest that the vein may continue for at
least another km to the southwest. Copper oxides, epidote, quartz, specular hematite, and manganese oxides dominate surface
mineralization exposures. Chalcopyrite has been found in unoxidized hand specimens. Six samples assayed more than 100 ppb Au,
including the 102 g/t sample, which is the highest gold value recorded during Minaurum's 2-year tenure on the property. Sixteen
rock samples from the Alessandra zone assayed more than 1% Cu, with the highest value of 4.6% Cu. Anomalous Zn values included a
sample running 4.90% Zn. Notably, silver grades are low (See Table 1 for a summary of the significant rock-chip samples from the
Alessandra zone). Overall, the skarn mineral assemblage and contained metals suggests a proximal, skarn-dominated mineralization
style than the distal epithermal mineralization seen elsewhere on the project
Figure 1. Alamos project, showing previously known vein zones and newly mapped and sampled Alessandra vein zone.
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Figure 2. Alessandra vein zone, showing rock sample locations, identified by sample number. Significant sample results are
presented in Table 1. The felsic pyroclastic rocks to the east of the Alessandra zone appear to lie discordantly on the limestone
that hosts the Alessandra zone, suggesting that additional Alessandra-style structures may lie to the east under the volcanic
cover.
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Table 1. Significant Rock samples, Alessandra vein zone. Sample locations shown in Figure 2.
Sample |
Sample type |
Width (m) |
Lithology |
Ag g/t |
Au ppb |
Cu % |
Pb % |
Zn % |
926262 |
Outcrop Chip |
0.4 |
Vein |
2 |
7 |
0.44 |
0.00 |
0.01 |
926263 |
Outcrop Chip |
0.5 |
Vein |
3 |
8 |
1.06 |
0.01 |
0.02 |
926264 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Vein |
5 |
9 |
0.68 |
0.02 |
0.03 |
926265 |
Outcrop Chip |
0.4 |
Vein |
<1 |
17 |
2.22 |
0.98 |
2.04 |
926266 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Vein |
16 |
9 |
2.71 |
0.04 |
0.06 |
926267 |
Outcrop Chip |
2.3 |
Vein |
5 |
6 |
0.61 |
0.01 |
0.02 |
926269 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Vein |
6 |
8 |
1.55 |
0.02 |
0.01 |
926270 |
Outcrop Chip |
0.3 |
Vein |
3 |
4 |
0.83 |
0.01 |
0.02 |
926271 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Vein |
2 |
9 |
2.02 |
0.09 |
0.02 |
926273 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Vein |
4 |
11 |
2.17 |
0.30 |
0.32 |
926275 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Vein |
5 |
9 |
0.41 |
0.08 |
0.13 |
926276 |
Outcrop Chip |
0.3 |
Vein |
29 |
102000 |
1.94 |
0.07 |
0.25 |
926277 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.2 |
Vein |
12 |
36 |
0.78 |
0.44 |
0.29 |
926279 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Vein |
3 |
619 |
4.63 |
0.06 |
0.03 |
926284 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Vein |
4 |
17 |
0.78 |
0.01 |
0.01 |
926285 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Vein |
4 |
10 |
0.84 |
0.01 |
0.01 |
926286 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.5 |
Vein |
15 |
6 |
1.58 |
0.00 |
0.03 |
926287 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.2 |
Vein |
3 |
7 |
1.14 |
0.00 |
0.02 |
926288 |
Outcrop Chip |
0.4 |
Vein |
10 |
111 |
0.95 |
0.01 |
0.03 |
926289 |
Outcrop Chip |
0.6 |
Vein |
3 |
8 |
0.01 |
0.09 |
1.25 |
929049 |
Outcrop Chip |
2.0 |
Agglomerate |
7 |
8 |
0.58 |
0.09 |
0.12 |
929050 |
Float Grab |
|
Vein |
35 |
12 |
3.32 |
0.04 |
0.07 |
929061 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Skarn |
11 |
140 |
3.73 |
0.04 |
0.05 |
929062 |
Outcrop Chip |
1.0 |
Skarn |
8 |
134 |
3.11 |
0.05 |
0.09 |
929063 |
Outcrop Chip |
0.5 |
Limestone |
4 |
65 |
2.97 |
0.64 |
4.90 |
929064 |
Outcrop Chip |
0.7 |
Limestone |
2 |
21 |
4.13 |
0.30 |
0.90 |
1120730 |
Historical |
|
|
5 |
17 |
8.78 |
0.04 |
0.11 |
Minaurum Gold Inc. (TSXV: MGG) (OTC: MMRGF) (FSE: 78M) is a Mexico-focused explorer concentrating on the high-grade
Alamos Silver project in southern Sonora State. With a property portfolio encompassing multiple additional district-scale projects,
Minaurum is managed by one of the strongest technical and finance teams in Mexico. Minaurum's goal is to continue its founders'
legacy of creating shareholder value by making district-scale mineral discoveries and executing accretive mining transactions. For
more information, please visit our website at www.minaurum.com and our
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ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Darrell A. Rader"
Darrell A. Rader
President and CEO
For more information, please contact:
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(778) 330 0994 or via email at pannu@minaurum.com
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Stephen R. Maynard, Vice President of Exploration of Minaurum and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument
43-101, reviewed and verified the assay data, and has approved the disclosure in this News Release.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements: Certain disclosures in this release constitute
forward-looking information. In making the forward-looking statements in this release, Minaurum has applied certain factors and
assumptions that are based on Minaurum' s current beliefs as well as assumptions made by and information currently available to
Minaurum. Although Minaurum considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available to it, they may
prove to be incorrect, and the forward-looking statements in this release are subject to numerous risks, uncertainties and other
factors that may cause future results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Minaurum does not intend, and expressly disclaims
any intention or obligation to, update or revise any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future
events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Quality Assurance/Quality Control: Preparation and assaying of drilling samples from Minaurum's Alamos
project are done with strict adherence to a Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) protocol. Core samples are sawed in half and
then bagged in a secure facility near the site, and then shipped by a licensed courier to ALS Minerals' preparation facility in
Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. ALS prepares the samples, crushing them to 70% less than 2mm, splitting off 250g, and pulverizing the
split to more than 85% passing 75 microns. The resulting sample pulps are prepared in Hermosillo, and then shipped to Vancouver for
chemical analysis by ALS Minerals. In Vancouver, the pulps are analyzed for gold by fire assay and ICP/AES on a 50-gram charge. In
addition, analyses are done for a 48-element suite using 4-acid digestion and ICP analysis. Samples with silver values greater than
100 g/t; and copper, lead, or zinc values greater than 10,000 ppm (1%) are re-analyzed using 4-acid digestion and atomic absorption
spectrometry (AAS).
Quality-control (QC) samples are inserted in the sample stream every 20 samples, and thus represent 5% of the total samples.
QC samples include standards, blanks, and duplicate samples. Standards are pulps that have been prepared by a third-party
laboratory; they have gold, silver, and base-metal values that are established by an extensive analytical process in which several
commercial labs (including ALS Minerals) participate. Standards test the calibration of the analytical equipment. Blanks are rock
material known from prior sampling to contain less than 0.005 ppm gold; they test the sample preparation procedure for cross-sample
contamination. In the case of duplicates, the sample interval is cut in half, and then quartered. The first quarter is the original
sample, the second becomes the duplicate. Duplicate samples provide a test of the reproducibility of assays in the same drilled
interval.
When final assays are received, QC sample results are inspected for deviation from accepted values. To date, QC sample
analytical results have fallen in acceptable ranges on the Alamos project.