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MORESBY, Papua New Guinea, Aug. 14,
2024 /CNW/ - Adyton Resources Corporation
(TSXV: ADY) is pleased to report that Dr Chris Bowden who recently joined Adyton as Chief
Operating Officer is now on Feni Island leading a team of PNG
geologists and field assistants verifying previously reported
information, collecting new rock samples and undertaking field
mapping.
CEO Statement
"On the back of Dr Chris
Wilson joining the Adyton Board as key geological technical
adviser I am thrilled that Dr Bowden has joined the Adyton team and
will spearhead our on the ground exploration activities. Dr Bowden
has a strong discovery track record leading successful exploration
teams globally, including in many developing countries. His
experience spans multiple deposit types, specializing in
mineralized epithermal and porphyry geological systems.
Chris' previous roles have included Exploration & General
Manager ASCOM Precious Metals Mining (Ethiopia, which lead to the maiden discovery
of the 1.8Moz Dish Mountain Gold Deposit); Exploration Manager
Southern Gold Ltd South Korea (redeveloped a number of historical
mines); he was part of the Ivanhoe Mines Ltd exploration team that
lead to the initial discovery of the Kharmagtai porphyry Cu-Au
deposit in Mongolia; and recently
Chief Geologist Megado Minerals Pty Ltd."
COO Dr Chris Bowden comments
"It is exciting to finally get on the ground at Feni and ground
truth all of the historical data. This is a critical step in
pulling together all the previous works coherently and planning
cost-effective and strategic forward work programs. Already
we are seeing strong indications that Danmagal is a mineralized
porphyry system of >1km2 area and appears likely that
it may be the driving source of mineralizing fluids for the Kabang
area. Danmagal has effectively had no reported sampling or
drilling historically. Likewise, at Kabang and within the
resource area, even though the surface geology is predominantly
post mineral tephra, there are clasts within the tephra of visually
mineralized breccia in the northeast area that confirm there is
further northeast potential to expand the resource (these clasts
have come from further NE, based on slope direction of the tephra
deposition). This area is also effectively historically
undrilled, other than shallow aircore holes (not to target), and
one diamond drill core hole that was abandoned early
(MAD004). The field observations across Feni are highly
encouraging and continue to support the potential to upgrade the
Kabang resource area and make additional discoveries throughout the
project area".
The Adyton team including CEO Tim
Crossley together with Namatanai local member and PNG
Minister for Aviation the Hon Walter Schnaubelt travelled to Feni
Island on Friday 2nd of August (see Figure 1 & 2).
The Minister and the Adyton team received a formal traditional
welcoming ceremony, and The Minister was able to spend time with
his constituents before returning the next day, leaving the Adyton
team to undertake Community Awareness (see Figure 3) and commence
work on the geology program (see Figures 4 & 5). CEO
Tim Crossley presented 5 Community
Awareness sessions across key villages over 4 days receiving
unanimous support for Adyton to continue with its exploration
activities.
Chris Bowden and his team are
conducting geological reconnaissance, sampling, mapping and
verification work at key areas of geological interest including the
existing resource Area at Kabang (Figure 4), as well as the new
areas of interest identified by the recently reprocessed magnetic
data and review of historical reports. The key purpose of this work
is to identify drill hole locations for a resource expansion
drilling program that will focus on depth and strike extension of
the existing Kabang resource, twinning of some holes where previous
explorers had not analyzed for copper, and to test new prospect
areas across Feni Island including Danmagal and Natong (refer
Figure 4).
Tim Crossley, Chief Executive Officer
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ABOUT ADYTON RESOURCES CORPORATION
Adyton Resources Corporation is focused on the development of
gold and copper resources in world class mineral jurisdictions. It
currently has a portfolio of highly prospective mineral exploration
projects in Papua New Guinea on
which it is exploring to expand its identified gold Inferred and
Indicated Mineral Resources and expand on its recent significant
copper drill intercepts on the 100% owned Feni Island project. The
Company's mineral exploration projects are located on the Pacific
Ring of Fire on easy to access island locations which hosts several
globally significant copper and gold deposits including the Lihir
gold mine and Panguna copper/gold mine on Bougainville Island,
both neighboring projects to the Company's Feni Island
project.
Adyton has a total Mineral Resource Estimate inventory within
its PNG portfolio of projects comprising indicated resources of
173,000 ounces gold and inferred resources of 2,000,000 ounces
gold.
The Feni Island Project currently has a mineral resource
prepared in accordance with NI 43-101 dated October 14, 2021, which has outlined an initial
inferred mineral resource of 60.4 million tonnes at an average
grade of 0.75 g/t Au, for contained gold of 1,460,000 ounces,
assuming a cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t Au. See the NI
43-101 technical report entitled "NI 43-101 Technical Report on the
Feni Gold-Copper Property, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea prepared for Adyton Resources
by Mark Berry (MAIG), Simon Tear
(MIGI PGeo), Matthew White (MAIG)
and Andy Thomas (MAIG), each an
independent mining consultant and "qualified person" as defined in
NI 43-101,available under Adyton's profile on SEDAR+ at
www.sedarplus.ca. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and
have not demonstrated economic viability.
The Fergusson Island Project currently has a mineral resource
prepared in accordance with NI 43-101 dated October 14, 2021 which outlined an indicated
mineral resource of 4.0 million tonnes at an average grade of 1.33
g/t Au for contained gold of 173,000 ounces and an inferred mineral
resource of 16.3 million tonnes at an average grade of 1.02 g/t Au
for contained gold of 540,000 ounces. See the technical report
entitled "NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Fergusson Gold
Property, Milne Bay Province, Papua New
Guinea" prepared for Adyton Resources by Mark Berry (MAIG), Simon Tear (MIGI PGeo),
Matthew White (MAIG) and
Andy Thomas (MAIG), each an
independent mining consultant and "qualified person" as defined in
NI 43-101,available under the Company's profile on SEDAR+ at
www.sedarplus.ca. Mineral resources are not mineral
reserves and have not demonstrated economic viability.
Adyton is also quoted on the OTC under
the code ADYRF and on the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the code 701:GR.
For more information about Adyton and its projects, visit www.adytonresources.com
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information contained in this press
release has been prepared, reviewed, and approved by Dr
Chris Wilson BSc (Hons), PhD,
FAusIMM (CP), FSEG, FGS, the Chief Geologist and a Director of
Adyton, who is a "Qualified Person" as defined by National
Instrument 43–101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral
Projects.
Forward looking statements
This press release includes "forward–looking statements",
including forecasts, estimates, expectations, and objectives for
future operations that are subject to several assumptions, risks,
and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of Adyton.
Forward– looking statements and information can generally be
identified by the use of forward–looking terminology such as "may",
"will", "should", "expect", "intend", "estimate", "anticipate",
"believe", "continue", "plans" or similar terminology. Forward
looking statements in this news release include plans for
additional drill testing, the intention to prepare additional
technical studies, the timing of additional drill results, and the
preparation of resource estimates. The forward–looking information
contained herein is provided for the purpose of assisting readers
in understanding management's current expectations and plans
relating to the future. Readers are cautioned that such information
may not be appropriate for other purposes. Forward–looking
information are based on management of the parties' reasonable
assumptions, estimates, expectations, analyses and opinions, which
are based on such management's experience and perception of trends,
current conditions and expected developments, and other factors
that management believes are relevant and reasonable in the
circumstances, but which may prove to be incorrect. Such factors,
among other things, include: impacts arising from the global
disruption caused by the Covid–19 coronavirus outbreak,
changes in general macroeconomic conditions; changes in
securities markets; changes in the price of gold or certain other
commodities; change in national and local government, legislation,
taxation, controls, regulations and political or economic
developments; risks and hazards associated with the business of
mineral exploration, development and mining (including
environmental hazards, industrial accidents, unusual or unexpected
formations pressures, cave–ins and flooding); discrepancies between
actual and estimated metallurgical recoveries; inability to obtain
adequate insurance to cover risks and hazards; the presence of laws
and regulations that may impose restrictions on mining; employee
relations; relationships with and claims by local communities and
indigenous populations; availability of and changes in the costs
associated with mining inputs and labour; the speculative nature of
mineral exploration and development (including the risks of
obtaining necessary licenses, permits and approvals from government
authorities); and title to properties. Investors are cautioned that
any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and
that actual results or developments may differ materially from
those projected in the forward–looking statements. Such
forward–looking information represents management's best judgment
based on information currently available. No forward–looking
statement can be guaranteed, and actual future results may vary
materially. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on
forward looking statements or information. Adyton
Resources Corporation undertakes no obligation to update forward–looking information except as required
by applicable law.
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Sources:
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(1) St Barbara
Limited 31 December 2022 Ore Reserves and Mineral Resources
Statements
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(2) Newcrest Mining
Limited news release dated 12 October 2021 "Lihir PFS supports gold
production growth to 1 Mozpa+ from FY24"
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(3) Bougainville
Copper Limited 2023 Annual Report
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SOURCE Adyton Resources Corporation