Gold Bull Resources Corp. (TSX-V: GBRC) (“
Gold
Bull” or the “
Company”) is pleased to
announce a Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) for the Sandman Project,
located near the town of Winnemucca in Nevada, USA.
The effective date of this MRE is January 20,
2021 and the associated NI 43-101 technical report will be filed on
the Company’s website and SEDAR within 45 days of this disclosure.
For additional Sandman maps & figures please view the
Company’s website.
HIGHLIGHTS:
- Sandman NI43-101 resource
estimate increased by 60% from the 2007 estimate
- 21.8Mt @ 0.7g/t gold,
comprising of:
- Indicated Resource of
18,550kt @ 0.73g/t gold for
433kozs of gold
- Inferred Resource of
3,246kt @ 0.58g/t gold for 61kozs
of gold
- Resource extension
potential – several resources remain open in multiple
directions
- Majority of mineralisation
<100m from surface
Gold Bull CEO, Cherie Leeden, commented:
This resource estimate incorporated
the additional drilling that has been completed at the project
since the 2007 resource estimate which totalled 309,000 ounces.
Since acquiring the project from Newmont in December 2020, it is a
fantastic outcome to have grown our resource base to 494,000 ounces
of gold (comprised of 433,000 ounces of Indicated plus 61,000
ounces of Inferred) before we even commence our drill program!
Future resource estimates may also
consider silver, which tends to be associated with the gold at a
ratio of about 10:1 and has not been adequately investigated
yet.
The Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE), for the
Sandman Project, was completed by Steven Olsen, who is an
Independent Consultant and is a qualified person under NI 43-101.
This MRE was derived from 249 historical surface diamond drill
holes and 650 RC drill holes totaling 20,201 m of diamond drilling
and 75,573.3 of RC drilling.
Pit Constrained Resources
The MRE was constrained within an open pit
design which was used for the purpose of restricting the MRE to
gold mineralization that has “reasonable prospects” for eventual
economic extraction. The MRE has been reported from within this
open pit constraint, and all material outside of this pit
constraint has been excluded from the MRE (Table 1 and Table
2).
The cut-off grade applied to the MRE is based on
estimated processing costs and gold recoveries which are
commensurate with a gold price of approximately US$1,800 per ounce
(US$1690 for fresh and US$1814 for oxide).
Metallurgical information completed to date from
Sandman indicates that different processing methods and operating
costs will be required for the oxidized rock compared with the
unoxidized rock, also known as fresh rock. A cut-off grade of
0.15g/t gold has been applied to the oxide rock which compares with
the cut-off grade for unoxidized (fresh) rock of 0.30g/t gold.
Table 1: Indicated and Inferred
pit-constrained resources.
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Table 2: Detailed Indicated and Inferred
pit-constrained resources broken into deposits.
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Sandman Gold Property Mineral Resource
Estimate Notes:
The mineral resources disclosed in this press
release were estimated using the Canadian Institute of Mining,
Metallurgy and Petroleum (“CIM”) standards on mineral resources and
reserves definitions, and guidelines prepared by the CIM standing
committee on reserve definitions and adopted by the CIM
council.
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Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have
demonstrated economic viability. There is no certainty that all or
any part of the mineral resources estimated will be converted into
mineral reserves.
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As defined by NI 43-101, the Independent and Qualified Person for
the Sandman MRE is Steven Olsen has reviewed and validated the
Sandman MRE. The effective date of the MRE is January 20,
2021.
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Resources are reported in-situ and undiluted within an open pit
constraint and are considered to have reasonable prospects for
eventual economic extraction.
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In accordance with NI 43-101 recommendations, the number of metric
tonnes was rounded to the nearest thousand. Any discrepancies in
the totals are due to rounding effects.
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Metallurgical recoveries of 80% for oxide (assuming heap leach
processing at a cost of US$7 per tonne) and 92% (assuming
convention grinding and CIL processing at a cost of US$15 per
tonne) for fresh rock were utilized in the determination of cut-off
grades and also used as input assumptions for the pit
constraints.
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The mining assumptions used for the pit constraints included an
overall pit slope angle of 50 degrees, a mining cost per tonne of
US$2 and a General and Administrative (G&A) charge of US$1 per
tonne processed.
Figure 1. Sandman Plan of Operations boundary
showing resource locations.
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Location
Sandman is located in Townships 36 and 37 North,
Ranges 35 and 36 East, Mount Diablo Meridian, Humboldt County,
Nevada, USA. The property is situated south of the Slumbering Hills
and west of the Tenmile Hills, circa 24 km northwest of the town of
Winnemucca, Nevada (Figure 2). The property lies 23 km south of the
Sleeper Mine. Sandman is accessed by driving west from the town of
Winnemucca on Jungo Road for 15 km, and then an additional eight km
to the north on dirt roads that lie largely within the property
boundaries.
Figure 2. Sandman Property area location and
access relative to the closest regional township of Winnemucca and
the closest city center of Reno.
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General Geology
The Sandman deposits belong to a series of
deposits that are dated between 14 and 17 million years old. Many
of these deposits have formed on major regional faults or rift
zones and are interpreted to have formed as a result of the same
geological rifting event (Figure 3).
The Sandman deposit is located on a large
regional fault known as the Central Northern Nevada Rift (NNRC) and
is located some 23 km south of the significant Sleeper deposit on
the same interpreted major structure.
Figure 3. Location of the Sandman deposit and
surrounding gold deposits which are interpreted to have formed as
part of the same geological event (after Saunders and Hames, 2015).
Reference to other mines and producing properties is for
information purposes only and there are no assurances that the
Company will achieve the same results.
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The Southeast Pediment, Silica Ridge, North
Hill, and Abel Knoll Au+Ag mineralization at Sandman are classified
as low-sulfidation, quartz-adularia, epithermal deposits. The
mineralization is hosted by Tertiary volcanic rocks, primarily in
tuffaceous units, andesite porphyry, tuffaceous sedimentary units,
and basalt. Northwestern Nevada contains a number of similar middle
Miocene Au-Ag deposits that occur in silicic volcanic or
subvolcanic rocks, including the Sleeper, Tenmile, National, and
Hog Ranch deposits (Conrad et al., 1993).
In general, higher-grade gold mineralization at
Sandman can be stratigraphically controlled along contacts between
basalt flows, interbedded fluvial conglomerates and tuffaceous
rocks (e.g., North Hill Deposit), or structurally controlled as
lens-shaped pods, with high-continuity, lower-grade disseminated
gold in sediments and volcanics (e.g., Silica Ridge and SE
Pediments Deposits). Quartz-adularia alteration dominates the ore
zones, whereas propylitic, argillic, and sericitic alteration are
associated with the known resource areas more distally.
Much of the property area is covered by
windblown sand deposits which effectively covers the underlying
prospective rocks to the gold mineralisation. Mapping, exploration
drilling, and shallow auger drilling through the sand indicate that
they are underlain by the hosts to the gold mineralisation of
Tertiary tuffaceous rocks and andesite, which in turn overlie Late
Triassic to early Jurassic metasedimentary clastic and subordinate
carbonate rocks (Figure 4).
Figure 4. Sandman Property geology.
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Next Steps
Gold Bull has identified 42 drill hole targets
for approximately 8000 m. The Company will commence with a Phase 1
drill program consisting of 3000 m for 17 drill holes in February
2021 (or as soon as permit transfers have been completed). The
initial drill program will consist of 1500 m of resource
development drilling aimed at extending known resources and 1500 m
of exploration drilling aimed at testing undrilled targets. The
Company will then seek to obtain assay results for the initial 3000
m prior to embarking on Phase 2 drill program.
The Company recently completed a ground
geophysics (induced polarization) survey at the project and is
awaiting the data. This data is anticipated to guide Phase 2 drill
targets.
Gold Bull Background
Gold Bull’s Nevada based geology team conducted
a comprehensive project generation review of the regional geology
surrounding Sandman. The Company has increased its land holding to
capture previously open Bureau of Land Management (BLM) ground that
is considered highly prospective to host gold mineralisation, based
on scientific datasets such as geochemistry, geophysics, and
geological mapping. The Company conducted site visits to verify the
prospectivity of the targets. The new targets are adjoining to the
Company’s Sandman project. Gold Bull’s Sandman land holding now
covers >11709 hectares (>117 km2).
Qualified Person
The NI 43-101 Mineral Resource estimate for the
Sandman Gold Property was prepared under the direction of Steven
Olsen, a Qualified Person under NI 43-101, who has reviewed and
consented to the information in this news release that relates to
the reported Mineral Resource estimate.
Mr. Olsen is an independent consultant and has
no affiliations with Gold Bull except that of an independent
consultant/client relationship. Mr. Olsen is a member of the
Australian Institute of Geoscientists (AIG) and is the Qualified
Person under NI 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral
Projects, who has reviewed and approved the scientific and
technical content of this press release.
About Gold Bull Resources
Corp.
Gold Bull Resources Corp. is a gold focused
mineral exploration company that strives to generate and advance
high-reward project acquisitions in regions with proven mineral
wealth. Gold Bull’s mission is to grow into a US focussed mid-tier
gold development Company. The company’s exploration hub is based in
Nevada, USA, a top-tier mineral district that contain significant
historical production, existing mining infrastructure and an
established mining culture.
Gold Bull is led by a Board and Management team
with a track record of exploration and acquisition success. Gold
Bull’s objective is to generate stakeholder value and superior
investment returns through the discovery and responsible
development of mineral resources.
Cherie LeedenPresident and CEO, Gold Bull
Resources Corp.
For further information regarding Gold Bull
Resources Corp., please visit our website at www.goldbull.ca or
email admin@goldbull.ca.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking
StatementsNeither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its
Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for
the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release contains certain statements
that may be deemed “forward-looking statements” with respect to the
Company within the meaning of applicable securities laws.
Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical
facts and are generally, but not always, identified by the words
“expects”, “plans”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “intends”,
“estimates”, “projects”, “potential”, “indicates”, “opportunity”,
“possible” and similar expressions, or that events or conditions
“will”, “would”, “may”, “could” or “should” occur. Although Gold
Bull believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking
statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are
not guarantees of future performance, are subject to risks and
uncertainties, and actual results or realities may differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Such
material risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to,
the Company’s ability to raise sufficient capital to fund its
obligations under its property agreements going forward, to
maintain its mineral tenures and concessions in good standing, to
explore and develop its projects, to repay its debt and for general
working capital purposes; changes in economic conditions or
financial markets; the inherent hazards associates with mineral
exploration and mining operations, future prices of copper and
other metals, changes in general economic conditions, accuracy of
mineral resource and reserve estimates, the potential for new
discoveries, the ability of the Company to obtain the necessary
permits and consents required to explore, drill and develop the
projects and if obtained, to obtain such permits and consents in a
timely fashion relative to the Company’s plans and business
objectives for the projects; the general ability of the Company to
monetize its mineral resources; and changes in environmental and
other laws or regulations that could have an impact on the
Company’s operations, compliance with environmental laws and
regulations, dependence on key management personnel and general
competition in the mining industry. Forward-looking statements are
based on the reasonable beliefs, estimates and opinions of the
Company’s management on the date the statements are made. Except as
required by law, the Company undertakes no obligation to update
these forward-looking statements in the event that management’s
beliefs, estimates or opinions, or other factors, should
change.
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