Millrock Provides Exploration Update on Fairbanks Gold District Projects, Alaska
21 November 2022 - 2:30PM
Millrock Resources Inc. (TSX-V: MRO, OTCQB: MLRKF) ("Millrock" or
the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on Fairbanks Gold
District exploration being carried out by Felix Gold Limited (ASX:
FXG, “Felix Gold” or “Felix”). Millrock owns 9,957,157 shares of
Felix Gold and holds royalties ranging from 1.0% to 2.0% Net
Smelter Returns (“NSR”) on all claims currently held by Felix in
the Fairbanks District. The claims cover close to 400 square
kilometers of prospective lands.
Felix Gold has recently reported the following significant
near-surface gold intercepts from drilling done on the NW
Array prospect on the Treasure Creek gold project.
NW Array prospect gold intercepts include:
- Hole 22TCRC071: 38.12 meters (m) grading 1.1 grams (g)
/ tonne (t) gold (Au) from 1.5 m downhole, including 7.6 m
grading 4.13 g/t Au from 6.1 m downhole
- Hole 22TCRC073: 41.1m grading 0.37 g/t Au from 1.5 m downhole,
including 6.1 m grading 1.15 g/t Au from 21.3 m downhole
- Hole 22TCRC075: 9.1 m grading 0.44 g/t Au from 1.5 m downhole
and 35.1 m grading 1.8 g/t Au from 16.8 m downhole, including 1.5 m
grading 27.2 g/t Au from 35.1 m downhole
- Hole 22TCRC076: 18.3 m grading 1.02 g/t Au
from 42.7 m downhole and 1.5 m grading 7.42 g/t Au from 45.7 m
downhole
- Hole 22TCRC078: 30.5 m grading 0.40 g/t Au from 1.5 m and
89.9 m grading 0.97 g/t Au from 45.7 m, including
41.1 m @ 1.72 g/t Au from 59.4 m
- Hole 22TCRC083: 38.1 m grading 0.75 g/t Au from 51.8m,
including 24.4m grading 1.08 g/t Au from 51.8 m
Felix Gold indicates that the drilling results show bulk tonnage
gold mineralization distributed over an area measuring 400 m by 750
m at the NW Array Southern Zone. The mineralization is open to
depth and to the north, south, and east, as per the Felix Gold
press releases dated October 5, 2022, and October 18, 2022. The
Treasure Creek prospect is road accessible. The claim block is
traversed by a power line, which leads approximately 20 kilometers
southeast to the Fort Knox Gold Mine, operated by a subsidiary of
Kinross Gold Corporation.
Felix Gold has also reported the following significant,
near-surface gold intercepts from drilling done on the
Eastgate – Scrafford prospect on the Treasure
Creek gold project over the past month. The following are
highlights from 13 reverse circulation holes drilled in the
Eastgate Central Zone. The results expand near-surface, high-grade
gold mineralization over an approximate one-kilometer strike
length. (Felix Gold press release dated September 28, 2022, and
November 1, 2022).
Eastgate – Scrafford prospect gold intercepts include:
- Hole 22TCRC113: 6.1 m grading 3.74 g/t Au from 13.7m downhole,
including 1.5 m grading 8.73 g/t Au from 15.2 m downhole and 3.0 m
grading 1.16 g/t Au from 36.6 m downhole
- Hole 22TCRC022: 6.1 m grading 3.22 g/t Au from 62.5 m downhole,
including 1.5 m grading 11.4 g/t Au from 64.0 m downhole
- Hole 22TCRC014: 4.6 m grading 1.90 g/t Au from 21.3 m
downhole
- Hole 22TCRC122: 41.1 m grading 0.31 g/t Au from 79.2 m downhole
and 53.3 m grading 0.47 g/t Au from 129.5 m downhole
- Hole 22TCRC029: 4.6 m grading 0.76 g/t Au from 91.4 m
downhole
- Hole 22TCRC036: 7.6 m grading 6.48 g/t Au from
50.3 m, including 1.5m grading 31.4 g/t Au from 50.3 m
- Hole 22TCRC038: 4.6 m grading 0.78 g/t Au from 27.4 m and 9.2 m
grading 0.43 g/t Au from 93.0 m, including 1.5 m grading 1.76 g/t
Au from 93.0 m and 18.3 m grading 0.40 g/t Au from 126.5 m,
including 1.5 m grading 1.19 g/t Au from 129.5 m
The Eastgate – Scrafford prospect is located approximately three
kilometers southeast of the NW Array Southern Zone. Assays are
pending for a further 50 reverse circulation drill holes completed
in the Phase 1 program at Treasure Creek. Assay results from a
further 40 holes drilled on prospects on various other claim blocks
in the Northeast Fairbanks area are also pending.
Felix Gold and Millrock have now ended the Strategic Alliance
relationship between the companies. Each party is free to use the
information generated during the alliance period for their own
purposes. As a result of the strategic alliance, Millrock owns
royalties on all of the claims that have so far been sold to Felix
or subsequently acquired by Felix through staking or third-party
agreement in the Fairbanks district. The royalties feature advanced
minimum royalty payments. The royalties range from 1.0% NSR to 2.0%
NSR and cover 41,800 hectares of prospective lands in the Fairbanks
Gold District. Millrock also owns 9,957,157 shares of Felix Gold
valued today at approximately AUD$1,195,000.
Qualified PersonThe scientific and technical
information disclosed within this document has been prepared,
reviewed, and approved by Gregory A. Beischer, President, CEO, and
a director of Millrock Resources. Mr. Beischer is a qualified
person, as defined in NI 43-101. Note: Mr. Beischer has not
independently verified the assay results reported by Felix Gold.
However, Mr. Beischer inspected several drill sites and sample
processing methods during Summer 2022 operations, and can confirm
that the assay work was done by a qualified laboratory with
stringent quality controls in place at the laboratory and at Felix
Gold. The quality assurance and quality control protocols of Felix
Gold are as stringent as Millrock would use in its own exploration
work.
About Millrock Resources Inc.Millrock Resources
Inc. is a premier project generator to the mining industry.
Millrock identifies, packages, and operates large-scale projects
for joint venture, thereby exposing its shareholders to the
benefits of mineral discovery without the usual financial risk
taken on by most exploration companies. The company is recognized
as the premier generative explorer in Alaska, is a significant
shareholder of junior explorer ArcWest Exploration Inc., and owns a
large shareholding in each of Resolution Minerals Limited and Felix
Gold Limited. Funding for drilling at Millrock’s exploration
projects is primarily provided by its joint venture
partners. Business partners of Millrock have included some of
the leading names in the mining industry: EMX Royalty, Coeur
Explorations, Centerra Gold, First Quantum, Teck, Kinross, Vale,
Inmet, and Altius, as well as junior explorers Resolution,
Riverside, PolarX, Felix Gold, and Tocvan.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD“Gregory Beischer”Gregory
Beischer, President & CEO
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:Gregory
A. Beischer, President & CEOToll-Free: 877-217-8978 | Local:
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Some statements in this news release may contain forward-looking
information (within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation)
including without limitation receipt of further drill results.
These statements address future events and conditions and, as such,
involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements to
be materially different from any future results, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by the statements.
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