Reunion Gold Corporation (TSXV: RGD; OTCQX: RGDFF) (the “Company”
or “Reunion Gold”) is pleased to announce an update on its ongoing
expansion and infill drill programs at Oko West, Guyana and
provides a corporate update including the acquisition of mineral
interests adjacent to Oko West and in Suriname.
Oko West Drill Program
Resource and exploration drilling continues at
Oko West with four diamond drill rigs, focused on infill and
expansion drill programs on Block 4, below 640 meters (m) depth, as
well as on Blocks 5 and 6. Results from all of the released
drillholes program are detailed in Table 1 and Table 2, and shown
on a long section in Figure 1.
Highlights from the deep drilling in Block 4
include hole D-393A-W2 which intersected 107.0 m grading
2.42 grams per tonne of gold (“g/t Au”) from 660.0 m
downhole (using a cutoff grade of 0.3 g/t Au), including
20.0 m grading 9.78 g/t Au from 734 m downhole
(using a 1.5 g/t Au cutoff). Additional highlights include hole
D-316-W1 intersecting 101.0 m grading 2.69 g/t Au
from 694.0 m downhole (using a 0.3 g/t cutoff) including
13.1 m grading 7.84 g/t Au from 758.9 m downhole (using a
1.5 g/t Au cutoff) and hole D-347-W4 which intersected
108.7 m grading 1.39 g/t Au from 932.0 m downhole
(using a 0.3 g/t Au cutoff) including 4.9 m grading 5.11
g/t Au from 991.4 m downhole (using a 1.5 g/t cutoff). In
addition, hole D-398 drilled in Block 5 returned 34.8 m
grading 3.02 g/t Au from 159.4 m downhole (using a 0.3 g/t
Au cutoff) including 6.9 m grading 11.48 g/t Au
(using a 1.5 g/t Au cutoff) from 159.4 m downhole.
Rick Howes, President and CEO of Reunion Gold,
stated: “The results of the drill program at Block 4 continue to
illustrate the continuity and consistency of the gold
mineralization at depth in Block 4, including the presence of the
high-grade zones both at depth and within newer zones being
identified in Blocks 5 and 6.”
Short-term drill plans at Oko West will continue
with (i) the targeting of high-grade zones below Blocks 5 and 6,
(ii) a 12-hole 20 m spaced drilling program to further add support
to the short-range variography in support of planned study
activities, and (iii) exploration drilling that includes drilling
within and to the west of Block 8 in follow up to recently defined
geochemical and geophysical anomalies.
Extension to the Oko West
Project
The Company has entered into an option agreement
entitling the Company to explore and acquire an additional 1,530
hectares of land, adjacent to the northwest corner of the Oko West
prospecting license boundary (see Figure 2). The option agreement
is valid for a period of five years and may be extended for two
additional years.
Soil geochemical surveys undertaken on this new
area indicate several areas of anomalous gold results that also
align with recently acquired gradient array IP anomalies.
Integration of these results, and the delineation of drill targets
is underway with additional geologic mapping, as well as trench and
channel sampling.
Majorodam Project, Suriname
The Company has entered into an option agreement
to acquire the Majorodam Project in Suriname, which comprises a
right of exploitation for gold over an area totaling 99.85 square
kilometers (~ 10,000 hectares) The project is located along a paved
road 120 km south of Paramaribo, the capital city of Suriname and
“on trend” about 12 km south of the 1.02 Moz @ 2.2 g/t Au Saramacca
deposit owned by Zijin Mining.
The Majorodam project is prospective for an
orogenic gold system and has a similar geologic setting to that of
Oko West. Except for airborne geophysics and surface mapping and
limited geochemical sampling, there has been little modern
exploration work completed at Majorodam. The project area covers
the NE trending contact between granitic and volcanic rock units,
with the latter unit creating a prominent topographic high. The
airborne magnetic survey indicates the presence of several
significant NE trending structures in the project area (see Figure
3) and active alluvial gold mining is occurring in the streams
draining the main topographic ridge comprised of greenstone altered
volcanic units.
The option agreement is valid for an initial
period of six years and requires the Company to make option
payments of US$150,000 following execution of the agreement and
US$75,000 on each of the second, third, fourth and fifth
anniversary, and to incur minimum exploration expenditures starting
with US$200,000 during each of the first two years.
It is expected that this project will be
transferred to Greenheart Gold Inc. (referred to as “SpinCo” in the
April 22, 2024 announcement) in connection with the proposed
business combination between Reunion Gold and G Mining Ventures
Corp. (“G Mining”) announced on April 22, 2024 (see the joint
Reunion Gold and G Mining news release issued on April 22,
2024).
French Guiana
The Company has decided to permanently cease its
activities in French Guiana due to the unfavorable conditions
currently prevailing in French Guiana for pursuing mineral
exploration and development projects. A notice of termination of
the option agreements for both the Boulanger and Dorlin projects in
French Guiana was sent to the titleholders. The termination of the
option agreements will be effective on June 24, 2024 and August 10,
2024 respectively.
Sample Collection, Assaying and Data
Management
Significant intervals in this press release have
been calculated using a grade cut-off of 0.3 g/t Au, a minimum
length of ten meters, and a maximum length of ten meters of
consecutive internal waste. Included significant intervals have
been calculated using a grade cut-off of 1.5 g/t Au, a minimum
length of three meters, and a maximum length of three meters of
consecutive internal waste. Gold grades are uncapped. Mineralized
intersection lengths are not necessarily true widths and estimated
true thickness (“ETT”) has been calculated using an assumed plane
of mineralization dipping 65° towards 095°, representative of the
mineralization identified in Block 4. Complete drilling results and
drill hole data are posted on the Company's website. Diamond drill
(DD) samples consist of half of either HQ or NQ core taken
continuously at regular intervals averaging 1.4 m, bagged, and
labelled at the site core shed. Reverse circulation (RC) drill
samples are obtained from a rotary splitter attached to a Metzke
cyclone, weighed, bagged, and tagged at the drill site. All
resource drilling samples are shipped to the Actlabs certified
laboratory in Georgetown, Guyana, respecting best-practice chain of
custody procedures. Samples from the Scout RC program and recent
conventional RC samples are shipped to the MS Analytical laboratory
in Georgetown using the same chain-of-custody procedures. At each
laboratory, samples are dried, crushed to 80% passing 2 mm, riffle
split (250 g), and pulverized to 95% passing 105 μm. Coarse blanks
are inserted by the Company, and are used between and following
suspected high-grade intervals. Barren sand flushes are inserted by
the analytical laboratory after each sample is pulverized to clean
the bowl. Gold analysis is carried out through a 50 g fire assay
with an atomic absorption finish. Initial assays with results above
3.0 g/t Au are re-assayed with a gravimetric finish. Samples with
visible gold are additionally assayed with a metallic screen method
using 1 kg of pulp. Certified reference materials and blanks are
inserted at a rate of 5% of samples shipped to the laboratories. RC
field duplicates and DD umpire pulp duplicates are also generated
at a rate of 5% of samples. Pulp umpire duplicates are analyzed at
the MS Analytical certified laboratory in Georgetown. Assay data is
subject to QA/QC prior to accepting into the Company database
managed by an independent consultant.
Qualified Person
The technical information in this press release
has been reviewed and approved by Justin van der Toorn, the
Company's VP, Exploration. Mr. van der Toorn (CGeol FGS, EurGeol)
is a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101 Standards of
Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
About Reunion Gold
Corporation
Reunion Gold Corporation (TSXV:RGD)
(OTCQX:RGDFF) is a leading gold explorer in the Guiana Shield,
South America. In 2020, Reunion Gold announced an exciting new
greenfield gold discovery at its Oko West project in Guyana and
announced its maiden mineral resource estimate in June 2023 after
just 22 months of resource definition drilling. In February 2024,
Reunion Gold announced an updated Mineral Resource Estimate (the
“2024 MRE”) containing a total of 4.3 Moz of gold in Indicated
Resources grading 2.05 g/t and 1.6 Moz of gold in Inferred
Resources grading 2.59 g/t. The 2024 MRE includes an underground
Resource containing 1.1 Moz of gold at a grade of 3.12 g/t Au in
the Inferred category. Please refer to the Technical Report
entitled “NI 43-101 Technical Report, Oko West Gold Project,
Cuyuni-Mazaruni Mining Districts, Guyana” dated April 11, 2024,
available under Reunion Gold’s profile on SEDAR+. In April 2024,
the Company announced a proposed business combination with G Mining
Ventures Corp. to create a leading intermediate gold producer in
the Americas (see the Reunion Gold press release dated April 22,
2024). Upcoming key milestones for this proposed transaction
include:
- June 3, 2024: Record date for the
voting securityholders of Reunion Gold at the upcoming Annual
General and Special Shareholders Meeting; and
- July 9, 2024: Meeting date for the
Annual General and Special Shareholders Meeting of the Company to
consider and, if deemed advisable, approve the business combination
of Reunion Gold and G Mining Ventures Corp. and other annual
matters.
The Company's common shares are listed on the
TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol 'RGD' and trade on the OTCQX
under the symbol 'RGDFF'. Additional information about the Company
is available on SEDAR+ (www.sedarplus.ca) and the Company's website
(www.reuniongold.com).
For further information, please contact:
REUNION GOLD CORPORATION Rick
Howes, President and CEO, or Doug Flegg, Business Development
AdvisorE: doug_flegg@reuniongold.comE:
info@reuniongold.comTelephone: +1 450.677.2585
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Table 1 - Drill results from Block 4 infill
drilling |
|
Hole ID |
Block |
From |
To |
Downhole Interval |
Au Grade |
Grade x Downhole Interval |
ETT* |
Cutoff ** |
|
(m) |
(m) |
(m) |
(g/t) |
(gm/t) |
(m) |
(Au g/t) |
OKWD23-316-W1 |
4 |
694.0 |
795.0 |
101.0 |
2.69 |
272 |
82.7 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
702.0 |
713.0 |
11.0 |
1.86 |
20 |
8.9 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
758.9 |
772.0 |
13.1 |
7.84 |
102 |
10.7 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
775.0 |
787.0 |
12.0 |
4.77 |
57 |
9.9 |
1.5 |
OKWD23-331-W2 |
4 |
711.0 |
788.6 |
77.6 |
0.86 |
67 |
68.6 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
755.9 |
761.9 |
6.0 |
7.07 |
42 |
5.3 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-331-W3 |
4 |
750.0 |
775.0 |
25.0 |
0.87 |
22 |
20.5 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
760.1 |
766.0 |
5.9 |
2.05 |
12 |
4.8 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-336-W2 |
4 |
771.5 |
845.0 |
73.5 |
1.06 |
78 |
59.0 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
789.0 |
794.4 |
5.4 |
4.76 |
25 |
4.3 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
811.6 |
815.7 |
4.1 |
5.24 |
21 |
3.3 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-336-W3 |
4 |
689.0 |
707.3 |
18.3 |
0.44 |
8 |
15.0 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-336-W3 |
4 |
772.0 |
824.0 |
52.0 |
1.09 |
56 |
43.2 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
806.0 |
810.0 |
4.0 |
2.36 |
9 |
3.3 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
821.0 |
824.0 |
3.0 |
3.71 |
11 |
2.5 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-347-W3 |
4 |
945.2 |
961.0 |
15.8 |
0.39 |
6 |
14.6 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-347-W3 |
4 |
971.9 |
983.0 |
11.1 |
0.31 |
3 |
10.3 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-347-W3 |
4 |
1009.0 |
1043.0 |
34.0 |
0.87 |
30 |
31.7 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
1010.3 |
1014.0 |
3.7 |
1.63 |
6 |
3.4 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-347-W4 |
4 |
932.0 |
1040.7 |
108.7 |
1.39 |
151 |
105.4 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
938.0 |
941.5 |
3.5 |
3.58 |
13 |
3.4 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
944.5 |
948.0 |
3.5 |
2.21 |
8 |
3.4 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
959.1 |
969.0 |
10.0 |
3.37 |
34 |
9.6 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
978.0 |
981.3 |
3.3 |
3.17 |
10 |
3.1 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
991.4 |
996.3 |
4.9 |
5.11 |
25 |
4.7 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
1005.9 |
1010.0 |
4.1 |
2.78 |
11 |
4.0 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-386 |
4 |
595.6 |
707.0 |
111.4 |
1.18 |
131 |
94.9 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
648.0 |
668.0 |
20.0 |
3.73 |
75 |
17.1 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
672.0 |
677.0 |
5.0 |
1.72 |
9 |
4.3 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
694.0 |
699.5 |
5.5 |
1.73 |
10 |
4.7 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-390 |
4 |
684.8 |
696.0 |
11.3 |
0.33 |
4 |
9.1 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-390 |
4 |
734.0 |
827.1 |
93.1 |
1.45 |
135 |
75.6 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
738.2 |
743.0 |
4.8 |
3.08 |
15 |
3.9 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
761.8 |
765.2 |
3.4 |
3.04 |
10 |
2.8 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
769.0 |
775.8 |
6.8 |
4.34 |
30 |
5.5 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
789.2 |
794.9 |
5.7 |
7.18 |
41 |
4.6 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-393A-W2 |
4 |
660.0 |
767.0 |
107.0 |
2.42 |
259 |
87.2 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
711.0 |
716.0 |
5.0 |
1.69 |
8 |
4.1 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
726.0 |
731.0 |
5.0 |
2.76 |
14 |
4.1 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
734.0 |
754.0 |
20.0 |
9.78 |
196 |
16.3 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-401A |
4 |
643.2 |
736.0 |
92.8 |
1.34 |
125 |
83.8 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
684.2 |
694.1 |
9.9 |
3.07 |
30 |
8.9 |
1.5 |
* Estimated True Thickness ("ETT") based on an average dip / dip
direction of -65° / 095° to represent the orientation of the
mineralized zone in Block 4. ETT only calculated for Blocks 1 and
4. |
** Significant intervals calculated using a 0.3 g/t Au cutoff, 10m
minimum length and 10m maximum consecutive internal waste. Included
intervals calculated using a 1.5 g/t Au cutoff, 3m minimum length
and a 2m maximum consecutive internal waste. |
Table 2 - Drill results from Block 5 & 6. |
|
Hole ID |
Block |
From |
To |
Downhole Interval |
Au Grade |
Grade x Downhole Interval |
Cutoff ** |
|
(m) |
(m) |
(m) |
(g/t) |
(gm/t) |
(Au g/t) |
OKWD24-387 |
5 |
35.0 |
55.2 |
20.2 |
0.81 |
16 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-396 |
5 |
46.0 |
59.0 |
13.0 |
2.02 |
26 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
53.0 |
57.0 |
4.0 |
3.93 |
16 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-396 |
5 |
93.8 |
111.9 |
18.1 |
0.55 |
10 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-396 |
5 |
142.5 |
155.0 |
12.5 |
0.88 |
11 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-396 |
5 |
168.0 |
184.4 |
16.4 |
0.69 |
11 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
177.0 |
180.6 |
3.6 |
1.94 |
7 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-396 |
5 |
199.0 |
215.0 |
16.0 |
0.47 |
7 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-398 |
5 |
159.4 |
194.2 |
34.8 |
3.02 |
105 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
159.4 |
166.3 |
6.9 |
11.48 |
79 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
186.5 |
190.5 |
4.0 |
2.93 |
12 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-398 |
5 |
241.5 |
284.1 |
42.6 |
0.76 |
32 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
277.9 |
284.1 |
6.2 |
2.53 |
16 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-408 |
6 |
266.0 |
278.0 |
12.0 |
0.46 |
6 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-408 |
6 |
315.0 |
377.6 |
62.6 |
0.85 |
53 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
366.6 |
370.6 |
4.0 |
3.19 |
13 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-412 |
5 |
179.7 |
225.0 |
45.3 |
0.77 |
35 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
181.0 |
184.0 |
3.0 |
4.48 |
13 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-412 |
5 |
262.0 |
286.4 |
24.4 |
3.67 |
90 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
264.0 |
270.0 |
6.0 |
12.34 |
74 |
1.5 |
OKWD24-413 |
5 |
85.0 |
99.0 |
14.0 |
0.35 |
5 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-413 |
5 |
104.0 |
115.0 |
11.0 |
0.38 |
4 |
0.3 |
OKWD24-414 |
6 |
138.0 |
233.0 |
95.0 |
0.81 |
77 |
0.3 |
inc. |
|
180.0 |
184.0 |
4.0 |
4.14 |
17 |
1.5 |
inc. |
|
189.0 |
195.5 |
6.5 |
2.26 |
15 |
1.5 |
** Significant intervals calculated using a 0.3 g/t Au cutoff, 10m
minimum length and 10m maximum consecutive internal waste. Included
intervals calculated using a 1.5 g/t Au cutoff, 3m minimum length
and a 2m maximum consecutive internal waste. |
Figure 1 - Inclined long section across
Blocks 4, 5 & 6 showing selected results and drill hole
locations reported in this press release. Significant intersects
are calculated using a 0.3 g/t Au cutoff, 10 m minimum down hole
length and 10 m maximum consecutive internal dilution; Included
intersects are calculated using a 1.5 g/t Au cutoff, 3 m minimum
down hole length and 2 m maximum consecutive internal dilution.
Dashed vertical lines represent breaks in the long section where
the plane of the long section has been moved to accommodate offsets
in the mineralized domains.Link to Figure 1:
https://www.reuniongold.com/240530-pr?lightbox=dataItem-lwt3cqvd1Figure
2 - Soil coverage and gridded gold results on the Oko West
project, including the newly optioned area located to the northwest
of the PL.Link to Figure 2:
https://www.reuniongold.com/240530-pr?lightbox=dataItem-lwt3cqveFigure
3 - Map of the Majorodam Project, showing topographic features,
extensive alluvial workings, and interpreted structures derived
from airborne magnetic and radiometric survey data.Link to
Figure 3:
https://www.reuniongold.com/240530-pr?lightbox=dataItem-lwt3cqve2
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