Showcase Prepares for Drill Program at Dixie Flats - North Star Gold Project
SHOWCASE MINERALS PREPARES FOR APRIL DRILL PROGRAM AT
DIXIE FLATS-NORTH STAR GOLD PROJECT IN NEVADA
CALGARY , AB / April 9, 2024 / Showcase Minerals Inc. (CSE: SHOW; Frankfurt: ZJ0) ("Showcase"
or the “Company”) is pleased to provide an update on its upcoming drilling program on its Dixie
Flat-North Star Gold Project in Elko County, Nevada.
Since completing the reclamation bond process with the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”)
on March 11, Showcase has procured a water source from the nearby Tomera Ranch that is
sufficient for its drilling needs and has completed a nesting bird survey in order to satisfy the
BLM that the drill program will be conducted in a manner that will not disturb avian gestation.
Showcase also retained Legarza Exploration, an excavating contractor, which has mobilized a
track-mounted excavator on the drill site in order to prepare drill-sumps. The Company expects
to commence drilling during the week of April 22, 2024.
Showcase’s Chief Executive Officer, Kirk Reed, remarked, “We are pleased that preparation for
drilling has proceeded efficiently and that Showcase remains on schedule for its April drill
program. We are very optimistic about our maiden drill program at Dixie Flats – North Star,
where a clear trend of mineralization near to historic drilling has been identified that aligns with
the regional mineralization of the Rain mine to the northwest and Orla Mining Ltd.’s Dark Star
deposit approximately 1.5 miles south of the southwest end of the property.”
About the Dixie Flats– North Star Gold Project:
The Dixie Flats - North Star Property (the “Property” or “Dixie Flats”) is located on the east side of
the Piñon Mountains, 21 air-miles south of the City of Elko in northeast Nevada. It is a combination
of two claim blocks, the Dixie Flats group of claims and the North Star group of claims. The Property
is comprised of a total of 236 total unpatented mineral claims on Federal land administered by the
US Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”).
The Property lies on the southern margin of the Carlin Trend, a northwest-trending belt of
sediment-hosted gold deposits that makes up the greatest geographic concentration of gold
deposits in North America, with reported production of more than 92.5 million ounces of gold since
1961 (Muntean, 2019). The Dixie Flats-North Star Property is underlain by rocks known to host gold
mineralization on the Carlin Trend, and surface sampling has shown anomalous gold, silver, arsenic,
antimony, and mercury levels in rock, soil, and biogeochemical samples from the Property, which is
a characteristic geochemical signature of Carlin-Type gold deposits.
The Dixie Flats - North Star Gold Project is approximately three miles south of Newmont Mining
Company’s Emigrant Springs Mine, which finished production in 2018, and approximately 4.5 miles
southeast of the past producing Rain Mine. Both deposits are hosted in dissolution breccia zones at
the contact between the Webb mudstone, the basal unit of the overlying assemblage, and the
underlying Devils Gate limestone. Prior exploration on the Dixie Flats -North Star Property has been
focused on delineating this contact at depth and discovering possible extensions to the regional
structures controlling mineralization at the Rain and Emigrant Mines and their demonstrated
extension to the Dixie Flats – North Star Property. The information on the adjacent projects is taken
from publicly available sources and is not necessarily indicative of the mineralization on the Dixie
Flats – North Star Property.
Additional information on the Dixie Flats - North Star Gold Project can be found in the National
Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”) technical report entitled “Technical Report on the Dixie Flats-
Northstar Gold Exploration Property”, Elko, Nevada, dated September 21, 2022, which has been
filed on SEDAR+ at www.sedarplus.ca
Qualified Person:
Mr. Steve McMillin, M.Sc., C.P.G. is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and
has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release.
About Showcase Minerals Inc.:
Showcase is a Canadian mineral exploration company with an exclusive option to acquire a 100%
interest in Dixie Flats-North Star Gold Project and the Woodruff Gold-Vanadium Project (subject to
various net smelter returns royalties ranging from 2.25% to 4.25%), which collectively consist of
unpatented 254 lode mining claims covering approximately 1,818 hectares located in Elko County,
Nevada.
For further information, please contact: ‘
Kirk Reed, President
Showcase Minerals Inc.
Telephone: 1-800-982-0670
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