Banyan Completes Third Year Earn In Commitments on the Aurex and McQuesten Gold Properties, Yukon
Banyan Completes Third Year Earn In Commitments on the Aurex and McQuesten
Gold Properties, Yukon
December 13, 2019 TSX-V: BYN
BANYAN GOLD CORP. (“Banyan” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has
satisfied its third year earn-in exploration expenditure commitment on the Aurex and McQuesten
Properties optioned from Victoria Gold Corp. (“Victoria Gold”) and Alexco Resource Corp.
(“Alexco”) respectively. In order t o complete the third year commitments, Banyan will issue
750,000 shares to Victoria Gold and 400,000 shares to Alexco on or before December 31, 2019.
Under the definitive agreements, Banyan can earn a 51% interest in both properties with staged
expenditures and share payments over 4 years. The Company also has the right to earn a 100%
interest in the properties with additional expenditures and share payments ( see the Company’s
news releases dated May 25, 2017).
Tara Christie, President & CEO com mented “The 2019 exploration program has positioned
Banyan to begin to unlock the value of the large Aurex-McQuesten land package. Results to date
have expanded the known strike length of Airstrip Zone mineralization to approximately 900
meters; 150 meters west and over 250 meters east with assays from additional holes still to come.
Importantly, the new discovery at Powerline located 1 km to the south of Airstrip was also followed
up on with the Phase 2 program: highlighting additional gold mineralization on the large Aurex -
McQuesten property.”
The properties are well located being intersected by a main Yukon Government highway and
powerline, and also the all-season road that leads to Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine. The Eagle mine,
just 40 km away, completed its’ first pour on September 17, 2019 and is expected to produce
220,000 oz of gold per year at full capacity.
Issuance of Stock Options
The Board of Directors of the Company announces the issuance of 4,250,000 stock options to
purchase 4,250,000 shares at an exercise price of $0. 06 cents per share, expiring 5 years from
the date of the grant.
The stock options are being issued to consultants, directors and officers of the Company in
connection with the Corporation’s annual compensation review process. The options were
granted under and are subject to the terms and conditions of the company's stock option plan.
About Aurex-McQuesten
The Aurex-McQuesten property is just 40 km from Victoria Gold Corp.’s Eagle Gold mine and
adjacent to Alexco Resource Corp’s highly mineralized Keno Hill Silver. The Airstrip and
Powerline Zones are located just off the main Yukon Government highway between Mayo and
Keno. The property has numerous historic exploration road s and trails and has cell phone
coverage. The 3 -phase power line from the hydroelectric dam in Mayo passes through the
property, as well as, the switching station and spur power line to Victoria Gold. There is an existing
airstrip on the property and the Mayo airport is a 20 minute drive on the highway from the property.
Technical Information
The technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Paul D. Gray,
P.Geo., a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101.
About Banyan Gold
Banyan Gold is focused on gold exploration projects that have the geological potential, size of
land package and proximity to infrastructure that is advantageous for a mineral project to have
potential to become a mine. Our Yukon based projects both fit th is model and our objective is to
gain shareholder value by advancing projects in our pipeline.
The Hyland Gold Project, located 70km NE of Watson Lake, Yukon, along the southeast end of
the Tintina Gold Belt is a sediment hosted, structurally controlled, intrusion related gold deposit,
with a large land package (over 125 sq. km), with the resource contained in the Main Zone area
(900x600m) daylighting at surface and numerous other known surface gold targets. The Main
Zone oxide zone is amenable to heap le ach open pit mining, with column leach recoveries of
86%. The project has an existing gravel access road.
The Hyland Main Zone Indicated Gold Resource Estimate, prepared in accordance with NI 43 -
101, at a 0.3 g/t gold equivalent cutoff, contains 8.6 milli on tonnes grading 0.85 g/t AuEq for
236,000 AuEq ounces with an Inferred Mineral Resource of 10.8 million tonnes grading 0.83 g/t
AuEq for 288,000 AuEq ounces.
Cut-off Grade
(AuEq g/t) In situ Tonnes
Au Ag AuEq
Grade
(g/t) Ozs Grade
(g/t) Ozs Grade
(g/t) Ozs
Indicated
0.3 8,637,000 0.78 216,000 7.04 1,954,000 0.85 236,000
Inferred
0.3 10,784,000 0.77 266,000 5.32 1,845,000 0.83 288,000
(1) Mineral resources which are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. All figures are rounded
to reflect the relative accuracy of the estimate.
(2) Mineral resources are reported at a cut-off grade of 0.3 g/t AuEq. AuEq grade is based on $1,350.00/oz Au, $17.00/oz
Ag and assumes a 100% recovery. The AuEq calculation does not apply any adjustment factors for difference in
metallurgical recoveries of gold and silver. This information can only be derived from definitive metallurgical testing which
has yet to be completed.
The 9,2 30 ha Aurex -McQuesten Property lies in close proximity to both Victoria Gold's Eagle
Project and Alexco Resour ce's Keno Hill Silver District and is highly prospective for structurally
controlled, intrusion related gold-silver mineralization in relation to the Tombstone intrusive suite.
The property hosts numerous known gold targets and Banyan has developed a mineralization
model at the McQuesten “Airstrip” Gold target, located adjacent to the main Yukon highway and
just off the main access road t o the Victoria Gold open-pit, heap leach Eagle Gold mine. The
Property benefits from a 3-phase powerline, existing Yukon Energy Corp. switching power station
and cell phone coverage.
Banyan trades on the TSX -Venture Exchange under the symbol “BYN”. For more information,
please visit the corporate website at www.BanyanGold.com or contact the Company.
ON BEHALF OF BANYAN GOLD CORPORATION
(signed) "Tara Christie"
Tara Christie
President & CEO
For more information, please contact:
Tara Christie David Rutt
Tel: (888) 629-0444 Tel: (888) 629-0444
Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
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