Banyan GOLD Announces Voting Results from Annual General and Special Meeting of Shareholders
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BANYAN GOLD ANNOUNCES VOTING RESULTS FROM ANNUAL GENERAL AND
SPECIAL MEETING OF SHAREHOLDERS
January 15, 2021 TSX-V: BYN
VANCOUVER, B.C, January 15, 2021 – Banyan Gold Corp. (the " Company" or "Banyan")
(TSX-V: BYN) is pleased to announce the voting results of the Company's Annual General and
Special Meeting of Shareholders held on January 14, 2021 (the "Meeting”).
Shareholders approved the business items of fixing the number of directors at four, including the
election of each director nominee. Detailed voting results are as follows:
Votes For % For Votes Withheld % Withheld
Number of Directors 54,797,702 100.00% 0 0.00%
Nominee Votes For % For Votes Withheld % Withheld
David Reid 54,796,023 100.00% 2,243 0.00%
Mark Ayranto 54,765,527 99.94% 32,739 0.06%
Tara Christie 54,796,258 100.00% 2,008 0.00%
Steve Burleton 54,795,523 99.99% 2,743 0.01%
Shareholders also approved: (i) the appointment of John J. Geib, Chartered Accountant, as the
Company’s auditors and authorized the directors to set the auditor's remuneration; and (ii) a
resolution approving the renewal of the Company’s Stock Option Plan.
The voting results for each resolution are set out below:
Votes for % For Votes Withheld % Withheld
Appointment of Auditor 58,639,952 99.98% 10,909 0.02%
Votes for % For Votes Withheld % Withheld
Share Option Plan 54,569,896 99.58% 0 0.00%
Further information can be found in Banyan Gold’s information circular available on SEDAR at
www.sedar.com.
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Qualified Person
Paul D. Gray, P.Geo., Vice President of Exploration for the Company, is a “qualified person” as
defined under NI 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the content of this news release.
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COVID-19 Update
Banyan has taken proactive measures to protect the health and safety of our employees and
communities from COVID 19 and exploration activities in 2021 will have additional safety
measures in place, following and exceeding all the recommendations made by the Yukon’s Chief
Medical Officer.
About Banyan
Banyan's primary asset AurMac is adjacent to Victoria Gold's new Eagle Gold Mine, in Canada’s
Yukon Territory, which announced commercial production on July 1, 202 0. The AurMac initial
resource of 903,945 oz Au (see Table 1 below) was announced in May 2020. Our major strategic
shareholders include Osisko Gold Royalties, Sprott Funds, Alexco Resource Corp, and Victoria
Gold Corporation. Banyan 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 this model and our
objective is to gain shareholder value by advancing projects in our pipeline.
The 173 sq km AurMac Property lies 30 km from Victoria Gold's Eagle Project and adjacent to
Alexco's Keno Hill Silver District and is highly prospective for structurally controlled, intrusion
related gold-silver mineralization. The property is located adjacent to the main Yukon highway
and just off the main access road to the Victoria Gold open-pit, heap leach Eagle Gold mine. The
AurMac Property benefits from a 3 -phase powerline, existing Yukon Energy Corp. switching
power station and cell phone coverage. Banyan has optioned the properties from Victoria Gold
and Alexco respectively with a right to earn up to a 100% subject to royalties.
The 2020 Initial Mineral Resource Estimate prepared in accordance with National Instrument 43-
101 (“NI 43- 101”) guidelines for the AurMac Property is 903,945 ounces of gold. It is a near
surface, road accessible pit constrained Mineral Resource contained in two near/on -surface
deposits: The Airstrip and Powerline deposits. The Mineral Resource is summarized in Table 1
below.
Table 1: Pit-Constrained Inferred Mineral Resources at a 0.2 g/t Au Cut-Off – AurMac Property
Deposit Classification
Tonnage
Tonnes
Average Au
Grade
g/t
Au Content
oz
Airstrip Inferred 45,997,911 0.524 774,926
Powerline Inferred 6,578,609 0.610 129,019
Total Combined Inferred 52,576,520 0.535 903,945
Notes:
1. The effective date for the Mineral Resource is May 25, 2020.
2. Mineral Resources which are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. The estimate of Mineral
Resources may be materially affected by environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, sociopolitical, marketing, changes
in global gold markets or other relevant issues.
3. The CIM definitions were followed for classification of Mineral Resources . The quantity and grade of reported inferred
Mineral Resources in this estimation are uncertain in nature and there has been insufficient exploration to define these
inferred Mineral Resources as an indicated Mineral Resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in upgrading
them to an indicated or measured Mineral Resource category.
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4. Mineral Resources are reported at a cut-off grade of 0.2 g/t Au, using a US$/CAN$ exchange rate of 0.75 and constrained
within an open pit shell optimized with the Lerchs-Grossman algorithm to constrain the Mineral Resources with the following
estimated parameters: gold price of US$1,500/ounce, US$1.50/t mining cost, US$2.00/t processing cost, US$2.50/t G+A,
80% heap leach recoveries, and 45° pit slop.
5. Mineral Resource Estimate prepared in accordance with 43-101 guidelines by Marc Jutras, P.Eng., M.A.Sc., Principal, Ginto
Consulting Inc, with technical report filed July 7,2020.
The Hyland Gold Project, located 70 km 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
(900 m x 600 m) daylighting at surface and numerous other known surface gold targets. The
Main Zone oxide zone is amenable to heap leach open pit mining, with column leach recoveries
of 86%. The project has an existing gravel access road.
Table 2 shows 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 million 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. NI 43-101 prepared by Robert Carne, Allan Armitage
and Paul Gray on May 1, 2018.
Table 2: Hyland Main Zone Indicated Gold Resource Estimate
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
Notes:
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.
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
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differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, uncertainties inherent in resource
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risks set out in Banyan’s public documents filed on SEDAR. Although Banyan believes that the assumptions and factors used
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information, which only applies as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur
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