Canarc to Acquire Portfolio of Nevada Gold Assets with Historic Gold Resources and Significant Exploration Potential
NEWS RELEASE
Canarc to Acquire Portfolio of Nevada Gold Assets with Historic Gold Resources
and Significant Exploration Potential
Vancouver, Canada – March 2, 2017 – Canarc Resource Corp. (“Company or Canarc”) (TSX:
CCM, OTC -BB: CRCUF, Frankfurt: CAN) announces that it has executed a binding letter of
agreement ( the “Agreement”) with American Innovative Minerals LLC. ( “AIM”), a private
company that owns 10 gold properties in Nevada, one gold project in Idaho, two royalty interests
on other properties as well as data on 500 Nevada exploration properties and an additional 100
exploration properties in Montana and the western US A, whereby Canarc will acquire 100% of
AIM for a total purchase price of USD$2 million.
A conference call to discuss this acquisition will be held on Thursday, March 2, 2017 at 10:00 AM
PST (1.00 EST). To participate in the conference call, please dial the following:
Vancouver: +1-604-638-5345
Toronto/International: +1-416-915-3227
Canada/USA Bilingual TF: 1-800-319-7310
Callers should dial in 5 – 10 min prior to the scheduled start time and simply ask to
join the Canarc call.
Conference Call Passcode When prompted, please enter: 35755
The Agreement
Under the terms of the Agreement, Canarc will pay a total of US$2 million cash for 100% of AIM’s
outstanding securities, or alternatively, at Canarc’s election, a 100% direct interest in AIM’s
assets (the “Acquisition”). Canarc paid AIM a deposit of US$200,000 on signing of the
Agreement, which will be credited against the purchase price on closing of the Acquisition . The
closing of the Acquisition is estimated to be completed on or before March 31, 2017.
Mr. Catalin Chiloflischi, CEO of Canarc, stated: “The acquisition of this attractive portfolio of gold
exploration properties in Nevada with historic gold resources and significant exploration potential
at a low acquisition cost substantially enhances Canarc’s potential for new discoveries and
resource expansions in the prolific and mining friendly jurisdiction of Nevada.”
CANARC RESOURCE CORP .
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Properties
Two of the properties, Fondaway Canyon and Dixie Comstock, contain historic gold resource
estimates.
Fondaway Canyon is an advanced stage gold property located in the Churchill County, Nevada.
The land package contains 136 unpatented lode claims. The property has a history of previous
surface exploration and mining in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
Historic exploration at the Fondaway Canyon property established an indicated resources of
409,000 ounces of gold at an average grade of 6.18 g/t gold and Inferred resources of 660,000
ounces of gold at an average grade of 6.4 g/t gold, using a cut-off grade of 3.43 g/t gold.
This resource is an historic estimate and a qualified person for Canarc has not done sufficient
work to classify the historic estimate as a current mineral resource. As a result the historic
estimate is not being treated as a current mineral resource. Details of the historic gold resource
can be found in the December 20, 2016 news release issued by Aorere Resources a New Zealand
Exchange listed company.
The Fondaway Canyon mineralization is contained in a series of 12 steeply dipping en-echelon
quartz- sulphide shears outcropping at surface and extending laterally over 1200m, with drill-
proven depth extensions to > 400m.
Additional exploration targets include near-surface oxide gold along favorable structural and host
rock targets and deeper extensions of the sulphide zones.
Dixie Comstock , also located in the Churchill County, Ne vada, consists of 26 unpatented lode
claims. It also has evidence of some historic mining but no records of production are available.
A historic 1991 geologic and mining study completed by Mine Development Associates of Reno,
Nevada, in March 1991 estimated a historic mineable open pit deposit containing 102,000
ounces of gold from 980,000 tonnes grading 3.24 g/t Au at a cut-off grade of 0.34 g/t Au.
This resource is a historic estimate and a qualified person for Canarc has not done sufficient work
to classify the historic estimate as a current mineral resource. As a result the historic estimate is
not being treated as a current mineral resource.
Clear Trunk property is located in Pershing and Humboldt Counties, Nevada on 4500 acres of fee
mineral and unpatented claims in the Sonoma Range, south of Winnemucca.
The property contains a small discovery of a sediment-hosted disseminated gold deposit from 40
drill holes. Intercepts included: Hole CLO4-5 = 26m at 0.38 g/t Au and 81m at 0.45g/t Au, Hole
CLO4 -16 = 119m at 0.34 g/t Au, Hole CLO4-19 = 29m at 1.06 g/t Au and 11m at 1.13 g/t Au.
Identified exploration target include breccia pipes and quartz stockwork with untested gold
anomalies and untested soil gold anomaly overlying intrusive host rock.
Bull Run property is located in Elko County, Nevada on two large patented claim groups of 500
acres near Jerritt Canyon.
Historic mining at the Bull Run mine developed 1 to 2 m wide quartz veins with 17 g/t Au before
it closed in 1901.
A large quartz silver-gold vein system has been identified over a mile in length, 12 m wide, with
silver grades from surface samples up to 685 g/t and up to 5.1 g/t gold.
Future exploration work has the potential for new gold and silver bonanza-grade discoveries.
Hot Springs Point property is located in Eureka County, Nevada on 160 acres of fee land on north
end of the prolific Cortez Trend. Klondex Mining claims surround the project on three sides.
The property contains mafic dikes and sills with gold up to 3.4 g/t. Three shallow holes at north
end of the property intercepted up to 1 g/t Au.
Jarbidge property is located in Elko County, Nevada on 8 patented claims along the east end of
major gold veins in the Jarbidge mining district.
Veins that have historically produced over 400,000 ounces of gold strike directly onto the
property and gold soil anomalies identified on the property need to be drill tested.
Lightning Tree property is located in Lemhi County, Idaho on 11 unpatented claims near the
300,000 oz gold Musgrove deposit.
The property has 3 quartz-adularia-gold veins that are 2 to 6 m wide and over 1200 m long
hosted in Precambrian siltstone and rhyolite with historic surface samples up to 21 g/t Au.
Silver King property is located in Humboldt County, Nevada on 4 patented claims near Golconda
Summit.
Historic samples have been collected from jasperoid veins with Silver values up to 480 g/t.
Previous exploration focused on low grade gold values but the property was never been explored
for silver.
A&T property is located in Humboldt Co., Nevada on 2 patented claims on Winnemucca
Mountain.
The property contains two veins and a quartz breccia in altered shale adjacent to intrusive dikes.
Gold values grading up to 8.6 g/t have been collected in historic surface sampling of quartz veins.
Eimis property is located in Elko County, Nevada on one 20 acre patented claim adjacent to a
new Coleman Canyon gold discovery by Arnevut Resources. Gold anomalies extend onto Eimis
property.
Silver Peak property is located in Esmeralda County, Nevada on 2 patented (40 acre) mining
claims. The property is surrounded by Scorpio Gold claim block at the currently o perating
Mineral Ridge mine.
Historic surface sampling has yielded 1-5 g/t gold from 1.5 to 9 m wide east-dipping shear zone in
metamorphic rocks, similar to Mineral Ridge.
Qualified Person
Garry Biles, P. Eng, President & COO for Canarc Resource Corp, is the Qualified Person (as
defined in NI 43-101) who reviewed and approved the contents of this news release.
Catalin Chiloflischi”
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Catalin Chiloflischi, CEO
CANARC RESOURCE CORP.
About Canarc Resource Corp. - Canarc is a growth -oriented, gold exploration and mining
Company listed on the TSX (CCM) and the OTC -BB (CRCUF). The Company is currently focused on
acquiring operating or pre -production stage gold -silver-copper mines or properties in the
Americas and further advancing its gold properties in north and central BC.
For More Information - Please contact:
Catalin Chiloflischi, CEO
Toll Free: 1-877-684-9700 Tel: (604) 685-9700 Fax: (604) 685-9744
Email: [email protected] Website: www.canarc.net
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