Founders Metals Commences 2024 Drilling Campaign: Drills 10.0 m of 24.61 g/t Au in the Froyo Gold Zone
Founders Metals Commences 2024 Drilling
Campaign: Drills 10.0 m of 24.61 g/t Au in the
Froyo Gold Zone
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 12, 2024) -
Founders Metals Inc.
(TSXV:
FDR) (OTCQX: FDMIF) (FSE: 9DL0) ("Founders" or the "Company") announces the start of its 2024
drilling campaign and provides drill core assay results from the Antino Gold Project in southeastern
Suriname. The Company reports a high-grade gold interval* of 10.0 metres (m) of 24.61 grams per
tonne (g/t) gold (Au) from resource infill/expansion-type drilling conducted in late 2023 within the Froyo
Gold Zone. Founders is fully funded for an initial 2024 drill program of up to 30,000 m.
Highlights:
Drillhole 23FR036B* intercepts
10.0 m of 24.61 g/t Au
from 182 m down hole
Drillhole 23FR035 intercepts 15.0 m of 1.72 g/t Au from 164 m down hole
Both Company-owned diamond drills are fully operational with planning underway for the addition
of a third drill
Figure 1:
Froyo Gold Zone plan map
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Colin Padget, CEO and President of Founders Metals stated, "We are pleased to announce that our two
company-owned diamond drills are now fully operational for 2024, enhancing our drilling efficiency and
capacity. With our exploration program accelerating, we're happy to maintain fast lab turnaround times
and anticipate a steady news flow of drill results every two to three weeks. The pending results from hole
45 are particularly exciting as, from visual observation, we expect them to contribute substantially to the
parallel gold zone within the Froyo Gold Zone, further underlining our project's potential."
Figure 2.
Map of the Antino Gold Project concession area showing gold concentrations from historical
auger sampling. Most of the property remains unexplored.
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Founders' 2024 drilling program is underway, deploying its two diamond drills for an extensive 30,000-
metre campaign at the Antino Gold Project. The program focuses on expansion and resource definition
within the Froyo Gold Zone coupled with exploration across previously uncharted concessions areas.
This strategy aims to fortify the potential future resource base at Froyo and capitalize on the project's
broader untapped potential. Initial drilling at Froyo focuses on the recently announced parallel gold zone
(Figure 1), with drilling underway that tests this new zone further to depth and along strike.
Founders Metals will present at the
Metals Investor Forum
in Vancouver on January 19
th
& 20
th
and
welcomes visitors to its booth during the event.
About Founders Metals Inc.
Founders Metals is a Canadian exploration company operating in North and South America. The
Company is focused on acquiring and advancing gold projects in the South American Guiana Shield. Its
flagship project is the 20,000-ha Antino Gold Project in Suriname. Exploration work on the project
includes over 30,000 m of historical drilling, 35,000 gold-in-soil auger samples, property-wide
aeromagnetic survey data, and a 2022 LiDAR survey. Antino is the most advanced gold exploration
project in Suriname; within an area where historical surface/alluvial gold mining has produced over
500,000 gold ounces to date
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2022 Technical Report - Antino Project; Suriname, South America. K. Raffle, BSc, P. Geo & Rock Lefrançois, BSc, P.Geo.
Quality Assurance and Control
*Reported intervals are core length and estimated to represent 85% or more of the true width based on current drill data. Intervals are calculated
using 5 m minimum widths, up to 5 m internal dilution, and a 0.3 g/t Au cut-off grade. Gold assays are uncapped in interval calculations as drilling is
insufficient to determine capping levels for higher-grade gold intercepts.
Results from samples were analyzed at FILAB Suriname, a Bureau Veritas Certified Laboratory in
Paramaribo, Suriname (a commercial certified laboratory under ISO 9001:2015). Samples are crushed
to 75% passing 2.35 mm screen, riffle split (700 g) and pulverized to 85% passing 88 µm. Samples
were analyzed using a 50 g fire assay (50 g aliquot) with an Atomic Absorption (AA) finish. For samples
that return assay values over 10.0 grams per tonne (g/t), another cut was taken from the original pulp and
fire assayed with a gravimetric finish. Founders Metals inserts blanks and certified reference standards
in the sample sequence for quality control. External QA-QC checks are performed at ALS Global
Laboratories (Geochemistry Division) in Vancouver, Canada (an ISO/IEC 17025:2017 accredited
facility).
A secure chain of custody is maintained in transporting and storing of all samples. Drill intervals
with visible gold are assayed using metallic screening. Rock chip samples from outcrop/bedrock are
selective by nature and may not be representative of the mineralization hosted on the project.
Qualified Persons
The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by Michael Dufresne,
M.Sc., P.Geol., P.Geo., a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS,
Per:
"
Colin Padget
"
Colin Padget
President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director
Founders Metals Contact Information
Dave Burwell, Manager, Investor Relations
Tel: 403 410 7907 |
Nick Stajduhar, Director
Tel: 780 701 3216 |
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the risk factors in the Company's most recent annual management discussion and analysis. The
Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with
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