Granada Gold Mine, Gold Property on the Cadillac Trend, in Quebec, Receives Trenching and Drilling Permit for the Aukeko Gold Mine
Granada Gold Mine, Gold Property on the Cadillac Trend, in
Quebec, Receives Trenching and Drilling Permit for the Aukeko
Gold Mine
ROUYN NORANDA, QC
,
Nov. 22, 2017
/CNW/ - Granada Gold Mine (TSX.V: GGM) ("Granada Gold" or the "Company") announces that
it has received a trenching and drill permit for its Aukeko property, immediately adjacent to its flagship gold property, the Granada Mine, in the
province of
Quebec, Canada
. The company will begin with site visits to locate areas of trenching and diamond drilling. The permit has been
granted for 6,000 metres of drilling.
The Company also announces the closing of its previously-announced private placement of convertible secured notes in an aggregate amount of
$250,000
. The notes and the common shares and warrants into which the notes are convertible are subject to a "hold period" which expires
on March 22, 2018.
The Aukeko mine has had historical exploration undertaken in the late 1930's where a shaft was sunk to 13 metres and extensive trenching was
undertaken on surface. Considerable detailed mapping at that time identified several auriferous structures within a 500-metre wide, east-west
trending zone with shearing, alteration and quartz veining along with numerous porphyry intrusions. Of significance is the "Auk Shear" zone where
the Aukeko Shaft was sunk in conjunction with stripping and trenching in the same vicinity. This zone was mapped over a 1 kilometre length with
an average width of 50 metres. The Auk Shear zone was the location of the Bert Vein where 3 bulk samples were reported to have been taken in
1938 from a trench approximately 50 -150 metres east of the Aukeko Shaft that averaged a grade of 7.0 ounces gold per ton (240.0 grams per
tonne) (from public files with MERN (Ministère d'Energie et Ressources Naturelles) GM52851).
The Aukeko gold mine is part of the east-west trending structure on the Granada Gold Mine property. It is 2 kilometres east from the extended
LONG Bars zone where over 120,000 metres of drilling has been undertaken to date including historical drilling from the 1990's. A further 1.9
kilometres east is the Austin-Rouyn Mine. The potential strike length on the property is 5.5 kilometres, beginning at the western most drill hole near
the historical
Granada
shafts and extending eastward to the historical
Austin Rouyn
shaft where grab samples in 1940 showed up to 6.57 ounces
of gold per short ton (225.2 grams per tonne). Grab samples are selected samples and are not necessarily representative of the mineralization
hosted on the property. Note that there are two cross-cutting intrusive dykes of undefined width within that strike length. The potential strike length
is conceptual in nature as there has been insufficient exploration to define the full length of the mineralized material and it is uncertain if further
exploration will do so.
"We are expanding beyond our extended LONG Bars zone on strike going east to test the remainder of the 80 percent of unexplored mineralized
structure," stated
Frank J. Basa P.Eng
., President and Chief Executive Officer of Granada Gold Mine.
Qualified Person
Claude Duplessis
, P. Eng., of Goldminds Geoservices Inc., a geological, environmental and mining consultant, is an independent qualified person in
accordance with National Instrument 43-101, and has reviewed and approved the contents of this news release.
About Granada Gold Mine Inc.
Granada Gold Mine Inc. is developing the Granada Gold Property near
Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec
. The property includes the former
Granada
gold
mine which produced more than 50,000 ounces of gold in the 1930's before a fire destroyed the surface buildings. The highly prolific Cadillac
Trend, which has been the source of more than 50 million ounces of gold produced in the past century on a line running from
Val-d'Or
to
Rouyn-
Noranda
, cuts through the north part of the property.
An updated Mineral Resource Estimate and revised Block Model dated
June 30, 2017
, with effective date of
May 16, 2017
, includes the first
material estimate of high-grade gold resources discovered in zones at depth immediately north of the LONG Bars Zone open-pit deposit.
An initial Inferred underground resource of
10,386,500
tonnes grading
4.56
g/t Au at a cut-off grade of
1.5
g/t (
1.5
million oz. Au) has been
outlined along
600
meters of strike, north of the original near-surface discovery at
Granada
. Open-pit-constrained resources have
625,000
ounces
Measured at
1.14
g/t Au and
182,700
ounces Indicated at
1.26
g/t Au with a cut-off grade of 0.39 g/t Au (
807,700
ounces M&I at
1.16
g/t Au)
representing a major increase in Block Model estimates for Granada vs. 2012 Block Model.
The Company has obtained all necessary permits for the initial mining phase known as the "Rolling Start" for which stripping has already begun,
and has been conducting exploration drilling in order to expand the reported mineral resource for the property. Additional information is available
at
www.granadagoldmine.com
.
"Frank J. Basa"
Frank J. Basa P. Eng
.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange)
accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This news release may contain forward-looking statements including but not
limited to comments regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential
mineral recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future events and conditions and therefore, involve inherent risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.
SOURCE
Granada Gold Mine Inc.
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For further information:
Frank J. Basa, P. Eng., President and CEO at 1-819-797-4144 or Wayne Cheveldayoff, Investor Relations, at 416-
710-2410 or [email protected]
CO: Granada Gold Mine Inc.
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