Margaux Resources Ltd. Advances Exploration Strategy; Completes Two Important Consolidations of Contiguous Lands, Projects and Mineral Tenures; Announces Amendment to Jersey Emerald Option Agreement
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NEWS RELEASE
Margaux Resources Ltd. Advances Exploration Strategy; Completes Two
Important Consolidations of Contiguous Lands, Projects and Mineral Tenures;
Announces Amendment to Jersey Emerald Option Agreement
CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (February 27, 2018)
Margaux Resources Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:MRL , OTCQB:MARFF) ("Margaux" or the "Company") is pleased to report
that it has completed two significant consolidations of lands, projects and mineral tenures, to establish the
Margaux Sheep Creek Gold District, and the Margaux Kootenay Arc Zinc District (collectively the “Districts”).
The Sheep Creek Gold District and Kootenay Arc Zinc District are adjoining Margaux projects, which together cover
over 24,000 hectares of mineral tenure.
For the first time ever, Margaux has consolidated the mineral claims in this area under one ownership. As a result,
the Company will now have clear lines of sight over previously fragmented but highly prospective mineral tenures,
and an improved opportunity to unlock their respective resource potentials using systematic exploration
approaches and digital-age exploration technology.
These Districts, in southeastern British Columbia (“BC”), Canada, each formerly consisting of highly fragmented and
widely held parcels, mineral tenures, rights, options, access agreements and land positions , have been assembled
by Margaux as contiguous Districts, under one ownership, for the purposes of mineral exploration and
development.
Sheep Creek Gold District
Margaux’s Sheep Creek Gold District is the third -largest, past-producing orogenic gold district in BC (after
Barkerville and Bralorne). Historic gold production from the Sheep Creek Gold District was 785,000 oz gold at an
average grade of 14.4 g/t gold (0.42 oz/t gold).
“This is an asset that was hiding in plain sight – neglected,” said Tyler Rice, Margaux’s President and CEO . He
continued, “Success leaves tracks: old-timers found nearly 800,000 ounces here, following single veins in the dark .
Having completed the consolidation of these contiguous mineral tenures, Margaux has the opportunity to obtai n,
for the first time, a more complete understanding of the geologic formation and to apply exploration technologies
that those early miners never could have imagined.”
Margaux holds lands, rights and options to the Company’s Sheep Creek Gold District, acquired in 2017, through
several option agreements and through in- fill staking . Margaux has consolidated some 79 Crown grants and 33
formerly separate mineral claims covering a 10 km mineralized trend, which subsumes the majority of the historic
Sheep Creek Gold Camp.
An independent report by Geoscience BC recently confirmed orogenic gold veining at the Sheep Creek Gold District
as an analogue to BC’s gold producing Barkerville District . In contrast to the Barkerville and Bralorne, there has
been little modern exploration at the Sheep Creek Gold District, which was last mined in the early half of the last
century.
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Mr. Rice added, “ We quietly persisted because we were excited about the geology and the opportunity that
connecting the land unlocks from an exploration standpoint, particularly given the characteristics of th e Sheep
Creek Gold District formation and gold veining.”
Margaux expects to shortly report highlights of 2017 initial exploration of the Sheep Creek Gold District.
Figure 1: Margaux’s Sheep Creek Gold District and Kootenay Arc Zinc District
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Kootenay Arc Zinc District
Margaux’s Kootenay Arc Zinc District includes the past-producing Jersey-Emerald lead-zinc mine, which produced
eight million tonnes of zinc ore prior to its closure nearly fifty years ago, and Margaux’s Jackpot property, where
there has been no historical mining, but where Margaux’s 2017 drilling program identified numerous high-grade
zinc intercepts, as well as near-surface lower grade zinc mineralization potentially suitable for open-pit mining.
“2017 was our first full year of work at Margaux’s Kootenay Arc Zinc District and the beginning of a methodical,
fully integrated program of exploration, the results of which were very encouraging,” (see Company news releases
dated October 25, 2017 and December 5, 2017), Mr. Rice commented. He continued, “Although zinc mineralization
is known to exist in commercial grades in the Kootenay Arc Zinc D istrict, Margaux’s exploration program is
producing new data, and with it, valuable insight. This is about bigger data as a path to bigger rewards. We plan to
assess the full extent of the resource base and mining alternatives.”
Margaux’s Kootenay Arc Zinc District straddles a 30 km strike length of the Kootenay Arc, a geological deformation
which extends from BC into Northern Washington, which hosts lead-zinc deposits. The Kootenay Arc features well-
known, significant mine sites such as Teck’s active Pen d Oreille Mine and Margaux’s historic Jersey -Emerald Mine.
The Jersey Mine produced lead -zinc mineralization at combined grade of 5. 58% Pb-Zn, from a nearly continuous
zone of mineralization of 1,800 metres by 600 metres, ranging up to 30 metres thick.
Margaux’s Kootenay Arc Zinc District has known lead- zinc resources: a NI 43-101 compliant lead- zinc resource
exists for the Jersey property and Margaux is actively exploring for lead -zinc mineral ization to expand this
resource. The Company has completed an extensive program of surface and underground surveying, data entry
and QA/QC work to verify historical drill and underground information.
Preliminary work at the new Wilson Creek target is also encouraging . Wilson Creek is a 3 km x 1 km zinc soil
anomaly within clastic sediments, with coincident aeromagnetic and EM anomalies, that is untested by any drilling.
Where mineralization has been observed in outcrops , it is suggestive of stratabound, sedex- type mineralization.
This is an entirely new deposit style for the Kootenay Arc Zinc District, within a rock type that is only minimally
explored.
Amended Option Agreement
The Company is also pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement (the "Amending Agreement") with
Apex Resources Inc. (TS X VENTURE:APX; "Apex") to amend the option agreement dated November 8, 2013
between Apex and Margaux, as amended on each of January 22, 2014, October 26, 2015, December 31, 2015,
February 11, 2016 and March 30, 2016 (the "Option Agreement"), granting Marga ux an option to purchase 100%
of the Jersey Emerald Property for payments totaling approximately $4 million according to terms set forth
therein.
Pursuant to the Amending Agreement, option payments (the "Option Payments") will be payable as follows: (i)
$50,000 per month commencing April 1, 2017 for a period of 21 months for a total payment of $1,050,000; and (ii)
$100,000 per month commencing January 1, 2019 until a total of $4.02 million has been paid to Apex under the
Option Agreement. All other terms of the Option Agreement remain unchanged.
Qualified Person
Linda Caron, M.Sc., P.Eng, Margaux’s Vice President of Exploration, is the Company’s Qualified Person as defined
by NI 43-101 who has reviewed and approved the technical information contained within this press release.
About Margaux Resources Ltd.
Margaux Resources Ltd. (TSX.V: MRL, OTCQB: MARFF) is a mineral acquisition and exploration Company focused
on the development of gold , zinc and tungsten deposits in the Kootenay Arc, in the southeast ern region of British
Columbia. The Company is directed by a group of highly successful Canadian business executives and is focused on
exploration of the Company’s Kootenay Arc Zinc District, and Sheep Creek Gold District.
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Forward Looking Statements
This press release may contain forward looking statements including those describing Margaux's future plans and
the expectations of management that a stated result or condition will occur. Any statement addressing future
events or conditions necessarily in volves inherent risk and uncertainty. Actual results can differ materially from
those anticipated by management at the time of writing due to many factors, the majority of which are beyond the
control of Margaux and its management. In particular, this news release contains forward- looking statements
pertaining, directly or indirectly, to the following: Margaux's exploration plans and work commitments , the
potential of mineral resources and potential for recovery thereof, the timing of reporting exploration results, as well
as other market conditions and economic factors, business and operations strategies . Readers are cautioned that
the foregoing list of risk factors should not be construed as exhaustive. These statements speak only as of the date
of this re lease or as of the date specified in the documents accompanying this release, as the case may be. The
Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward- looking statements except as expressly
required by applicable securities laws.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of
the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Margaux Resources Ltd.
Tyler Rice
President, CEO and a Director
(403) 537-5590