McEwen Mining To Make Strategic Investment Into Goliath Resources
McEwen Mining To Make Strategic Investment Into Goliath Resources
Toronto, Ontario – January 29, 2025 – Goliath Resources Limited (TSX-V: GOT) (OTCQB: GOTRF) (FSE: B4IF)
(the “Company” or “Goliath”) is pleased to announce that an agreement has been made for McEwen Mining
Inc. (NYSE: MUX) (TSX: MUX) to make a strategic investment into Goliath Resources.
Strategic Investment Highlights
● Post transaction, McEwen Mining will own 3.76% of the issued and outstanding shares of Goliath
Resources.
● McEwen Mining will pay in McEwen Mining shares worth C$10 million based on the closing price of
McEwen Mining and Goliath Resources on January 28, 2025.
● McEwen Mining will receive a half warrant, exercisable at C$2.50 for 12 months.
● Goliath Resources will own 868,056 shares of McEwen Mining.
Roger Rosmus, Founder and CEO of Goliath Resources, states: “We are delighted to have McEwen Mining
make a strategic investment into Goliath Resources. Rob McEwen recognized the potential of our Surebet
high-grade gold discovery in 2023, and has made three personal investments through private placements
since then. Our 2024 drilling campaign was a major breakthrough season for the Surebet high -grade gold
discovery in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia. The discovery is noted for having a series of stac ked
gently dipping veins with widespread high-grade gold. It is fortunate to have a remarkable content of visible
gold which is in all the rock units (sediments, contact of the sediments and volcanics, and in the volcanics, as
well as in the intrusion related dykes) with abundant fine-grained visible gold, including coarse-grained visible
gold. In our 2023 drilling, we found visible gold in 32% of the drill holes and in 2024 that increased to 92%.
Our recently reported drill hole intersection was our best t o date returning 10 meters of 132.93 g/t gold
equivalent (plus several high-grade holes with multiple intercepts, system remains wide open) making for a
gram/meter intersection that puts it in the top percentile of all intersections throughout the world in the past
20 years. Each season we have seen the discovery get better and saw several pleasant surprises in 2024,
including the high percentage of visible gold in our deeper drilling into the system, and our remarkable
recently reported intersection. We st ill have 89 pending holes from the 2024 drilling season to report and
think we may have made a second important discovery, this one a volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) 35
km to the north of Surebet. Rob McEwen is a member of the Order of Canada and a Canadian Mining Hall of
Fame member due to his record of philanthropy and the tremendous success he had building Goldcorp from
a small gold miner to a success story when Goldcorp mined its bonanza-zone at their Red Lake Mine, making
it one of the lowest cost miners of high-grade gold in the gold mining sector. His recognition of the success of
the Surebet discovery in 2023 has been greatly appreciated and we are pleased to have McEwen Mining join
our shareholder roster with this strategic investment. We are also very pleased that Goliath Resources will be
a significant shareholder of McEwen Mining due to their combination of being a gold miner, their extensive
drilling on their gold projects and their world -class copper asset that is in the top 10 undeveloped c opper
projects ranking in the lowest cost quartile as well.”
Rob McEwen, Chairman and Chief Owner of McEwen Mining, states: “The Goliath Resources team has done
a terrific job advancing their Surebet high-grade gold discovery in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia and
McEwen Mining is thrilled to make a strategic investment into Goliath Resources. What initially caught my
attention was the high -grade gold they discovered, and that it was a grassroots discovery in the Golden
Triangle which is a prolific gold mining jurisdiction, one of the most important in Canada . Worldwide,
grassroots discoveries of high -grade gold in a mining -friendly jurisdiction well -known for high -grade gold
mines are exceedingly rare. They were able to make the grassroots discovery due to it until fairly recently
being covered by glaciers and permanent snowpack that have receded to expose a large area of outcropping
rock that has now been significantly advanced over the past few drilling seasons. McEwen Mining is
committed to gold mining, our gold mines are benefitting from the record high prices of gold in 2024 and we
have an updated resource coming out in the first quarter of 2025 on our Fox Complex, where we also have a
69,500 meter (budgeted for $9.7 million) drilling campaign underway. We are also moving our Los Azules
copper development project toward a feasibility study in the first half of 2025 and are contemplating taking
McEwen Copper public after the feasibility study is published (McEwen Mining owns 46.4% of McEwen
Copper, Stellantis owns 18.3%, Nuton is a Rio Tinto venture that owns 17.2% and R ob McEwen owns 12.7%
of McEwen Copper). I believe strongly that the future is very bright for both copper and gold, and that McEwen
Mining is well positioned for significant growth potential in those metals with our assets. We look forward to
seeing the pe nding assays from Goliath Resources’ Surebet discovery and their new VMS discovery and we
are pleased to be enthusiastic shareholders of Goliath with this strategic investment.”
Golddigger Property
The Golddigger Property is 100% controlled and covers an area of 91,518 hectares in the world -class
geological setting of the Eskay Rift, within 3 kilometers of the Red Line in the Golden Triangle of British
Columbia. This area has hosted some of Canada’s greatest mines including Eskay Creek, Premier and Snip.
Other significant and well-known deposits in the Golden Triangle include Brucejack, Copper Canyon, Galore
Creek, Granduc, KSM, Red Chris, and Schaft Creek. Goliath controls 56 kilometers of the Red Li ne which is a
geologic contact between Triassic age Stuhini rocks and Jurassic age Hazelton rocks used as key markers when
exploring for gold-copper-silver mineralization.
The Surebet discovery has exceptional continuity and excellent metallurgy with gold recoveries of 92.2%,
with 48.8% of it as free gold from gravity alone at a 327 -micrometer crush (no cyanide required to recover
the gold). The metallurgy completed to date shows no deleterious elements are present such as mercury or
arsenic.
The Property is in an excellent location in close proximity to the communities of Alice Arm and Kitsault where
there is a permitted mill site on private property. It is situated on tide water with direct barge access to Prince
Rupert (190 kilometers via th e Observatory inlet/Portland inlet). The town of Kitsault is accessible by road
(190 kilometers from Terrace, 300 kilometers from Prince Rupert) and has a barge landing, dock, and
infrastructure capable of housing at least 300 people, including high-tension power.
Additional infrastructure in the area includes the Dolly Varden Silver Mine Road (only 7 kilometers to the East
of the Surebet discovery) with direct road access to Alice Arm barge landing (18 kilometers to the south of
the Surebet discovery) and high-tension power (25 kilometers to the east of Surebet discovery). The city of
Terrace (population 16,000) provides access to railway, major highways, and airport with supplies (food, fuel,
lumber, etc.), while the town of Prince Rupert (population 12,000) is loc ated on the west coast and houses
an international container seaport also with direct access to railway and an airport.
About CASERM (Center To Advance The Science Of Exploration To Reclamation In Mining)
Goliath is a paying member and active supporter of CASERM, an organization that represents a collaborative
venture between Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Tech aimed at transforming the way that geoscience
data is used in the mineral resource industry. Research focuses on the integration of diverse geoscience data
to improve decision making across the mine life cycle, beginning with the exploration for subsurface
resources continuing through mine operation as well as closure and environmental remediat ion. As a
CASERM member, the Company requested a study and written report to be performed by Colorado School
of Mines analysing Surebet’s origin of mineralization. The study confirmed an extensive porphyry feeder
source at depth for the high-grade gold mineralising fluids at Surebet.
Qualified Person
Rein Turna P. Geo is the qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43 -101, for Goliath Resource
Limited projects, and supervised the preparation of, and has reviewed and approved, the technical
information in this release. Mr. Turna is also a director of the Company.
About Goliath Resources Limited
Goliath Resources is an explorer of precious metals projects in the prolific Golden Triangle of northwestern
British Columbia. All of its projects are in world -class geological settings and geopolitical safe jurisdictions
amenable to mining in Canada. Goliath is a member and active supporter of CASERM which is an organization
that represents a collaborative venture between Colorado School of Mines and Virginia Te ch. Goliath’s key
strategic cornerstone shareholders include Crescat Capital, Mr. Rob McEwen and Mr. Eric Sprott, a Singapore
based fund and Larry Childress.
For more information please contact:
Goliath Resources Limited
Mr. Roger Rosmus
Founder and CEO
Tel: +1.416.488.2887
www.goliathresourcesltd.com
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