Goldstorm Metals Commences Drilling at the Electrum Gold and Silver Project, British Columbia
Goldstorm Metals Commences Drilling at the
Electrum Gold and Silver Project, British
Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - August 3, 2023) - Goldstorm Metals Corp.
(TSXV:
GSTM) (FSE: B2U)
("
Goldstorm
" or "
the Company
") is pleased to report that a diamond drill
program has commenced (the "
Program
") on its 100% owned Electrum gold and silver property (the
"
Property
"), located within the Golden Triangle region of British Columbia.
The Program at Electrum will total approximately 3,000 meters (m) over 7 to 9 drill holes targeting high-
grade gold and silver intervals reported from previous drill programs by other operators.
In prior
programs, several of the drill-tested targets returned high-grade results, including
31.40 g/t gold and
19.0 g/t silver over 2.0 m
and
440.8 g/t gold and 400.0 g/t silver over 0.52 m
. Drill targets will also
include areas of gold-bearing surface samples collected by Goldstorm over the past year within the
historical East Gold Mine area, where intermittent small-scale, underground production between 1939
and 1965 produced 3,816 ounces of gold and 2,442 ounces of silver from 45 tons of hand selected ore.
Sampling and mapping by Tudor Gold Corp. in 2020 further support this prospective target, as a
verification chip sample taken within this area returned values of
101.60 g/t gold and 20,334.0 g/t
silver
.
Click to view the Electrum drill areas
.
Ken Konkin P. Geo., President and CEO comments:
"Our start-up operations at Electrum have
gone very smoothly. We have set-up the camp at the former Granduc mill-site and we thank our good
friends at both Castle Resources Inc. and Scottie Resources Corp. for sharing this facility with Goldstorm
Metals Corp. Two diamond drills have been mobilized to the Electrum project. One fly drill will
concentrate on the peripheral intrusive-related, or porphyry-style targets, while a track-mounted drill will
be set up on the numerous high-grade structurally-hosted targets near the main showings. Currently, only
the fly drill is operating while we prepare sites for the track-mounted drill. We anticipate alternating the
same drill crew between the fly drill and the track-mounted drill so that we can receive and assess the
results from the first hole at the porphyry-style target before planning more holes at that site. One huge
advantage that this program has is the excellent road access to the property. An excavator has been
dispatched to restore all the old access roads, in anticipation of using our track drill to test several of the
priority targets.
In addition to the drilling program, for the past month geological crews have been undertaking daily
prospecting and mapping traverses at the Crown claims, to the northwest of Electrum, and we continue
to discover new structures and mineralized zones. Results from these newly discovered base and
precious metal occurrences will be reported in the coming weeks. Given that the Electrum-Crown group
of claims hosts potential for various types of mineralization, including epithermal/low-sulphidation, high-
grade Au-Ag structures, as well as bulk-tonnage Au-Cu-Ag porphyry, and VMS styles of deposits, we are
very excited to embark on this initial Goldstorm Metals Corp exploration program."
About the Electrum Project
The Electrum Property is located directly between Newmont Corporation's Brucejack Mine,
approximately 20 kilometers (km) to the north, and the past producing Silbak Premier mine, 20 km to the
south.
Click to view the location map
.
Mineralization at Electrum is controlled by two major fault lines that locally host bonanza gold grades,
along with broader stockwork zones, within a complex geological model. Similar to the nearby Brucejack
Mine, gold and silver mineralization occurs as coarse electrum in several generations of quartz-
carbonate veins and vein breccias hosted within a deformed volcanic-sedimentary sequence.
Intermediate-to-low sulphidation gold and silver mineralization is present in many of the veins,
accompanied by pyrite, sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite. Precious metal mineralized veins have been
traced on surface over lengths of several tens of meters to more than a hundred meters, pinching and
swelling along strike.
Much of the work at Electrum to date has tested extensions of known epithermal
veins that have returned several high silver and gold values from limited underground mining and trench
exposures.
Drilling by previous operators encountered gold-silver mineralization at depths of more than 200 meters
from surface with several holes intersecting relatively wide zones containing narrow quartz-sulfide
stockwork veins that returned moderate precious metal values. These intercepts are located beneath
surface exposures that were subsequently blasted, trenched and bulk sampled in an area referred to as
the New Blast Zone.
Here, a 3.8 tonne bulk sample that was collected from a 5-meter-wide zone
averaged 2.82 g/t gold, 539.0 g/t silver, 1.96 % lead and 1.97 % zinc. Localized veins, found within some
of the wider drill intervals, contain electrum and silver sulfosalt minerals that have returned significant
silver and gold values over narrow widths.
In addition to high grade gold and silver mineralization targets, Electrum hosts untested geophysical
anomalies at depth beneath the main vein zones, as well as an area at the south end of Electrum that
shows evidence of potential porphyry-style mineralization.
Qualified Person
The Qualified Person for this news release for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 is the
Company's President and CEO, Ken Konkin, P.Geo. He has read and approved the scientific and
technical information that forms the basis for the disclosure contained in this news release.
About Goldstorm Metals
Goldstorm Metals Corp. is a precious and base metals exploration company with a large strategic land
position in the Golden Triangle of British Columbia, an area that hosts some of the largest and highest-
grade gold deposits in the world. Goldstorm's flagship projects Crown and Electrum cover an area that
totals approximately 16,469 hectares over 7 concessions, of which 6 are contiguous.
The Crown Project
is situated directly south of Seabridge Gold's KSM gold-copper deposits and Newcrest Gold's
Brucejack/Valley of the Kings gold mine.
Electrum, also located in the Golden Triangle of BC, is situated
directly between Newmont Corporation's Brucejack Mine, approximately 20 kilometers to the north, and
the past producing Silbak Premier mine, 25 kilometers to the south.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF
GOLDSTORM METALS CORP.
"
Ken Konkin
"
Ken Konkin
President and Chief Executive Officer
For further information, please visit the Company's website at
https://goldstormmetals.com/
or
contact:
Chris Curran
Head of Corporate Development and Communications
Phone: (604) 559 8092
E-Mail:
or
Carsten Ringler
Head of Investor Relations and Communications
Phone:
+49 151 55362000
E-Mail:
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information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. All statements in this news
release, other than statements of historical facts, including statements regarding future estimates,
plans, objectives, timing, assumptions or expectations of future performance, including without
limitation, the statement regarding the expectation geologists are expected to complete a compilation
study this winter once all assay results are received. Such statement is forward-looking statements
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that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "should", "would" or "occur". Forward-looking
statements are based on certain material assumptions and analysis made by Goldstorm and the
opinions and estimates of management as of the date of this press release, including that geologists
will complete a compilation study this winter once all assay results are received.
These forward-looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other
factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Goldstorm
to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements or
forward-looking information. Important factors that may cause actual results to vary, include, without
limitation that geologists will not complete a compilation study this winter or at all.
Although management of Goldstorm has attempted to identify important factors that could cause
actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking statements or forward-looking
information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or
intended. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate, as actual results
and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly,
readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and forward-looking
information. Readers are cautioned that reliance on such information may not be appropriate for other
purposes. Goldstorm does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement, forward-looking
information or financial out-look that are incorporated by reference herein, except in accordance with
applicable securities laws.
Electrum Location Plan Map
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Electrum Drill Target Map
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