Harvest Gold Details the Copper Prospectivity at its Three 100% Owned Properties in Central BC
Harvest Gold Details the Copper Prospectivity at its Three 100%
Owned Properties in Central BC
Vancouver, British Columbia / April 8, 2021 - Harvest Gold Corporation (TSX.V: HVG)
(“Harvest Gold” or the “ Company”) announces that, further to previous announcements
focusing on the Gold prospects at Emerson, the Company’s Emerson, Goathorn, and
Jacobite properties have geological characteristics analogous to the large New Prosperity,
Bell, and Granisle porphyry Cu-Au-Mo deposits in the region*.
These deposits and Harvest Gold’s properties occur within a larger regional Late
Cretaceous to Eocene porphyry belt shown in Figure 1. The presence of these significant
deposits anchors these porphyry belts and speaks to the underexplored value of this age
of porphyries in British Columbia.
Harvest Gold CEO Rick Mark states: “In August 2020 we chose to build our Company
on these three projects for two main r easons. First and foremost, we believe in the
detailed investigation done by the property vendors, Henry Awmack and David Caulfield ,
as to the tremendous potential to discover more than one large scale Gold and/or Copper -
Gold Porphyry ore body. Second, was the agreement that allows our shareholders to earn
100% of each by the end of 2021.
Equity Exploration Consultants Ltd. ’s lead consultant for Harvest, Daniel Lui , P.Geo.
states “Harvest’s recent releases have been focused on the near -term drill opportunity for
gold at Emerson, today Harvest wants to update the market on the initial targeting results
from their recent airborne magnetic survey over Emerson. This release is specific to the
copper potential at Emerson as well as the Goathorn, and Jacobite projects.”
The Goatho rn property covers a 1.6 km x 2.7 km magnetite skarn cut by multi -phase
porphyry dykes, one of which contains copper mineralization with a high Au:Cu ratio.
The magnetite skarn indicates proximity to a potential copper-gold porphyry system.
On the Jacobite property, soil samples taken in 2019 identified an area with anomalous
geochemistry with maximum values of 1170 ppm Cu and 19 ppm Mo . The anomalous
soil samples are in an area with strong and complex chargeability pattern s in a historic
induced polarization survey.
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Further to previous announcements on gold targets at the Emerson property , historical
work at the Emerson target defined a 725 m x 340 m Cu -Au-Ag-Mo soil anomaly that is
open to the southeast shown in Figure 2. This geochemical anomaly overlies a late
Cretaceous porphyry at surface and drilled in historical drill holes. This intrusion is
partially demagnetized to the northwest where the Emerson gold target mentioned in
previous announcements lays (Figure 2).
Dan Core of Fathom Geophysics’ final report on their processing and interpretation of the
Emerson airborne magnetic survey defined three porphyry targets . These porphyry
targets, shown in Figure 2, are magnetic radially symmetric anomalies. Previous work by
Amax and Lornex did not test these new target areas. These magneti c features have a
complex footprint and size comparable to other significant porphyry copper prospects in
the region. Harvest Gold looks forward to following up on these newly defined porphyry
targets this coming field season.
Harvest Gold’s Porphyry ambitions are to find orebodies analogous to the New
Prosperity or the Bell and Granisle deposits nearby. Equity plans to carry out induced
polarization surveys, geological mapping, and geochemical sampling over each of these
properties this summer. This work, along with the recently completed airborne magnetic
surveys over the Emerson and Jacobite properties, will lead to development of porphyry
targets for future drilling.
* The New Prosperity deposit, located 400 km southeast of Emer son and Goathorn, has a one billion tonne measured
and indicated resource containing 2.4 million tonnes of copper and 13.3 million ounces of gold**. The Bell mine
produced 303,277 tonnes (668.6 million lbs) copper, 12,794 kg (411,336.7 troy oz) gold and 27 ,813 kg (894,208.7 troy
oz) silver from 77.2 million tonnes of ore, while the Granisle mine produced 214,300 tonnes (472.5 million lbs) copper,
6833 kg (219,686.1 troy oz) gold and 69,753 kg (2.2 million troy oz) silver from 52. 7 million tonnes of ore.
** based on a Technical Report entitled “Technical Report on the 344 Million Tonne Increase in Mineral Reserves at
the Prosperity Gold – Copper Project” issued December 17, 2009 with an effective date of November 2, 2009. Readers
are cautioned that the Prosp erity Technical Report has not been updated since 2009 and accordingly, caution needs to
be advised when assessing its conclusions in light of current operating and capital costs, appropriate technologies,
metals price outlooks, and like matters. A number of mineral resources or significant occurrences disclosed herein
relate to nearby properties owned by other companies, and the data presented have been extracted from these
companies’ press releases and websites. A Qualified Person has been unable to veri fy this information from the
adjacent properties, and such results are not necessarily indicative of potential quantities or grades of mineralization on
the Company’s properties.
Figure 1. Harvest Gold projects shown relative to significant Late Cretaceous to Eocene deposits, including New
Prosperity, Blackwater, Huckleberry, Bell, and Granisle.
Figure 2. Porphyry Cu±Au±Mo targets defined by magnetic intrusions defined by Fathom Geophysics’ radial symmetry
analysis of airborne magnetic survey flown on the Emerson project by Precision Geosurveys.
Qualified Person Statement
The disclosure of technical or scientific information in this press release has been reviewed and
approved by Warren Bates, P.Geo. Director of Property Investigations for Harvest
Gold. Mr. Bates serves as a Qualified Person under the definition of National Instrument 43-101.
About Harvest Gold Corporation
Harvest Gold is focused on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia exploring for near surface
Gold deposits and Copper Gold Porphyry deposits. Harvest’s Board of Directors, management
team and technical advisors have collective geological and financing experience exceeding 400
years.
Harvest Gold acknowledges that the Emerson and Goathorn Projects are situated in the traditional
territory of the Wet’suwet’en Nation while the Jacobite Project is situated in the traditional
territory of the Lake Babine Nation. Harvest Gold is committed to developing positive and
mutually beneficial relationships based on respect and transparency with local Indigenous
communities.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Rick Mark
President and CEO
Harvest Gold Corporation
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Rick Mark or Jan Urata
@ 604.737.2303 or [email protected]
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This news release includes technical information that was generated p rior to the introduction of National
Instrument 43 -101. Details of the sampling methods, handling, and quality control methods used in the
generation of this historical technical data are unknown to Harvest Gold, and the drill material, assay
results, true width of intercepts herein cannot be and have not been verified by the Company’s Qualified
Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101.
A number of mineral resources or significant occurrences disclosed herein relate to nearby properties
owned by other companies, and the data presented have been extracted from these companies’ press
releases and websites. A Qualified Person has been unable to verify this information from the adjacent
properties, and such results are not necessarily indicative of potential quantities or grades of mineralization
on the Company’s properties.
Relating to exploration, the identification of exploration targets and any imp lied future investigation of
such targets on the basis of specific geological, geochemical and geophysical evidence or trends are future -
looking and subject to a variety of possible outcomes which may or may not include the discovery, or
extension, or term ination of mineralization. Further, areas around known mineralized intersections or
surface showings may be marked by wording such as “open”, “untested”, “possible extension” or
“exploration potential” or by symbols such as “?”. Such wording or symbols sho uld not be construed as a
certainty that mineralization continues or that the character of mineralization (e.g. grade or thickness) will
remain consistent from a known and measured data point. The key risks related to exploration in general
are that chances of identifying economical reserves are extremely small.
Although the Company believes the expectations expressed in such forward -looking statements are based
on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results
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