Laurion Announces Commencement of Fiel D Work to Validate Existence of a Large Near-Surface GOLD-Polymetallic Target ON the Ishkoday Project
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LAURION ANNOUNCES COMMENCEMENT OF FIEL D WORK TO VALIDATE EXISTENCE OF A
LARGE NEAR-SURFACE GOLD-POLYMETALLIC TARGET ON THE ISHKODAY PROJECT
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TORONTO, ONTARIO - (May 29, 2018) – Laurio n Mineral Exploration Inc. (TSX.V: LME and
OTCPINK: LMEFF) (“Laurion” or the “Corporation”) is pleased to announce the start of
the summer field program at the Corporation’s 47 km 2 Ishkoday Project (“Ishkoday”).
Laurion’s personnel and Explo-Logik’s technical crews (the “Team”) have already
mobilized to site.
The Corporation’s overall objective is to validate the existence of a large (bulk) near
surface /gold-polymetallic target (the “Targe t”) over the identified 3 km by 1 km main
outcrop area, containing all of the known precious and base metals mineralization
known to date, in an expedited fashion in order to move the project to the next
development phase.
The Corporation has designed a strategic three-phased exploration program over the
next thirty-six months, which aims at the Ta rget validation and concentrating on rapidly
defining and expanding via drilling near surf ace mineral resources in gold, silver, zinc
and copper.
The Laurion Private Placement tranches planned in 2018 will permit the execution of:
(i) GIS compilation, synthesis and interpretation of the project’s technical data,
producing a 3-D view of the geology and mineralization, and targeted
upside potential;
(ii) An initial field validation exploration program that may consists of airborne
and/or ground geophysical surveys covering the 47 km 2 Ishkoday to better
define the geological and structural elements of the entire project; and
(iii) Followed by geological mapping of key areas, including a continuous
surface stripping, channel sampling and assaying of potential zones, to
outline the Target.
The known mineralization on Ishkoday exhibits repetitive stacked and multi-directional
gold and zinc-rich sulphides in lenses, veins and vein stockworks, visible in the
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mineralized outcrop exposure. The northerly trending vein sets are gold-silver-quartz
bearing; whereas the NE sets are gold-silver-zinc-copper bearing.
The abundance and proximity of these vein sets within a 3 km by 1 km outcrop segment
of Ishkoday, highlights the possibility for the Target potential, at the same time offering a
Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (or “VMS”) metallogenic environment, as well as
individual higher gold grade veins that could potentially be developed separately.
To date, the Corporation has a property-wide database of 283 diamond drill holes
totaling 40,729 m, detailed sampling, mapping, assays and geochemical analysis, and
ground geophysics. The mineralization is open at depth beyond the current core
drilling limit of -200 m from surface, based on the historical mining to a -685 m depth, as
evidenced in the past producing Sturgeon River Mine (the “Mine”). The Mine produced
73,322 ounces of gold, and 15,929 ounces of silver from 1936 to1942 on the No. 3 Vein at
24 g/t gold, and generated a large gold and silver bearing stockpile of 144,070 tonnes
grading 1.59 g/t gold in the Indicated Mineral Resources category (based on a NI 43 -
101 Technical Report filed on SEDAR in June 2013 – See Press Release dated April 23,
2013).
Initial Highlights of the 2018 Campaign
The GIS compilation work is advancing as pla nned with more than half of the technical
data already compiled, and is expected to be completed by mid-June. The Team’s
initial field evaluation of the previous exploration work, geology and mineralization is
also proceeding diligently to validate the Target. Latest highlights include:
Ishkoday hosts structurally-hosted gold-base metal mineralization in centimetric to
metric wide shear and tension “veins” extending tens, hundreds and several
thousand metres in length in a NE-SW structural trend visually defined over a
minimum 3km by 1km area (3 km 2), but likely extend N-S outside the 1 km wide
known vein field onto the northern claims held by the Corporation.
For now, the distribution of the mineralized trends appear to follow axes from a NE-
SW Strain Ellipse in a Simple Shear Deformation Model with the axes depicting the
crisscrossing shears containing the known mineralized “veins” at Ishkoday, whether
sulphide-gold-rich and/or gold-rich – the sulphide-gold-rich. All of the veins appear
to have been emplaced during regional deformation of the belt.
The presence of abundant sulphides co ntaining zinc (sphalerite) and copper
(chalcopyrite) in a number of veins from areas of pyroclastic breccias
(“agglomerates”) could potentially indicate the presence of sulphide lenses in
proximity.
Drilling since the 1980’s shows the Target po tential at Ishkoday – there are 85 assay
interval results over 5 g/t gold with silver, copper and zinc credits from 0.1m to 3.2m
interval lengths within the known 3 km2 mineralized trend.
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Ishkoday has hundreds of veins, as atte sted by detailed mapping from previous
operators in the 1980’s and Laurion’s exploration work from 2010 to 2014.
Current observations strongly suggest major “vein stockworks”, as can be observed
at the Dome, Canadian-Malartic, Detour and Sigma-Lamaque Deposits from the
Abitibi Greenstone Belt. Contrary to these other deposits, Ishkoday shows two
mineralized systems, one gold-silver-rich and the other gold-silver-zinc-copper.
The Next Exploration Steps
Laurion has commenced the field work to validate the Target based on priority areas:
(1) Sturgeon River Gold Mine - Historic Mine Site
Laurion’s main project mandate is to complete the relevant economic studies for the
potential processing of the surface stockpile . Processing of the surface stockpile will
facilitate the mineral characterization representative of the host rock mineralized
trends, simultaneous with evaluation and development of the “proximal mine” gold
mineralization within 1 km of the stockpiles, which could potentially generate feed for
future operations.
Initial work will consist of relogging of drill core, and stripping-sampling existing (and
new) gold bearing veins to outline wide gold bearing stockworks.
(2) Gold vein extensions (outward from the historic mine site)
The second priority is to expand the identifi cation and evaluation of gold bearing veins
on strike of the vein sets identified at the mine site. This task is also intended to identify
and outline gold bearing vein sets and stockworks.
(3) Polymetallic mineralization (gold-silver-copper-zinc)
Ishkoday contains interesting polymetallic mineralization that occurs in outcrop and
also in drill core. Although somewhat early in its understanding, it is not clear if the
observed mineralization is an indication of a Volcanogenic Massive Sulphides or VMS or
if it indicates a more extensive polymetallic-gold system that may be related to the
gold mineralization.
Relogging of existing core, prospecting and st ripping-sampling will be used to increase
understanding of the geology, determine extent and origin of, and size potential of the
gold-silver-copper-zinc.
(4) Regional prospecting (Ishkoday north claims area)
Claims located in the northern part of Ishkod ay will be prospected to identify favorable
areas for gold and polymetallic-gold mineralization for near-term follow up exploration.
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About Laurion Mineral Exploration Inc.
The Corporation is a junior mineral exploration and development company listed on the
TSX-V under the symbol LME and on the OTCPINK under the symbol LMEFF. Laurion has
112,573,003 outstanding shares of which 49% are owned and controlled by Insiders and
within the ‘friends and family’ category.
The Corporation’s emphasis is on the development of a single project, the 100% owned
mid-stage Ishkoday Project, and its gold-silve r and gold-rich polymetallic mineralization
with a significant upside potential.
Mr. Jean Lafleur, P. Geo. (APGO, OGQ), La urion’s Technical Advisor to the Board of
Directors, is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 guidelines, and
has reviewed and approved the content of this news release.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:
Laurion Mineral Exploration Inc.
Cynthia Le Sueur-Aquin – President and CEO
Tel: 1-705-788-9186
Fax: 1-705-805-9256
Website: http://www.laurion.ca
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