Huntsman Completes Financings, Key Acquisitions; Moves Forward with Large Scale Gold and Nickel Projects
Huntsman Completes Financings, Key Acquisitions; Moves Forward with Large
Scale Gold and Nickel Projects
Vancouver, British Columbia, December 16, 2020 – Huntsman Exploration Inc. (TSXV:
HMAN; US:BBBMD) (the “ Company” or “ Huntsman”) is pleased to pr ovide the following
corporate update for the fourth quarter of 2020, as well as upcoming exploration activity.
Financing: Successfully completed private placements for gross proceeds of $6,019,000.
Strategic Gold Project Acquisitions: Successfully acquired two key gold projects – the
intermediate stage Baxter Spring project in Ne vada, and the Flint project in the re-emerging
Flint gold camp in Idaho. Huntsman’s technical team is now in the process of planning work
programs for both projects. The Flint proj ect acquisition is subject to TSX Venture
acceptance.
Canegrass High-Grade Nickel Project Advancement: Permitting process has commenced
for an 18-hole (3,160 m) drill program at the Canegrass high-grade nickel project in Western
Australia. Work is expected to commence shortly after the permit has been received and will
follow up the strong success of the prior drill program.
Peter Dickie, President and CEO for Huntsman, commented, “With a strong treasury and a diversified
portfolio that includes high quality gold and nickel projects, Huntsman is well positioned for 2021.
The Company has been very active at a corporate l evel with the recent financing and acquisitions,
and we are now looking forward to a series of highly targeted exploration programs as we move
through the next twelve months.”
Project Highlights and Next Steps
Baxter Spring Gold Project, Nevada
Drill tested mineralization with 128 historical RC and core holes.
Oxide and vein structures (historic results).
Numerous untested targets identified.
Historically, only shallow drill tested, with potential to find additional mineralization at depth.
Baxter Spring is a historically explored property in an area of Nevada that has demonstrated
substantial gold endowment. Nearby projects include the historic Manhattan mining camp and the
current Round Mountain project. Previous work on Baxter Spring has pr oduced both high grade
intervals in drilling (eg. BX-13: 8.81 g/t over 7.6m) in addition to several intervals of moderate grade,
over substantial widths (BSC-1: 0.71 g/ Au over 69.04m). Numerous areas of the property have
indicated geochemical targets that have not been fully explored, and a number of areas have not seen
any exploration to date.
Next Steps for Baxter Spring. Huntsman’s technical team has commenced an in-depth review of
historic work on the property. Per mitting is underway for a first pha se drill program expected to
commence in early 2021. The initial program is expected to focus on known structures, in addition to
follow-up geological work on underexplored areas.
Flint Gold Project, Idaho
Gold-silver project in low-risk jurisdiction covering 1,845 ha.1
Potential for bulk mineable and high-grade mineralization.
On trend ~1.2 km south of historically producing DeLama r and Florida Mountain camps
where Integra Gold recently defined resour ces totaling 2.1 Moz of gold and 116 Moz of
silver.2
Historical production of over 1.5 Moz of silver, primarily from two veins in the Flint camp.3
1 Acquisition pending TSX approval
2 See Integra Resources Technical report dated Sept‐09, 2019
3 Historical production figures were obtained and prepared by previous operators. The Company has not completed the work necessary to verify
results and the historical figures should not be relied upon as they have not been verified by a Qualified Person.
Flint represents an opportunity to apply modern exploration techniques with the goal of defining bulk-
mineable gold and silver mine ralization near already defined high-grade silver-gold veins. It is a
large, underexplored land package in a similar geological setting to the nearby DeLamar Deposit
operated by Integra Resources (TSXV – ITR). Located approximately 1.2 km north of the Flint
property, Integra’s property includes the Delamar and Florida Mountain deposits, which host 2.4 Moz
Au, and 116.5 Moz Ag Measured and Indicated Resources in published reports2, in addition to a third
discovery, the War Eagle deposit, being actively explored.
Historical production at the Flint Mining Camp was reported from two veins, which are currently on
private land (not in the Agreement) in the core of the Property and totaled more than 1.5 million
ounces of silver. Due to the antiquity of the development, few records remain. Generally, the veins
have been described as containing 20 to 30 ounces per ton of silver (686 to 1,029 g/t silver), with gold
values between 0.04 and 0.1 ounces per ton gold (1.25 to 3.13 g/t gold).4
Next Steps for Flint. Huntsman is currently developing a plan to commence work on the claims in
early 2021 to identify targets for follow-up ground and drill testing.
4 All historical production quoted herein is based on reports obtained and prepared by adjacent property operators. The Company has not
completed the work necessary to verify results and the historical figures should not be relied upon as they have not been verified by a Qualified
Person. Noted resources as disclosed by other operators is not necessarily indicative of the mineralization hosted on the Company’s Property
Canegrass High-Grade Nickel Project, Western Australia
High-grade nickel, copper, PGE and vanadium mineralization.
Multiple, high-grade, near-surface drill results.
Drilling success to date is in line with survey anomalies. More survey anomalies to be drill
tested.
Attractive Chemistry: Multi-element rock and soil sampling (historical) indicates absence of
arsenic.
Located in the Windimurra Intrusive Complex, road accessible and 500 km from tidewater
The Canegrass Project is emerging as one of the more interesting new layered intrusive nickel projects
in the top tier jurisdiction, Western Australia. 2018 drilling highlights included:
BBRC001 (Winx) 14m @ 1.17% Ni, 0.88% Cu and 0.05% Co from 65m, including 1m @
2.70% Ni, 0.23% Cu and 0.12% Co.
BBDD001 (Sunline) 0.57m @ 3.07 % Ni, 0.62% Cu and 0.24% Co from 144.1m.
BBDD002 (Tulloch) 14.25m @ 0.69% Ni, 0.82% Cu and 0.05% Co from 243.2, including
4.9m @ 1.33% Ni, 1.26% Cu and 0.10% Co.
All 2018 drill holes returned anomalous values of Ni, Cu, Co (and PGE) and were open along strike
and at depth. Downhole electroma gnetic (DHEM) testing identified anomalies in several holes,
strongly suggesting mineralization is more extensiv e than intersected, which will be tested in the
upcoming drill program.
Next Steps for Canegrass. The upcoming program is currently undergoing permitting for a minimum
18 holes (3,160 m) of Reverse Circulation (RC) a nd Diamond (Core) drilling, which will follow up
on 2018 successes and begin to test new, high priority areas. The new program is designed to drill
untested conductors identified in surface geophysics and to continue assessing the extent of the Ni-
Cu (Co) mineralization intersected in the previous campaign, including targeting the off-hole DHEM
anomalies.
VTEM map of Canegrass Project with 2020 drill targets and locations.
Neil McCallum, P.Geo., of Dahrouge Geological Consulting Ltd., a di rector of the Company and a
qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, supervised the preparation of the technical
information in this news release with respect to Baxter Spring and Flint projects.
The technical content of this news release with respect to Canegrass has been reviewed and approved
by Nathan Tribble, P.Geo., a director of the Co mpany and a Qualified Pe rson pursuant to National
Instrument 43-101. The qualified person has not yet visited the Canegrass Project and therefore has
not yet verified the data disclosed, including sa mpling, analytical, and test data underlying the
information or opinions contained in the written disclosure.
On Behalf of the Board of Huntsman Exploration Inc.
Peter Dickie
President and Chief Executive Officer
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Forward Looking Statements: Statements contained in this news release that are not historical facts are forward-looking
statements, which are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainness and other factors that may cause
the actual results to differ materially from those anticipated in our forward-looking statements. Although we believe that
the expectations in our forward-looking statements are reasonable, actual results may vary, and we cannot guarantee
future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.