Midland Continues to Discover New High-Grade GOLD Zones ON Willbob
MIDLAND CONTINUES TO DISCOVER NEW HIGH-GRADE GOLD ZONES ON WILLBOB
Montreal, December 14th, 2017. Midland Exploration inc. (“Midland”) (TSX -V: MD) is pleased to
announce the most recent resu lts of its exploration campaign on the Willbob project ( wholly owned by
Midland), located about 70 km west of Kuujjuaq and close to the Kan project (Osisko Mining / Barrick
Gold). The most significant results are:
High-grade values of 250.10 g/t Au, 40.1 0 g/t Au, 24.8 0 g/t Au in grab samples from the new
Wayne showing
1.37 g/t Au / 6.10 m in a channel, from the new Didgeridoo gold zone
36.40 g/t Au / 0.50 m in drillhole WB-17-18 from the Sunshine zone
2.56 g/t Au, 0.508% Cu and 0.153% Co / 0.45 m in drillhole WB-17-22 from the Stars massive
sulfide showing
Midland is very encouraged by the results of the 2017 campaign. Many new gold showings, some high-
grade, were discovered on the project in 2017. Furthermore, d etailed geological mapping of the gold
showings has positively identified most of them as orogenic gold, which is one of the most significant
types of gold deposits worldwide. The Labrador Trough can now be considered as a newly recognized
orogenic gold belt that is almost totally unexplored for gol d. The Willbob proj ect itself, which covers
almost 700 km 2 of favorable rocks and structures, is still mostly unexplored. Midland will continue to
investigate this important new emerging gold belt in 2018, with an intensive prospection campaign,
mechanical stripping of mineralized zones found in 2017, and additional drilling of the best targets.
New gold showings
The Wayne showing was first identified in August 2017, with two grab samples separated by about 200
meters that returned 32.7 g/t Au and 2.47 g/t Au, in an area that was not explored previously. First, a very
high value of 250.10 g/t Au was obtained from a single, isolated sample located about 225 meters south -
east of the initial 32.7 g/t Au value. Re-sampling of the original 32.7 g/t Au location yielded 6.54 g/t Au,
while values of 40.10 g/t Au, 24.80 g/t Au, 1.94 g/t Au, 1.81 g/t Au, 1.56 g/t Au were obtained from
grab samples collected in a 10 meters radius around the original sample . Note that grab samples are
selective by nature and values reported may not be re presentative of mineralized zones. Another grab
sample collected about 25 meters south also yielded 1.15 g/t Au . Mineralisation in the Wayne showing
area consists in a quartz diorite that contains numerous mm - to cm-thick quartz veinlets; the veinlets and
the wallrock are mineralized in pyrrhotite with usually no arsenopyrite. Ten (10) samples out of 29
samples collected from the Wayne area yielded more than 1 g/t Au, with three additional ones yielding
between 0.1 and 1 g/t Au.
The new Didgeri doo gold zone is located about 15 kilometers southeast of Osisko/Barrick’s Pump Pad
Ridge gold showing, and about 70 kilometers south of Midland’s Golden Tooth zone . It is part of a new
claim block staked in January 2017. Channel samples on Didgeridoo yielded 1.37 g/t Au / 6.1 m. Several
grab samples collected north and south of this channel along the zone also yielded significant gold values:
2.77 g/t Au, 1.82 g/t Au and 0.62 g/t Au located between 15 and 40 meters north of the channel, and 2.35
g/t Au, 1.35 g/t Au, 1.235 g/t Au, 1.2 0 g/t Au and 0.63 g/t Au from 15 to 25 meters south. The
Didgeridoo zone appears to be at least 60 meters long by 5 to 10 meters wide, and is open to the south. It
is a shear zone with abundant fault-filling quartz -calcite veins and veinle ts, along with minor
disseminated pyrrhotite within the veins and in the strongly chloritized host gabbro. Six (6) grab samples
out of 19 at Didgeridoo yielded more than 1 g/t Au, and four (4) samples also yielded between 0.1 and 1.0
g/t Au. Following the discovery, Midland acquired 8 adjacent claims that contain an historical gold
showing that returned up to 2.8 g/t Au in grab sampling, located on -strike about 500 meters northwest of
Didgeridoo.
Several additional gold showings were also discovered in the Fall 2017 campaign and include (grab
samples): the Cross Lake Showing ( 8.82 g/t Au , 39.2 0 g/t Ag ; 1.28 g/t Au; 1.03 g/t Au ), the Nak
showing (6.26 g/t Au), the Lac H showing ( 1.75 g/t Au ) and the West Smokey Bear showing ( 2.35 g/t
Au; 2.21 g/t Au; 2.16 g/t Au; 1.23 g/t Au).
Highlights of the 2017 drilling campaign
The objective of the 2017 drilling campaign was primarily to test several arsenopyrite -bearing gold
showings within shear zones, found in the northern corner of the project (Golden Tooth, Polar Bear, GTN,
Kuni and Kuurok showings). A total of ten (10) holes totalling 3116 meters tested these shear zones. One
(1) hole 189 meters deep tested the quart z-ankerite brittle veins and brecc ias of the Sunshine showing .
Three (3) more holes also tested the Stars gold-bearing volcanogenic massive sulfide prospect at a very
shallow depth (less than 25m vertical depth), for a total of 186 meters.
Drillhole WB-17-18 tested the Sunshine showing ( up to 7.16 g/t Au in surface grab sampling in 2016).
Sunshine represents a different mineralization style compared to the arsenopyrite -bearing shear zones
mentioned previ ously; i t contains no arsenopyrite and is hosted within brittle structures and breccias
instead of ductile-brittle shears. WB-17-18 intersected three gold-bearing intervals: 36.40 g/t Au / 0.50 m,
1.99 g/t Au / 0.45 m, and 0.50 g/t Au / 1. 05 m, all found between 96.35 and 107.55 meters . Unless
otherwise stated, all drill intersections reported in this press release are hole lengths; true thicknesses
cannot be determined at this time for most intersection s. Mineralization consists in a non-sheared, altered
diorite containing un -mineralized quartz veins , with pyrite and pyrrhotite in the wallrock of the veins .
Hole WB-17-18 confirms that the Sunshine showing is a newly recognized mineralization style that has
the potential for high gold grades. The mineralized zone intersected in WB -17-18 is still open in all
directions.
Holes WB-17-09, 10 and 11 tested the extensions of the Golden Tooth gold-arsenopyrite shear zone, that
returned up to 3.1 g/t Au / 1.7 m in 2016 drilling. All three holes successfully intersected the zone. Hole
WB-17-11 tested the zone on a section located 100m northwest of WB -16-05, and yielded 2.23 g/t Au /
1.25 m (0.91 m true width). Hole WB-17-09 tested the southwestern extension of the zone at depth, and
returned 0.422 g/t Au / 2.15 m (1.32 m true width) between 280.85 and 283 meters. Finally, hole WB-17-
10 tested the zone on a section 100 meters southeast of WB -16-07; it yielded 0.81 g/t Au / 1.95 m (1.43
m true width ). The Golden Tooth zone was demonstrated to be at least 250 meters long on surface ,
continuous over more than 300 mete rs downdip , and is still open in all directions . Field and core
observations indicate it is a classic, orogenic-style, gold-arsenopyrite shear zone, typical of many major
gold deposits worldwide.
Hole WB-17-13 tested the Kuurok arsenopyrite-bearing shear zone (up to 14.5 g/t Au in grab sample); it
yielded 3.50 g/t Au / 0.35 m. In the Polar Bear area, hole WB -17-14 intersected an arsenopyrite-bearing
shear zone near a diorite/mudstone contact that yielded 0.73 g/t Au / 2.7 m. In the Kuni area, numerous
quartz-arsenopyrite tension veins scattered over tens of meters yielded 1.82 g/t Au / 0.55 m, 2.54 g/t Au /
0.35 m meters as well as many weakly anomalous Au values.
Holes WB -17-20, 21 and 22 tested the Stars gold -bearing massive sulfide prospect at a ver y shallow
depth (maximum of 25 meters vertical depth). Holes WB -17-21 and 22 were drilled from the same drill
setup but at different angles. Both holes intersected the massive sulfide lens. WB -17-21 yielded 0.40 g/t
Au, 0.79% Cu and 0.046% Co / 1.9 m, in pyrrhotite-rich massive sulfides. WB -17-22 yielded 0.49 g/t
Au, 0.59% Cu and 0.042% Co / 4.55 m, including 2.56 g/t Au, 0.51% Cu and 0.153% Co over 0.45 m
in pyrite-rich massive sulfides. A section of sulfides -rich black shales further down also yield ed 0.28 g/t
Au / 5.65 m. Hole WB -17-20, drilled on a section 25 meters to the south east, narrowly missed the
massive sulfide lens because of a surface erosion feature.
Figures showing the locations of the new gold showings, drillhole maps and coordinates table can be
consulted using the following link : http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/1105917.pdf.
Significant results from the 2017 drilling campaign, Willbob gold showings
Hole
Number Area From
m
To
m
Interval m
(true
thickness m)*
Au-AA23
g/t
Au-
GRA21
g/t
Note
WB-17-09 Golden
Tooth 92.1 93 0.9 0.893
280.85 283 2.15 (1.32) 0.422 Golden
Tooth Zone
WB-17-10 Golden
Tooth 106 107.95 1.95 (1.43) 0.81 Golden
Tooth Zone
195.4 195.85 0.45 2.12
WB-17-11 Golden
Tooth 105.25 106.5 1.25 (0.91) 2.23 Golden
Tooth Zone
WB-17-13 Kuurok 77.1 77.45 0.35 3.5 Kuurok
Zone
WB-17-14 Polar
Bear 261.65 264.35 2.7 0.73 Mama Bear
Zone
including 261.65 262.5 0.85 1.38
WB-17-16 Polar
Bear 174.25 175 0.75 0.961
WB-17-18 Sunshine 96.35 96.85 0.5 >10 36.4 Sunshine
Zone
101.85 102.35 0.45 1.995 Sunshine
Zone
106.5 107.55 1.1 0.504 Sunshine
Zone
WB-17-19 Kuni 201.3 201.85 0.55 1.825
219.5 219.85 0.35 2.54
*True thicknesses reported in drillholes cannot be determined with available information, except for
drillholes with numbers within parentheses.
Significant results from the 2017 drilling campaign, Stars Massive sulfide showing
Hole
Number
From
(m)
To
(m)
Interval m
(true
thickness m)*
Au-
AA23
g/t
Cu % Co % Note
WB-17-21 16.25 18.15 1.9 0.402 0.795 0.046 Pyrrhotite-rich
massive sulfides
WB-17-22 23.5 28.05 4.55 0.492 0.590 0.042 Massive sulfides
including 23.5 23.95 0.45 2.56 0.508 0.153 Pyrite-rich
massive sulfide
WB-17-22 35.35 41 5.65 0.280 Nsv** Nsv** Sulfide-rich black
shales
** Nss: no significant values.
Quality control
Assay samples from drillholes are taken from NQ -size drillcore sawn in half; one half is shipped for
analysis at the laboratory and the other half is kept for future reference . All rock samples on the project
(drillcore and others) are assayed by standard 30 gram fire -assaying with AA (Au-AA23) or gravimetric
finish (Au-GRA21) at ALS Minerals laboratories in Val d’Or, Québec or Sudbury, Ontario. All samples
are also analysed for multi -elements, using four-acid ICP–AES method. Exploration program design and
interpretation of results is performed by qualified persons employing a Quality Assurance/Quality Control
program consistent with industry best practices , including the use of s tandards and blanks with every 20
samples.
Clarification of Information Previously Disclosed
Midland wishes to clarify information previously disclosed in a press release dated November 22, 2017,
regarding finders’ fees paid in connection with a private placement of Midland. The press release
mentioned that: “In connection with the Offering, finder’s fee equal to an aggregate amount of $33,745
were paid to arm’s length third parties of Midland”. The press release should however have mentioned
that finder’s fees equal to an aggregate amo unt of $64,572 were paid to arm’s length third parties of
Midland (instead of $33,745).
About Midland
Midland targets the excellent mineral potential of Quebec to make the discovery of new world -class
deposits of gold, platinum group elements, base metals and rare earth elements. Midland is proud to count
on reputable partners such as Altius Resources Inc. , Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, Teck Resources
Limited, IAMGOLD Corporation, Osisko Mining Inc., SOQUEM INC., and Abcourt Mines Inc. Midland
prefers to work in partnership and intends to quickly conclude additional agreements in regard to newly
acquired properties. Management is currently reviewing other opportunities and projects to build up the
Company portfolio and generate shareholder value.
This press release has been prepared by Sylvain Trepanier, P.Geo., VP Exploration for James Bay and
Northern Quebec at Midland, a “qualified person” as defined by NI 43 -101. For further information,
please consult Midland’s website or contact:
Gino Roger, President and Chief Executive Officer
Tel: 450 420-5977
Fax: 450 420-5978
Email : [email protected]
Web : www.explorationmidland.com
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