Metallis Launches 2019 Exploration Season at Kirkham Property
Metallis Launches 2019 Exploration Season at Kirkham
Property
VANCOUVER
,
July 9, 2019
/CNW/ -
Metallis Resources Inc.
(TSX-V: MTS; OTCQB: MTLFF)
(the "Company" or
"Metallis") is pleased to announce the commencement of its Phase 1 Exploration Program (the "Program") at its 100%-
owned Kirkham Property (the "Property"). The Property is prospective for multiple deposit types and is located in the
prolific
Eskay Camp
of the Golden Triangle, northwestern
British Columbia
.
The 2019 exploration season which started on
June 30
th
, represents the most ambitious yet for Metallis with the largest
and most experienced geological team to date now working on the Property. Building from 2018's successful exploration
and drilling programs, the property-wide Program can be extended if deemed necessary. The Program has been designed
to:
Delineate more high-grade epithermal gold veins – found commonly near the periphery of the intrusive rocks;
Discover nickel-rich massive sulphides like those found just to the north on Garibaldi Resources' Nickel Mountain
Property; and
Locate high-grade porphyry copper/gold mineralization within the Hawilson Monzonite and evaluate the large
geophysical/geochemical anomalies that bear a distinct resemblance to signatures over known porphyry copper/gold
deposits.
Highlights:
a) Recent 3D geological modeling has indicated that
1
.
The zone containing high-grade gold epithermal veins (i.e.
137 g/t Au
; MTS News Release
November 29, 2018
)
discovered in 2018 at the Cole target can now be traced along the North-East trending faults between King and
Terwilligen creeks, for approximately 2km; and
2
.
The Cliff-Nina corridor is centered within an eastward dipping (50°) graben structure, indicating that there is additional
high-grade porphyry copper/gold potential to the east and that the potassic cores of the system are at deeper levels
than most of the previous drill holes.
b) Following the earlier confirmation of the presence of olivine gabbros at Thunder North through petrographic work, Dr.
Peter Lightfoot
will be spending five days at the Property during the current program to further evaluate the nickel potential
of the Kirkham Property.
c) Multiple, NE-trending, magnetic lineaments along normal faults correlating with a strong geochemical signature of
anomalous gold, copper and molybdenite has highlighted an apparently deeper porphyry copper-gold system at the King
East Target which the company intends to test in the upcoming 2019 program.
2019 Exploration Program details:
The Program currently underway includes channel sampling, soil sampling and detailed lithology/alteration mapping with a
focus on high priority targets identified through off-season detailed data analysis by the geological team. The Program will
enable the team to establish the best possible, drill ready targets for the upcoming 2019 drill program - planned to start in
August.
High Grade Gold Targets
Following the 2018 high-grade gold discovery (Drill hole KH18-19;
11.8 g/t Au over
7.7m
including 137 g/t over
0.6m
)
, a
geological mapping program along with substantial channel sampling across both the Cole and Etta target areas is to be
completed. High-grade gold lenses historically mapped south of the Cole target near King Creek will also be investigated.
Nickel Targets
Work at both Thunder North and Thunder South is also included in the Program; focusing on all untested conductive and
magnetic anomalies along a NE-trending structural corridor that runs through the target areas. Thunder North and Thunder
South, collectively, cover approximately ten square kilometers of the northern portion of the Property, ideally located on the
western margin of the Eskay Rift system. Field mapping in 2018 outlined extensive outcrops of the Hazelton Betty Creek
Formation at Thunder South and Terwilligen Creek, similar to the stratigraphic units which are intruded by Garibaldi
Resources' Nickel Mountain Gabbro complex. The northern Property boundary shares over ten kilometers with Garibaldi
and its Nickel Mountain discovery is about 1.5 km north of the Property border.
Metallis' technical advisor, Dr.
Peter Lightfoot
, has generated a series of targets (
Click here to view Nickel Target Map
)
for follow-up based on the discovery of olivine gabbro outcrops that are a phase of the intermediate to felsic intrusive rocks
of the Texas Creek Series. The presence of olivine gabbronorite with 8.55% MgO was confirmed with the use of
petrographic thin section analysis earlier in the year. Of the targets, Dr. Lightfoot has outlined six of the most prospective
areas and scheduled a 5-day field visit during the Program to investigate the overlapping conductive and magnetic
anomalies and differentiated olivine gabbros in the area.
Porphyry Targets
A thorough surface mapping program along the entire Hawilson Monzonite (approximately 7.5 km) is underway (
Click here to view Au-Cu Map
). This work will vector into the high-grade potassic zones that are now better understood
as a result of the recent 3D GIS geological modeling. In particular, the work has revealed that the porphyry system is wide
open to the east and southeast and is, apparently, the source of high-grade gold (14 g/t Au in rocks) and the historic placer
gold operation in the nearby Fewright Creek (
Minfile
104B
223
). Field work at the 4 km long Cliff-Nina porphyry corridor
will focus on the lateral extension of gold-rich veins, hydrothermal breccias and deeper potassic cores.
Work at the Nina porphyry copper-gold system, a new discovery made during the 2018 drilling campaign, will focus on a
200m
x
200m
zone of irregular quartz veins and sulphide lenses to the north. This area is being followed up for VMS and/or
epithermal gold-silver mineralization potential.
The King East target is an extensive (2 km x 2 km) zone of North-South trending normal faults, magnetic and resistivity
anomalies coincident with a strong copper-gold-moly geochemical signature in rocks and soil. The Program will include field
traverses to establish the correlation of the available datasets. The team is expected to then establish a location for the
first ever drill hole on this prospect.
Metallis President and CEO,
Fiore Aliperti
commented "This year promises to be a pivotal year for both the Kirkham
Property and the Metallis team. All the data analysis from last year's work has been completed. We are now armed with
greater knowledge and now's the time to take that data with our boots on the ground and identify this summer's drill targets
to carry us forward." He went on to add "The success of the Golden Triangle in 2019 will be discovery driven - we plan to
have Metallis front and center."
Corporate Update
The Company is pleased to provide details on recent corporate activities. The Company announces that all resolutions
were passed at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders held on
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
, in
Vancouver, British
Columbia
. As of
June 28, 2019
, all remaining
$0.35
warrants were exercised bringing in a total of
$130,550
of which
$96,000
was exercised by Insiders of the Company. The Company has now moved its office to Suite 604, 850 West
Hastings Street,
Vancouver
, V6C 1E1. Additionally,
Sameen Oates
has transitioned from Corporate Secretary to a new
position of Office Manager with her corporate secretarial duties now being managed by the CFO.
Qualified Person
Technical aspects of this news release have been reviewed and approved by
David Dupre
, P.Geo., designated as a
qualified person under National Instrument 43-101.
About the Kirkham Property
The 106 sq. km Kirkham Property is located about 65 km north of
Stewart, B.C.
, in the heart of the Golden Triangle's
prolific
Eskay Camp
. The northern border of Kirkham is contiguous to Garibaldi Resources' E&L Nickel Mountain Project.
The northeast corner of Kirkham is within 12 km of the Eskay Creek mine while the eastern border is within 15 - 20 km of
Seabridge Gold's KSM deposits and Pretium Resources' Brucejack mine.
About Metallis
Metallis Resources Inc. is a
Vancouver
-based company focused on the exploration of gold, copper, nickel and silver at its
100%-owned Kirkham Property situated in northwest
British Columbia's
Golden Triangle. Metallis trades under the symbol
MTS on the TSX Venture Exchange and currently has 33,369,079 shares issued and outstanding.
On behalf of the Board of Directors:
/s/ "Fiore Aliperti"
Chief Executive Officer, President and Director
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