Surge Exploration Commences Fieldwork at its Copper Gold Project near Barkerville BC - Hedge Hog Property
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NEWS RELEASE
Surge Exploration Commences Fieldwork at its Copper Gold
Project near Barkerville BC - Hedge Hog Property
July 31, 2019 – Vancouver, British Columbia; – Surge Exploration Inc. (“the Company”
or “Surge”) TSX-V: SUR, OTCQB: SURJF, FRA: DJ5C) announces it is starting the 2019
exploration program on its Hedge Hog project (copper‐gold). The Hedge Hog project is
located in Central BC several kilometres north of the historical community of Barkerville, BC
(see Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSX-V: BGM) (“Barkerville”) for additional current
activity in this area). The community of Quesnel BC is located 60 kilometers to the west of
the property. Surge has an option to earn in a 60% interest in the Hedge Hog project from
Eastfield Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: ETF) by making cash and/or share payments totalling
$500,000 and completing exploration expenses totalling $2,500,000 over a five‐year term.
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Central to the Hedge Hog project is an area where massive sulfide boulders with high
concentrations of copper, silver and cobalt were discovered twenty years ago. The most
extensive exploration in the area of the current Hedge Hog claim was by Hudson Bay
Exploration and Development (later Hudbay Minerals Inc. (C: HBM) (“Hudbay”) between
1999 and 2001. Hudbay completed airborne and ground based geophysical surveys,
extensive geochemical surveys, mechanical excavator trenching and four short diamond drill
holes (556 metres total). The most successful undertaking by Hudbay was trenching in an
area called the Lottie target where a massive sulfide boulder (chalcopyrite rich) grading
24.3% copper and 19.6 g/t silver had been discovered in 1999. In one mechanical trench
near the 1999 discovery five additional massive chalcopyrite rich boulders were sampled
with an average grade of 8.8% copper, 9.6 g/t silver (the Hudbay boulder assay results are
historic and replicate samples are not available and consequently have not been confirmed).
In 2018, Surge collected 843 soil samples at Hedge Hog. The current program will consist of
test pitting using a mechanical excavator of anomalous sample sites from the 2018 work. A
multiyear exploration permit authorizing a wide spectrum of activities including
geochemical and geophysical surveys, mechanical excavator trenching and diamond drilling
was issued to Eastfield in 2018.
Mr. Tim Fernback, Surge President & CEO, comments “Our Hedge Hog exploration property
in British Columbia’s Cariboo Mining District appears to well situated given the proposed
2019 exploration activity in the area by our neighbours. This 2019 activity includes
CAD$23.7 million to be spent by Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: BGM) nearby our Hedge
Hog Property. This region is host to numerous operating mines, good infrastructure
including experienced exploration and supporting services. Our exploration team believes
that this land package is strategically situated to exploit the high copper‐gold values of the
region.”
Qualified Person
The technical content of this news release has been reviewed by Bruce Laird, P.Geo., an
independent consulting geologist and a qualified person within the context of NI 43‐101.
About Surge Exploration Inc.
The Company is a Canadian‐based mineral exploration company which has been active in
the resource sector in British Columbia and elsewhere in Canada.
Golden Triangle – Trapper Lake Property (Copper Gold), British Columbia
The Company owns 100% interest in the Golden Triangle – Trapper Lake Group of 14
mineral claims which are located in the prolific Golden Triangle Region of northwestern
British Columbia approximately 90 km ENE from Juneau, Alaska. Surges’ staking program
acquired an area of 213 sq. km within the regionally important geological and structural
trend. A large portion of the new property is adjacent to the Thorn Project owned by Brixton
Metal’s Corp . (“Brixton”, TSXV: BBB) with the balance covering prospective open ground
containing numerous B.C. Minfile showings with Cu, Ag, Au values adjoining the boundaries
of the Golden Bear Mine of Chevron Resources, a 480,000 oz Au past producer.
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In Brixton’s news release dated July 15, 2019 (Brixton News Release), they reported results
from drill hole THN19‐150, which was drilled to 829.06 metres depth at the Oban diatreme
breccia pipe within the Camp Creek copper corridor. Brixton reported a drill hole intercept
of 1.97 grams per tonne gold equivalent across 554.70 meters including 135.96M of 1.35 g/t
Au, 0.31 Cu, 133.62 g/t Ag or 5.00 g/t Aueq including 6M of 3.56% Cu, 3.37 g/t Au, 257.77
g/t Ag. Structural mapping and soil‐rock geochemistry at the Chivas zone and relogging of
select core from the Glenfiddich zone were also conducted as part of the overall exploration
program at the Thorn Project.
Mineral Mountain Properties (Copper Gold) British Columbia
The Company owns a 100% interest in the Omineca Group of 12 claim blocks which are
located in the Omineca Mining Division of north‐central British Columbia, approximately 150
km north of Fort St. James. The claims are not subject to any royalty terms, back‐in rights,
payments or any other agreements and encumbrances.
B.C. Minfile assessment report data indicates that most of the area covered by the Omineca
Group claim blocks were at one time or another covered by staking during surges of
exploration in B.C. dating from the 1940’s to present day. Largely the claims appear to have
been minimally explored with little follow‐up. However, some work was recorded on
several claims with results for stream sediment sampling showing anomalous to highly
anomalous results for gold in a few areas. These areas were recommended for detailed
follow‐up, however due to a previous commodity price downturn no further work was
recorded.
Prominent among early discoveries in the Omineca region were the nearby
Lustdust/Stardust property ( Sun Metals Corp. TSXV: SUNM ) covering a large, coherent
integrated porphyry‐skarn‐manto, epithermal system; the Kwanika property ( Serengeti
Resources Inc./POSCO Daewoo TSXV: SIR ) a promising advanced stage copper‐gold
project; the Lorraine property ( Teck Resources and Sun Metals ) host to a significant
copper gold NI 43‐101 compliant resource. The Surge tenures are located between the
Kemess North project being developed by Centerra Gold ’s subsidiary Aurico
Metals and Centerra Gold’s operation Mt Milligan mine.
Hedge Hog Property, (Copper Gold) British Columbia
The Company has an option to earn an undivided 60% interest seven mineral tenure
covering 2,418 hectares (5,972 acres) located approximately 80 km northeast of the town of
Quesnel, BC and 20 km north of the historic gold mining towns of Wells and Barkerville.
Ontario Cobalt Properties (Cobalt) Ontario
The Company has an option to earn an undivided 60% interest in the Glencore Bucke
Property and the Teledyne Property, located in Cobalt, Ontario Canada.
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