Nexus GOLD Plans Drill Program at Mckenzie GOLD Project, Red Lake, Ontario
NEXUS GOLD CORP.
Suite 802, 750 West Pender Street
Vancouver, BC, V6C 2T8
604-558-1919
NEWS RELEASE
NEXUS GOLD PLANS DRILL PROGRAM AT MCKENZIE GOLD PROJECT,
RED LAKE, ONTARIO
Vancouver, Canada – December 19, 2019 - Nexus Gold Corp. (“Nexus” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: NXS,
OTCQB: NXXGF, FSE: N6E) is pleased to announce it will be advancing its exploration efforts on its 100%-
owned McKenzie Gold Project, located in Red Lake, Ontario.
The company intends to conduct a phase one, minimum 1000-meter, diamond drill program to test the
mineralization potential of a corridor occurring along the southern contact of the Dome Stock with
felsic Volcanics of the Balmer Assemblage, in later winter/early spring 2020. Historic drilling conducted
in 2005 along this corridor in the St. Paul’s area returned significant values, including 7.49 grams-per-
tonne (“g/t”) gold (“Au”) over 8.2 meters, 15.54 g/t Au over .8 meter (includes 23.4 g/t over 0.3 meter),
4.47 g/t gold over 1.4 meters, 17.02 g/t Au over .5 meter, 23.87 g/t Au over .2 meter, and 2.1 g/t Au
over 5.5 meters* (see figure 2).
The drill program will be designed to test anomalous rock samples that were collected as part of the
2019 fall prospecting program recently completed by Rimini Exploration in the St. Paul’s Bay area of
the property. The prospecting program traced the mineralized contact corridor to the property’s
eastern boundary. Mineralization identified in the prospecting program consisted of disseminated
pyrite and chalcopyrite hosted in sheared chloritized felsic tuffs displaying zones of carbonate, sericitic
and silicious alteration. Assay values up to 1.8 g/t gold, 33.5g/t silver and .312 % copper were returned
from rocks samples collected during the fall program.
The phase two prospecting program was designed to further determine areas of interest on the
property’s southern end, and to continue pre-drill phase data compilation to help determine initial drill
targets. The focus of the prospecting was concentrated in and around Perch Lake, in the Saint Paul’s
Bay area, located in the southernmost section of the 1,348.5-hectare property.
“We’re eager to conduct our first drill campaign at McKenzie, all the data we’ve compiled so far has
given us multiple, compelling targets,” said President & CEO, Alex Klenman. “Historical drilling and
sampling, and our own groundwork, has revealed several mineralized zones, with some high-grade
values. We would like to extend those zones with some new drill data and continue to move this
project forward. The permitting process is underway, and we anticipate executing the program in Q1,
2020,” continued Mr. Klenman.
Figure 1: McKenzie Gold Project, Red Lake, Ontario, with area for upcoming drill program circled in red
Figure 2: Historic drill results in the southern section of the McKenzie Gold Project, Red Lake, Ontario
The southern portion of the McKenzie Gold Project is bordered by Premier Gold Mines Ltd Hasaga
property and Pure Gold Mining’s Madsen Gold property.
The Company has also planned a maiden drill program at it’s 100%-owned Dakouli 2 Gold Concession
in Burkina Faso, West Africa, and will provide updates on this proposed program early in the new year.
* Note the reported lengths are intercepts and are not true widths
Compilation Summary – McKenzie Gold Project
As reported in a Company news release dated October 11, 2019, Nexus received a compilation
summary of important historic data from project geological consultants, Rimini Exploration. The
compilation integrated the regional geological and regional geophysical data, thus allowing the
Company's geological staff to compare these trends to the information obtained through ground
exploration conducted to date on the property. The more comprehensive data from the summary,
coupled with the new data from the phase two prospecting program, was utilized in determining
suitable areas to drill test.
The Rimini compilation summary produced historical data the Company was previously unaware of
regarding multiple historical grab samples taken on the McKenzie claim block. The Company had
previously disclosed several high-grade historical grab sample results on the property, including 331.14
g/t Au, 18.02 g/t Au, 212.8 g/t Au, 313 g/t Au, 18.02 g/t Au and 9.37 g/t Au. In the summer of 2019
Nexus conducted it's first ground reconnaissance program at McKenzie and results returned notable
sample assays, including 135.4 g/t Au and 9.3 g/t Au (see Company news release dated June 25, 2019).
Additional high-grade historical grab samples previously unknown to the Company and revealed in the
Rimini summary include several high-grade assays, including 142.49 g/t Au, 115.2 g/t Au, 114.57 g/t
Au, 93.71 g/t Au, 68.03 g/t Au, 53.01 g/t Au, and 16.65 g/t Au from areas located on McKenzie Island
(north block).
The Rimini data compilation summary also indicated that little to no exploration has been conducted
over the actual lake portion of the claim block. The Company has noted from the regional data that a
number of northerly trending geophysical trends extend within the lake itself and is viewing these
trends as potential faults or breaks within the Dome Stock.
Preliminary review of lake sediment sampling conducted on the property in 1989 indicates coincidental
anomalous gold geochemical values occurring. Historical values obtained from the analysis of +150
mesh screened lake sediment samples returned values of 0.159 ounce-per-ton (5.45 g/t) Au, 0.154
ounce per ton (5.28 g/t) Au, and 0.116 once per ton (3.98 g/t) Au. The Company now intends to conduct
more exploration activity within the lake-bound portion of the project area to determine the
prospectivity of a large underexplored section of the property.
About the Company
Nexus Gold is a Canadian-based gold development company with an extensive portfolio of nine
exploration projects in West Africa and Canada. The Company’s West African-based portfolio totals
over 560-sq kms (56,000+ hectares) of land located on active gold belts and proven mineralized
trends, while it’s 100%-owned Canadian projects include the McKenzie Gold Project in Red Lake,
Ontario, the New Pilot Project, located in British Columbia's historic Bridge River Mining Camp, and
three prospective gold-copper projects (3,300-ha) in the Province of Newfoundland. The Company is
focusing on the development of several core assets while seeking joint-venture, earn-in, and strategic
partnerships for other projects in its growing portfolio.
For more information please visit www.nexusgoldcorp.com.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of
NEXUS GOLD CORP.
Alex Klenman
President & CEO
604-558-1920
www.nexusgoldcorp.com
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