Omineca Appoints Bill Van Breugel as Lead Technical Advisor for the Wingdam Underground Placer Recovery Project
Omineca Appoints Bill Van Breugel as Lead
Technical Advisor for the Wingdam
Underground Placer Recovery Project
SASKATOON, SK
,
June 8, 2021
/CNW/ - Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd. (TSXV: OMM)
("
Omineca
" or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has appointed Mr.
Bill Van Breugel
, P.
Eng., as the Company's Lead Technical Advisor for the Wingdam underground placer gold bulk
sampling program, currently underway and located 45 km east of
Quesnel, BC
, in the Cariboo
Mining District.
Working closely with Omineca's joint venture partner's management, engineers and underground
mining team, Mr.
Van Breugel
provides corporate oversight to the mine plan and engineering at the
Company's recently commenced underground placer gold sampling program (see news release of
April 29, 2021
).
Mr. Van Breugel is a mining engineer with over 40 years of experience in the mining industry. He
previously held the positions as: Senior Mine Engineer for Cameco's Cigar Lake project and
Kinross
Gold's
Hoyle Pond project; Engineering Lead at the BHP Jansen Project and Project Manager for
Goldcorp and Star Diamond Corporation.
2021 Wingdam Underground Gold Bulk Sample Program
The 2021 bulk sampling program is designed to continue the successful placer gold test sample
program initiated in 2012. That program utilized ground freeze technology to recover 173.4 ounces
of placer gold from a single 2.4-metre by 2.4-metre by 23.4-metre-long drift across the gold-bearing
paleochannel located approximately 50 metres beneath Lightning Creek. The initial phase of the bulk
sample program for 2021, includes the first 300 metres of 17,000 metres of potential paleochannel
on Omineca's claims.
About Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd.
Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd.'s flagship Wingdam gold exploration and placer recovery project is
located along the Barkerville Highway 45 km east of the town of
Quesnel
. The property includes
hard-rock tenures totaling over 50,000 hectares (500 square kms) and in excess of 15 linear
kilometers of placer claims, both encompassing the Lightning Creek valley where topographic
conditions created a thick overburden which preserved a large portion of an underground channel
with placer gold-bearing gravels. Omineca also has a diamond drill program currently underway
exploring for the potential multiple hard rock sources of the placer gold at Wingdam.
Forward Looking Statements
This release includes forward-looking statements regarding Omineca and its business. Such
statements are based on the current expectations and views of future events of Omineca's
management. In some cases, the forward-looking statements can be identified by words or
phrases such as "may", "will", "expect", "plan", "anticipate", "intend", "potential", "estimate",
"believe" or the negative of these terms, or other similar expressions intended to identify forward-
looking statements. The forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this release may
not occur and could differ materially as a result of the failure to consummate the project financing,
the economic feasibility of the Wingdam Project, known and unknown risk factors and uncertainties
affecting Omineca, including risks regarding the resource industry, economic factors and the
equity markets generally and many other factors beyond the control of Omineca. No forward-
looking statement can be guaranteed. Forward-looking statements and information by their nature
are based on assumptions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or industry results, to be
materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by
such forward-looking statement or information. Accordingly, readers should not place undue
reliance on any forward-looking statements or information. Forward-looking statements speak only
as of the date on which they are made and Omineca undertakes no obligation to publicly update or
revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or
otherwise, except as required by applicable securities laws.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
release.
SOURCE
Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd
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For further information:
Tom MacNeill, President and CEO, 1 (306) 653-2692; Dean Nawata, Vice
President, Business Development, 1 (604) 561-2821, [email protected]
CO: Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd
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