Omineca Begins Follow Up Diamond Drill Program at Wingdam
Omineca Begins Follow Up Diamond Drill
Program at Wingdam
SASKATOON, SK
,
Dec. 4, 2025
/CNW/ - Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd. (TSXV: OMM)
("Omineca" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has initiated its 2025 winter drill
program at the Wingdam exploration project in the Cariboo Mining District of south central
British
Columbia
. TerraLogic Exploration Inc. of
Cranbrook, BC
, who designed the winter 2024 drill program
(see
May 6, 2025
, news release), have provided a high priority follow up program for 2025. The drill
crew has been mobilized to conduct the 8 hole, 4,000 meter diamond drill program. Drilling is
expected to run through
December 2025
with results anticipated to be reported early in the new
year.
This exploration program continues to be based on the assumption that Lightning Creek may have
once flowed west to east before reversing to its present westward flow. The lode source of the rich
placer gold beneath Lightning Creek may be related to the Eureka Thrust Fault system, located
downstream (west) of the Wingdam underground placer project where 173.4 ounces of placer gold
was recovered from a single 2.4 meter wide by 23.5 meter long crosscut sample in 2012.
The previous 2024 program was successful in intercepting anomalous gold, copper, lead and zinc
concentrations located downstream from the Wingdam underground placer project. The anomalous
concentrations were associated with semi-massive to massive sulphides in ultramafic rocks,
mineralized quartz veins and veinlets, and the Eureka Fault zone and its peripheral structures.
This year's drill program is designed to follow up on the mineralization found in the 2024 program
with continuation drilling further to depth at elevations below the Wingdam underground placer
workings, specifically in areas (see news release
May 6, 2025
) down dip of mineralization in the
ultramafic unit intersected in WD24-37. Additional drilling will take place southeast of WD24-37 along
strike of the mapped Eureka Thrust Fault towards the UAV magnetic high. Other drilling will consist
of deep holes to determine if the quartz veins identified in holes WD24-38 to 40 continue at depth
(see Map 1).
Map 1
Pic 1 (CNW Group/Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd.)
A progress report from the mining contractor at the Wingdam underground paleoplacer project is to
follow and will be covered in a separate update.
Qualified Person
All scientific and technical information in this news release has been prepared by, or approved by
Stephen Kocsis
, P.Geo., Lead Geologist. Mr. Kocsis is a qualified person for the purposes of
National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
About Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd.
Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd.'s flagship Wingdam gold exploration and placer recovery projects
are located along the Barkerville Highway 45 km east of the
City of Quesnel
. The Wingdam Property
includes mineral tenures totaling over 61,392 hectares (613 square kms) and in excess of 15 linear
kilometers of placer claims, both encompassing the Lightning Creek valley where topographic
conditions created thick layers of overburden, which preserved a large portion of a buried
paleochannel containing placer gold-bearing gravels. Omineca also has an exploration and diamond
drill program currently underway exploring for the potential multiple hard rock sources of the placer
gold at Wingdam.
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For further information, please contact: Tom MacNeill, President and
CEO, 306-653-2692
CO: Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd.
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