Pelangio Appoints Kevin P. Thomson Senior Vice President Exploration and Completes First Phase Drill Program at Dalton Property
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NEWS RELEASE
PELANGIO APPOINTS KEVIN P. THOMSON SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT EXPLORATION AND
COMPLETES FIRST PHASE DRILL PROGRAM AT DALTON PROPERTY
TORONTO, Ontario (November 7, 2019) – Pelangio Exploration Inc. (PX:TSX-V; OTC PINK:PGXPF) (“Pelangio”
or the “Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Kevin P. Thomson to Senior Vice President
Exploration for the Company and to provide an update on results of the small first phase drill program at the
Dalton Property in Timmins and future exploration plans for three of its Ontario properties.
Appointment of Kevin P. Thomson
Mr. Thomson is currently a director of Pelangio and has provided technical expertise to the Company since his
appointment to the board in May 2017. Mr. Warren Bates has transitioned from Senior Vice President
Exploration to become the Senior Technical Advisor to Pelangio’s Technical Committee.
Ingrid Hibbard, President and CEO of Pelangio Exploration stated, “Warren has been an integral part of our
Company for over a decade and was instrumental in defining the maiden resource at Manfo. Kevin brings a
wealth of experience in Ghana and Canada. We are delighted to have both Kevin and Warren supporting our
exploration efforts.”
Kevin Thomson is a senior mining professional with a 30 -year career, including international technical,
corporate, and project management experience in West Africa and Canada. His expertise ranges from project
generation and grass-roots exploration to resource development, project assessment and due diligence. Kevin
previously resided in Ghana for 12 years, during which time he served as Group Exploration Manager at Perseus
Mining Limited and Regional Exploration Manager at Newmont Mining Corp. Kevin holds an Hons. BSc.,
Geology & Physical Geography from McMaster University and is a member of the Association of Professional
Geoscientists of Ontario.
Dalton Property Exploration
The Dalton Property is located approximately 1.5 km southwest of Newmont Goldcorp’s Hollinger open pit
operation. The Hollinger Mine is the largest gold mine in the Timmins Camp with historical production in excess
of 19.3 million oz of gold (see Figure 1).
A total of 504 meters of drilling was completed to evaluate four separate geophysical targets in the extreme
southern portion of the property (see Figure 2), proximal to the Destor Porcupine Fault. All drill holes
intersected substantial pyrite mineralization in sheared Tisdale Group Volcanics, although no significant gold
values were associated with this mineralization. To date the company has drill tested less than 5% of the
property and expended approximately $163,000.
Pelangio intends to re-focus its exploration efforts at the Dalton Property on strong gold, silver, and zinc soil
geochemical anomalies (see Figure 2) along the eastern and northern extremities of this very under-explored
and overburden covered property. Future work on the project will consist of further geophysical surveying over
the soil geochemical anomalies and a phase 2 diamond drill program to evaluate higher priority targets.
Ontario Exploration Plans 2020
In January 2020, the Pelangio intends to initiate a 1200 meter drill program on its Grenfell Project, located
approximately 10 km northwest of Kirkland Lake Ontario. The property hosts a number of high grade narrow
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veins and potential bulk tonnage zones (as described in Pelangio’s press release dated August 27, 2019),
including two separate historical bulk samples to evaluate two of the vein systems. The Sirola Vein (surface pit)
bulk sample returned 21.7 tons at 0.456 oz/ton gold and the No. 1 Vein (60-foot level) bulk sample returned
177 ton at 0.70 oz/ton gold. (J.Londry, P.Eng., “Report on the John Sirola Property, Grenfell Township, 1985”).
In addition, the company anticipates all permitting and access agreements for its Dome West Property to be
completed by year end 2019. This will enable Pelangio to complete the proposed Dome West drill program of
approximately 1400 meters. The proposed drilling will follow up on a recent gold intercept of 3.21 g/t gold over
1.25 meters (including 4.75 g/t gold over 0.75 meters) discovered by Pelangio (see press release June 13, 2019)
and further evaluate the prospective Tisdale Volcanics for any new gold zones which may extend down dip
from the adjoining Paymaster Mine or along strike from Newmont Goldcorp’s Dome Mine.
Continued target development at the Dalton Property will be run concurrently with the two proposed drill
programs in order to prepare for phase 2 drilling in 2020.
Quality Assurance/Quality Control Procedures
All core logging and sampling were conducted in a secure core logging facility in Timmins Ontario. Core logging
and sampling of NQ diamond drill core was carried out by K. Filo P.Geo. Core logging and sampling adhered to
43-101 protocols and industry standard best practices. In the case of the recent drill program, all drill core from
each hole was sampled entirely, sample intervals varied from 0.21 meters to a maximum of 1.5 meters. Drill
core was sawn in half with a diamond saw, tagged, and placed in secu rely sealed bags. Samples were
transported directly to Actlabs facility in Timmins Ontario by Pelangio personnel. Half of the core was retained
for reference purposes.
Gold analysis at Actlabs was completed using a standard fire assay with 50 gram charge with an atomic
absorption (AA) finish (Actlabs 1A2-50 Procedure). With each sample batch of 30 samples a minimum of one
Oreas standard and one blank sample were submitted for QA/QC purposes. All blanks and standards analyzed
fell within acceptable tolerances. Full details on these Actlabs analysis procedures and associated sample
preparation can be reviewed on the Actlabs web site.
Qualified Person
Kevin Filo, P. Geo. (Ontario), is a Qualified Person within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Filo
has approved the technical data disclosed in this release.
About Pelangio
Pelangio successfully acquires and explores camp-sized land packages in world-class gold belts. The Company
operates in both Canada and Ghana, West Africa, an English-speaking, common law jurisdiction that is
consistently ranked amongst the most favourable mining jurisdictions in Africa. The Company is exploring three
100%-owned camp-sized properties: the 25km2 Birch Lake Property located adjacent to First Minin g’s
Springpole Gold Project, the 100 km2 Manfo Property, the site of seven recent near-surface gold discoveries,
and the 284 km2 Obuasi Property, located 4 km on strike and adjacent to AngloGold Ashanti’s prolific high-
grade Obuasi Mine. The company is also exploring two properties located in the Timmins Camp: the Dome
West property, located 800 m from the Dome Mine, the Dalton property located 1.5 km from the Hollinger
Mine, and the Grenfell property located 10 km northwest of the Macassa Mine near Kirkland Lake.
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Figure 1: Dalton and Dome West Property Relative to Major Timmins Mines
Figure 2: Dalton Property Drill Location and Geochemical Anomaly Location Map
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For additional information, please visit our website at www.pelangio.com, or contact:
Ingrid Hibbard, President and CEO
Tel: 905-336-3828 / Toll-free: 1-877-746-1632 / Email: [email protected]
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