Trillium Gold Engages Windfall Geotek AI to Identify Gold Targets at Leo and updates Red Lake fire status
News Release
Trillium Gold Engages Windfall Geotek AI to Identify
Gold Targets at Leo
and updates Red Lake fire status
Property-wide fault systems and favourable rock
types are key controls on the distribution of gold
regionally at its Leo property 15 km south of Great
Bear Mining’s Dixie gold discovery.
Using Artificial Intelligence with the goal to analyze
and/or correlate large geological datasets to identify
high priority targets on the Leo Project.
AI technology aims to improve the cost and
efficiency of exploration programs and identification
of drill targets.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada – August 13,
2020 – Trillium Gold Mines Inc. (TSXV:TGM) (“Trillium” or
the “Company“), is pleased to announce that the
Company has commissioned Windfall Geotek ("Windfall"
or “WIN”) to deploy their proprietary CARDS Artificial
Intelligence (“AI”) system to identify high-grade gold targets
on its Leo Property. The Leo Property is a greenfield
exploration project located about 15km south of Great Bear
Resources’ famed Dixie project with excellent access and
infrastructure.
Figure 1 Regional gold signature based on the Ontario Supergrid Magnetic data (Red
Lake-Stormy) and SRTM at 40m resolution
Russell Starr, CEO of Trillium Gold Mines comments “Leo
is a very exciting prospect for Trillium and its shareholders.
Utilizing Windfall’s proprietary AI technology we look to
rapidly focus on high quality targets and speed up the time
to discovery of gold mineralization. AI has been instrumental
in identifying priority drill targets among our peers by
amalgamating and evaluating multiple layers of large
geological datasets and increasing the efficiency and quality
of high priority zones identified on a project.” AI support in
mineral exploration will be instrumental in the future
successes in our industry and we look forward to working
with Windfall.”
Windfall Geotek (TSX-V:WIN) is a leader in the use of
technology for exploration targeting. WIN has developed the
CARDS analysis as well as proprietary data mining
techniques. It combines all available public and in-house
data sets including geologic, geophysical, geochemical, drill
hole and surface data. The algorithms developed and
employed by Windfall Geotek in this case are designed to
highlight areas of interest that have the potential to be
geologically similar to gold deposits and mineralization in
the Red Lake region.
Figure 2 By combining various data types, data utilization is optimized and prediction
is maximized.
The CARDS analysis identifies areas of high exploration
potential using several techniques. Algorithms analyze each
layer of information for every drill hole/rock/soil sample and
data site to create a unique signature for the mineralization
that is being sought (gold, copper, kimberlites etc.). By using
the MCubiX data mining engine (with numerous supporting
algorithms) the analysis recognizes patterns of information
among drill holes and other sample media. The system
uses these algorithms to find the new patterns, patterns that
are often not recognized by the naked eye. CARDS analysis
identifies locations of the new mineralization signature in the
exploration area. Predictions are given a cell rating by
percentage: Targets rated over 80% are considered
promising and targets 90% and higher are exceptional.
Millions of spatial data points and their relationships are
analyzed — in a rather short period of time — an activity that
a human brain cannot do as efficiently and quickly as a
computer. The CARDS System becomes trained and “cross
validates” each model that CARDS generates. The cell
rating percentage “weeds out” unwanted (low percentage
cells) targets, leaving only the highest probability areas for
the discovery of mineralization. In some regions this may be
as low as 5% of total original project area.
Figure 3 Millions of spatial data points and their relationships are analyzed.
Russell Star, CEO of Trillium Gold, states that “working with
Windfall Geotek allows us to accelerate our generative gold
targeting efforts while at the same time allowing our team to
efficiently manage current priority field programs in progress
on the Newman Todd Property, and shortly thereafter on the
newly acquired Rivard Property as well. While we efficiently
expedite our current programs, we are preparing the Leo
project for rapid follow up exploration with the high-value
targets expected to be generated by the CARDS system.”
Update on active forest fire in Red Lake
Trillium’s Newman Todd project is located approximately
15km north west of the active forest fires on the north side
of Red Lake. Work is continuing at the Newman Todd
Project and has not been unimpeded by the Red Lake Fire,
but management and staff are vigilant in monitoring the
situation to ensure the safety of company staff and
contractors.
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The technical information presented in this news release
has been reviewed and approved by Robert W. Schafer QP,
PGeo, a director of Trillium Gold Mines, as defined by NI 43-
101.
About the Leo Project
The 100% owned Leo Property is located 35 kilometers
southeast of Red Lake and covers an area of 210 sq km.
The area has become the focus for renewed exploration and
lies about 15 kilometers south of several properties held by
Great Bear Resources, including the Dixie Lake project. Leo
features many similar geological characteristics to these
regional projects, making this one of our most exciting
generative exploration areas.
About Trillium Gold Mines Inc.
Trillium Gold Mines Inc. is a British Columbia based
company engaged in the business of acquisition,
exploration and development of mineral properties located
in the highly prospective Red Lake Mining District of
Northern Ontario.
For further information about this news release and the
Company’s current activities contact [email protected],
visit our website at www.trilliumgold.com or call us at 604-
688-9588.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
Trillium Gold Mines Inc.
“Russell Starr”
Russell Starr
President, CEO and Director
Trillium Gold Mines Inc.
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