Sego Resources Intersects 74.5 m of 0.79 g/t Gold and 80.5 m of 0.69 g/t Gold Including 17.9 m of 1.27 g/t and 0.11% Copper to Expand the Southern Gold Zone at Miner Mountain Project
Sego Resources Intersects 74.5 m of 0.79 g/t
Gold and 80.5 m of 0.69 g/t Gold Including 17.9
m of 1.27 g/t and 0.11% Copper to Expand the
Southern Gold Zone at Miner Mountain Project
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - January 31, 2022) - Sego Resources Inc. (TSXV: SGZ)
("Sego" or "the Company") is delighted to announce results from seven additional diamond drill holes in
the Southern Gold Zone of the Miner Mountain Porphyry Copper-Gold project near Princeton, BC. The
Southern Gold Zone is an intrusion disseminated hosted gold zone discovered during the Company's
2020 field program (See NR July 7, 2020) and first drilled during April 2021 (See News Release May
27, 2021).
Table 1.
Significant gold and copper results in diamond drill holes collared in the Southern Gold Zone
DDH
From (m)
To (m)
Length (m)
Au g/t
Cu %
21-52
3.00
77.52
74.52
0.79
<0.05
includes
30.50
52.10
21.60
1.74
<0.05
includes
40.74
44.70
3.96
3.16
<0.05
includes
40.74
41.70
0.96
5.55
<0.05
includes
70.40
77.50
7.10
1.95
<0.05
21-53
3.10
89.10
86.00
0.16
<0.05
21-54
3.47
57.54
54.07
0.37
<0.05
21-55
4.40
84.90
80.50
0.69
<0.05
includes
58.60
84.90
26.30
1.05
<0.05
includes
58.60
59.50
0.90
4.13
<0.05
includes
65.60
83.50
17.90
1.27
0.11
21-56
3.50
38.45
34.95
0.15
<0.05
and
48.80
59.20
10.40
0.16
<0.05
21-57
56.50
103.90
47.40
0.43
<0.05
Includes
56.50
64.30
7.80
1.05
<0.05
21-58
3.30
150.00
146.70
<0.01
<0.05
Figure 1. (map can be seen at
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A third stage of the 2021 drill program at the Southern Gold Zone was completed from November 12 to
30, 2021.
The time frame included a 3-day drill break caused by the heavy rains that flooded the village
of Princeton and washed-out portions of Highway 3 that accesses the village for services. Seven drill
holes (MM-21-52 to 58) totaled 925 m and except DDH55, all other holes were inclined 50 degree
oriented to 160° azimuth.
Six out of seven drill holes (MM-21-52 to 58) in this drill stage carried significant Au values (Table,
Figures 1 and 2). The drill results range from 0.79 g/t Au over 74.5 m to 0.15 g/t over 35 m on the east
margin of the zone to contain maximum value of 5.5 g/t Au. The Southern Gold Zone was expanded to
280 m long and ~100 to 130 m wide.
The zone pinches to the east where DDH 58 intersected
unmineralized diorite, monzonite and sediments.
On the west slope of the Southern Gold mineralized zone, DDH 54 and DDH 55 parallel other sections
and were inclined 50 degrees oriented 160
°
and 340° collared on the same drill pad. They intersected
0.37 g/t Au over 54 m and 0.69 g/t Au over 81 m, respectively. The zone is open downslope to the west
towards a lower bench ~150 m west of DDH 54 and DDH 55. The slope has poor exposure and talus
effectively masks the potential of gold mineralization. Proposed holes A-C (Figure 2) would test the
immediate extension of the Southern Gold Zone and, depending on results, additional holes will test the
potential farther west to the bench.
3D modelling of the geology, alteration and mineralization will be compiled to help identify deeper
potential targets, either extensions of the gold mineralized zone or porphyry Cu-Au mineralization. Both
would require deeper drill holes. Cu soil or talus anomalies on the slope north of the proposed holes A-C
indicates a potential porphyry Cu-Au target.
The Southern Gold Zone is primarily hosted by a fine-grained biotite diorite pervasively altered to
variable amounts of calcite,
chlorite, sericite, albite, K feldspar and other carbonates assemblages. They
are based on petrographic microscope examination of 40 representative samples from holes DDH 46,
47, 49 and 50. Very fine-grained pyrite-hematite and relatively minor chalcopyrite occur as
disseminated, in microfractures and lesser calcite-chlorite veinlets.
Gold intervals >0.10 g/t are spatially
associated with variable strengths of alteration assemblages and variable abundance of pyrite-hematite
and chalcopyrite. Very fine-grained (>5 microns) gold are difficult to recognize in some samples and
would require scanning electron microscopy to confirm. The preliminary metallurgical bench scale test
reported late last year (News Release August 11, 2021) concluded "9.8% of the gold reports to gravity
concentration and 59.3% recovered in 1 hour and 72.6 % after 3 hours using a cyanide leaching
process.
An impressive 95.8% of the gold was recovered from the composite sample with additional
leaching time."
Figure 2. Simplified geology map with all 2021 drill results highlighted in the red mineralized zone (red)
and proposed 2022 drill holes A-C in the target area (pink); map can be seen
at
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CEO, J. Paul Stevenson, comments, "
In 2021 the discovery and
continued
expansion of the
Southern Gold Zone mineralization and the understanding of the recovery of gold have both
greatly improved the economic upside of the project. Proposed drill holes in 2022 on the west
end of the zone will continue to expand the mineralized zone and lead to an initial resource
calculation."
Quality Assurance / Quality Control
Drill core was shipped to MSALABS in Langley, BC for sample preparation and analysis.
MSALABS is
ISO/IEC 17025 and ISO 9001 certified.
Samples were analyzed using an aqua regia digestion with an
ICP finish.
Certified reference standards, duplicates and blanks samples were systematically inserted into the
sample stream and analyzed as part of the Company's quality assurance/quality control protocol.
This news release was reviewed and approved by Ron Britten, Ph.D., P.Eng., a Qualified Person under
NI 43-101.
About the Project:
Sego is 100% owner of the Miner Mountain project, an alkalic copper-gold porphyry exploration project
near Princeton, British Columbia. The Miner Mountain Project combines alkalic porphyry copper-gold
mineralization in the Cuba and other zones and the unusual gold mineralization in the Southern Gold
Zone which may be distal to an alkalic copper-gold porphyry. The property is 2,056 hectares in size and
is located 15 kilometres north of the Copper Mountain Mine operated by Copper Mountain Mining
Corporation and Mitsubishi Copper. Sego has a Memorandum of Understanding with the Upper
Similkameen Indian Band on whose Traditional Territory the Miner Mountain project is situated. Sego
has received an Award of Excellence for its reclamation work at Miner Mountain.
For further information please contact:
J. Paul Stevenson
, CEO (604) 682-2933
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