Showcase Retains Rangefront to Oversee Dixie Flats - North Star Drill Program
Showcase Retains Rangefront to Manage
Exploration Drill Program at the Dixie Flats-North
Star Project, Nevada
CALGARY, AB / March 8, 2024 / Showcase Minerals Inc. (CSE: SHOW) ("Showcase") is pleased
to announce that for its upcoming drilling exploration program at the Dixie Flats – North Star
Gold Project, the Company has contracted the services of Rangefront Geological ("Rangefront")
to design and oversee the program, including drilling management, core logging, and related
geological services.
Rangefront has assigned Steven McMillin, P.Geo., to manage the Dixie Flats – North Star drill
program, and he will also act as the qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101
to review and approve technical information in future news releases regarding this exploration
project. Mr. McMillin will be ably assisted by Patrick Mullinger, a seasoned four-year veteran of
Rangefront, who brings a wealth of experience from work with over 20 clients. Mr. Mullinger
will log the drill chips on site, manage the drill crew, and supervise sample quality.
Mr. McMillin is a highly-experienced and well-respected exploration geologist with over 35
years of practical mineral exploration experience in the United States, and experience with
many different exploration projects in Nevada. Mr. McMillin is currently a field operations
manager at Rangefront Geological and is primarily responsible for the set-up and management
of Rangefront client drill programs. At Rangefront, his responsibilities include liaising with
vendors and federal/state regulators, establishing drill safety, supervising drilling and sampling
protocols, and overall site reclamation.
Previously, Mr. McMillin was chief mine geologist at Jerritt Canyon Gold LLC., where he led
underground near-mine exploration and resource development. During his tenure at Jerritt
Canyon, 12 new orebodies were discovered, and most were developed. Prior to 2016, Mr.
McMillin was chief mine geologist at Fire Creek with Klondex Mines Ltd., senior exploration
geologist with Midway Gold Corp. at the Spring Valley and Pan-Goldrock deposits, senior mine
geologist at Jerritt Canyon with AngloGold and Queenstake Resources, and project geologist
with Newmont Exploration in Nevada. He is an AIPG (American Institute of Professional
Geologists) certified professional geologist and a member of the Geological Society of Nevada
and the Society of Economic Geologists.
About the Dixie Flats– North Star Gold Project:
The Dixie Flats-North Star Property (the “Property” or “Dixie Flats”) is located on the east side
of the Piñon Mountains, 21 air-miles south of the City of Elko in northeast Nevada. It is a
combination of two claim blocks, the Dixie Flats group of claims and the North Star group of
claims. The Property is comprised of a total of 236 total unpatented mineral claims on Federal
land administered by the US Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”).
The Property lies on the southern margin of the Carlin Trend, a northwest-trending belt of
sediment-hosted gold deposits that makes up the greatest geographic concentration of gold
deposits in North America, with reported production of more than 92.5 million ounces of gold
since 1961 (Muntean, 2019). The Dixie Flats-North Star Property is underlain by rocks known to
host gold mineralization on the Carlin Trend, and surface sampling has shown anomalous gold,
silver, arsenic, antimony, and mercury levels in rock, soil, and biogeochemical samples from the
Property, which is a characteristic geochemical signature of Carlin-Type gold deposits.
The Dixie - North Star Gold Project is approximately three miles south of Newmont Mining
Company’s Emigrant Springs Mine, which finished production in 2018, and approximately 4.5
miles southeast of the past producing Rain Mine. Both deposits are hosted in dissolution
breccia zones at the contact between the Webb mudstone, the basal unit of the overlying
assemblage, and the underlying Devils Gate limestone. Prior exploration on the Dixie -
North Star Property has been focused on delineating this contact at depth and discovering
possible extensions to the regional structures controlling mineralization at the Rain and
Emigrant Mines and their demonstrated extension to the Dixie – North Star Property. The
information on the adjacent projects is taken from publicly available sources and is not
necessarily indicative of the mineralization within the Dixie Flats – North Star Property.
Additional information on the Dixie -North Star Gold Project can be found in the National
Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”) technical report entitled “Technical Report on the Dixie Flats-
Northstar Gold Exploration Property”, Elko, Nevada, dated September 21, 2022, which has been
filed on SEDAR at www.Sedar.com.
Qualified Person:
Mr. Steve McMillin, M.Sc., C.P.G. is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-
101 and has reviewed and approved the technical information in this news release.
About Showcase Minerals Inc.
Showcase is a Canadian mineral exploration company with an exclusive option to acquire a
100% interest in Dixie Flats-Northstar Gold Project and the Woodruff Gold-Vanadium Project
(subject to various net smelter returns royalties ranging from 2.25% to 4.25%), which
collectively consist of unpatented 254 lode mining claims covering approximately 1,818
hectares located in Elko County, Nevada
For further information, please contact:
Kirk Reed, President
Showcase Minerals Inc.
Telephone: 1-800-982-0670
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