Silver Spruce Begins Melchett Lake Due Diligence Field Program
Silver Spruce Begins Melchett Lake Due Diligence Field Program
October 1, 2019 - Bridgewater, NS - (TSXV:SSE) – Silver Spruce Resources Inc. ("Silver Spruce"
or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed field crew preparation and due
diligence plans for the Melchett Lake Zn-Au-Ag volcanogenic massive sulphide (“VMS”) project,
an advanced precious and base metal project in the Thunder Bay Mining District, northern Ontario,
Canada. Mobilization to the Property by air from Nakina is scheduled in the first week of October
2019 for a ten -day field program focusing on the known targets with dri ll core and surface
exposures.
“We are very pleased to begin management site visits, target exploration and data verification on
the Melchett Lake VMS-Au Property to support a decision to earn a 100% interest in the project,”
stated Karl Boltz, CEO of Silver Spruce. “We look forward to building our Leapfrog GIS database
with all available geophysical and geological information leading to drill target identification.
Director, Greg Davison, MSc, PGeo, who worked the Melchett Lake area as Project Manager and
VP Exploration for Kerr Addison Mines (1983 -1984) and Tribute Minerals (1999 -2002),
respectively, will lead the management visit to the Property.”
Letter of Intent
The principal terms to purchase 100% interest in the Property include CAD$150,000 in cash
payments and CAD$250,000 in Silver Spruce common shares with minimum work expenditures
of CAD$1,000,000 prior to the third anniversary.
Melchett Lake Property
The 1,820 -hectare project is located within an active exploration and mining region north of
Geraldton including Copper Lake’s Marshall Lake VMS project, Premier Gold’s Hardrock -
Greenstone Au mine and past -producing Anaconda-Dofasco iron mine and the Skibi Lake and
Stewart Lake iron prospects.
The Melchett Lake Property consists of 89 single cell mineral claims and two multi-cell mineral
claims located in Thunder Bay Mining District of northwestern Ontario, Canada. The Property lies
110 km north of Geraldton and 60 km north of Nakina at 50°45' north latitude and 8 6°59' west
longitude.
Due Diligence and Exploration Plans
Field work for the due diligence and an update to the NI 43 -101 technical report ing by the
independent Qualified Person (“QP”) are planned over the next month and will coordinate ground
truthing of geochemical and geophysica l targets, geological sampling and data verification on
known occurrences, GPS location surveys of the historical drill collars, and preservation and
sampling of the diamond drill core stored on the Property.
Media Release
The advanced condition of the Melchett Lake project compels the Company to focus resources on
updating and compiling the geochemical and geological survey data and diamond drilling logs,
and acquiring and analysing historical airborne and downhole digital geophysical data to compile
our GIS database and identify high priority drilling targets on the Property.
Ontario Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines work permits are in place for
geological sampling work, stripping, trenching and diamond drilling (>20 pads).
The Property is accessible via ski or float equipped aircraft from Nakina or Jellicoe to
Kapikotongwa Lake, Melchett Lake or Relf Lake. Road access is available from Geraldton and
Nakina to the northwest on paved and unpaved ro ads along the past principal route to the
Anaconda/Dofasco iron mine and near the proposed all -season road northeast to Marten Falls, to
boat launch points and helicopter staging areas on the south end of Melchett Lake, within five to
eight kilometres of the Property.
Geology
The Melchett Lake property is located within the English River Sub -province of the Superior
Province as part of the Melchett metasedimentary -metavolcanic belt. The metavolcanics are
comprised of mafic to felsic pyroclastics, tuffs and flows with metasediments and iron formation
all of which have been metamorphosed to amphibolite grade. The general sequence includes
basalts overlain by felsic metavolcanics and associated clastic and chemical metasediments
showing a n ear-vertical dip, steep ENE lineation in a tightly folded sequence of schists and
gneisses.
Mineralization
The Melchett Lake belt contains several occurrences of polymetallic Zn- Pb-Cu-Ag-Au VMS style
mineralization similar in character to ore deposits exploited at Mattabi, Winston Lake, Geco ,
Brunswick, Rouyn -Noranda and Uchi Lake. Base metal mineralization consisting of pyrite,
sphalerite, chalcopyrite and galena occurs within the felsic metavolcanic sequences of the
Property. There are locally high-grade lenses of Zn & Ag with variable Cu, Au and Pb, and
historical gold grades to 28.8 g/t Au, silver grades to 560 g/t Ag and zinc grades to 19.1%.
The mineralization is interpreted to occur as paleo-topographic accumulations related to fumarolic
activity forming polymetallic deposits overprinted by a later stage gold-rich event.
Highlights of the prospective geology, alteration and mineralization are as follows:
▪ Three known centres of coincident alteration and metal mineralization
▪ Multiple stratigraphic horizons
▪ Distal and stacked proximal sulphides
▪ High Zn/Cu, Zn/Pb, Ag/Au
▪ Extensive remobilization of major and trace elements
▪ Sericite-quartz-cordierite-chlorite alteration zone
▪ Broad phyllic-pyrite zones
▪ Intense Na depletion with elevated Zn
▪ Ca and Sr depletion with elevated Zn
▪ Fe, Mg, Co, Cr, Cd enrichment within and below mineralization
▪ Continuity of alteration and anomalous Zn over large intervals in core drilling
▪ Extensive alteration haloes analogous to world class zinc deposits
Historical Precious and Base Metal Assays
Selected grab samples taken from the Relf Zone by Shawmin averaged 13.0% zinc (Zn), 1.2% lead
(Pb), 0.26% copper (Cu) and 325g/t silver (Ag); best results received were 19.1% Zn, 2.2% Pb,
0.40% Cu, 565g/t Ag and 1.72g/t gold (Au).
A selection of Relf Zone samples collected in 1984 by Kerr Addison geologist and current Silver
Spruce director G. Davison is shown below.
Sample No. Zinc % Lead % Copper % Silver g/t
1061 12.90 1.920 0.288 552
1064 11.60 0.866 0.507 278
1065 16.80 2.400 0.075 655
1066 8.26 0.330 0.972 170
1067 11.10 1.300 0.142 394
1068 9.88 0.558 0.154 179
At the Nakina l Zone , Nakina Mines reported , in separate samples, 14.85% Zn and 28.8g/t Au
from a pyritized felsic volcanic unit. Rock sampling of a pyritized felsic volcanic unit in the Nakina
2 Zone by Kerr Addison returned a value of 15.08 g/t Au.
All of the above metal values were reported by past operators in the Melchett Lake area, from grab
samples which may not be representative of the metal grades, and are historical in nature.
Qualified Person
Greg Davison, MSc, PGeo and Silver Spruce Director, is the Company’s internal Qualified Person
for the Melchett Lake Project and is responsible for the technical content of this press release
within the meaning of National Instrument 43 -101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects
("NI 43 -101"), under TSX guidelines. Mr. Davison worked the Melchett Lake area as Project
manager and VP Exploration for Kerr Addison Mines (1983 and 1984) and Tribute Minerals (1999
to 2002), respectively.
About Silver Spruce Resources Inc.
Silver Spruce Resources Inc. is a Canadian junior exploration company pursuing development of
the Pino De Plata project in western Chihuahua State, Mexico. The Company has signed a binding
Letter of Intent to acquire 100% of the Melchett Lake Zn -Au-Ag project in northern Ontario,
Canada and a binding Letter of Agreement to acquire 100% of the advanced Cocula gold project
in Jalisco State, Mexico. Silver Spruce Resources Inc. continues to investigate opportunities that
Management has identified or that have been presented to the Company for consideration.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the
policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this
release. The company seeks Safe Harbour.
Contact:
Silver Spruce Resources Inc.
Karl Boltz, President/CEO/Director
(866) 641-3397
www.silverspruceresources.com