35% INCREASE IN RESOURCES AT CASTELO DE SONHOS AS PRELIMINARY ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT BEGINS (Scottsdale, AZ ), On behalf of TriStar Gold Inc. (the “Company” or “ TriStar”), GE21 Consultoria Mineral Ltda (“GE21”) of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has begun the Preliminar y Economic Assessment
September 17, 2018 Trading Symbol: TSG - TSX.V
35% INCREASE IN RESOURCES AT CASTELO DE SONHOS AS PRELIMINARY
ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT BEGINS
(Scottsdale, AZ ), On behalf of TriStar Gold Inc. (the “Company” or “ TriStar”), GE21 Consultoria
Mineral Ltda (“GE21”) of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has begun the Preliminar y Economic Assessment
(“PEA”) for the Castelo de Sonhos gold project in southern Pará State, Brazil. The first phase of this work,
updating the mineral resources, is complete. With the increase in resources being materially significant,
Bernardo Horta de C Viana of GE21 is the independent Qualified Person (“ QP”) for this new resource
estimate. Key highlights include:
o Mineral Resources (above a 0.3 g/t cut-off) of:
Indicated: 17.7 million tonnes at 1.2 g/t, containing
0.7 million ounces (“Moz”) of gold
Inferred: 39.8 million tonnes at 1.0 g/t, containing
1.3 Moz of gold
o Esperança East, w here drilling has confirmed strong similarities to Esperança South , contributes
Inferred Resources of 11.8 Mt @ 0.9 g/t with 0.4 Moz of gold, making it already larger than
Esperança Center despite having only 28 initial drill holes.
o Most of Esperança East remains to be tested by future drilling, as do promising targets with surficial
mineralization at Esperança West, the New Discovery Zone and the Upper Conglomerate Zone.
“This year’s strong drilling results in Esperança East have been very encouraging,” says Nick Appleyard,
TriStar’s President and CEO, “especially in that they clearly show the existence of the same two high-grade
reefs seen earlier in Esperança South. We have now seen over 600% growth in mineral resources over the
last 2 years. This new, larger mineral resource will be used in the PEA now underway to give us the first
look at the project’s potential economic viability before the end of the year.”
Table 1. Mineral resource estimate1 for the Castelo de Sonhos gold project (with an effective date of
September 17, 2018) above a reporting cutoff 2 of 0.3 g/t Au.
Region Classification Tonnage (Mt) Grade (g/t Au)
Metal Content3
(Moz Au)
Esperança South Indicated 11.8 1.4 0.5
Inferred 21.7 1.2 0.8
Esperança East Indicated -- -- --
Inferred 11.8 0.9 0.4
Esperança Center Indicated 5.9 0.9 0.2
Inferred 6.3 0.7 0.1
Project Total Indicated 17.7 1.2 0.7
Inferred 39.8 1.0 1.3
1Numbers have been rounded to reflect the precision of Inferred and Indicated mineral resource estimates.
2The reporting cutoff corresponds to the marginal cutoff for an open pit with operating cost (processing + G&A) of $US 10/t,
metallurgical recovery of 98% and a gold price of $US 1,200/oz . These are mineral resources and not reserves and as such do
not have demonstrated economic viability.
3The metal content estimates reflect gold in situ, and do not include factors such as external dilution, mining losses and process
recovery losses.
4TriStar is not aware of any environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, socio -economic, marketing or political factors that
might materially affect these mineral resource estimates.
5TriStar intends to file an independent NI 43-101 Technical report within 45 days in support of this new mineral resource estimate.
Resource estimation
The resource was constrained by a mineralized envelope that corresponds to the conglomeratic band of the
paleo-placer, honouring its outcrop location and surface measurements of its bedding orientation s, and
extending into the upper and basal arenites where drilling has confirmed that these contact arenites contain
remobilized gold . The mineralized envelope was divided into five domains, each a layer that follows
stratigraphy of the original depositional environment. Two of these domains are higher-grade reefs,
approximately 10-20m thick t hat contain 40 -45% of the gold metal content in only 10 -15% of the total
thickness of the conglomeratic band. The other three domains lie above the upper reef, below the lower reef
and between the two reefs. Modeling of the 3D geometry of the reefs was constrained by drill hole assays,
by logged lithologies, by paleo -current direction measurements from field mapping, and by optical
televiewer images.
All drill hole assays were capped at 10 g/t. Where multiple assays were available for a sample interval,
Leachwell assays were used, if available, then metallic screen assays, and then fire assays if neither metallic
screen results nor Leachwell results were available. This prioritization reflects the Company’s conclusions
on the accuracy and precision of data from the three different analytical procedures.
Grades were interpolated into 5x5x2m blocks using inverse-distance-cubed (ID3) interpolation of grades
from nearby drill hole assays. The search strategy, guided by variogram analysis, uses a flattened ellipse ,
with long ranges in the bedding direction and a short range perpendicular to bedding. In the reef domains,
ranges were 150m (parallel to bedding) and 15m (perpendicular); in the non -reef domains, ranges were
100m and 10m.
Directions of maximum and minimum continuity needed for grade interpolation were locally customized,
using the wireframes of the domain boundaries to establish local bedding directions.
As with previous resource model s, this new resource estimate was checked against the grade-tonnage
distribution predicted by a global change of support procedure, assuming 5x5x2m selective mining units.
The grade, tonnage and metal content predicted by this global procedure are all within 10% of the values
reported from the ID3 block model, which has the advantage of providing local detail that enables checking
of the modeling of the reefs which guide continuity directions.
Resource classification
The mineral resources in Table 1 are constrained by open pit shells developed by the independe nt QP to
meet the requirement that resources have “reasonable prospects for eventual economic extraction”. Within
the pit shell material above a cut-off grade of 0.3 g/t was classified as Indicated in blocks for which grade
estimation was able to use data from at least three separate drill holes in three quadrants, and for which the
average distance to the nearby data was less than half the variogram range; these criteria are almost always
met only in the areas where the drill holes are more closely spaced than 50m. All other blocks with grade
estimates were classified as Inferred resources; since the search ellipse was aligned with the variogram
ranges, Inferred blocks must have at least one sample within the range of the variogram. This usually occurs
in areas w here hole spacing is 100m . These block by block classification codes were then spatially
smoothed to avoid inconsistent classification of isolated blocks.
Figure 1. Plan map of Castelo de Sonhos showing the location of the resource estimate.
Qualified Person
Bernardo Horta de C Viana (MAIG #3709), Director of GE21 , is the Qualified Person for the mineral
resource estimates presented in this press release, has approved its publication.
TriStar Gold Retains Investor Relations Firm
TriStar has retained Transcend Capital Inc. ("Transcend") to develop and implement an investor relations
program for the Company for a period of 12 months for an aggregate fee of C$60,000 plus applicable taxes.
Transcend and its directors, officers and employees own 400,000 common shares and 200,000 warrants of
the Company.
About TriStar:
TriStar Gold is an e xploration and development company focused on precious metals properties in the
Americas that have potential to become significant producing mines. The Company’s current flagship
property is Castelo de Sonhos in Pará State, Brazil. The Company’s shares are listed on the TSX Venture
Exchange under the symbol TSG. Further information is available at www.tristargold.com.
For further information, please contact:
TriStar Gold Inc.
Nick Appleyard
President and CEO
480-794-1244
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projects; risks of accidents, equipment breakdowns and labour disputes or other unanticipated difficulties or interruptions; the
possibility of cost overruns or unanticipated expenses in development programs; operating or technical difficulties in connection
with exploration, mining or development activities; the speculative nature of gold exploration and development, including the risks
of diminishing quantities of grades of reserves and resources; and the risks involved in the exploration, development and mining
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