BGM Intersects 17.55 G/T Au Over 6.20 Metres at Valley Zone

2017-06-21 / @newswire

 

Veining Corridors Continue to Expand

TORONTO, June 21, 2017 /CNW/ - Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (TSXV: BGM) (the "Company" or "Barkerville") is pleased to announce additional drilling results from the ongoing 130,000 metre Phase II Island Mountain exploration drilling program at the Company's flagship Cariboo Gold Project. The Company is currently exploring and delineating the Valley Zone with four drill rigs.Detailed drilling results, a drill hole location plan map, vertical section and longitudinal section are presented at the end of this release.

Drilling Highlights:

  • CM-17-021: 10.77 g/t Au over 5.90 metres
  • CM-17-025: 17.55 g/t Au over 6.20 metres
  • CM-17-044: 5.44 g/t Au over 13.95 metres

The geometry and hence true width of the mineralized zones cannot be assuredly concluded at this time and as such, core lengths are reported.

Veining Corridors Continue to Expand

Phase II drillhole CM-17-021 has intersected two new veining occurrences at vertical depths of 125 and 145 metres vertically below surface grading 9.32 g/t Au over 4.15 metres and 10.77 g/t Au over 5.90 metres respectively. Located on the southeastern strike of the Valley Zone, drillhole CM-17-025 intersected a new occurrence grading 17.55 g/t Au over 6.20 metres, 75 metres vertically below surface. As well, drillhole CM-17-044 discovered additional new veining occurrences in a broad corridor grading 5.44 g/t Au over 13.95 metres 54 metres below surface.

"We are seeing repeated success with targeting and intercepting mineralized vein systems across our current drilling program areas." Kyle Orr, Senior Geologist with BGM commented."These latest results provide more evidence that the Cow Mountain and Island Mountain areas are connected through continuous, high grade gold mineralization in the Valley Zone."

About the Phase II Program

The 130,000 metre 2017 Phase II exploratory and delineation drill program on Island Mountain is intended to determine the extent of the vein systems that were historically never explored, and is aimed at discovering new vein systems and sulphide replacement bodies that will ultimately inform a maiden resource at Island Mountain. Four drill rigs are currently delineating additional mineralization below and on strike from the former Aurum and Cariboo Gold Quartz Mines which have never been explored since mining operations ceased circa 1967. Three rigs are testing down dip mineralization on Cow Mountain and in the Valley Zone. One rig is drilling new targets identified in 2016 located on Barkerville Mountain.

Qualified Persons

Exploration activities at the Cariboo Gold Project are administered on site by the Company's Exploration Manager, Maggie Layman, P.Geo. As per National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, Paul Geddes, P.Geo. Vice President Exploration, is the Qualified Person for the Company and has prepared, validated and approved the technical and scientific content of this news release. The Company strictly adheres to CIM Best Practices Guidelines in conducting, documenting, and reporting its exploration activities on the Cariboo Gold Project.

Quality Assurance - Quality Control

Once received from the drill and processed, all drill core samples are sawn in half, labelled and bagged.The remaining drill core is subsequently stored on site at the Company's secure facility in Wells, BC.Numbered security tags are applied to lab shipments for chain of custody requirements.The Company inserts quality control (QC) samples at regular intervals in the sample stream, including blanks and reference materials with all sample shipments to monitor laboratory performance. The QAQC program was designed and approved by Lynda Bloom, P.Geo. of Analytical Solutions Ltd., and is overseen by the Company's Qualified Person, Paul Geddes, P.Geo, Vice President Exploration.

Drill core samples are submitted to ALS Geochemistry's analytical facility in North Vancouver, British Columbia for preparation and analysis. The ALS facility is accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard for gold assays and all analytical methods include quality control materials at set frequencies with established data acceptance criteria. The entire sample is crushed and 250 grams is pulverized. Analysis for gold is by 50g fire assay fusion with atomic absorption (AAS) finish with a lower limit of 0.01 ppm and upper limit of 100 ppm. Samples with gold assays greater than 100 ppm are re-analyzed using a 1,000g screen metallic fire assay. A selected number of samples are also analyzed using a 48 multi-elemental geochemical package by a 4-acid digestion, followed by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS).

About Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.

The Company is focused on developing its extensive land package located in the historical Cariboo Mining District of central British Columbia. Barkerville's mineral tenures cover 2,110 square kilometres along a strike length of 67 kilometres which includes several past producing hard rock mines of the historic Barkerville Gold Mining Camp near the town of Wells, British Columbia. The QR Project, located approximately 110 kilometres by highway and all weather road from Wells was acquired by Barkerville in 2010 and boasts a fully permitted 900 tonne/day gold milling and tailings facility. Test mining of the Bonanza Ledge open pit was completed in March of 2015 with 91,489 tonnes of material milled producing 25,464 ounces of gold. The Company has completed several drilling and exploration programs over the past 20 years and has compiled this data with all historical information in order develop geologic models which are assisting management in defining new deposits in the Cariboo Gold Project. An extensive drill program is currently underway with the goal of delineating additional high grade gold mineralization.

Cautionary Statement on Forward -Looking Information
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange ('TSXV') nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. No stock exchange, securities commission or other regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained herein. This news release contains forward-looking information which is not comprised of historical facts. Forward-looking information involves risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events, results, performance, prospects and opportunities to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Forward looking information in this news release includes, but is not limited to, the Company's objectives, goals or future plans, statements regarding exploration results and exploration plans. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from such forward-looking information include, but are not limited to, capital and operating costs varying significantly from estimates, the preliminary nature of metallurgical test results, delays in obtaining or failures to obtain required governmental, environmental or other project approvals, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, changes in equity markets, inflation, fluctuations in commodity prices, delays in the development of projects and the other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development industry, and those risks set out in the Company's public documents filed on SEDAR. Although the Company believes that the assumptions and factors used in preparing the forward-looking information in this news release are reasonable, undue reliance should not be placed on such information, which only applies as of the date of this news release, and no assurance can be given that such events will occur in the disclosed time frames or at all. The Company disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, other than as required by law.

Table 1: Length weighted gold composites for Valley Zone drillholes:

HOLE-ID

FROM (M)

TO (M)

CORE LENGTH (M)

AU (G/T)

CM-17-021

171.35

175.50

4.15

9.32

INCLUDING

171.35

171.85

0.50

29.30

AND

173.45

174.10

0.65

34.70

CM-17-021

194.20

200.10

5.90

10.77

INCLUDING

196.40

196.90

0.50

93.00

AND

196.90

197.50

0.60

19.35

AND

198.00

198.60

0.60

6.52

CM-17-021

232.50

233.05

0.55

8.15

CM-17-025

53.75

54.25

0.50

15.60

CM-17-025

79.00

85.20

6.20

17.55

INCLUDING

83.75

84.35

0.60

83.10

AND

84.35

85.20

0.85

64.60

CM-17-025

164.00

164.65

0.65

13.90

CM-17-029

287.85

288.60

0.75

8.76

CM-17-029

349.00

349.50

0.50

46.70

CM-17-030




ASSAYS PENDING

CM-17-031




ABANDONED

CM-17-032

68.25

68.90

0.65

19.70

CM-17-032

215.20

215.70

0.50

14.10

CM-17-032

228.25

229.00

0.75

18.75

CM-17-032

287.35

288.20

0.85

10.05

CM-17-032

339.20

339.80

0.60

10.35

CM-17-033

144.65

145.30

0.65

26.40

CM-17-033

281.85

282.45

0.60

12.40

CM-17-033

302.50

304.00

1.50

9.74

CM-17-034




ABANDONED

CM-17-035

85.80

86.35

0.55

22.90

CM-17-035

87.50

88.00

0.50

36.20

CM-17-035

96.40

97.00

0.60

15.30

CM-17-035

103.65

104.30

0.65

45.80

CM-17-035

115.70

116.40

0.70

15.40

CM-17-035

121.80

125.65

3.85

6.46

INCLUDING

121.80

122.50

0.70

15.25

AND

124.50

125.10

0.60

11.85

CM-17-035

128.50

129.50

1.00

8.91

CM-17-035

132.05

133.00

0.95

10.95

CM-17-036

76.00

77.00

1.00

6.19

CM-17-036

198.15

198.70

0.55

12.15

CM-17-036

384.30

384.80

0.50

20.40

CM-17-037

296.65

300.40

3.75

4.19

INCLUDING

296.65

297.25

0.60

7.58

AND

297.80

298.30

0.50

7.57

AND

298.30

299.15

0.85

5.32

CM-17-037

313.00

313.50

0.50

12.20

CM-17-037

466.75

467.50

0.75

9.87

CM-17-037

476.45

476.95

0.50

7.89

CM-17-037

481.15

481.65

0.50

9.62

CM-17-037

499.50

500.00

0.50

8.43

CM-17-037

523.30

524.00

0.70

12.85

CM-17-037

529.55

530.05

0.50

12.05

CM-17-037

532.90

533.40

0.50

15.40

CM-17-038

60.75

61.40

0.65

10.65

CM-17-038

191.75

193.00

1.25

13.80

CM-17-038

200.50

201.10

0.60

9.72

CM-17-038

259.50

260.00

0.50

8.44

CM-17-038

295.00

296.00

1.00

8.66

CM-17-038

298.00

298.60

0.60

10.45

CM-17-039

64.55

65.05

0.50

21.60

CM-17-039

152.50

153.20

0.70

15.80

CM-17-039

356.40

356.90

0.50

16.30

CM-17-040

140.60

141.10

0.50

13.30

CM-17-040

161.00

165.20

4.20

8.44

INCLUDING

162.20

162.80

0.60

25.10

AND

162.80

163.30

0.50

20.40

AND

163.30

163.80

0.50

17.55

CM-17-040

200.00

201.10

1.10

7.78

CM-17-040

211.30

212.00

0.70

12.80

CM-17-040

217.00

217.50

0.50

13.40

CM-17-040

228.80

229.60

0.80

35.90

CM-17-040

235.80

236.60

0.80

37.20

CM-17-040

237.60

238.35

0.75

14.85

CM-17-040

255.30

255.80

0.50

56.60

CM-17-041

133.60

134.10

0.50

29.30

CM-17-041

252.65

253.60

0.95

22.70

CM-17-042

70.15

70.70

0.55

33.10

CM-17-042

97.00

97.65

0.65

10.40

CM-17-042

141.40

142.00

0.60

21.60

CM-17-042

156.00

156.50

0.50

29.80

CM-17-042

189.65

190.15

0.50

14.25

CM-17-042

191.50

192.00

0.50

16.50

CM-17-042

204.00

204.50

0.50

17.75

CM-17-042

349.55

350.20

0.65

12.05

CM-17-043

207.50

208.20

0.70

9.87

CM-17-043

249.30

249.80

0.50

21.70

CM-17-044

76.20

90.15

13.95

5.44

INCLUDING

76.20

76.70

0.50

40.00

AND

81.70

82.25

0.55

23.70

AND

86.75

87.25

0.50

18.45

AND

88.15

88.65

0.50

8.59

AND

89.65

90.15

0.50

54.80

CM-17-044

119.50

120.20

0.70

20.80

CM-17-044

124.45

125.05

0.60

12.30

CM-17-044

430.10

430.85

0.75

43.50

CM-17-044

459.35

460.05

0.70

17.90

CM-17-045

124.30

125.00

0.70

26.00

CM-17-045

165.55

166.55

1.00

14.10

True widths cannot be accurately determined from the information available therefore core lengths are reported. Rock not recovered by drilling was assigned zero grade. Top cuts have not been applied to high grade assays. MC = Mosquito Creek, SHAFT = Shaft Zone, VALLEY = Valley Zone.

Table 2: Drillhole Collar Orientations:

HOLE-ID

AZIMUTH

DIP

HOLE-ID

AZIMUTH

DIP

CM-17-021

310.00

-45.00

CM-17-042

129.50

-44.90

CM-17-025

127.30

-61.20

CM-17-043

130.00

-45.00

CM-17-029

130.30

-45.30

CM-17-044

310.00

-45.00

CM-17-030

310.00

-45.00

CM-17-045

310.00

-50.20

CM-17-031

310.00

-45.00

CM-17-046

317.10

-44.70

CM-17-032

130.00

-44.90

CM-17-047

307.40

-46.50

CM-17-033

220.00

-45.00

CM-17-048

310.00

-55.00

CM-17-034

310.00

-45.00

CM-17-049

128.30

-46.10

CM-17-035

220.00

-65.00

CM-17-050

316.90

-58.80

CM-17-036

126.60

-45.30

CM-17-051

130.00

-45.00

CM-17-037

310.00

-43.80

CM-17-053

132.00

-61.30

CM-17-038

130.00

-44.20

CM-17-054

305.10

-57.10

CM-17-039

127.80

-45.00

CM-17-055

316.10

-54.30

CM-17-040

314.00

-45.00

CM-17-057

130.00

-41.30

CM-17-041

310.00

-67.00

CM-17-058

224.80

-44.30

Island Mountain Drillhole Location Map (CNW Group/Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.)

Valley Zone Vertical Section (CNW Group/Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.)

Island Mountain Vertical Longitudinal Section (CNW Group/Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.)

Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. (CNW Group/Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd.)

SOURCEBarkerville Gold Mines Ltd.

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