Bathurst Metals: Exploring Undervalued Belongings in Nunavut

Rock sampling among the quite a few gossans alongside the contact of a Proterozoic, ultramafic intrusive with Archean Age, metasediments has positioned high-grade copper, nickel and Palladium mineralization. As properly, excessive concentrations of cobalt and platinum had been additionally obtained. Highlights of Assay Outcomes from the 2021 Summer season Program from every space examined are enclosed under in Desk # 1. Tables of every of the areas sampled and mapped are additionally posted inside this launch.

Desk # 1 Highlights of Assay Outcomes

Hardy Forzley, Chief Government Officer of Bathurst Metals commented: “Our geological employees was capable of affirm historic outcomes however extra importantly advance the structural setting of the identified higher-grade mineralization. These properties have geological, structural and mineralogical similarities to and scale of the world class Norilsk-Talnakh deposits in northern Russia.”

Goal of 2021 Subject Program

The aim of the 2021 summer season exploration program was to allow Bathurst to raised perceive the undertaking’s potential economics by enterprise s tructural mapping on cross reducing Proterozoic Age constructions, the corporate employed three senior geologists to work on the undertaking together with Dr. Guowei Zhang, Ph.D., P.Geo. specialist in structural evaluation. The workforce carried out geologic mapping of potential favorable host basement assemblages, positioned historic drill gap collar places and systematically sampled mineralization alongside the Archean basement and ultramafic intrusive advanced contact. Based mostly on the 2021 outcomes, the corporate is evaluating using extra geophysical methods to additional develop the structural setting of mineralization previous to drilling.

Dialogue on 2021 Program Outcomes

Dr. Zhang was capable of find steeply dipping, typically east-west trending constructions within the areas of identified greater grade copper/nickel/cobalt/platinum and palladium mineralization. These constructions are interpreted to be conduits for the remobilization of the mineralization and subsequent entrapment alongside the Proterozoic, ultramafic intrusive/Archean Age, metasedimentary contact.

Earlier work and Dr. Zhang’s current research assist the idea that t he property shares the same scale, geology and identified mineralization model to the Norilsk-Talnakh in northern Russia , the largest-known nickel-copper-palladium deposit on the planet. The 2 essential ore sorts developed at Norilsk and Talnakh are disseminated sulphides throughout the differentiated gabbro-dolerite sills, principally on the decrease margins of the mineralized zone the place they happen as droplets forming sheet like conformable our bodies as much as 40 m thick. Grades there common 0.5 to 0.6% Ni, 0.6 to 0.7% Cu, and 5 to six g/t PGE. Secondly, there are m assive sulphides discovered principally on the decrease contact of the mineralized sills, each throughout the enclosing rocks and to a lesser diploma throughout the sill and are sometimes separated from the sill by a number of metres of barren sediment or cupriferous mineralization. Typically huge sulfides are additionally discovered on the higher margin of the sill. In different places the huge sulphides reduce throughout the sill to its higher margins. Grades differ drastically with the sulphide assemblage however are of the order of two.8% Ni, 5.6% Cu and 15 g/t PGE. At Norilsk there’s proof that the huge sulphides publish date the disseminated sulphides. The entire manufacturing + useful resource within the Noril’sk-Talnakh district are quoted by Naldrett (2004) at: 1.309 Gt @ 1.77% Ni, 3.57% Cu, 0.061% Co, 9.5 g/t PGE (together with 1.84 g/t Pt, 7.31 g/t Pd).

The Firm’s 2021 a ssay outcomes confirmed historic outcomes and a big variety of historic drill collars had been positioned and surveyed.

The enclosed Determine # 1 diagram outlines the areas rock sampled and structurally mapped in the course of the 2021 subject season. These areas had been chosen primarily based on historic assay outcomes and the outcrop exposures enabling the structural research.

Determine # 1 – Location Map of Areas Sampled

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Dialogue on Areas Sampled

Speers Lake Space

Sampling was restricted to outcrops alongside the ultramafic intrusive/meta-sediment contact as a lot of the intrusive doesn’t outcrop. Sampling consisted of seize samples the place mineralization was noticed. Not beforehand recorded are the excessive concentrations of cobalt related to the copper and nickel mineralization. Desk # 2 lists the seize pattern outcomes from the 2021 program.

Desk # 2 Speers Lake – 2021 Rock Pattern Outcomes

Listed under are among the extra important valuable and base steel assay outcomes from historic geochemical rock sampling and diamond drilling.

Historic Rock Geochemistry – Seize Samples

Historic Diamond Drilling – Diamond Drill Gap 87-S10 Assay Outcomes

*Thickness is core size; true width is unknown.

Determine # 2 supplies the historic floor pattern places and outcomes and exhibits the corporate’s present mineral claims.

Determine # 2 Historic Pt+Pd+Au Rock Pattern Outcomes on McGregor Lake Property

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*Thickness is core or chip pattern size; true width is unknown.

Tables 3 to eight under define all of the samples collected in 2021 from the East Pump Lake, West Margin, Funnel, South Pyrrhotite Lake, East Pyrrhotite Lake and Vale Areas respectively. These areas are outlined in Determine #1. Assay outcomes from these tables point out a optimistic correlation between Nickel and Cobalt and Palladium with Copper.

Desk # 3 – East Pump Lake

Desk # 4 – West Margin

Desk # 5 Funnel Space

Desk # 6 – South Pyrrhotite Lake

Desk # 7 – East Pyrrhotite Lake

Desk # 8 – Val Space

Historic Exploration Drilling Applications

The businesses’ undertaking covers the southern publicity of the Proterozoic, Layered Muskox Ultramafic Intrusive (LMUI). The LMUI outcrops over 80 kilometers alongside strike and could possibly be one of many largest layered, ultramafic complexes on the planet primarily based on regional airborne surveys. The area has obtained solely sporadic, systematic exploration since its first discovery and exploration by Inco within the late 1950’s. Extra systematic exploration was not performed once more till the 1980’s and in 1999 to 2007. A number of rounds of geochemical, geophysical, geological mapping and restricted diamond drilling have been undertaken on the property. These research have been capable of outline not less than two sulphide pulses related to the emplacement of the LMUI. These pulses each include excessive nickel and copper concentrations with related valuable metals (see November 12, 2020 information launch).

Stratiform, layered mineralization is thought to happen in one of many early pulses of magma from the ultramafic, layered intrusive advanced. Mineralization within the type of pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite are the extra widespread minerals noticed. Concentrations of Copper, Nickel, Platinum, Palladium, and Cobalt happen inside this horizon that extends for over 40 kilometres. Key proof and similarities to Norilsk point out the huge sulphide mineralization is a later occasion than the disseminated mineralization at McGregor Lake and the mineralization seems to be occurring in close to vertical constructions. Exploration of the huge sulphides in earlier drilling applications on the property has been predominantly vertical holes, due to this fact tough to correctly consider.

Remobilized mineralization can be current and might need occurred because of the emplacement of later Proterozoic diabase dykes. Beneath in Desk # 9 are among the extra important, historic valuable steel assay outcomes from floor rock sampling. Exceptionally excessive, valuable metals values for major layered intrusive model mineralization. Earlier exploration applications centered on major mineralization, without any consideration in the direction of secondary remobilization and valuable steel enrichments alongside identified, steeply dipping constructions.

Desk # 9 Historic Assays

High quality Assurance/High quality Management Rock Samples

All rock samples had been collected by skilled geoscientists. Samples had been positioned in plastic pattern baggage with samples tags positioned in every bag earlier than being sealed. Samples had been transported to the sphere camp web site and later to the ALS pattern preparation facility in Yellowknife underneath the supervision of knowledgeable geoscientist. The Yellowknife pattern preparation laboratory crushed and pulverized samples then used a riffle splitter to acquire as much as 85 per cent of a 250-gram pattern passing via 75-micrometre display. The pulverized samples had been then securely transported to their laboratory in Vancouver and analyzed utilizing process ME MS41 (extremely hint aqua regia ICP-MS (inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry)) adopted by a 4 acid digestion process (ME-062 ICP-AES for ore grade components and at last an Ni-OG62 process for greater grade nickel.

Certified Particular person

Lorne Warner, P.Geo, is a certified particular person as outlined by Nationwide Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and accepted the scientific and technical disclosure in this information launch.

On behalf of the Board of Administrators

“Harold Forzley” CEO Bathurst M etals Corp.

For extra info contact Harold Forzley, CEO

hardy@bathurstmetals.com

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