Falcon reports up to 168 g/t g Au at Spitfire-Sunny Boy gold project in south-central BC

2021.11.08

Exploration at Falcon Gold’s (TSXV:FG, OTCQB:FGLDF, GR:3FA) Spitfire-Sunny Boy gold project has returned high-grade assays up to 168 grams per tonne, making it a successful field season at the project located about 16 kilometers east of Merritt.

In a Nov. 3 news release, Falcon said the results of the 2021 prospecting and “backpack” drill program include grab samples on the Master Vein ranging from 1.09 to 168 g/t gold, 17.5 g/t silver and 0.7% copper. Backpack drilling from surface produced assays of 68.7 g/t Au and 11.8 g/t Ag over a 0.47m intersection. 

The technique utilizes a portable drill to produce rock chips from a small-diameter hole.

The program was designed to test six subparallel vein structures identified at Spitfire-Sunny Boy from previous exploration. Results were very positive with anomalous gold values for almost every sample. Rock samples over a 300m strike length along the Master Vein were collected, and up to a 250m-long strike over other veins at Spitfire-Sunny Boy.

Highlights are tabulated below:

“The sampling and backpack drill program has been a success — this further validates the theory of an epithermal gold system by past operators with its high-grade nature,” said Falcon Gold CEO Karim Rayani. “We have identified multiple parallel gold-silver bearing vein structures over impressive strike lengths. We will continue to evaluate the property in preparation for an inaugural drilling program where historical drilling intersected 3.77 grams per tonne gold, 0.24% copper, and 32.9 grams per tonne silver over 13.4 meters.”

Spitfire-Sunny Boy property

Best described as a swarm of low-sulfidation, epithermal gold veins, Spitfire/Sunny Brook features gold grades up to 127 g/t and 308 to 514 g/t silver in quartz vein material from underground workings. The high-grade veins have been trenched, pitted, blasted and drilled but never commercially mined.

Falcon Gold’s 2019 due diligence work confirmed gold mineralization along the Master Vein over a 300-meter strike length with samples ranging from 0.33 to 2.74 ounces per tonne gold (1 troy oz = 31 grams). Historical exploration suggests that the best exploration targets are high-grade gold vein deposits in the northeastern part of the project. The company sees tightly spaced soil sampling, EM (electromagnetic) and IP (induced polarization) geophysics, and structural mapping as the best approach for identifying new mineralized structures for gold and base metals occurrences.

Highlights from a September 2020 sampling program included a 2.2m channel sample that averaged 59.8 g/t Au. A 1m channel sample from within the 2.2m sample assayed 122 g/t Au on the Master Vein.

A second exploration phase, which commenced in September, was a more aggressive follow-up using backpack drilling along the Master Vein and parallel vein systems. Fifteen holes were completed.

The project’s gold mineralization and geological setting is similar to other developed projects in the region such as the epithermal gold deposits Prospect Valley and Shovelnose currently being worked by Westhaven Ventures.

The Merritt district has a long history of mineral exploration and project development that began in the late 1800’s, with the first recorded discoveries made on the Nicola Lake property in 1908, an area presently covered by the northeastern portion of the Sunny Boy claims block. The original discoveries were gold, platinum and copper.

The main showing, Master Vein, boasts high-grade gold mineralization up to 50.53 oz/t (1,564 g/t). To the southwest of Sunny Boy in an area referred to as the “AL” showing, soil geochemistry, geophysics (magnetometer/VLF), trenching, sampling and diamond drilling have been performed on the mineralized veins.

The best drill result was 3.77 grams per tonne gold, 0.24% copper, and 32.9 grams per tonne silver over 13.4 meters.

Rayani recently told me the objective at Sunny Boy is to try and pull together anywhere from 30,000 to 100,000 ounces of high-grade gold at surface, enough for a bulk sample that, by his estimates, would be a very nice cash generator for Falcon Gold. 

The nature of the Sunny Boy mineralization, a series of low-sulfidation, epithermal gold veins, makes it amenable to a bulk sample.

A similar model applies to the Esperanza gold-silver-copper project in Argentina, now under the rubric of a new Latin America-focused company, Latamark Resources. Falcon Gold’s management team has smartly decided to separate out Esperanza and has done so without having to dilute the share structure.

The project has about a 100,000-ounce resource with high-grade narrow veins and a long history of previous exploration.

Falcon Gold is a company on the move with a number of irons in the fire. In addition to Sunny Boy and Esperanza, Falcon has reported visible gold at its flagship Central Canada project in Ontario, where the company is moving towards a new NI 43-101-compliant resource, and significantly expanded its land position in the Central Newfoundland Gold Area Play. There is also lithium discovery potential at the Hope Brook project in Newfoundland, acquired by Falcon in July.

An enticing glimpse of what could lie beneath came via the Sokoman Minerals-Benton Resources alliance, in September. The two companies said that 35 of 58 samples taken from lithium-bearing pegmatite dikes on their Golden Hope project in southwestern Newfoundland confirmed that the pegmatites carry significant lithium values — making it the first documented occurrence of lithium in the province of Newfoundland-Labrador.  

Golden Hope is only a kilometer away from Hope Brook, suggesting the mineralization could carry onto Falcon’s property. The company plans to follow-up that theory with further exploration. 

Falcon Gold Corp.
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