Galway Metals: Step Out Drilling Intersects 14.6 g/t Au over 10.2m and 7.3 g/t Au over 4.6m Near Surface at Clarence Stream North Zone
ACCESSWIRE
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / July 17, 2017 / Galway Metals Inc. (GWM.V) (the "Company" or "Galway") is pleased to announce assay results from 31 diamond drill holes (5,302 meters) at its Clarence Stream gold property located in southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, drilled in and around the North Zone. Since the Company entered into an option agreement to acquire a 100% interest in the property on August 3, 2016, 69 holes have been drilled and results from 57 holes have been reported. On May 31, 2017, Galway announced that it had contracted SRK Consulting (U.S.), Inc. to undertake a maiden pit constrained resource estimate and updated underground resource estimate to unlock potential of near-surface, high-grade gold mineralization, which is scheduled for completion by the end of September.
Robert Hinchcliffe, President and CEO of Galway Metals, said, "The ability to fill in gaps from historical drilling programs was one of the main drivers, among other factors, that peaked our interest when acquiring Clarence Stream. A huge advantage of getting involved in projects with historical drilling is that it's far more cost and time effective to increase the size of the resource. 95% of the North Zone resource is currently 360 metres by 320 metres in a bowl shape. The new strong results are significant because they appear to extend the North Zone 1,250 metres to the southeast and then east."
Highlights of Drill Results Include:
14.6 g/t Au over 10.2 metres (m), including 37.3 g/t Au over 1.1 m, 36.1 g/t Au over 1.0 m, and 31.7 g/t Au over 1.0 m at a vertical depth of 41 m;
7.3 g/t Au over 4.6 m, including 12.4 g/t Au over 2.6 m at a vertical depth of 55 m; and
16.6 g/t Au over 2.1 m, including 32.7 g/t Au over 1.0 m starting at a vertical depth of 28 m.
Results From Galway's First Pass at Filling in Historical Drilling are Promising
The North Zone step out drill program was designed to add to potential near surface resources by drilling many short holes covering a large area between previously-drilled and well mineralized zones (Figure 1). All three holes noted above, and a previously reported intersect that contained 2.8 g/t Au over 14.0 metres, including 56.2 g/t Au over 0.6 metres (March 28, 2017), are located approximately midway between the 550-metre gap that separates the main North Zone resource from a smaller zone to the southeast that is not currently included in the resource. Another zone 840 metres southeast of the main resource, which contains 5% of the existing resource, will be the target of a future drill program, both to link up and extend the zones.
Potential Down Dip is Open
Also of significance in Galway's recent drill program are the intersections of 4.7 g/t Au over 1.0 m and 1.2 g/t Au over 5.1m that are located 200 metres northeast of the 2.8 g/t Au over 14.0 metre intersect noted above. The three holes contain similar mineralogy, indicating that the intervening area and areas further northeast are potentially mineralized. Holes 106, 108 and 112 (results below) indicate good mineralization in the 400-metre gap area north-south between the intersections in holes GWM-17-113 and GWM-17-114 and the smaller zone previously identified by the former operator. The zone dips at shallow angles to the east. These gaps will be drilled in the future.
Strong Soil Anomalies Suggest Link Up with South Zone
All of the strongly mineralized intercepts are located along a strong soil anomaly trend that runs southeast and continues for 2,800 metres to the South Zone, with no drilling having yet been done. Along this trend to the northwest, there has been no soil testing or drilling; this will become a priority for Galway, especially since the northernmost hole in this area, and indeed anywhere on Galway's property, intersected 58.0 g/t Au over 1.0 metre in a hole drilled by a former operator.
The main North Zone resource hosts drill intersects such as 2.0 g/t Au over 37.4 metres, 7.1 g/t Au over 36.5 metres, 2.8 g/t Au over 19.5 metres and 4.2 g/t Au over 15.0 metres, while the small zones host intersects such as 5.8 g/t Au over 5.0 metres,1.1 g/t Au over 19.0 metres, 5.3 g/t Au over 13.0 metres, and 9.0 g/t Au over 3.0 metres. North Zone Indicated and Inferred Resources, cut at 30 g/t Au, amount to 186,000 tonnes grading 7.6 g/t Au for 45,000 oz plus 235,000 tonnes grading 6.4 g/t Au for 48,000 oz, respectively. On uncut bases, respective Indicated and Inferred Resources amount to 51,000 oz at 8.5 g/t plus 70,000 oz at 9.2 g/t. This North Zone resource accounts for 22% of the total resource at Clarence Stream. The full resource can be found on our website at www.galwaymetalsinc.com.
Drill Moving to the South Zone and then to Jubilee; North Zone Warrants Future Drilling
The drill has been mobilized to the South Zone to expand the current underground resource with the first pit-constrained resource, which will also include an underground component. The drill is expected to be moved again in August approximately 5-km to the southwest along the Sawyer Brook Fault to follow up on earlier resource-grade drill intersects on ground previously owned by Jubilee Gold. The North Zone warrants future drilling to fill in gaps and extend the zone, which is open in all directions.
Galway Metals would like to acknowledge financial support from the New Brunswick Junior Mining Assistance Program, which partially funded drilling of the shallow, high-grade holes that are being followed up.
Highlights of Latest Drilling
HOLE ID
FROM (m)
TO (m)
INTERCEPT (m)
TW (m)
AU (g/t)
AD17-127
56.8
67.0
10.20
8.8
14.6
incl.
56.8
57.8
1.00
0.9
31.7
incl.
57.8
58.9
1.05
0.9
37.3
incl.
66.0
67.0
1.00
0.9
36.1
AD17-126
78.3
80.3
2.1
1.6
16.6
incl.
78.3
79.3
1.0
0.7
32.7
93.5
94.5
1.0
0.7
2.1
99.2
100.0
0.8
0.6
1.1
AD17-122
14.0
15.9
1.9
1.8
4.1
AD17-121
12.0
13.3
1.3
1.1
5.6
AD17-119
36.6
41.2
4.6
4.4
7.3
incl.
38.6
412
2.6
2.5
12.4
AD17-117
63.0
64.0
1.0
1.0
1.9
AD17-116
40.3
41.2
0.9
0.9
1.2
AD17-114
108.3
108.8
0.5
0.5
1.8
134.0
135.0
1.0
1.0
4.7
135.0
136.0
1.0
1.0
1.1
AD17-113
78.5
79.3
0.9
0.9
0.5
85.9
87.0
1.2
1.1
0.5
89.3
94.6
5.3
5.1
1.2
AD17-112
98.0
107.4
9.4
9.0
0.9
AD17-109
80.6
82.1
1.5
1.4
2.0
AD17-108
83.0
87.0
4.0
3.8
3.5
incl.
86.0
87.0
1.0
1.0
10.7
AD17-107
77.0
78.8
1.9
1.8
1.5
97.0
103.0
6.0
5.7
0.8
AD17-106
67.5
84.0
16.5
15.8
0.5
AD17-103
58.4
60.9
2.5
2.4
1.6
67.5
68.5
1.0
1.0
2.1
AD17-101
11.0
15.0
4.0
3.4
0.7
No top cut has been determined for this new area in the North Zone, pending the delineation of the proper top cut from the current SRK resource estimate being undertaken. The 14.0 metre intersection in AD17-96 is the width of the quartz vein zone. The grade of the middle portion may not have sufficient grade to carry both contacts (it averages 0.4 g/t) but is included here because the distribution of higher grades may not always be on the outside contacts. The appropriate lower cut-off grade for potential open pit mining has not yet been determined but Galway has been applying a 0.5 g/t cut for illustrative purposes. Drill holes AD17-97 to 100, 102, 104, 105, 110-111, 115, 118, 120, and 123-125 did not return significant assays.
Highlights of Old Drilling
HOLE ID
FROM (m)
TO (m)
INTERCEPT (m)
TW (m)
AU (g/t)
AD02-06
5.7
43.1
37.4
32.4
2.0
incl.
28.1
29.6
1.5
1.3
27.3
AD02-46
35.6
55.1
19.5
16.7
2.8
incl.
49.1
49.6
0.5
0.4
59.4
incl.
54.1
54.6
0.5
0.4
7.7
AD03-53
19.7
56.2
36.5
32.5
7.1
incl.
25.7
27.7
2.0
1.8
11.9
incl.
27.7
30.7
3.0
2.7
61.9
incl.
30.7
32.2
1.5
1.3
9.5
MW02-13
29.4
44.4
15.0
12.4
4.2
incl.
31.4
31.9
0.5
0.4
14.3
incl.
34.9
35.9
1.0
0.8
26.0
incl.
41.5
44.4
2.9
2.4
7.4
CS02-92
31.6
36.6
5.0
4.2
5.8
incl.
32.6
33.1
0.5
0.4
11.3
incl.
34.6
35.1
0.5
0.4
10.8
CS02-99
13.7
32.8
19.1
18.3
1.1
incl.
14.2
14.7
0.5
0.5
5.7
incl.
15.2
15.7
0.5
0.5
9.1
incl.
32.3
32.8
0.5
0.5
13.4
CS02-77
50.3
53.3
3.0
2.9
9.0
incl.
50.8
51.3
0.5
0.5
25.0
CS02-70
23.2
36.2
13.0
10.0
5.3
incl.
23.2
23.7
0.5
0.4
114.0
No top cut has been used pending the delineation of the proper top cut from the current SRK resource estimate being undertaken.
Clarence Stream Geology and Mineralization
Clarence Stream is located along, and controlled by, the Sawyer Brook Fault boundary of the Gander and Avalon terranes of the Canadian Appalachians in Palaeozoic age intrusive and sedimentary rocks, which are the primary hosts of gold mineralization. The deposits are intrusion-related quartz-vein hosted fault-controlled gold with pyrite, base metal sulphides, and stibnite plus anomalous concentrations of bismuth, arsenic, antimony, and tungsten, with sericitization and chloritization. Gold is present in two main areas—the South Zone along the Sawyer Brook Fault and the North Zone 3.5 km NW. The South Zone is steeply dipping, east-northeast trending, with two horizons identified to date, and multiple shoots extending over more than 2 km and drilled to a depth of 350 metres to date along contacts and within sheared and altered metagabbro and microgranite sills and dikes that crosscut the meta-sedimentary rocks and are related to the Saint George Batholith to the south (presence of hornfels + veined and altered auriferous microgranite dikes + high concentrations of Bi, As and Sb). The North Zone consists of five lenses within a one km by two km area, is hosted within metagreywacke and argillite, with its resource in a bowl-shaped structure ~ 3 metres thick (at a 3 g/t Au bottom cut) from surface to 100 metres, and in quartz with stringers and semi-massive stibnite, arsenopyrite, and pyrite.
Review by Qualified Person, Quality Control and Reports
In compliance with National Instrument 43-101, Mr. Mike Sutton, P.Geo. is the Qualified Person who supervised the preparation of the scientific and technical disclosure in this news release. All core, chip/boulder samples, and soil samples are assayed by Activation Laboratories, 41 Bittern Street, Ancaster, Ontario, Canada, who have ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation. All core is under watch from the drill site to the core processing facility. All samples are assayed for gold by Fire Assay, with gravimetric finish, and other elements assayed using ICP. The Company's QA/QC program includes the regular insertion of blanks and standards into the sample shipments, as well as instructions for duplication. Standards, blanks, and duplicates are inserted at one per 20 samples. Approximately five percent (5%) of the pulps and rejects are sent for check assaying at a second lab with the results averaged and intersections updated when received. Core recovery in the mineralized zones has averaged 99%.
Drill Hole Locations, Orientations and Depth
Hole ID
Azimuth (degrees)
Dip (degrees)
Northing
Easting
Total Depth (m)
North Zone
AD17-127
143
-45
5025827
655847
156
AD17-126
128
-45
5025877
655750
156
AD17-125
128
-45
5025722
655797
153
AD17-124
145
-45
5025768
655769
150
AD17-123
285
0
5025753
655657
153
AD17-122
331
-45
5025944
655727
111
AD17-121
331
0
5025817
655630
135
AD17-120
155
0
5025855
655647
126
AD17-119
145
-45
5025827
655668
187
AD17-118
118
0
5025861
655712
144
AD17-117
360
0
5025860
655712
201
AD17-116
360
0
5026077
656100
179
AD17-115
63
-45
5025905
655934
240
AD17-114
360
0
5026011
655887
162
AD17-113
360
0
5026010
655888
213
AD17-112
360
0
5025866
656060
162
AD17-111
58
0
5025791
656145
132
AD17-110
124
0
5025773
656094
123
AD17-109
110
0
5025856
656162
117
AD17-108
194
0
5025515
656116
114
AD17-107
60
0
5025820
656078
111
AD17-106
159
0
5025840
656016
129
AD17-105
198
-45
5025656
655780
399
AD17-104
206
-45
5025741
655726
231
AD17-103
73
0
5025818
655903
131
AD17-102
100
0
5025838
655835
150
AD17-101
237
-45
5025979
655663
480
AD17-100
268
-45
5025980
655663
150
AD17-99
246
0
5025980
655664
150
AD17-98
84
-45
5025912
655743
150
AD17-97
222
-45
5025912
655744
153
About the Company
Galway Metals is well capitalized, with two gold projects in Canada, Clarence Stream, an emerging gold district in New Brunswick, and Estrades, the former producing, high-grade VMS mine in Quebec. The Company began trading on January 4, 2013, after the successful spinout to existing shareholders from Galway Resources following the completion of the US$340 million sale of that company. With substantially the same management team and Board of Directors, Galway Metals is keenly intent on creating similar value as it had with Galway Resources.
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Galway Metals Inc. Robert Hinchcliffe President & Chief Executive Officer 1-800-771-0680 www.galwaymetalsinc.com
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