VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / July 13, 2016 / Gulf Shores Resources Ltd. (GUL.V) ("GSR" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) with Goldplat PLC ("Goldplat"), an AIM-listed public company, to earn an interest in the Anumso Gold Project (the "Project") in Ghana (Figure 1).
The LOI provides GSR with the right to earn 75% of Goldplat's interest in the Project by expending US$3.0M on exploration over 2.5 years. An initial 51% interest will be earned through expenditure of US$1.5M in the first 18 months, and the remaining 24% interest can be earned through expenditure of an additional US$1.5M in the following 12 months. The government of Ghana has a carried 10% interest in all minerals and mining concessions in Ghana, thus the 75% interest in Goldplat's 90% interest will reflect a 67.5% net interest for GSR.
GRS will enter into a formal option agreement with Goldplat within 30 days following a normal due diligence period, and will be subject to approval by the Boards of Directors of both companies and the TSX Venture Exchange. GSR will be the operator of the exploration and development program during the option period. Upon completion of its earn in rights, GSR and Goldplat will form a joint venture whereby each party will contribute proportionally to the Project's development, or have its interest diluted. If either party's interest is reduced to 10%, that interest is then converted into a 1.5% net smelter return royalty which the other party has the right for one year to purchase by paying US$100,000 for each 0.1% of the NSR.
The Anumso Gold Project is a 29.63 km2 Mining Lease within two blocks that cover ≥ 5 km of strike length of the well-known Birimian series auriferous Tarkwaian Banket strata within the highly productive Ashanti Belt of Ghana. This portion of laterally continuous Tarkwaian conglomerate strata has produced gold for over 100 years from the colonial Ntronang Mine 7 km to the east and from artisanal miners in more recent years. These same beds are famous in the southern Ashanti Belt for gold produced from the Iduapriem and Teberebie mines of AngloGold Ashanti and the Tarkwa and Demang mines currently in production by Goldfields. The Anumso - Ntronang area is the only location outside of the Tarkwa vicinity where gold has been mined from Banket conglomerate. Gold in these rocks is considered similar to that in the conglomerate-hosted gold deposits of the ~2,800 million year old Witwatersrand of South Africa, except these rocks are younger, being approximately 2,115 million years old.
Figure 1. Map showing the location of the Anumso property.
Approximately 1,500m of mineralized conglomerate beds have been drill tested by previous explorers including Goldplat, with wide (200m) to moderately-detailed (40m) drill spacing providing the basis for historic resource estimates up to 136,000 oz of Au @ 2.07 g/t. The remaining strike portions of Banket beds not tested by drilling reveal anomalous gold in soil samples.
Select drill intervals within 2012 Goldplat drill holes (Table 1) indicate the presence of multi-gram gold mineralization within multiple stratigraphic horizons within the tested area. It is anticipated that further drilling will expand the strike and dip dimensions of this mineralization as well as improve confidence in correlating gold-bearing beds between drill holes. Importantly, similar parallel but untested conglomerate beds occur to the west. It is unclear whether these layers are fold repetitions of the same mineralized conglomerates or represent similar but parallel stratigraphic horizons.
Hole ID
Easting*
Northing*
Total Depth (m)
Azimuth
Dip
Depth from (m)
Depth to (m)
Interval
Grade (g/t)
AGDD004
698602
697094
168
321
-50
72.50
75.00
2.50
8.04
107.50
109.00
1.50
4.15
140.00
140.50
0.50
4.60
AGDD005
698572
697130
179
321
-50
76.50
77.00
0.50
7.23
167.50
168.00
0.50
3.03
AGDD011
698770
697415
180
317
-50
18.00
18.50
0.50
3.33
47.50
48.00
0.50
7.25
AGDD015
698998
697689
135
315
-50
71.50
72.00
0.50
12.40
AGDD027
699763
698605
159
323
-50
133.70
135.15
1.45
5.02
148.00
149.50
1.50
3.58
153.70
154.50
0.80
4.26
AGDD031
698474
696789
420
317
-65
258.00
258.50
0.50
10.65
317.50
318.00
0.50
6.76
379.00
379.50
0.50
11.65
AGDD032
698413
696664
411
315
-65
310.50
311.00
0.50
57.90
322.00
323.00
1.00
3.17
326.50
327.00
0.50
6.38
359.50
360.00
0.50
3.73
1. UTM WGS84 30N
Table 1. Select drill results from drilling by Goldplat plc.
The concession also straddles the sheared Ashanti Belt margin which hosts the >7 M oz Newmont Akyim gold deposit along the same sheared margin approximately 15km to the east. This belt-margin shear zone is not adequately explored and represents untested opportunity.
GSR intends to assess and expand the resource area down dip and along strike to the east and southwest as well as investigate the potential for gold in parallel stratigraphic horizons and along the sheared belt margin.
Following the negotiation and execution of a formal option agreement, GSR will commission an NI 43-101 compliant technical report on the Project, and make application for TSX Venture Exchange approval.
It is GSR's intention to raise sufficient funds, by way of a non-brokered private placement, to be able to undertake the initial US$1,500,000 of expenditures on the Project so as to earn a 51% interest therein. Details will follow in a subsequent news release.
In addition, GSR anticipates it will engage new management to see the Company through this new opportunity. Details will be released as known.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Michael Turko" Michael Turko, President and CEO
Contact Information
Gulf Shores Resources Ltd.
1631 Dickson Ave. Suite 1100 Kelowna, B.C. V1Y 0B5 TEL (604) 683 3309 FAX (778) 478 1016 EMAIL info@gulfshoresresources.com
Qualified Person
The information presented in this Press Release has been reviewed by Dr. Paul Klipfel CPG of Mineral Resource Services Inc. and Qualified Person as defined by Canadian NI 43-101. Dr. Klipfel is not an Independent Person, as he is a shareholder of GSR. The data presented has been generated by historic explorers and is stated by them to be compliant with JORC rules of disclosure, however the Company has not independently verified such data, and readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance thereon.
Cautionary Statement on Forward-Looking Information
NEITHER THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICES PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE) ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THIS RELEASE.
This news release includes "forward-looking statements", including forecasts, estimates, expectations and objectives for future operations that are subject to a number of assumptions, risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the control of the Company and are considered "forward-looking information for the purposes of Canadian Securities laws. Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and that actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements. There is no assurance the Company will be successful in negotiating a final agreement with Goldplat, that the Company will be successful in raising the funds necessary to earn any interest in the Project, that the Company will be successful in maintaining tenure to the Project due to political or legal changes that are at the discretion of the Ghanaian government, that historic drill results will be verified by the Company, or that any economic resource will be located within the Project.
