Highly Successful Maiden Exploration Campaign Identifies New Mineralized Trend at Eastmain

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HIGHLIGHTS

  • Maiden 7,110m, 12-hole diamond drill program successfully completed at Eastmain

  • Drilling targeted a combination of fixed-loop and borehole electromagnetic conductors identified in the recent geophysics campaigns

  • 110 line-km FLEM survey identified multiple conductors along strike of the known Eastmain Mine mineralization and highlighted potential structural repeats and new parallel mineralized horizons

  • BHEM in 38 historical drill holes identified target extensions to known mineralized zones

  • All holes drilled this year have intersected quartz veins associated with sulphides

  • Visible gold identified in the first holes drilled into a new undrilled parallel trend

  • Results from the program will be released once all assays have been received

  • Exploration recommences in January 2021 with 50,000m drill program and additional EM surveys to identify further targets

Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - December 22, 2020) - Benz Mining Corp. (TSXV: BZ) (ASX: BNZ) (the Company or Benz) is pleased to announce the completion of a A$2m capital raising, its successful listing on the Australian Stock Exchange under the ticker BNZ.ASX and to provide an update on exploration activities at its Eastmain Gold Project.

Figure 1: Newly discovered mineralized trend and Eastmain Mine trend with drilling and conductors (FLEM-Green and DHEM-Blue)

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The Eastmain Gold Project, situated on the Upper Eastmain Greenstone Belt in Quebec, Canada, currently hosts a NI 43-101 and JORC (2012) compliant resource of 376,000oz at 7.9gpt gold (Indicated: 236,500oz at 8.2gtp gold, Inferred: 139,300oz at 7.5gtp gold). The existing gold mineralization is associated with 15-20% semi-massive to massive pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite in highly deformed and altered rocks making it amenable to detection using electromagnetic techniques. Multiple gold occurrences have been identified by previous explorers over a 10km long zone along strike from the Eastmain Mine with very limited but highly encouraging testing outside the existing resource area.

Following the completion of the initial fixed loop electromagnetic (FLEM) survey, Benz commenced an initial 6,000m diamond drill program to test some of the larger identified conductors around the existing mineralization as well as some regional targets. This program is now complete with 12 holes drilled for 7,110m.

Newly Identified Parallel Trend

In July 2020, Benz commenced its maiden EM campaign with a 110 line kilometres FLEM survey. This is the first time that ground electromagnetics have been used on the project since Placer Development Limited completed a MaxMin survey that confirmed the discovery of the A, B and C Zones of the existing resource. This deposit had been identified as an EM target in an airborne EM survey previously. Given the association between high gold grades and conductive sulphides (pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, pyrite), Benz's newly appointed exploration team determined that extensions to the known mineralization could be targeted using EM surveys.