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Torr Metals Completes Surface Sampling and Launches Ground Geophysical Survey at Filion Gold Project
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Figure 1

The Filion Gold Project, strategically positioned near Ontario’s provincial infrastructure, where 2023 soil sampling and historical gold data have revealed key targets for the 2024 exploration program.
The Filion Gold Project, strategically positioned near Ontario’s provincial infrastructure, where 2023 soil sampling and historical gold data have revealed key targets for the 2024 exploration program.

Figure 2

Filion Project location within the prolific gold-endowed greenstone belts of the Wabigoon, Wawa, and Abitibi subprovinces of northern Ontario. Figure includes the positions as well as total historical and forecasted production of major regional gold mines.
Filion Project location within the prolific gold-endowed greenstone belts of the Wabigoon, Wawa, and Abitibi subprovinces of northern Ontario. Figure includes the positions as well as total historical and forecasted production of major regional gold mines.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 26, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- via IBN – Torr Metals Inc. (“Torr” or the "Company") (TSX-V: TMET.V) is pleased to announce the successful completion of its large-scale surface geochemical exploration program with the collection of 1,092 soil and 44 rock grab samples at the 100%-owned 261 km² Filion Gold Project (“Filion” or the “Project”) in northern Ontario (Figure 1, Figure 2).

The drill-permitted Filion Project lies at a geological crossroads in northern Ontario, surrounded by prolific gold-endowed greenstone belts renowned for hosting world-class deposits to the west, south, and east (Figure 2). The Project benefits from exceptional infrastructure, including year-round road access via Trans-Canada Highway 11, a parallelling regional railway and provincial power grid, and proximity to Kapuskasing (population 8,400), just 30 kilometers to the southeast.

Highlights of 2024 Field Program to Date:

  • Expanded Exploration Coverage in Filion West: A comprehensive 8.8 km² soil sampling and prospecting grid has been completed; covering previously underexplored airborne geophysical anomalies, historical trenching and gold occurrences across a 7 kilometer (km) strike-length (Figure 1). This effort builds on the 2023 discovery of six gold soil anomalies with strike lengths up to 1,200 meters (m) and grades as high as 1.32 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (Au), extending across a 2-km-wide corridor.

  • Multiple LiDAR-Driven Discoveries: Advanced LiDAR technology provided new high-priority zones for targeted mapping and rock grab sampling in mainly thin (<1 m) till cover. This included locations of 17 undocumented historical trenches that occur across a 3 km strike-length, along-trend of anomalous 2023 gold soil anomalies and anchored by historically trenched rock outcrop that reported assays up to 91.4 g/t Au over 0.3 m in chip or channel samples and 9.1 g/t Au in rock grab samples at the Miller East and Oscar Zones1, respectively (Figure 1).

  • Untapped Potential Across an Expansive Land Package: Recent prospecting and mapping of mineralized outcrop along accessible roadways have confirmed that the Filion East area hosts the same favorable geology and structural controls observed in Filion West (Figure 1). With no documented history of exploration in Filion East, these findings significantly enhance the overall prospectivity of the entire 42 km-long, gold-endowed Filion Fault system, underscoring the vast exploration opportunity within this district-scale land package within a region known for major gold deposits (Figure 2).

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