Yorbeau Resources Begins an Exploration Program on Its Beschefer Property in Northwestern Québec

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MONTRÉAL, Jan. 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yorbeau Resources Inc. (TSX: YRB), (“Yorbeau” or the “Company”) has commenced the first phase of its 2025 exploration program in the Selbaie Mine area. This first phase consists of approximately 6,000 metres of drilling on the Beschefer property located 9 km southeast of the former Selbaie producer (56.9 Mt @ 0.87%, Cu 1.85%, Zn 39 g/t Ag) and immediately east of the B-26 Zone currently being developed by Abitibi Metals and Soquem (11.3 MT @ 2.13% Cu Eq (Ind) & 7.2 MT @ 2.21% Cu Eq (Inf)).

The objective of the first phase is to explore the eastward extension of the B-26 Zone to an average depth of approximately 400 metres, as well as providing access for electromagnetic downhole drill surveys. The drilling program will include at least 8 holes (6,000 metres) covering more than 2.6 km along the B-26 horizon, where Yorbeau has already obtained several significant values in copper and zinc between 1999 and 2001 (1.8% copper over 1.5 metres, 0.2% copper and 0.32% zinc over 16 metres, 0.5% copper over 12 metres).

A second phase of work will be dedicated to sector B-14 in the northwest of the property. In this area, geophysical work in 2020 and 2021 revealed several geophysical anomalies along strike from the B-14 Zone. It is anticipated that these targets will be drilled in late 2025 or early 2026. Approximately 5,600 metres of drilling are planned for this phase.

The Beschefer property program consists of:

  1. Exploring immediately east of the Abitibi Metals boundary for the continuity of the copper-zinc-gold and silver mineralization of the B-26 Zone.

  2. Verifying on section 5750 E a strong alteration zone (West Zone 2 Rivindex) located more than 2 km from Zone B-26.

  3. For each hole drilled, execute a downhole EM survey and also survey some previous drilled holes.

  4. Testing several induced polarisation anomalies in the northern sector of the property, possibly representing the extension of the B-14 gold zone.

In parallel with these two phases, the compilation of work on the Selbaie-Ouest property is underway and the Company's geologists expect to propose an exploration program soon.

The Selbaie-Ouest property is located less than 3 km west of the recent Soquem discoveries (3.49% Zn, 7.9 g/t Ag, 0.33 Pb over 40.15 m) on the Selbaie horizon. This horizon continues within the Yorbeau property for more than 9 km. In 2008, Yorbeau drilled a series of holes at the eastern border of Yorbeau-Soquem and identified the Selbaie horizon with values of 1.7% Zn. Other results were obtained in the southwest, possibly within the B-26 horizon (0.5% Zn, 173 g/t Ag over 5.4 m). In 2012, hole SW-12A intersected a copper-nickel-cobalt zone in a gabbro. This zone of more than 20 metres of disseminated mineralization contained values up to 0.6% Cu, 0.24% nickel over 1.5 metres.