North Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – May 11, 2023) – Lion One Metals Limited (TSXV: LIO) (ASX: LLO) (OTCQX: LOMLF) (“Lion One” or the “Company”) announces that the share purchase warrants (the “Warrants“) issued on May 11, 2023 pursuant to its bought deal offering (the “Offering“) of 29,350,000 units of the Company at a price of $0.92 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of $27,002,000 will be listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the trading symbol “LIO.WT”. The Warrants are expected to commence trading on May 15, 2023.
Each Warrant is exercisable to acquire one common share of the Company at a price of C$1.25 until 5:00 pm (Vancouver time) on November 11, 2025. The Warrants are not subject to any accelerator provision that would enable the Company to accelerate the expiry date.
About Lion One Metals Limited
Lion One’s flagship asset is 100% owned, fully permitted high grade Tuvatu Alkaline Gold Project, located on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. Lion One envisions a low-cost high-grade underground gold mining operation at Tuvatu coupled with exciting exploration upside inside its tenements covering the entire Navilawa Caldera, an underexplored yet highly prospective 7 km diameter alkaline gold system. Lion One’s CEO Walter Berukoff leads an experienced team of explorers and mine builders and has owned or operated over 20 mines in 7 countries. As the founder and former CEO of Miramar Mines, Northern Orion, and La Mancha Resources, Walter is credited with building over $3 billion of value for shareholders.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Lion One Metals Limited “Walter Berukoff“ Chairman and CEO
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.This press release may contain statements that may be deemed to be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are forward looking information. Generally, forward-looking information may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “proposed”, “is expected”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases, or by the use of words or phrases which state that certain actions, events or results may, could, would, or might occur or be achieved. This forward-looking information reflects Lion One Metals Limited’s current beliefs and is based on information currently available to Lion One Metals Limited and on assumptions Lion One Metals Limited believes are reasonable. These assumptions include, but are not limited to, the actual results of exploration projects being equivalent to or better than estimated results in technical reports, assessment reports, and other geological reports or prior exploration results. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Lion One Metals Limited or its subsidiaries to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such risks and other factors may include, but are not limited to: the stage development of Lion One Metals Limited, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current research and development or operational activities; competition; uncertainty as to patent applications and intellectual property rights; product liability and lack of insurance; delay or failure to receive board or regulatory approvals; changes in legislation, including environmental legislation, affecting mining, timing and availability of external financing on acceptable terms; not realizing on the potential benefits of technology; conclusions of economic evaluations; and lack of qualified, skilled labour or loss of key individuals. Although Lion One Metals Limited has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Lion One Metals Limited does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
KELOWNA, BC / ACCESSWIRE / May 4, 2023 / Diamcor Mining Inc. (TSX-V.DMI)(OTCQB-DMIFF)(FRA:DC3A), (“Diamcor” or, the “Company”) a Canadian based diamond mining Company with a proven history in the mining, exploration, and sale of rough diamonds, announces today that it will be proceeding with an extensive drilling and bulk sampling program over the greater portions of its Krone-Endora at Venetia diamond mine project (the “Project”).
These efforts will be aimed at further identifying and locating additional material which is known to have shifted and eroded from the adjacent De Beers’ Venetia diamond mine. Diamcor’s establishment of infrastructure, two large processing plants, heavy equipment, and the extensive large-scale trial mining exercises completed to date in the initial area of 657 hectares of the Project’s total 5,888 hectares, have allowed Diamcor to refine unique approaches to mining using advanced technology and techniques to extract diamonds from the Project in a safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible manner. The previous establishment of these collective items will allow Diamcor to now advance these additional drilling and bulk sampling efforts in a very cost-effective and efficient manner.
“The considerable effort to date now allows us to proceed with this drilling and bulk sampling on the greater areas of the Project,” stated Mr. Dean Taylor, Diamcor’s CEO. “The knowledge gained from previous trial-mining and the sale of rough diamonds, along with recent modeling and initial input of some of the industry’s most respected geological experts, all point to the potential to identify significant additional material from the known shift and erosion off of Venetia.“
The initial trial-mining efforts undertaken to date have provided the Company with a better understanding of the shift and erosion of the estimated 1,000 vertical meters of material from the De Beers Venetia diamond mine kimberlite clusters that are known to have been displaced in the direction of Diamcor’s Krone and Endora properties. Both properties are co-located with De Beers Venetia mine, which is recognized as one of the top-producing diamond mines in the world. Trial mining exercises are expected to continue on portions of the initial area in conjunction with the additional drilling and bulk sampling exercises, with both items serving to further advance the recommended work programmes from the Project’s initial NI 43-101.
Further details on the parties involved in the management and independent oversight of these drilling and bulk sampling exercises will be outlined in a separate release to be issued by the Company in the coming days.
About Diamcor Mining Inc.
Diamcor Mining Inc. is a fully reporting publicly traded Canadian diamond mining company with a well-established history in the mining, exploration, and sale of rough diamonds. The Company is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (V.DMI), and trades on the OTC QB International (DMIFF). The Company’s primary focus is on the development of its Krone-Endora at Venetia Project which is co-located and directly adjacent to De Beers’ Venetia Diamond Mine in South Africa. The Venetia diamond mine is recognized as one of the world’s top diamond-producing mines, and the deposits which occur on Krone-Endora have been identified as being the result of shift and subsequent erosion of an estimated 1,000 vertical meters of material from the higher grounds of Venetia to the lower surrounding areas in the direction of Krone and Endora. The Company focuses on the acquisition and development of mid-tier projects with near-term production capabilities and growth potential and uses unique approaches to mining that involves the use of advanced technology and techniques to extract diamonds in a safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible manner. The Company has a strong commitment to social responsibility, including supporting local communities and protecting the environment.
About the Tiffany & Co. Alliance
The Company has established a long-term strategic alliance and first right of refusal with Tiffany & Co. Canada, a subsidiary of world famous New York based Tiffany & Co., to purchase up to 100% of the future production of rough diamonds from the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project at market prices. In conjunction with this first right of refusal, Tiffany & Co. Canada also provided the Company with financing in an effort to advance the Project as quickly as possible. Tiffany & Co. is now owned by Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (LVMH), a publicly traded company which is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (Euronext) under the symbol LVMH and on the OTC under the symbol LVMHF. For additional information on Tiffany & Co., please visit their website at www.tiffany.com.
About Krone-Endora at Venetia
In February 2011, Diamcor acquired the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project from De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, consisting of the prospecting rights over the farms Krone 104 and Endora 66, which represent a combined surface area of approximately 5,888 hectares directly adjacent to De Beers’ flagship Venetia Diamond Mine in South Africa. On September 11, 2014, the Company announced that the South African Department of Mineral Resources had granted a Mining Right for the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project encompassing 657.71 hectares of the Project’s total area of 5,888 hectares. The Company has also submitted an application for a mining right over the remaining areas of the Project. The deposits which occur on the properties of Krone and Endora have been identified as a higher-grade “Alluvial” basal deposit which is covered by a lower-grade upper “Eluvial” deposit. The deposits are proposed to be the result of the direct-shift (in respect to the “Eluvial” deposit) and erosion (in respect to the “Alluvial” deposit) of material from the higher grounds of the adjacent Venetia Kimberlite areas. The deposits on Krone-Endora occur with a maximum total depth of approximately 15.0 metres from surface to bedrock, allowing for a very low-cost mining operation to be employed with the potential for near-term diamond production from a known high-quality source. Krone-Endora also benefits from the significant development of infrastructure and services already in place due to its location directly adjacent to the Venetia Mine, which is widely recognised as one of the top producing diamond mines in the world.
Qualified Person Statement:
Mr. James P. Hawkins (B.Sc., P.Geo.), is Manager of Exploration & Special Projects for Diamcor Mining Inc., and the Qualified Person in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 responsible for overseeing the execution of Diamcor’s exploration programmes and a Member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (“APEGA”). Mr. Hawkins has reviewed this press release and approved of its contents.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. While these forward-looking statements represent our best current judgement, they are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that are beyond the Company’s ability to control or predict and which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Further, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward looking statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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Vancouver, British Columbia, May 2, 2023 (NYSE American: EMX; TSX Venture: EMX; Frankfurt: 6E9) – EMX Royalty Corporation (the “Company” or “EMX”) is pleased to announce the execution of an exploration and option agreement for EMX’s Yarrol and Mt Steadman Projects in Queensland, Australia (the “Projects”) to Many Peaks Gold (ASX:”MPG”). The agreement provides EMX with cash payments, additional equity interests in MPG and work commitments during a fifteen month option period. Upon exercise of the option EMX will receive additional payments of cash and shares of MPG along with annual advance royalty payments, royalty interests and other considerations.
The Yarrol Project contains zones of gold and copper mineralization in addition to newly discovered areas with cobalt-enriched manganese oxide mineralization and heavy mineral sands deposits (see Figures 1 and 2). The Mount Steadman Project contained historically defined zones of gold mineralization in addition to areas of historic gold mining activities (see Figures 1 and 3). Both projects were acquired by EMX as part of recent regional assessments of prospectivity in eastern Australia via purchase agreements with third parties, and then greatly expanded by EMX via filing of exploration license applications.
MPG is currently an EMX partner on the Company’s nearby Queensland Gold project. Together with the Queensland Gold project, the addition of Yarrol and Mt Steadman to MPG’s portfolio builds a substantial property package with a diverse suite of mineral deposits and occurrences in central Queensland.
Commercial Terms Overview: All terms in US Dollars unless otherwise indicated. Upon execution, MPG will make a cash payment of $150,000, issue 850,000 shares of MPG stock to EMX and 1,000,000 stock options, with each option being exercisable for one share of MPG at a price of AUD $0.34 for 36 months.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain “forward looking statements” that reflect the Company’s current expectations and projections about its future results. These forward-looking statements may include statements regarding perceived merit of properties, exploration results and budgets, mineral reserve and resource estimates, work programs, capital expenditures, timelines, strategic plans, market prices for precious and base metal, or other statements that are not statements of fact. When used in this news release, words such as “estimate,” “intend,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “will”, “believe”, “potential” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, which, by their very nature, are not guarantees of the Company’s future operational or financial performance, and are subject to risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause the Company’s actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and factors may include, but are not limited to: unavailability of financing, failure to identify commercially viable mineral reserves, fluctuations in the market valuation for commodities, difficulties in obtaining required approvals for the development of a mineral project, increased regulatory compliance costs, expectations of project funding by joint venture partners and other factors.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this news release or as of the date otherwise specifically indicated herein. Due to risks and uncertainties, including the risks and uncertainties identified in this news release, and other risk factors and forward-looking statements listed in the Company’s MD&A for the quarter ended December 31, 2022 (the “MD&A”), and the most recently filed Revised Annual Information Form (the “AIF”) for the year ended December 31, 2022, actual events may differ materially from current expectations. More information about the Company, including the MD&A, the AIF and financial statements of the Company, is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the SEC’s EDGAR website at www.sec.gov.
Figure 1. Location map for the Yarrol and Mt Steadman projects
Figure 2. Geological Map and Drill Hole Locations at Yarrol
Figure 3. Gold mineralization, historic soil anomalies and mine workings in the Chowey Goldfield, Mt Steadman Project
Historic soils results were collected by Probe Resources in 1995 and additional soils were collected by MGT Mining in 2019 to refine the anomaly.[6]
[6] Soil results are reported in MGT Mining Annual Report EPM 12834 for reporting period ending in December 2019. EMX has not performed sufficient work to verify the published assay data, and these data should not be relied upon until they can be confirmed. However, EMX considers the results to be reliable and relevant.
North Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – April 25, 2023) – Lion One Metals Limited (TSXV: LIO) (OTCQX: LOMLF) (ASX: LLO) (“Lion One” or the “Company”) reports significant new high-grade results from grade control drilling at the Company’s 100% owned Tuvatu Alkaline Gold Project in Fiji.
Following on the initial mining and extraction of the URA1 lode, the Company is here reporting new high-grade results from grade control drilling on the URW1 lode system, approximately 120m further east. Mining of URW1 is expected to begin over the next 2-4 weeks. Strike drive development on URW1 has commenced.
Highlights of new high-grade gold mineralization intersected by grade control drilling:
Multiple bonanza grade zones have been intersected including:
88.07g/t Au over 5.7m (including 1,396g/t Au over 0.3m) (TGC-0034)
27.52g/t Au over 5.55m (TUG-056)
20.93g/t Au over 7.2m (TGC-0003)
16.12g/t Au over 9.3m (TGC-0014)
16.48g/t Au over 9.6m (TGC-0002)
14.6g/t Au over 6.6m (TGC-0032)
14.97g/t Au over 5.4m (TGC-0018)
10.85g/t Au over 6.9m (TGC-0013)
Visible was gold observed in several drill holes.
Figure 1. Plan map showing the locations of the URA1 and URW1 lodes (in red) relative to the main Tuvatu decline. The gray outlines indicate planned development to reach the URW1 lodes.
Close spaced grade control drilling has resulted in much higher resolution of the lode arrays as compared to previous infill drilling, including the identification of bonanza grade (>50g/t Au) zones.
The tightened drill pattern will facilitate optimised development and extraction of high-grade gold mineralization from the URW1 lodes while minimizing dilution. High-grade gold mineralization extracted from the URW1 lode system will contribute significantly to the growing high-grade stockpile constituting the initial feed for the Company’s plant and processing facility, on schedule for start-up in Q4 2023.
Mineralization Mineralization consists of abundant free gold, typically in association with light to dark gray chalcedonic quartz and roscoelite, locally accompanied by minor amounts of pyrite, sphalerite, galena and lesser chalcopyrite (Figure 3).
Figure 2. Long section view west of grade control drilling at URW1. Intersections >5m and 10g/t Au highlighted in red.
Figure 3. A) Coarse disseminated gold in a quartz-roscoelite veinlet, TGC-0034 67.5m. Sample returned 1396.3 g/t Au over 0.3m. B) Coarse gold in gray quartz veinlet, TGC-0034 81.6m. Sample returned 166.2 g/t Au over 0.9m. C) Coarse honey sphalerite rimmed by dark pyrite in variable light to dark gray quartz vein, TGC-0032 71.0m. Sample returned 112.9 g/t Au over 0.3m. D) Banded chalcedonic quartz-roscoelite-pyrite-fine native gold, TGC-0002 77.4m. Sample returned 44.3 g/t Au over 0.3m.
URW1 Lode System The URW1 lode system consists of narrow, high-grade to locally bonanza-grade vein arrays and vein swarms that strike approximately N-S and dip sub-vertically to steeply east and is located approximately 120m east of the URA1 lode (Figure 1, 2, 4).
As currently modelled based on earlier drilling, the URW1 lode measures approximately 300m in the NS-direction by approximately 300m of vertical extent, thus forming one of the major N-S trending lodes that have been recognized in this part of the Tuvatu deposit. The URW1 lode intersects with numerous flat-lying to moderately south-dipping EW veins referred to as the Murau lode system (Figure 4).
Grade control drilling has been conducted from both the new decline and the historic exploration adit (Figures 1 & 2). This drilling is targeting a 60m strike section of the URW1 system, within the >300m strike of the overall URW1 system. Detailed drilling of this nature is the first conducted at the project and has served to confirm both the location of structures and the extent of some of the higher-grade zones within the overall mineralized envelope. These bonanza zones (>50g/t Au * true width) have been intersected that show a considerably higher-grade than the previous wide-spaced resource drilling in the area. The high-grade zones are interpreted to relate to the intersection of the N-S URW1 lode with E-W striking structures such as the Murau lodes.
Figure 4. Plan view of 3D models illustrating the earlier interpretation of the URA1 and URW1 lodes (blue). The lighter pink shapes are the flat-lying stacked Murau lodes (left) and SKL lodes (right). Underground development is shown in red.
The URW1 lode system is interpreted as a series of parallel vein arrays.
This interpretation has come by way of a series of closely spaced grade control drill holes, drilled from two separate locations, east-directed drilling from the main decline, as well as west-directed drilling from the exploration decline (Figure 1). To date, a total of 34 diamond drill holes totalling approximately 3538m have been completed resulting in 5m to 10m spacing between adjacent holes covering a limited extent of the URW1 lode system. Despite the relatively limited size of the area drilled thus far, the grade control program has significantly increased the level of confidence in the geometry, widths, and grade distribution of the URW1 lodes, thereby allowing for detailed development planning.
Composited assay results for mineralized intervals interpreted as URW1 lodes in holes completed to date are presented in Table 1, with Tables 2 and 3 in the appendix containing full drill hole details. The URW1 lode system represents the next main area of mining and extraction of high-grade mineralization at Tuvatu. Development has commenced with first grade control and mapping expected shortly.
Table 1. Summary of composited drill results intersecting mineralization from the area of URW1 in this release. (TGC = new grade control drilling ordered by strongest intersections; TUDDH and TUG indicates previous exploration drilling (surface and underground) targeting this zone). For full results refer Table 2 in the appendix.
Hole ID
Grade (g/t Au)
Drill intersection width (m)
True Width (m)
TGC-0034
88.07
5.7
5.1
TUG-056
27.52
5.55
5.5
TGC-0003
20.93
7.2
6.5
TGC-0014
16.12
9.3
8.4
TGC-0002
16.48
9.6
8.2
TUG-058
100.21
0.85
0.85
TGC-0032
14.6
6.6
5.3
TGC-0018
14.97
5.4
4.9
TGC-0013
10.85
6.9
6.2
TGC-0011
11.04
5.4
4.6
TGC-0035
6.6
6.55
6.2
TGC-0019
11.57
3.6
3.4
TGC-0028
11.52
4.8
3.4
TGC-0031
8.86
5.1
4.1
TUDDH-350
21.11
2.7
1.7
TUDDH-349
14.37
9.73
2.4
TGC-0016
4.35
8.1
7.7
TUDDH-409
7.83
6.77
4.1
TGC-0005
10.14
3
2.4
TUDDH-219
8.33
14.15
2.9
TGC-0008
10.29
3
2.3
TUG-057
17.7
1.2
1.1
TURC-167
8.88
3
1.8
TGC-0009
4.58
3.6
3.2
TGC-0017
2.22
6.9
6.2
TGC-0036
5.16
3
2.3
TGC-0025
5.04
3
2.3
TGC-0029
1.6
3.3
2.6
TGC-0030
3.22
1.5
1.2
TGC-0015
2.39
1.8
1.4
TUDDH-225
0.73
0.9
0.9
TUG-123
0.32
0.95
0.8
TUDDH-075
0.84
0.35
0.25
TUG-125
0.2
0.54
0.3
About Tuvatu
The Tuvatu Alkaline Gold Project is located on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. The January 2018 mineral resource for Tuvatu as disclosed in the technical report “Technical Report and Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Tuvatu Gold Project, Republic of Fiji”, dated September 25, 2020, and prepared by Mining Associates Pty Ltd of Brisbane Qld, comprises 1,007,000 tonnes indicated at 8.50 g/t Au (274,600 oz. Au) and 1,325,000 tonnes inferred at 9.0 g/t Au (384,000 oz. Au) at a cut-off grade of 3.0 g/t Au. The technical report is available on the Lion One website at www.liononemetals.com and on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com.
Qualified Person In accordance with National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43- 101”), Sergio Cattalani, P.Geo, Senior Vice President Exploration, is the Qualified Person for the Company and has reviewed and is responsible for the technical and scientific content of this news release.
QAQC Procedures Lion One adheres to rigorous QAQC procedures above and beyond basic regulatory guidelines in conducting its sampling, drilling, testing, and analyses. The Company utilizes its own fleet of diamond drill rigs, using PQ, HQ and NQ sized drill core rods. Drill core is logged and split by Lion One personnel on site. Samples are delivered to and analyzed at the Company’s geochemical and metallurgical laboratory in Fiji. Duplicates of all samples with grades above 0.5 g/t Au are both re-assayed at Lion One’s lab and delivered to ALS Global Laboratories in Australia (ALS) for check assay determinations. All samples for all high-grade intercepts are sent to ALS for check assays. All samples are pulverized to 85% passing through 75 microns. Gold analysis is carried out using fire assay with an AA finish. Samples that have returned grades greater than 10.00 g/t Au are then re-analyzed by gravimetric method. For samples that return greater than 0.50 g/t Au, repeat fire assay runs are carried out and repeated until a result is obtained that is within 10% of the original fire assay run. Lion One’s laboratory can also assay for a range of 71 other elements through Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES), but currently focuses on a suite of 9 important pathfinder elements. All duplicate anomalous samples are sent to ALS labs in Townsville QLD and are analyzed by the same methods (Au-AA26, and Au-GRA22 where applicable). ALS also analyses 33 pathfinder elements by HF-HNO3-HClO4 acid digestion, HCl leach and ICP-AES (method ME-ICP61).
About Lion One Metals Limited Lion One’s flagship asset is 100% owned, fully permitted high grade Tuvatu Alkaline Gold Project, located on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. Lion One envisions a low-cost high-grade underground gold mining operation at Tuvatu coupled with exciting exploration upside inside its tenements covering the entire Navilawa Caldera, an underexplored yet highly prospective 7km diameter alkaline gold system. Lion One’s CEO Walter Berukoff leads an experienced team of explorers and mine builders and has owned or operated over 20 mines in 7 countries. As the founder and former CEO of Miramar Mines, Northern Orion, and La Mancha Resources, Walter is credited with building over $3 billion of value for shareholders.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Lion One Metals Limited “Walter Berukoff“, Chairman and CEO
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Service Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release
This press release may contain statements that may be deemed to be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are forward-looking information. Generally, forward-looking information may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “proposed”, “is expected”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases, or by the use of words or phrases which state that certain actions, events or results may, could, would, or might occur or be achieved. This forward-looking information reflects Lion One Metals Limited’s current beliefs and is based on information currently available to Lion One Metals Limited and on assumptions Lion One Metals Limited believes are reasonable. These assumptions include, but are not limited to, the actual results of exploration projects being equivalent to or better than estimated results in technical reports, assessment reports, and other geological reports or prior exploration results. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Lion One Metals Limited or its subsidiaries to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such risks and other factors may include, but are not limited to: the stage development of Lion One Metals Limited, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current research and development or operational activities; competition; uncertainty as to patent applications and intellectual property rights; product liability and lack of insurance; delay or failure to receive board or regulatory approvals; changes in legislation, including environmental legislation, affecting mining, timing and availability of external financing on acceptable terms; not realizing on the potential benefits of technology; conclusions of economic evaluations; and lack of qualified, skilled labour or loss of key individuals. Although Lion One Metals Limited has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Lion One Metals Limited does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Appendix 1: full drill results and drill details
Table 2. Composited results from grade control drillholes targeting the URW1 lodes
Hole ID
From (m)
To (m)
Interval (m)
Au (g/t)
TGC-0001
33.0
33.9
0.9
0.64
TGC-0002
77.1
77.4
0.3
44.25
TGC-0002
80.1
84.9
4.8
8.03
TGC-0002
including
80.1
82.2
2.1
11.60
TGC-0002
which includes
81.6
81.9
0.3
72.20
TGC-0002
and including
83.1
84.9
1.8
7.86
TGC-0002
89.4
97.5
8.1
13.07
TGC-0002
including
89.4
91.2
1.8
4.68
TGC-0002
including
92.1
97.5
5.4
17.97
TGC-0002
which includes
93.6
93.9
0.3
41.54
TGC-0002
and
93.9
94.2
0.3
45.40
TGC-0002
and
94.2
94.5
0.3
74.38
TGC-0002
and
94.5
94.8
0.3
38.43
TGC-0002
and
94.8
95.1
0.3
56.89
TGC-0002
100.2
103.8
3.6
7.93
TGC-0002
108.3
111.9
3.6
10.09
TGC-0002
including
108.3
109.2
0.9
4.05
TGC-0002
including
110.1
111.9
1.8
18.15
TGC-0002
which includes
111.0
111.3
0.3
77.72
TGC-0002
113.7
114.6
0.9
17.11
TGC-0003
52.5
53.4
0.9
2.79
TGC-0003
77.4
80.4
3.0
3.84
TGC-0003
including
77.4
77.7
0.3
5.34
TGC-0003
and
78.6
78.9
0.3
4.40
TGC-0003
and
79.2
79.5
0.3
27.18
TGC-0003
89.7
95.7
6.0
9.57
TGC-0003
including
89.7
93.3
3.6
14.63
TGC-0003
which includes
90.6
91.2
0.6
81.18
TGC-0003
98.0
99.2
1.2
0.95
TGC-0003
102.2
110.6
8.4
5.73
TGC-0003
including
102.2
107.0
4.8
7.97
TGC-0003
which includes
105.8
106.1
0.3
35.58
TGC-0003
and includes
107.3
108.5
1.2
6.84
TGC-0003
112.4
112.7
0.3
1.15
TGC-0003
115.1
116.0
0.9
59.85
TGC-0004
3.4
4.3
0.9
2.93
TGC-0005
75.3
75.9
0.6
2.11
TGC-0005
91.5
99.0
7.5
2.77
TGC-0005
including
93.3
94.2
0.9
10.67
TGC-0005
102.6
102.9
0.3
2.10
TGC-0005
104.1
104.7
0.6
21.01
TGC-0005
107.1
108.0
0.9
1.65
TGC-0005
109.8
110.4
0.6
0.78
TGC-0005
120.0
122.1
2.1
2.51
TGC-0005
including
121.8
122.1
0.3
14.83
TGC-0007
28.2
28.5
0.3
1.31
TGC-0008
74.8
76.9
2.1
10.51
TGC-0008
82.3
82.9
0.6
25.57
TGC-0008
94.0
94.3
0.3
4.20
TGC-0008
96.4
101.2
4.8
3.77
TGC-0008
including
96.4
98.5
2.1
3.73
TGC-0008
and
99.1
101.2
2.1
4.78
TGC-0008
105.1
105.7
0.6
2.78
TGC-0008
108.7
109.3
0.6
1.05
TGC-0008
110.8
111.4
0.6
2.16
TGC-0008
122.5
123.1
0.6
61.39
TGC-0009
18.6
21.3
2.7
0.91
TGC-0009
28.5
29.1
0.6
1.61
TGC-0009
30.9
31.5
0.6
8.33
TGC-0009
32.7
34.2
1.5
33.38
TGC-0009
49.5
49.8
0.3
10.54
TGC-0009
53.4
56.4
3.0
1.07
TGC-0009
61.2
61.5
0.3
1.97
TGC-0009
65.4
65.7
0.3
3.06
TGC-0009
66.9
67.8
0.9
6.10
TGC-0009
69.0
75.0
6.0
5.01
TGC-0009
including
69.6
70.2
0.6
4.66
TGC-0009
and
70.5
72.3
1.8
6.62
TGC-0009
and
72.9
73.5
0.6
6.80
TGC-0009
and
73.8
75.0
1.2
8.78
TGC-0009
76.5
78.0
1.5
0.97
TGC-0010
17.1
18.9
1.8
6.52
TGC-0010
including
17.1
17.4
0.3
37.04
TGC-0010
20.1
21.0
0.9
2.54
TGC-0010
23.4
30.3
6.9
2.67
TGC-0010
including
24.9
27.6
2.7
4.71
TGC-0010
36.0
36.9
0.9
8.92
TGC-0011
19.0
19.3
0.3
0.89
TGC-0011
22.3
23.8
1.5
7.56
TGC-0011
27.1
29.3
2.2
2.49
TGC-0011
including
27.1
28.0
0.9
5.34
TGC-0011
31.1
31.4
0.3
1.26
TGC-0011
32.6
35.3
2.7
7.64
TGC-0011
including
32.6
34.1
1.5
11.33
TGC-0011
and
34.4
35.3
0.9
4.04
TGC-0011
40.4
40.7
0.3
1.22
TGC-0011
52.7
53.3
0.6
1.91
TGC-0011
54.8
56.9
2.1
2.18
TGC-0011
58.7
59.9
1.2
2.62
TGC-0011
including
59.3
59.9
0.6
4.09
TGC-0011
63.2
66.5
3.3
2.68
TGC-0011
including
64.1
66.5
2.4
3.58
TGC-0011
68.6
75.8
7.2
6.72
TGC-0011
including
68.6
69.2
0.6
19.95
TGC-0011
which includes
68.9
69.2
0.3
37.28
TGC-0011
and
69.5
73.4
3.9
8.84
TGC-0011
which includes
71.0
71.3
0.3
59.70
TGC-0012
79.5
81.9
2.4
7.86
TGC-0012
including
79.5
79.8
0.3
59.46
TGC-0012
85.2
85.5
0.3
2.79
TGC-0012
87.3
88.5
1.2
5.11
TGC-0012
92.1
92.4
0.3
2.47
TGC-0012
98.4
99.6
1.2
1.32
TGC-0012
102.3
104.1
1.8
0.63
TGC-0012
105.9
106.2
0.3
4.67
TGC-0013
19.2
19.5
0.3
1.55
TGC-0013
23.1
23.7
0.6
1.28
TGC-0013
32.4
34.5
2.1
3.36
TGC-0013
including
32.4
33.0
0.6
6.97
TGC-0013
and
33.9
34.5
0.6
4.67
TGC-0013
42.9
43.5
0.6
1.16
TGC-0013
47.1
47.7
0.6
0.80
TGC-0013
50.4
51.3
0.9
13.58
TGC-0013
55.6
56.2
0.6
1.37
TGC-0013
67.6
70.3
2.7
5.70
TGC-0013
72.7
73.6
0.9
4.09
TGC-0013
75.1
79.3
4.2
11.03
TGC-0013
including
75.1
76.6
1.5
4.86
TGC-0013
and
77.2
78.1
0.9
8.51
TGC-0013
and
78.4
79.3
0.9
34.87
TGC-0013
which includes
78.7
79.3
0.6
49.52
TGC-0013
81.1
83.8
2.7
5.97
TGC-0013
94.3
97.6
3.3
1.21
TGC-0014
10.8
11.1
0.3
1.21
TGC-0014
19.2
19.5
0.3
1.03
TGC-0014
34.5
36.3
1.8
2.47
TGC-0014
including
34.5
35.4
0.9
3.38
TGC-0014
and
36.0
36.3
0.3
4.72
TGC-0014
42.6
42.9
0.3
3.21
TGC-0014
52.2
53.1
0.9
0.57
TGC-0014
56.1
56.4
0.3
1.69
TGC-0014
66.0
75.6
9.6
13.28
TGC-0014
including
66.0
66.9
0.9
54.81
TGC-0014
which includes
66.3
66.6
0.3
95.47
TGC-0014
and
66.6
66.9
0.3
67.96
TGC-0014
and
67.5
69.0
1.5
7.83
TGC-0014
and
69.3
72.6
3.3
9.89
TGC-0014
and
72.9
73.2
0.3
3.32
TGC-0014
and
74.1
75.0
0.9
32.29
TGC-0014
which includes
74.4
74.7
0.3
57.95
TGC-0014
and
74.7
75.0
0.3
38.34
TGC-0014
and
75.3
75.6
0.3
9.41
TGC-0014
80.7
84.6
3.9
7.69
TGC-0014
85.8
88.8
3.0
1.86
TGC-0014
92.4
95.1
2.7
1.10
TGC-0015
71.1
71.4
0.3
0.54
TGC-0015
87.3
87.9
0.6
2.17
TGC-0015
105.6
106.2
0.6
2.50
TGC-0016
38.7
43.5
4.8
6.22
TGC-0016
including
38.7
41.4
2.7
9.67
TGC-0016
which includes
40.8
41.1
0.3
45.75
TGC-0016
68.1
68.7
0.6
2.16
TGC-0016
70.8
71.4
0.6
2.55
TGC-0016
72.6
73.5
0.9
6.50
TGC-0016
81.0
83.4
2.4
14.23
TGC-0016
including
81.0
81.6
0.6
19.42
TGC-0016
and
81.9
83.4
1.5
14.99
TGC-0016
which includes
83.1
83.4
0.3
45.51
TGC-0016
84.6
85.5
0.9
1.86
TGC-0016
92.4
94.5
2.1
4.83
TGC-0016
95.7
97.8
2.1
3.58
TGC-0017
5.1
5.7
0.6
1.28
TGC-0017
17.4
17.7
0.3
4.32
TGC-0017
36.0
36.6
0.6
1.26
TGC-0017
38.7
44.1
5.4
9.39
TGC-0017
69.3
69.9
0.6
9.60
TGC-0017
72.3
73.8
1.5
3.03
TGC-0017
including
73.2
73.8
0.6
7.01
TGC-0017
76.8
77.4
0.6
65.63
TGC-0017
82.5
84.0
1.5
3.08
TGC-0018
78.9
79.5
0.6
0.92
TGC-0018
85.8
86.1
0.3
11.42
TGC-0018
88.5
90.6
2.1
5.67
TGC-0018
94.2
95.1
0.9
0.54
TGC-0018
96.3
97.2
0.9
0.63
TGC-0018
102.0
105.9
3.9
15.62
TGC-0018
109.2
111.0
1.8
2.74
TGC-0019
10.8
12.0
1.2
0.86
TGC-0019
13.8
16.5
2.7
2.31
TGC-0019
31.2
32.7
1.5
3.21
TGC-0019
40.2
45.0
4.8
16.05
TGC-0019
including
41.4
45.0
3.6
21.18
TGC-0019
which includes
42.6
42.9
0.3
49.70
TGC-0019
and
43.2
43.5
0.3
166.81
TGC-0019
51.0
52.2
1.2
2.60
TGC-0019
65.1
66.3
1.2
0.85
TGC-0019
70.5
79.8
9.3
4.92
TGC-0019
including
70.5
75.0
4.5
6.70
TGC-0019
and
75.3
76.5
1.2
7.69
TGC-0019
83.7
84.0
0.3
15.22
TGC-0019
95.7
96.9
1.2
9.13
TGC-0020
16.8
18.3
1.5
3.09
TGC-0020
24.3
26.4
2.1
0.92
TGC-0020
28.2
29.7
1.5
4.10
TGC-0021
4.4
5.0
0.6
1.40
TGC-0021
24.5
26.9
2.4
2.86
TGC-0021
including
24.5
25.4
0.9
6.34
TGC-0021
44.3
44.9
0.6
1.36
TGC-0021
74.0
74.3
0.3
0.65
TGC-0022
28.2
29.4
1.2
1.36
TGC-0022
54.6
54.9
0.3
1.04
TGC-0022
57.9
58.8
0.9
1.22
TGC-0022
66.9
70.5
3.6
2.31
TGC-0022
75.0
75.6
0.6
2.23
TGC-0023
90.2
90.8
0.6
1.71
TGC-0023
100.7
101.3
0.6
0.63
TGC-0024
13.8
14.4
0.6
0.50
TGC-0024
58.8
59.7
0.9
1.30
TGC-0024
65.4
65.7
0.3
0.54
TGC-0025
7.5
9.3
1.8
2.79
TGC-0025
including
7.5
8.4
0.9
5.22
TGC-0025
13.5
14.1
0.6
4.33
TGC-0025
15.6
16.5
0.9
0.68
TGC-0025
78.6
83.1
4.5
3.76
TGC-0025
including
78.6
79.2
0.6
4.69
TGC-0025
and
79.5
80.7
1.2
3.07
TGC-0025
and
81.0
83.1
2.1
4.91
TGC-0025
84.6
84.9
0.3
1.77
TGC-0025
87.0
87.3
0.3
6.55
TGC-0026
14.7
15.3
0.6
0.58
TGC-0026
28.8
29.7
0.9
2.28
TGC-0026
33.9
34.8
0.9
5.94
TGC-0026
39.9
40.8
0.9
10.20
TGC-0026
42.3
42.9
0.6
3.72
TGC-0026
71.7
72.0
0.3
0.65
TGC-0027
70.2
70.8
0.6
2.41
TGC-0027
80.7
82.2
1.5
3.75
TGC-0027
87.9
88.5
0.6
1.72
TGC-0027
93.6
94.2
0.6
2.46
TGC-0027
96.6
99.0
2.4
0.79
TGC-0027
104.4
105.9
1.5
4.98
TGC-0027
107.7
109.8
2.1
1.99
TGC-0027
including
109.5
109.8
0.3
11.28
TGC-0027
112.8
114.0
1.2
0.63
TGC-0028
8.7
9.6
0.9
1.02
TGC-0028
13.2
16.2
3.0
11.27
TGC-0028
78.0
78.9
0.9
0.63
TGC-0028
83.4
83.7
0.3
1.17
TGC-0028
85.2
85.8
0.6
0.55
TGC-0028
92.1
97.5
5.4
10.86
TGC-0028
including
92.1
93.6
1.5
26.67
TGC-0028
which includes
92.1
92.4
0.3
45.29
TGC-0028
and
92.4
92.7
0.3
72.80
TGC-0028
and
94.5
95.7
1.2
12.97
TGC-0028
and
96.6
97.5
0.9
3.44
TGC-0028
101.1
102.6
1.5
9.53
TGC-0029
14.7
16.2
1.5
10.82
TGC-0029
74.4
75.0
0.6
4.93
TGC-0029
83.7
86.7
3.0
1.00
TGC-0029
95.7
96.9
1.2
3.14
TGC-0030
18.0
19.2
1.2
56.88
TGC-0030
22.8
25.2
2.4
4.87
TGC-0030
including
24.0
25.2
1.2
9.62
TGC-0030
51.9
52.2
0.3
1.47
TGC-0030
54.6
54.9
0.3
3.60
TGC-0030
61.2
61.5
0.3
3.75
TGC-0030
71.4
72.0
0.6
20.01
TGC-0030
83.1
84.6
1.5
3.65
TGC-0030
88.8
92.4
3.6
0.97
TGC-0030
94.2
95.4
1.2
1.40
TGC-0031
13.5
20.4
6.9
6.60
TGC-0031
including
13.5
15.3
1.8
17.28
TGC-0031
which includes
14.1
14.7
0.6
34.62
TGC-0031
and
15.6
18.3
2.7
4.76
TGC-0031
and
19.2
19.5
0.3
3.25
TGC-0031
62.0
63.8
1.8
3.21
TGC-0031
including
62.9
63.8
0.9
5.88
TGC-0031
72.5
73.4
0.9
1.27
TGC-0031
74.9
75.8
0.9
6.93
TGC-0031
77.0
77.6
0.6
3.30
TGC-0031
82.4
85.1
2.7
3.12
TGC-0031
86.9
95.6
8.7
13.73
TGC-0031
including
86.9
89.9
3.0
10.80
TGC-0031
which includes
87.2
87.5
0.3
39.53
TGC-0031
and
87.5
87.8
0.3
36.62
TGC-0031
and including
90.5
91.1
0.6
28.85
TGC-0031
and
92.0
94.7
2.7
24.94
TGC-0031
which includes
92.6
92.9
0.3
116.56
TGC-0031
and
93.8
94.1
0.3
64.28
TGC-0031
and
95.3
95.6
0.3
6.90
TGC-0032
10.2
10.8
0.6
0.68
TGC-0032
18.0
18.3
0.3
32.02
TGC-0032
22.8
23.7
0.9
20.11
TGC-0032
52.2
52.8
0.6
2.66
TGC-0032
58.2
58.5
0.3
9.18
TGC-0032
69.6
72.0
2.4
19.46
TGC-0032
76.5
80.1
3.6
4.58
TGC-0032
85.2
87.3
2.1
14.59
TGC-0032
88.5
91.5
3.0
2.80
TGC-0032
including
88.5
89.7
1.2
5.59
TGC-0032
98.4
98.7
0.3
16.30
TGC-0032
106.2
107.1
0.9
41.62
TGC-0032
108.9
109.5
0.6
4.20
TGC-0034
21.6
23.7
2.1
24.84
TGC-0034
24.0
32.1
8.1
25.96
TGC-0034
including
24.0
24.9
0.9
14.30
TGC-0034
which includes
24.0
24.3
0.3
33.61
TGC-0034
and
25.2
32.1
6.9
28.61
TGC-0034
which includes
25.2
25.8
0.6
47.66
TGC-0034
and
30.3
30.6
0.3
59.31
TGC-0034
and
30.6
31.5
0.9
118.95
TGC-0034
56.1
56.4
0.3
0.90
TGC-0034
60.3
61.2
0.9
4.33
TGC-0034
66.3
69.9
3.6
120.76
TGC-0034
including
66.3
68.1
1.8
237.52
TGC-0034
which includes
67.5
67.8
0.3
1396.31
TGC-0034
and
69.0
69.9
0.9
7.92
TGC-0034
72.6
73.2
0.6
0.61
TGC-0034
74.7
75.6
0.9
5.70
TGC-0034
80.7
83.1
2.4
22.46
TGC-0034
including
81.6
82.5
0.9
57.46
TGC-0034
which includes
81.6
81.9
0.3
166.16
TGC-0034
and
82.8
83.1
0.3
4.25
TGC-0034
86.1
90.3
4.2
3.06
TGC-0034
including
88.8
90.3
1.5
7.06
TGC-0034
91.5
91.8
0.3
1.42
TGC-0034
93.0
94.2
1.2
1.06
TGC-0034
95.4
99.9
4.5
3.10
TGC-0034
including
98.7
99.9
1.2
9.10
TGC-0035
33.0
33.6
0.6
8.28
TGC-0035
36.0
37.5
1.5
6.21
TGC-0035
39.3
40.5
1.2
10.55
TGC-0035
48.0
51.9
3.9
4.33
TGC-0035
including
50.1
51.9
1.8
8.72
TGC-0035
which includes
51.0
51.3
0.3
46.28
TGC-0035
53.7
54.3
0.6
1.71
TGC-0035
56.1
65.1
9.0
3.70
TGC-0035
including
61.5
62.1
0.6
7.65
TGC-0035
and
62.7
63.9
1.2
11.80
TGC-0035
which includes
63.0
63.3
0.3
31.89
TGC-0035
and including
64.2
65.1
0.9
11.36
TGC-0035
67.5
72.9
5.4
3.44
TGC-0035
including
69.0
72.9
3.9
4.03
TGC-0035
74.7
77.7
3.0
4.38
TGC-0035
78.9
82.5
3.6
2.54
TGC-0035
including
80.1
82.5
2.4
3.24
TGC-0035
91.5
92.7
1.2
1.16
TGC-0036
11.4
12.0
0.6
2.50
TGC-0036
18.0
19.2
1.2
4.08
TGC-0036
52.5
53.4
0.9
0.74
TGC-0036
57.3
59.7
2.4
51.58
TGC-0036
70.5
71.4
0.9
11.52
TGC-0036
86.1
88.2
2.1
2.43
TGC-0036
including
87.0
88.2
1.2
3.84
TGC-0036
95.1
98.4
3.3
0.83
Table 3. Collar coordinates and dates of completion for grade control drillholes reported in this release. Coordinates are in Fiji map grid.
KELOWNA, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 18, 2023 / Diamcor Mining Inc. (TSXV:DMI) (OTCQB:DMIFF) (FRA:DC3A), (“Diamcor” or, the “Company”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Ross McElroy as Special Advisor to the Company.
Mr. McElroy is a professional geologist with over 35 years of experience in the mining industry, holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Science with a Specialization in Geology from the University of Alberta in 1987, and is a registered professional geologist in Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Nunavut/Northwest Territories. He is the winner of the 2014 PDAC Bill Dennis award for exploration success and the Northern Miner “Mining Person of the Year Award”. Mr. McElroy’s comprehensive experience includes working and managing many types of mineral projects from grass roots exploration to feasibility and production. He has held senior technical and executive positions with both major and mid-tier mining companies, which include BHP, Orano, and Cameco. He was a key member of the discovery team of the giant MacArthur River uranium deposit and played a key roll in the discoveries and development of the hugely successful Fission Uranium Corp, where he presently holds the role as President and CEO. Mr. McElroy has also had a successful career in the search, discovery, development and mining of other commodities including diamonds during the several years he spent as Senior Geologist for BHP’s Ekati diamond mining operation in northern Canada.
“After many years of informal discussions on our Project and our long-term goals, I am very pleased to now have Mr. McElroy as a technical advisor to our Company,” stated Mr. Dean Taylor, Diamcor’s CEO. “I truly believe his input based on his past experiences and continued interest in the diamond sector, along with his proven ability to successfully advance various projects from discovery to production, will prove very beneficial to Diamcor.”
“Diamcor’s Krone-Endora at Venetia Project has always been a point of many interesting discussions, and the fact they are dealing with a significant low-cost displacement project from the prolific De Beers Venetia mine presents an attractive scenario,” stated Mr. Ross McElroy. “I know that the entire management team’s post-Covid focus is to execute its previous plans to grow the Project and expand their business. I look forward to providing them with my insight to enhance their ability to do so,” added Mr. McElroy.
About Diamcor Mining Inc.
Diamcor Mining Inc. is a fully reporting publicly traded junior diamond mining company which is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol V.DMI, and on the OTC QB International under the symbol DMIFF. The Company has a well-established operational and production history in South Africa and extensive prior experience supplying rough diamonds to the world market.
About the Tiffany & Co. Alliance
The Company has established a long-term strategic alliance and first right of refusal with Tiffany & Co. Canada, a subsidiary of world famous New York based Tiffany & Co., to purchase up to 100% of the future production of rough diamonds from the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project at then current prices to be determined by the parties on an ongoing basis. In conjunction with this first right of refusal, Tiffany & Co. Canada also provided the Company with financing to advance the Project. Tiffany & Co. is now owned by Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (LVMH), a publicly traded company which is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (Euronext) under the symbol LVMH and on the OTC under the symbol LVMHF. For additional information on Tiffany & Co., please visit their website at www.tiffany.com.
About Krone-Endora at Venetia
In February 2011, Diamcor acquired the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project from De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, consisting of the prospecting rights over the farms Krone 104 and Endora 66, which represent a combined surface area of approximately 5,888 hectares directly adjacent to De Beers’ flagship Venetia Diamond Mine in South Africa. On September 11, 2014, the Company announced that the South African Department of Mineral Resources had granted a Mining Right for the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project encompassing 657.71 hectares of the Project’s total area of 5,888 hectares. The Company has also submitted an application for a mining right over the remaining areas of the Project. The deposits which occur on the properties of Krone and Endora have been identified as a higher-grade “Alluvial” basal deposit which is covered by a lower-grade upper “Eluvial” deposit. The deposits are proposed to be the result of the direct-shift (in respect to the “Eluvial” deposit) and erosion (in respect to the “Alluvial” deposit) of material from the higher grounds of the adjacent Venetia Kimberlite areas. The deposits on Krone-Endora occur in two layers with a maximum total depth of approximately 15.0 metres from surface to bedrock, allowing for a very low-cost mining operation to be employed with the potential for near-term diamond production from a known high-quality source. Krone-Endora also benefits from the significant development of infrastructure and services already in place due to its location directly adjacent to the Venetia Mine.
Qualified Person Statement:
Mr. James P. Hawkins (B.Sc., P.Geo.), is Manager of Exploration & Special Projects for Diamcor Mining Inc., and the Qualified Person in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 responsible for overseeing the execution of Diamcor’s exploration programmes and a Member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (“APEGA”). Mr. Hawkins has reviewed this press release and approved of its contents.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. While these forward-looking statements represent our best current judgement, they are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that are beyond the Company’s ability to control or predict and which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Further, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward looking statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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KELOWNA, BC / ACCESSWIRE / April 4, 2023 / Diamcor Mining Inc. (TSX-V.DMI), (OTCQB-DMIFF), (FRA:DC3A), (“Diamcor” or, the “Company”) announces today that despite the recent issues with the supply of consistent power in South Africa during the period, the Company was able to achieve strong results from the tender and sale of rough diamonds recovered from the limited processing of quarry material at the Company’s Krone-Endora at Venetia Project (the “Project”). In the Company’s fourth fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2023, a total of 3,310.67 carats of rough diamonds including two large gem quality diamonds in the specials category (+10.8 carats), generated gross revenues of USD $1,579,728.40, resulting in an average price of USD $477.16 per carat for the period.
Highlights
Large Gem Quality Diamonds. Two large gem quality rough diamonds in the specials category were sold in the period, a 72.5 carat and the 45.15 carat. The recovery and sale of these two rough diamonds continue to demonstrate the Project’s potential for large gem quality diamonds to be recovered, and their ability to enhance revenues and the overall average dollar per carat achieved in any given period.
$477.16 per Carat Average. Despite the limitations in the volume of quarry material able to be processed at the Project during the period, the recovery of the two larger gem quality rough diamonds served to enhance both gross revenues and the average US dollar per carat during the period.
Power Supply Management. The Company has been proactive in managing the well-documented recent power issues with Eskom, South Africa’s national power supplier, and will continue to manage its operations to maximize efficiencies where possible in the processing of quarry material for the short-term. The procurement and installation of the previously announced globally recognized tier 1 Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), power conditioning, switching systems, and generator backups remains a key focus of the Company and is targeted for completion by the end of calendar Q2. Once installed, the Company believes this system will serve to significantly reduce, or eliminate, the impact of any potential future power supply issues at the Project for the long-term.
“We are very encouraged by the results achieved during the period, which again demonstrates our operational team’s continued ability to adapt to various situations and execute strategies aimed at minimizing the impact of such events where possible,” stated Mr. Dean Taylor, Diamcor’s CEO. “We will continue to manage the current operational limitations in the short-term while advancing additional objectives aimed at planned growth into the greater surrounding areas of the Project, and expedite the finalization of the power system to allow us to resume our primary goal of increasing processing volumes at the Project.”
About Diamcor Mining Inc.
Diamcor Mining Inc. is a fully reporting publicly traded junior diamond mining company which is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol V.DMI, and on the OTC QB International under the symbol DMIFF. The Company has a well-established operational and production history in South Africa and extensive prior experience supplying rough diamonds to the world market.
About the Tiffany & Co. Alliance
The Company has established a long-term strategic alliance and first right of refusal with Tiffany & Co. Canada, a subsidiary of world famous New York based Tiffany & Co., to purchase up to 100% of the future production of rough diamonds from the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project at then current prices to be determined by the parties on an ongoing basis. In conjunction with this first right of refusal, Tiffany & Co. Canada also provided the Company with financing to advance the Project. Tiffany & Co. is now owned by Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (LVMH), a publicly traded company which is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (Euronext) under the symbol LVMH and on the OTC under the symbol LVMHF. For additional information on Tiffany & Co., please visit their website at www.tiffany.com.
About Krone-Endora at Venetia
In February 2011, Diamcor acquired the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project from De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, consisting of the prospecting rights over the farms Krone 104 and Endora 66, which represent a combined surface area of approximately 5,888 hectares directly adjacent to De Beers’ flagship Venetia Diamond Mine in South Africa. On September 11, 2014, the Company announced that the South African Department of Mineral Resources had granted a Mining Right for the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project encompassing 657.71 hectares of the Project’s total area of 5,888 hectares. The Company has also submitted an application for a mining right over the remaining areas of the Project. The deposits which occur on the properties of Krone and Endora have been identified as a higher-grade “Alluvial” basal deposit which is covered by a lower-grade upper “Eluvial” deposit. The deposits are proposed to be the result of the direct-shift (in respect to the “Eluvial” deposit) and erosion (in respect to the “Alluvial” deposit) of material from the higher grounds of the adjacent Venetia Kimberlite areas. The deposits on Krone-Endora occur in two layers with a maximum total depth of approximately 15.0 metres from surface to bedrock, allowing for a very low-cost mining operation to be employed with the potential for near-term diamond production from a known high-quality source. Krone-Endora also benefits from the significant development of infrastructure and services already in place due to its location directly adjacent to the Venetia Mine.
Qualified Person Statement:
Mr. James P. Hawkins (B.Sc., P.Geo.), is Manager of Exploration & Special Projects for Diamcor Mining Inc., and the Qualified Person in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 responsible for overseeing the execution of Diamcor’s exploration programmes and a Member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (“APEGA”). Mr. Hawkins has reviewed this press release and approved of its contents.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. While these forward-looking statements represent our best current judgement, they are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that are beyond the Company’s ability to control or predict and which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Further, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward looking statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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North Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – April 3, 2023) – Lion One Metals Limited (TSXV: LIO) (OTCQX: LOMLF) (ASX: LLO) (“Lion One” or the “Company”) announces a significant milestone at Tuvatu. Initial mining of near-surface, high-grade gold bearing mineralization has commenced from a recently discovered mineralized lode. To date, strike driving along the new lode totals 14 cuts for an estimated 475 tonnes, much of which has already been added to the Company’s mining inventory stockpile. The high-grade inventory stockpile will constitute the initial feed for the Company’s custom-designed-for-purpose processing facility, currently under construction.
Figure 1. Photo of the first cut on the lode, strike drive from the new development decline.
The new lode was discovered in late 2022, 75 meters into the new development decline, and was subsequently defined by underground mapping, chip-channel sampling, and diamond drilling.
Development along the strike has since been extended by 13m, by way of 7 separate cuts, each cut representing approximately 30 tonnes of material. Vertical development of 9m as a 1.5 x 1.5m rise has been completed, as well as an additional 7 cuts, for a total of approximately 475 tonnes of gold mineralized material, to date. Tuvatu has implemented airleg mining, which allows for flexibility and optionality to deliver low-cost tonnage at minimum mining widths of 1.8m and a rate of advancement of 4m/day.
Several recent drillholes have intersected multiple high grade intercepts. Systematic face sampling provides detailed information that compare favourably with previous drill results.
The material extracted from this drive represents the first modern extraction from the Tuvatu deposit, and as such represents a significant milestone for the company.
Table 1. Composited results from drillholes intersecting the lode. Coordinates are in Fiji map grid.
Hole ID
From (m)
To (m)
Interval (m)
Au g/t
Easting
Northing
Elevation
Azimuth
Dip
TUDDH-617
56.1
58.2
2.1
1.76
1876512.6
3920929.1
236.3
097
-60
including
57.9
58.2
0.3
6.30
59.7
63.3
3.6
2.93
including
59.7
60.0
0.3
17.01
TUDDH-619
65.0
65.3
0.3
3.48
1876257.7
3920801.2
203.2
266
-60
TUDDH-621
159.3
160.5
1.2
27.99
1876257.7
3920799.9
203.0
297
-60
TUDDH-624
79.1
81.2
2.1
20.16
1876257.5
3920800.1
203.1
262
-65
including
79.1
80.3
1.2
33.04
including
79.7
80.0
0.3
106.99
TUDDH-542
79.8
81.5
1.7
1.65
1876170.4
3920845.3
166.6
139
-7
including
79.8
80.1
0.3
5.77
TUDDH-359
93.24
95.68
2.44
4.21
1876222.0
3920742.0
207.6
359
-65
including
93.24
93.65
0.41
10.85
TUDDH-355
31.63
32.0
0.37
8.96
1876223.0
3920779.0
203.5
359
-63
TUDDH-086
241.25
243.3
2.05
9.14
1876335.0
3920736.0
226.5
279
-60
including
241.25
241.95
0.7
18.7
Table 2. Selected chip-channel results from sampling in the development decline, face samples along successive cuts of the strike drive along lode, and samples from the rise lode. Coordinates are in Fiji map grid.
Channel ID
From
To
Interval
Au
Coordinates
Elevation
Final depth
Azimuth
Dip
m
m
m
g/t
Easting
Northing
m
m
deg.
deg.
MD-CH-001
0.0
2.5
2.5
9.94
1876219.1
3920779.2
157.6
2.5
-13
-13
1.0
1.5
0.5
32.57
MD-CH-002
0.0
1.0
1.0
29.02
1876219.2
3920779.0
158.6
1.5
-13
-13
0.5
1.0
0.5
55.12
MD-CH-003
1.0
3.0
2.0
8.91
1876227.3
3920778.8
156.0
3
-13
-13
2.5
3.0
0.5
22.48
MD-CH-004
1.5
3.0
1.5
11.93
1876228.0
3920778.1
155.5
3
-14
-14
1.5
2.0
0.5
26.09
MD-CH-005
1.0
2.5
1.5
15.17
1876220.6
3920784.2
157.5
4
-14
-14
1.5
2.0
0.5
41.94
MD-CH-006
1.5
3.0
1.5
10.88
1876220.4
3920784.9
158.7
4
-11
-11
1.5
2.0
0.5
31.17
MD-CH-011
0.0
2.5
2.5
10.46
1876232.2
3920768.5
155.3
2.5
-13
-13
1.5
2.0
0.5
44.30
1155URA1STHOD.02
0.0
1.4
1.4
14.70
1876220.2
3920774.4
157.0
2.05
0
0
0.9
1.4
0.5
29.20
1155URA1STHOD.03
0.0
2.4
2.4
7.57
1876219.8
3920772.6
156.9
2.4
0
0
1.0
1.45
0.45
32.89
1155URA1STHOD.04
0.7
1.6
0.9
15.86
1876219.5
3920771.0
157.2
2
0
0
1.3
1.6
0.3
39.60
1155URA1STHOD.05
0.6
1.3
0.7
3.23
1876218.8
3920769.5
157.2
2.6
0
0
1155URA1STHOD.06
0.0
2.2
2.2
3.69
1876217.6
3920768.0
157.4
3
0
0
1155URA1STHOD.07
0.0
2.7
2.7
6.89
1876216.5
3920766.4
157.9
2.7
0
0
0.5
1.0
0.5
24.88
1155URA1NTHOD.05
0.0
1.6
1.6
2.18
1876223.9
3920790.8
158.0
2
0
0
1.2
1.6
0.4
8.07
1155URA1NTHOD.08
0.5
2.0
1.5
3.95
1876226.4
3920796.8
157.4
2.1
0
0
1.2
1.6
0.4
14.42
Rise STH side
1.2
2.0
10.35
1876214.8
3920767.3
159.9
7
60.7
60.7
3.0
4.0
9.48
4.0
5.0
20.19
Rise NTH side
0.0
1.2
12.84
1876215.4
3920769.8
159.8
7
54.6
54.6
3.0
4.0
12.85
5.0
6.0
13.93
Figure 2A. Photo of lode cut No. 2 face of the South strike drive from the development decline; Figure 2 B. Photo of lode cut No. 7 face of the North strike drive.
Figure 3 shows a rendering of the development along the new lode to date. Figure 3 also provides an update to the total development achieved to date along the main decline, toward the important additional lode on which much of the detailed grade control drilling has been focused. It is expected that the decline will reach this additional high-grade lode, likely within the next month.
Figure 3. Plan view rendering of the current as-built model of the underground development completed to date. The entrance to the decline is at the top left. The location of the new lode (green) and additional lodes (blue and orange) are shown. The open gray shape indicates planned development to expose the lodes. North is toward the top of the image. Coordinates are in Fiji map grid.
The well-defined structure consists of a quartz vein array with minor to trace pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and bornite, as well as coarse native gold (Figures 4a, b), typically in association with roscoelite. Late carbonate veinlets crosscut the structure. The vein is hosted by monzonite, with well developed symmetric bleached alteration. The highly visible alteration envelope has rendered advancement on this mineralized structure very straight-forward by way of visual identification alone.
Figure 4. Photos of coarse visible gold in samples collected from the lode. A) 158.7m elevation, width of photo is ~25cm across; B) 159.5m elevation, width of photo is ~30cm across.
The Tuvatu Alkaline Gold Project is located on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. The January 2018 mineral resource for Tuvatu as disclosed in the technical report “Technical Report and Preliminary Economic Assessment for the Tuvatu Gold Project, Republic of Fiji”, dated September 25, 2020, and prepared by Mining Associates Pty Ltd of Brisbane Qld, comprises 1,007,000 tonnes indicated at 8.50 g/t Au (274,600 oz. Au) and 1,325,000 tonnes inferred at 9.0 g/t Au (384,000 oz. Au) at a cut-off grade of 3.0 g/t Au. The technical report is available on the Lion One website at www.liononemetals.com and on the SEDAR website at www.sedar.com.
Qualified Person
In accordance with National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects (“NI 43- 101”), Sergio Cattalani, P.Geo, Senior Vice President Exploration, is the Qualified Person for the Company and has reviewed and is responsible for the technical and scientific content of this news release.
QAQC Procedures
Lion One adheres to rigorous QAQC procedures above and beyond basic regulatory guidelines in conducting its sampling, drilling, testing, and analyses. The Company utilizes its own fleet of diamond drill rigs, using PQ, HQ and NQ sized drill core rods. Drill core is logged and split by Lion One personnel on site. Samples are delivered to and analyzed at the Company’s geochemical and metallurgical laboratory in Fiji. Duplicates of all samples with grades above 0.5 g/t Au are both re-assayed at Lion One’s lab and delivered to ALS Global Laboratories in Australia (ALS) for check assay determinations. All samples for all high-grade intercepts are sent to ALS for check assays. All samples are pulverized to 85% passing through 75 microns. Gold analysis is carried out using fire assay with an AA finish. Samples that have returned grades greater than 10.00 g/t Au are then re-analyzed by gravimetric method. For samples that return greater than 0.50 g/t Au, repeat fire assay runs are carried out and repeated until a result is obtained that is within 10% of the original fire assay run. Lion One’s laboratory can also assay for a range of 71 other elements through Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES), but currently focuses on a suite of 9 important pathfinder elements. All duplicate anomalous samples are sent to ALS labs in Townsville QLD and are analyzed by the same methods (Au-AA26, and Au-GRA22 where applicable). ALS also analyses 33 pathfinder elements by HF-HNO3-HClO4 acid digestion, HCl leach and ICP-AES (method ME-ICP61).
About Lion One Metals Limited
Lion One’s flagship asset is 100% owned, fully permitted high grade Tuvatu Alkaline Gold Project, located on the island of Viti Levu in Fiji. Lion One envisions a low-cost high-grade underground gold mining operation at Tuvatu coupled with exciting exploration upside inside its tenements covering the entire Navilawa Caldera, an underexplored yet highly prospective 7km diameter alkaline gold system. Lion One’s CEO Walter Berukoff leads an experienced team of explorers and mine builders and has owned or operated over 20 mines in 7 countries. As the founder and former CEO of Miramar Mines, Northern Orion, and La Mancha Resources, Walter is credited with building over $3 billion of value for shareholders.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Lion One Metals Limited “Walter Berukoff“, Chairman and CEO
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This press release may contain statements that may be deemed to be “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are forward-looking information. Generally, forward-looking information may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “plans”, “expects” or “does not expect”, “proposed”, “is expected”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “estimates”, “forecasts”, “intends”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, or “believes”, or variations of such words and phrases, or by the use of words or phrases which state that certain actions, events or results may, could, would, or might occur or be achieved. This forward-looking information reflects Lion One Metals Limited’s current beliefs and is based on information currently available to Lion One Metals Limited and on assumptions Lion One Metals Limited believes are reasonable. These assumptions include, but are not limited to, the actual results of exploration projects being equivalent to or better than estimated results in technical reports, assessment reports, and other geological reports or prior exploration results. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Lion One Metals Limited or its subsidiaries to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such risks and other factors may include, but are not limited to: the stage development of Lion One Metals Limited, general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the actual results of current research and development or operational activities; competition; uncertainty as to patent applications and intellectual property rights; product liability and lack of insurance; delay or failure to receive board or regulatory approvals; changes in legislation, including environmental legislation, affecting mining, timing and availability of external financing on acceptable terms; not realizing on the potential benefits of technology; conclusions of economic evaluations; and lack of qualified, skilled labour or loss of key individuals. Although Lion One Metals Limited has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Lion One Metals Limited does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – March 28, 2023) – EMX Royalty Corporation (NYSE American: EMX) (TSXV: EMX) (FSE: 6E9) (the “Company” or “EMX”) – is pleased to announce the filing of its 2022 annual report Form 40-F, which includes the audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2022, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on EDGAR (www.sec.gov). EMX has also filed its Annual Information Form (AIF), audited Financial Statements (FS), and Management’s Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) for 2022 with Canadian securities regulators on SEDAR (www.sedar.com). The Company’s Form 40-F, AIF, audited FS, and MD&A are also available on EMX’s website at www.EMXroyalty.com under the heading “Investors”. Shareholders may receive a printed copy of the Company’s complete Financial Statements, or its complete Annual Information Form, free of charge, upon request to the Corporate Secretary at Suite 501 – 543 Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6C 1X8, Canada. All dollar amounts in this news release are USD unless otherwise noted.
HIGHLIGHTS
Financial Updates for the Year Ended December 31, 2022
Revenue and other income for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $18,277,000 (2021 – $7,526,000). Adjusted revenue and other income1 of $25,403,000 (2021 – $11,044,000) included $7,126,000 (2021 – $3,518,000) in income for the Company’s share of royalty revenue from the Caserones Mine (effective) royalty interest in Chile.
Net income for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $3,349,000 (2021 – loss of $23,731,000).
Operating cash flow for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $16,729,000 (2021 – cash used of $8,062,000). Adjusted operating cash flow1 from operations for the year ended December 31, 2022 was $21,953,000 (2021 – cash used of $6,356,000).
As at December 31, 2022, EMX had cash and cash equivalents of $15,508,000 (December 31, 2021 – $19,861,000), investments, long-term investments and loans receivable valued at $14,561,000 (December 31, 2021 – $18,170,000) and loans payable of $40,489,000 (December 31, 2021 – $50,733,000).
Corporate Updates
Timok Dispute Update On January 27, 2022 the Company announced that it had suspended the filing of a Notice of Arbitration to Zijin Mining Group Ltd (“Zijin”) regarding its royalty agreement covering the Timok project in Serbia, which includes the producing Cukaru Peki copper and gold mine. This suspension followed EMX’s previous announcement of its intention to file the Notice of Arbitration to formally dispute the royalty rate as defined under the Royalty Agreement (see EMX news release dated December 17, 2021). Discussions with Zijin have since proved amicable and productive. Both companies are expecting to execute a modified royalty agreement in 2023.
Settlement of the Bullion Litigation The Company’s wholly owned subsidiary, Bullion Monarch Mining, Inc. (“Bullion”), reached a settlement with Barrick Gold Corporation (“Barrick”) and Barrick affiliates and subsidiaries (“Barrick Entities”) with respect to Bullion’s claim of non-payment of royalties by the Barrick Entities to Bullion on production from properties in the Carlin Trend, Nevada. Bullion initiated litigation in 2008, before EMX acquired Bullion in 2012. Pursuant to the settlement, Barrick paid Bullion $25,000,000. Of the $25,000,000 settlement, $6,175,000 was paid as a fee to Bullion’s Reno, Nevada lawyers. The settlement of the lawsuit did not affect our 1% gross smelter return royalty from portions of Nevada Gold Mine’s Leeville, Carlin East, Four Corners, and other northern Carlin Trend underground gold mining operations (the “Leeville Royalty”), which continue to be paid.
Acquisition of Additional Royalty Interest on Caserones EMX acquired an additional (effective) 0.3155% Net Smelter Return (“NSR”) royalty on the Caserones Copper-Molybdenum Mine located in northern Chile for $25,742,000. When combined with EMX’s (effective) 0.418% NSR interest acquired in August 2021 (see EMX news release dated August 17, 2021), EMX’s new total totals to an (effective) 0.7335% NSR royalty interest.
Subsequent to the year ended December 31, 2022, the Company entered into certain agreements to acquire an additional 2.263% ownership in the underlying royalty holder, Sociedad Legal Minera California Una de la Sierra Peña Negra (“SLM”), for cash consideration of $3,517,000 pursuant to agreements with existing shareholders of SLM. The acquisition provides EMX with a further 0.0424% (effective) NSR interest in the Caserones property, increasing the Company’s NSR royalty interest to 0.7759%.
Acquisition of Royalty Portfolio from Nevada Exploration EMX executed a purchase and sale agreement (the “Agreement”) for a portfolio of royalties with Pediment Gold LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nevada Exploration Inc. (“NGE”), for $500,000 (see EMX news release dated September 2, 2022). The portfolio consists of a 2% NSR royalty on NGE’s Nevada gold exploration portfolio covering ~62.5 square miles and includes four district-scale land positions, as well as certain other interests. In addition, if NGE options, farms out, or sells a project, then beginning on the first anniversary of the third-party agreement, EMX will receive advanced annual royalties of $20,000 that escalate $10,000 per year and are capped at $50,000. NGE has the right to buy back half of EMX’s 2% NSR royalty by purchasing a 0.5% NSR interest for $1,000,000 any time prior to the 7th anniversary of the Agreement and then, if the first NSR interest has been purchased, may purchase the second 0.5% NSR interest any time prior to production for $1,500,000.
Appointment of Independent Director EMX announced that Mr. Geoff Smith was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Company effective July 5, 2022. Mr. Smith brings to the board the benefit of 17 years of M&A and corporate finance experience having advised on or financed many of the largest, most complex and innovative streaming transactions in the past 10 years.
Royalty and Royalty Generation Updates In 2022, the Company’s royalty generation business was active in North America, South America, Europe, Turkey, Australia and Morocco. The Company spent $17,512,000 on royalty generation costs and recovered $8,577,000 from partners. Royalty generation costs include exploration related activities, technical services, project marketing, land and legal costs, as well as third party due diligence for acquisitions. During the year the Company also completed 10 partnerships across the portfolio while continuing to replace partnered properties with new royalty generation projects. In addition, our partners directly spent approximately $31,996,000 in exploration on the portfolio.
Producing Royalties
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Advanced Royalties
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Exploration Royalties
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Figure 1. EMX’s royalty and mineral property portfolio.
Initial production royalty payments were received from the Company’s Gediktepe oxide gold (silver) Royalty Property and Balya North polymetallic Royalty Property in Turkey (see respective EMX news releases dated September 9, and September 15, 2022). From Gediktepe EMX recognized $3,709,000 in royalty revenue and $4,000,000 in deferred milestone payments which will be paid in Q2 2023. EMX earned $276,000 from the Balya North Royalty Property in 2022.
EMX received a $3,000,000 milestone payment from Arizona Sonoran Copper Company, Inc. (“ASCU”) based upon declared resources totaling 200 million pounds or more of contained copper covered by the Company’s Parks-Salyer Royalty Property. ASCU’s maiden resource for its Parks-Salyer project, which is partially covered by EMX’s Royalty Property, was reported as total inferred underground resources of 143.6 million tons averaging 1.015% (total) copper and containing 2,915 million pounds of copper as oxide, enriched, and primary mineralization at variable cutoffs (see ASCU news release dated September 28, 2022). The Company retains a 1.5% NSR royalty covering the Parks-Salyer Royalty Property.
In the US, the Company added to its growing royalty portfolio with the completion of five new royalty agreements, the advancement of more than twenty-five partner-funded work programs, including nine drill projects, the acquisition of four large royalty positions from Nevada Exploration covering key land positions in Nevada, and new generative work leading to the acquisition of a district-wide land position at Tonopah, Nevada as well as a large (approximately 1,890 hectares), prospective land position in the Silver Valley district in Idaho. For the year, partners spent more than $18,000,000 on EMX’s early-stage US portfolio.
EMX’s Regional Strategic Alliance (“RSA”) with South32 Limited (“South32”) concluded in Q4 2022 after four years of generative exploration and project work. The Company is now following up on eleven priority projects identified by the RSA and retained by South32 for additional work, including an ongoing drill program at the Copper Springs porphyry copper project in Arizona’s Globe-Miami district.
In Canada, EMX programs advanced available properties in the portfolio as partners conducted multiple field programs, including drill programs on optioned and EMX royalty properties. EMX received C$577,000 in cash payments and C$52,000 in share equity payments during the year, while partners spent more than $3,700,000 in exploration expenditures advancing the portfolio.
EMX’s Latin American royalty portfolio advanced through field programs by Austral Gold Limited (at Morros Blancos and Morros Colorado), Pampa Metals Corporation (Block 4), and drill programs conducted by AbraSilver Resource Corp. (Diablillos), Aftermath Silver Ltd (Berenguela), and GR Silver Mining Ltd (San Marcial). In particular, the drill programs continued to produce significant results that expanded known resources and added new discoveries at nearby targets.
AbraSilver Resource Corp. (“AbraSilver”) announced an updated, open pit constrained mineral resource estimate for the Diablillos project’s Oculto deposit that included measured and indicated resources of 51.3 Mtonnes averaging 66 g/t silver (109 Moz contained Ag) and 0.79 g/t gold (1.3 Moz contained Au), as well as inferred resources of 2.2 Mtonnes averaging 30 g/t silver (2.1 Moz contained Ag) and 0.51 g/t gold (37 Koz contained Au) (see AbraSilver news release dated November 3, 2022). The updated resource was based upon drilling through Phase II. The ongoing Phase III drill program is designed to delineate a maiden resource estimate for the high-grade JAC zone discovery (see AbraSilver news release dated February 21, 2023).
In Northern Europe, the Company continued to develop its portfolio of projects, acquiring new gold and battery metals (nickel, copper and cobalt) royalty generation projects totaling nearly 175,000 hectares, and partnering four available properties. EMX also assisted with multiple partner-funded exploration and drilling programs. Overall, approximately $6,700,000 was spent by partners on EMX’s exploration royalty properties in Northern Europe during 2022.
Royalty generation programs proceeded in the Balkans and in Morocco, where multiple exploration license applications have been filed by the Company. New target areas are being assessed for further acquisitions.
Financing Updates
Sprott Credit Facility The Company entered into a credit facility in 2021 with Sprott Private Resource Lending II (Collector), LP (“Sprott”) totaling $44,000,000 (the “Credit Facility”). On January 24, 2022, the Company signed a credit agreement modification extending the maturity date to December 31, 2024. In connection with the extension, an additional 1.50% of the principal ($660,000) was added to the principal balance as at January 24, 2022.
Private Placement with Franco-Nevada The Company completed a $10,000,000 private placement with Franco-Nevada Corporation (“Franco-Nevada”). The proceeds were used to acquire the additional (effective) 0.3155% NSR royalty on the Caserones open pit mine in northern Chile (see EMX’s news release dated April 14, 2022).
Franco-Nevada purchased 3,812,121 units at C$3.30 per unit. Each unit consisted of one common share of EMX and one warrant to purchase one common share of EMX for C$4.45 exercisable until April 14, 2027. Franco-Nevada now owns approximately 3.5% of the issued and outstanding shares of EMX on an undiluted basis.
Repayment of Vendor Take Back Note The Company repaid in full the vendor take back note issued to SSR Mining Inc. totaling $8,319,000 including interest owed.
Exercise of Stock Options granted by EMX 1,110,000 stock options were exercised pursuant to the Company’s Stock Option Plan, which generated proceeds of $1,037,000 to EMX.
Investment Updates As at December 31, 2022, the Company had marketable securities of $9,970,000 (December 31, 2021 – $7,409,000), and $4,591,000 (December 31, 2021 – $8,761,000) in private investments. The Company will continue to generate cash flow by selling certain of its investments when appropriate. Much of the investment portfolio was derived from strategic investments, including Premium Nickel Resources Corporation (“PNR”), and royalty deals completed as part of our organic royalty generation business.
Strategic Investment in Premium Nickel Resources From 2020 through 2022, EMX acquired 5,412,702 shares of PNR, a private company with nickel-copper-cobalt assets in Botswana. On April 26, 2022, PNR announced the execution of a definitive agreement for a reverse takeover transaction (“RTO”) with North American Nickel Inc. (“NAN”) to create a new reporting entity, Premium Nickel Resources Ltd (“PNRL”). PNRL began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange in Q3 of 2022, having completed the RTO process with NAN. As a result of the RTO transaction, EMX’s interests were converted to 5,704,987 shares of PNRL, which represents roughly 5% of the issued and outstanding shares of PNRL.
OUTLOOK
The 2023 year will continue to see revenue and other income coming from our cash flowing royalties, including Leeville in Nevada, Gediktepe in Turkey, potentially Timok in Serbia (pending conclusion of discussions with Zijin), and our effective royalty interest on Caserones in Chile. As in previous years, production royalties will continue to be complemented by option, advance royalty, and other pre-production payments from partnered projects across the global asset portfolio. As a royalty holder, the Company has limited, if any, access to information on properties for which it holds royalties. Additionally, the Company may receive information from the owners and operators of the properties, which the Company is not permitted to disclose to the public pursuant to the underlying agreement or the information is not NI 43-101 compliant. Accordingly, the Company has not, and does not anticipate that it will have the ability to, provide guidance or outlook as to future production.
The Company will continue to strengthen its balance sheet over the course of the year by looking to retire portions of our long-term debt, continuing to evaluate equity markets, and the ongoing monetization of the Company’s marketable securities.
EMX is well positioned to identify and pursue new royalty and investment opportunities, while further filling a pipeline of royalty generation properties that provide opportunities for additional cash flow, as well as exploration, development, and production success.
Qualified Person. Michael P. Sheehan, CPG, a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101 and employee of the Company, has reviewed, verified, and approved the above technical disclosure on North America and Latin America. Eric P. Jensen, CPG, a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101 and employee of the Company, has reviewed, verified, and approved the above technical disclosure on Europe, Turkey, Australia, and Strategic Investments.
About EMX. EMX is a precious, base and battery metals royalty company. EMX’s investors are provided with discovery, development, and commodity price optionality, while limiting exposure to risks inherent to operating companies. The Company’s common shares are listed on the NYSE American Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “EMX”, and also trade on the Frankfurt exchange under the symbol “6E9”. Please see www.EMXroyalty.com for more information.
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Forward-Looking Statements This news release may contain “forward looking statements” that reflect the Company’s current expectations and projections about its future results. These forward-looking statements may include statements regarding perceived merit of properties, exploration results and budgets, mineral reserves and resource estimates, work programs, capital expenditures, timelines, strategic plans, market prices for precious and base metal, or other statements that are not statements of fact. When used in this news release, words such as “estimate,” “intend,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “will”, “believe”, “potential” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, which, by their very nature, are not guarantees of the Company’s future operational or financial performance, and are subject to risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause the Company’s actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and factors may include, but are not limited to unavailability of financing, failure to identify commercially viable mineral reserves, fluctuations in the market valuation for commodities, difficulties in obtaining required approvals for the development of a mineral project, increased regulatory compliance costs, expectations of project funding by joint venture partners and other factors.
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KELOWNA, BC / ACCESSWIRE / March 13, 2023 / Diamcor Mining Inc. (TSX-V:DMI)(OTCQB:DMIFF)(FRA:DC3A), (“Diamcor” or, the “Company”) is pleased to announce the recovery of a 45.15 carat gem quality rough diamond from the processing of quarry material at the Company’s Krone-Endora at Venetia Project (the “Project”). This 45.15 carat large rough diamond in the Specials category (+10.8 carats) follows the previously recovered 72.53 carat gem quality rough diamond announced on February 21, 2023. The recovery of this second large gem quality rough diamond, along with the pending sale of approximately 2,000 additional carats delivered for tender and sale, is expected to positively impact revenues and offset the lower than anticipated current processing volumes associated with the ongoing power load-shedding currently being experienced in South Africa.
The Company is also pleased to provide a further update on the progress on the procurement and installation of a comprehensive long-term supplementary power solution at the Project. Various options were evaluated by the Company’s operational management team throughout 2022 in anticipation of potential issues with consistent power supply in South Africa, with the main focus being to provide the Project with systems to eliminate potential downtime and lost processing time at the Project. The chosen system will incorporate various items including a large Battery Energy Storage System (“BESS”) element, power conditioning, switching systems, and generator backup systems. The solution has been designed to provide the Project with a globally recognised tier 1 energy management system to provide a long-term seamless uninterrupted transition between traditional grid power supply, battery systems, and generator backup systems. In addition, the system will provide power conditioning to “clean” all power being supplied to the Project’s processing plant, which is expected to provide significant benefits including increased reliability of electronics while lowering maintenance on the processing plant’s electrical systems. The Company is expediting these efforts due to the current elevated issues surrounding the inconsistent supply of power in South Africa by Eskom, the national power supplier. The Company is targeting the installation of these systems to be completed prior to the end of the next quarter.
Highlights
Continued Tender and Sale of Rough Diamonds. While the total carats of rough diamonds tendered and sold in the current quarter continues to be lower than anticipated due to widely reported increases in daily load-shedding / power outages throughout South Africa, ongoing efforts to maximize recoveries and the continued recovery of larger gem-quality rough diamonds in the Specials category are expected to offset this issue in the near-term.
Average Dollar Per Carat Increases in Period. The combination of the Project’s relatively high percentage of gem quality diamonds recovered to date, along with the recent recovery of two large gem quality special rough diamonds, is expected to have a positive impact on the average dollar per carat for the current period. Tender and sales totaling 1,538.62 carats of rough diamonds in the current quarter to date has generated gross revenues of USD $980,696.08, resulting in an average dollar per carat of USD $637.39.
Recovery of Large Gem Quality Rough Diamonds. Even while operating at restricted processing levels, the Company’s recovery of the previously announced 72.53 carat diamond gem quality rough diamond and the recent recovery of the above mentioned 45.15 carat gem quality rough diamond in the current quarter continues to confirm the potential for these types of large rough diamonds to be recovered from the Project’s deposits and provide positive impact to gross revenues.
Continued Rough Diamond Recoveries. The Company continues to process material and manage inconsistencies in power supply delivering approximately 2,000 carats of additional rough diamonds for tender and sale. Additional rough diamonds recovered prior to March 31, 2023, will either be tendered and sold in a final tender and sale of the current period, or held as stock on hand at the end of the period, and tendered in the Company’s next quarter.
Continued Progress on the Procurement and Installation of Power Systems. The Company’s operational team continues to advance the previously announced installation of comprehensive systems aimed at mitigating the long-term impact any potential load-shedding has had on the Project. Installation of this system is targeted for completion at the end of the Company’s next fiscal quarter.
“The recent recovery of another larger gem quality 45.15 carat rough diamond will provide further revenue during the period, and additional confirmation of the Project’s potential to continue recovering these larger rough diamonds”, stated Mr. Dean Taylor, Diamcor CEO. “We certainly look forward to the near-term implementation of the back-up power systems to remove current limitations on processing volumes, and with that, return our focus to efforts aimed at expanding our understanding of the potential deposits on the greater areas of the Project.”
About Diamcor Mining Inc.
Diamcor Mining Inc. is a fully reporting publicly traded junior diamond mining company which is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol V.DMI, and on the OTC QB International under the symbol DMIFF. The Company has a well-established operational and production history in South Africa and extensive prior experience supplying rough diamonds to the world market.
About the Tiffany & Co. Alliance
The Company has established a long-term strategic alliance and first right of refusal with Tiffany & Co. Canada, a subsidiary of world famous New York based Tiffany & Co., to purchase up to 100% of the future production of rough diamonds from the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project at then current prices to be determined by the parties on an ongoing basis. In conjunction with this first right of refusal, Tiffany & Co. Canada also provided the Company with financing to advance the Project. Tiffany & Co. is now owned by Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (LVMH), a publicly traded company which is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange (Euronext) under the symbol LVMH and on the OTC under the symbol LVMHF. For additional information on Tiffany & Co., please visit their website at www.tiffany.com.
About Krone-Endora at Venetia
In February 2011, Diamcor acquired the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project from De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, consisting of the prospecting rights over the farms Krone 104 and Endora 66, which represent a combined surface area of approximately 5,888 hectares directly adjacent to De Beers’ flagship Venetia Diamond Mine in South Africa. On September 11, 2014, the Company announced that the South African Department of Mineral Resources had granted a Mining Right for the Krone-Endora at Venetia Project encompassing 657.71 hectares of the Project’s total area of 5,888 hectares. The Company has also submitted an application for a mining right over the remaining areas of the Project. The deposits which occur on the properties of Krone and Endora have been identified as a higher-grade “Alluvial” basal deposit which is covered by a lower-grade upper “Eluvial” deposit. The deposits are proposed to be the result of the direct-shift (in respect to the “Eluvial” deposit) and erosion (in respect to the “Alluvial” deposit) of material from the higher grounds of the adjacent Venetia Kimberlite areas. The deposits on Krone-Endora occur in two layers with a maximum total depth of approximately 15.0 metres from surface to bedrock, allowing for very low-cost mining to be employed with the potential for near-term diamond production from a known high-quality source. Krone-Endora also benefits from the significant development of infrastructure and services already in place due to its location directly adjacent to the Venetia Mine.
Qualified Person Statement:
Mr. James P. Hawkins (B.Sc., P.Geo.), is Manager of Exploration & Special Projects for Diamcor Mining Inc., and the Qualified Person in accordance with National Instrument 43-101 responsible for overseeing the execution of Diamcor’s exploration programmes and a Member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta (“APEGA”). Mr. Hawkins has reviewed this press release and approved of its contents.
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. While these forward-looking statements represent our best current judgement, they are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that are beyond the Company’s ability to control or predict and which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those anticipated in such forward-looking statements. Further, the Company expressly disclaims any obligation to update any forward looking statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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Vancouver, British Columbia–(Newsfile Corp. – March 8, 2023) – EMX Royalty Corporation (NYSE American: EMX) (TSXV: EMX) (FSE: 6E9) (the “Company” or “EMX”) is pleased to announce the execution, by its wholly-owned subsidiary Bronco Creek Exploration Inc. (“BCE”), of a Letter of Intent (“LOI”) to sell its a) portfolio of 14 precious and base metal projects in Idaho (the “Portfolio”) acquired via staking between 2018-2022, b) Idaho Business Unit, and c) wholly-owned core drilling subsidiary, Scout Drilling LLC, to Scout Discoveries Corp. (“Scout”). Scout is a U.S. private corporation headquartered in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho and will be led by Dr. Curtis Johnson, as president and CEO along with several members of the BCE team who generated, acquired, and advanced the Portfolio which represents the largest unpatented claim holdings in the state.
EMX was an early mover in the modern era of exploration in Idaho by recognizing the geologic potential for tier one precious and base metal systems coupled with the ability to acquire contiguous district-scale land positions where limited exploration has taken place in over 30 years. Numerous projects in the Portfolio were advanced by previous EMX partners between 2018-2022. The work invested in the Portfolio has resulted in a diverse pipeline of early-stage projects through fully vetted, drill-ready targets with several historical resources open for expansion (Figure 1).
This proposed transaction is a unique example of the organic royalty generation component of EMX’s business model that provides an asset base substantial enough to form a new company around. The terms of the LOI provide EMX with an equity interest, a retained 3.25% net smelter return (“NSR”) royalty interest, annual advance royalty (“AAR”) payments, and certain milestone payments as the Portfolio of 14 projects is advanced.
Commercial Terms Overview. Pursuant to the LOI, Scout will purchase a 100% interest in the Portfolio by (all dollar amounts in USD):
Issuance of shares equal to 19.9% of Scout to EMX.
Raising a minimum of $3,000,000 in exploration capital coincident with the closing of the transfer of the Portfolio.
Upon the successful completion of the above:
EMX will be granted a 3.25% NSR royalty on each of the 14 projects in the Portfolio, as well as AAR and milestone payments divided into two tiers:
Tier 1, Advanced-stage Exploration Projects: Erickson Ridge, South Orogrande, Lehman Butte, Jacknife, Moose Ridge, and Century.
Ongoing Scout obligations to the Company, on a per project basis, will include:
EMX will receive AAR payments for Tier 1 projects beginning on the second anniversary and Tier 2 projects beginning on the fourth anniversary of the LOI starting at $10,000/year and increasing $10,000/year to a cap of $75,000/year.
EMX will receive milestone payments of $500,000 for Tier 1 and $200,000 for Tier 2 projects upon completion of a preliminary economic analysis (“PEA”), $1,000,000 for Tier 1 and $750,000 for Tier 2 projects upon completion of a pre-feasibility study (“PFS”), and $1,000,000 for both Tier 1 and Tier 2 projects upon completion of a feasibility study (“FS”).
EMX will maintain a 19.9% non-dilution right up to $10,000,000 of capital raises and a preemptive right to participate in future financings to maintain a 9.9% interest, so long as it holds at least 5% of the issued and outstanding shares of Scout.
Scout may purchase 0.5% of a given NSR royalty for the USD equivalent of 600 ounces of gold by the eighth anniversary of the LOI, and an additional 0.5% NSR for the USD equivalent of 1,800 ounces of gold before commercial production on each property.
In addition to the 14 property interests, Scout will purchase a 100% interest of EMX’s wholly-owned drilling subsidiary, Scout Drilling LLC, by completing $10,000 monthly payments for 12 months, a $500,000 payment by the first anniversary (firm commitments), and 12 additional monthly payments of $10,000 and a final $1,000,000 payment, with the 24 monthly payments creditable, by the second anniversary of the LOI.
The LOI contemplates EMX and Scout entering into a definitive agreement by March 31st and closing the transaction by May 1st, 2023.
Scout Discoveries Overview. With the completion of the LOI, Scout will be 100%-focused on advancing the Idaho Portfolio to discovery. Combining the Portfolio with EMX’s low impact Hydracore HC2000 core drill and experienced team, Scout will be structured to internally advance projects from initial target definition, through drill testing and resource delineation. This represents a unique, cost-effective business model to advance the Portfolio, which includes the following key projects:
Erickson Ridge: The Erickson Ridge project covers the northern extension of the Orogrande Shear Zone (“OSZ”) in the Elk City mining district, and hosts multiple historical shear-hosted gold resources (Figure 2), including a 1980s-era historical resource. Historical drill intercepts from the 1980s include 33.5 meters @ 4.1 g/t gold (ER-84-13 from 16.8m to 50.3 m) and 21.3 meters @ 3.15 g/t gold (ER-84-23 from 77.7 to 99.0 m) (disseminated-style mineralization, true thicknesses unknown)[1].
Historical exploration was focused on shallow oxide gold mineralization, with drill holes typically less than 100 meters in depth. Previous soil sampling programs by EMX and partners identified a 0.5 x 1.5 km gold-in-soil anomaly that extends mineralization more than one kilometer (km) along strike beyond the historical resource footprint[2]. The project is now permitted for drilling to follow-up on these targets.
South Orogrande: The project lies 16 km south of Erickson Ridge and covers approximately 11.5 km of strike length along the OSZ (Figure 3). South Orogrande is adjacent to, and along strike, of Endomines Inc’s Friday deposit which has historical open pit constrained mineral resources[3]. At South Orogrande, modern surface exploration (2018-2021) identified multiple km-scale, cohesive gold-in-soil anomalies (2×5 km and 1.5×3 km) with coincident geophysical anomalies in areas of minimal outcrop and widespread placer gold[4].
The only modern drilling is a single hole in 2021 that was lost at 269m, which intersected increasing intensities of disseminated quartz-sericite-pyrite alteration that assayed 0.78 g/t Au over 1.5m within a consistent zone of 72m @ 0.15 g/t Au (from 197m to 269m) at the bottom of the hole[5]. This drilling has not been followed up, and the project is permitted for 50 new drill pads within the gold-in-soil anomalies.
Jacknife: The Jacknife project encompasses the entirety of the Lakeview Ag-Pb-Zn district, including 335 acres of leased patented claims, approximately 40 km northwest of the Silver Valley, Idaho (Figure 4). The project is centered on a seven-km swarm of 0.5 to 5-meter-thick carbonate-quartz-sulfide veins hosted in regional shear zones within Mesoproterozoic Belt Basin sedimentary units, predominantly the Wallace, St. Regis, and Revett Formations – key host units in the Silver Valley. In the 1960s a 610 meter (m) vertical exploration shaft was sunk, with exploration drifting completed to explore the vein system to depth and define an historical resource[6]. Only minor surface exploration and small-scale production has occurred in the district since.
In 2012, limited shallow drilling was completed in the historical resource area, with highlight intercepts of 1.4m (101.4-102.8m) @ 692 g/t Ag, 5.7% Pb, 0.4% Zn, and 0.42 g/t Au (ABM-12-DH2) and 0.6m (100.4-101m) @ 1,106 g/t Ag, 0.65% Pb, 0.23% Zn, 0.81 g/t Au (ABM-12-DH4) (true thicknesses unknown)[7]. In 2021-2022, EMX leased the patented claims at Lakeview, and staked the surrounding open ground, marking the first time the district has been consolidated since initial discovery in the late 1800s.
Lehman Butte: The Lehman Butte project, located in central Idaho, contains widespread low sulfidation epithermal veining and quartz-clay-adularia alteration in intermediate volcanic rocks, as well as jasperoid replacing underlying Mississippian limestone (Figure 5). Work by EMX and previous partners has outlined a cohesive 1.5 x 3 km gold-in-soil anomaly with rock chip samples that include 3.1 g/t Au and 19.8 g/t Ag (n=214, avg. 0.145 g/t Au and 4.8 g/t Ag), indicating bulk-tonnage style mineralization, cored by a zone of banded quartz-adularia feeder veins up to 2.5m in width and mapped across 3 km of strike. Coincident magnetic, chargeability, and resistivity anomalies corroborate the targets outlined by surface sampling and mapping. The project is permitted for drilling and the primary target is a bulk-tonnage Au-Ag deposit hosted within permeable volcanics, as well as high-grade bonanza-style epithermal veins at depth.
Pipeline Projects: The Portfolio includes an additional 10 district-scale, earlier stage projects with Carlin-type Au, low sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag, porphyry and intrusion-related Au-Cu, carbonate replacement Ag-Pb-Zn (Au-Cu), Silver Valley-type Ag-Pb-Zn, and orogenic Au targets. Scout will advance these projects systematically through detailed target definition as the four highlighted projects are drill-tested.
The Scout Discoveries team will be led by Dr. Curtis Johnson as President and CEO, and will be comprised of a core group of youthful, but seasoned explorationists that will shift from BCE to Scout on a 100% basis. These acomplished geologists have been responsible for assembling and building value in Scout’s Idaho Portfolio. Further value will be provided by integrating Scout Drilling LLC into the new company, which will provide Scout Discoveries with a unique competitive advantage to quickly and cost effectively evaluate mineral project upside through drilling. Idaho is a highly prospective terrane for developing new precious, base and battery metals resources, and EMX is confident that Scout Discoveries will be a leader in exploration discovery and entrepreneurial success.
More information on Scout Discoveries Corp. and the Portfolio can be found at: www.scoutdiscoveries.com.
Comments on Sampling, Assays, and QA/QC. EMX and its project partners’ exploration samples were collected in accordance with accepted industry standards and best practices. EMX samples were submitted to ALS Laboratories in Reno for sample preparation and analysis. Gold was analyzed by Au-ICP21 fire assay and ICP-AES (30 g nominal sample weight) method, and multi-element analyses were performed by an ME-MS61m method combining a four-acid digestion with ICP-MS finish. As standard procedure, the Company conducts routine QA/QC analysis on all assay results, including the systematic utilization of certified reference materials, blanks, and field duplicates.
Comments on Historical Exploration Results and Nearby Deposits & Mines. The historical data in this disclosure (including maps) is related to historical drilling and surface sampling results. EMX and its partners have conducted independent field assessment, including geologic mapping, surface sampling, and in some cases reconnaissance drilling. From this independent work, the Company considers that the historical results are reliable and relevant for guiding and planning follow-up exploration work.
The nearby deposits and mines referenced provide geologic context for EMX’s projects, but this is not necessarily indicative that the projects host similar tonnages or grades of mineralization.
Qualified Person. Michael P. Sheehan, CPG, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and employee of the Company, has reviewed, verified and approved the disclosure of the technical information contained in this news release.
About EMX. EMX is a precious, base and battery metals royalty company. EMX’s investors are provided with discovery, development, and commodity price optionality, while limiting exposure to risks inherent to operating companies. The Company’s common shares are listed on the NYSE American Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “EMX”, and also trade on the Frankfurt exchange under the symbol “6E9”. Please see www.EMXroyalty.com for more information.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This news release may contain “forward looking statements” that reflect the Company’s current expectations and projections about its future results. These forward-looking statements may include statements regarding perceived merit of properties, exploration results and budgets, mineral reserves and resource estimates, work programs, capital expenditures, timelines, strategic plans, market prices for precious and base metal, or other statements that are not statements of fact. When used in this news release, words such as “estimate,” “intend,” “expect,” “anticipate,” “will”, “believe”, “potential” and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements, which, by their very nature, are not guarantees of the Company’s future operational or financial performance, and are subject to risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause the Company’s actual results, performance, prospects or opportunities to differ materially from those expressed in, or implied by, these forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and factors may include, but are not limited to unavailability of financing, failure to identify commercially viable mineral reserves, fluctuations in the market valuation for commodities, difficulties in obtaining required approvals for the development of a mineral project, increased regulatory compliance costs, expectations of project funding by joint venture partners and other factors.
Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this news release or as of the date otherwise specifically indicated herein. Due to risks and uncertainties, including the risks and uncertainties identified in this news release, and other risk factors and forward-looking statements listed in the Company’s MD&A for the quarter ended September 30, 2022 (the “MD&A”), and themost recently filed Annual Information Form (“AIF”) for the year ended December 31, 2021, actual events may differ materially from current expectations. More information about the Company, including the MD&A, the AIF and financial statements of the Company, is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and on the SEC’s EDGAR website at www.sec.gov.
