Midnight

Highlights:

  • Sheeted gold bearing vein zone 200 meters wide traceable for 650 meters.
  • Historic mines exploited in the early 1900s with the deepest shaft in the Gold Springs Project displaying very high-grade veins which have assayed as high as 57.3 g/t Au.
  • Scattered high-grade float material downslope of Midnight ranging up to 22.4 g/t Au.
  • This target has significant potential.

Description:

The Midnight target is located 2,700 meters west of the South Jumbo resource and displays multiple parallel sheeted calcite-quartz veins, breccia and stockwork zones over widths of up to 200 meters and that can be traced for 650 meters along strike before being obscured by post mineral gravels in all directions.Several historic workings are located on high-grade veins at Midinght including the deepest shaft within the Gold Springs project. The large dump indicates there was extensive roduction from the Midnight mine, but no historical records have been found.

Historical Mining:

Historic underground mine operated in the early 1900s with the deepest shaft in Gold Springs, (estimated at 200 meters) displaying very high-grade veins grading up to 57.3 g/t of gold.

Drilling Results:

The first drilling at Midnight is expected to start in September 2021 and will target areas of historic mining and areas producing high-grade gold samples.

Resource:

None at this time.

Geology:

Mineralization consists of multiple parallel zones hosting sheeted, calcite-quartz veins, breccia and stockwork development within strong silicification.

  • System Type: Epithermal, high-grade, banded, quartz veining, with widespread breccia, and stockwork zones representing an open-pit target
  • Strike-Length: Midnight has an exposed strike length of 650 metres and a width of over 200 metres before being obscured by post mineral gravels in all directions.
  • Structural Geology: The Midnight target is bound by two major north-south trending right-lateral faults in a similar structural setting as the South Jumbo resource. These bounding faults are the Horseshoe, on the west, and the Gold Springs, on the east. Lateral movement along thesestructures created stepover faulting seen cutting through the area of exposed mineralization. In addition, there are shallow east-dipping veins and fractures that could create mineralized, horizontal pipe-like zones where they intersect the vein sets. This is a similar configuration to the higher-grade features seen at the South Jumbo resource.

Geophysics:

There is a strong north-south oriented resistivity high anomaly centered on the Midnight target as identified in the airborne ZTEM geophysical survey. The anomaly extends past the exposed mineralization and to the north it adjoins a strong northeast trending ZTEM resistivity anomaly along which the Thor resource and the Camp Bell target are located.

Geochemistry:

Historical mining in the area was focused on individual quartz-calcite veins up to 2 metres wide that grade up to 57.32 g/t gold with 59.4 g/t silver. Wide areas of brecciation and stockwork vein development are seen in zones of intense silicification. These often produce surface sample results in excess of 0.5 g/t Au and up to 1.42 g/t Au. The Company has conducted extensive sampling in the past, and has collected high-grade veins samples that returned with gold values of up to 57.3 g/t Au gold with 59.4 g/t silver.

In 2020 GRC completed a detailed mapping program with associated surface sampling. Gold results from this work greater than 0.25 g/t Au (cutoff grade of the existing resources at Gold Springs) are listed below followed by past sampling efforts of the Company.

Table: Recent Rock Chip Sampling Results from Midnight:

Sample
Sample Type
Description
Au (g/t)
Ag (g/t)

87268 

Discontinuous chip, 1m 

Banded quartz-calcite vein in altered andesite 

0.56

5.1

87270 

Float  

Banded/bladed calcite-quartz vein boulder 

0.43

2.9

87272 

Discontinuous chip, 0.5m 

Banded/bladed quartz-calcite vein in altered host andesite.  

1.31

12.3

87273 

Grab, 20 cm 

Silicification and stockwork veining 

0.56

4.6

87274 

Grab, 15cm 

Stockwork quartz veining in strongly altered andesite. 

1.42

10.1

87277 

Discontinuous chip, 2m 

Quartz-sericite altered andesite  

0.42

3.9

87283 

Discontinuous chip, 1m 

Banded and bladed quartz-calcite vein  

0.81

7.7

87285 

Grab, 10cm 

Banded and bladed quartz-calcite vein in altered andesite 

2.21

3.3

87286 

Dump 

Calcite-quartz vein, fault hosted with clay altered margins containing andesite clast 

3.94

6.7

87287 

Discontinuous chip, 0.5m 

Stockwork quartz veining in pervasively silicified andesite 

0.36

3.2

225206 

Dump 

Banded calcite-quartz vein and stockwork veining 

0.37

<0.5

225208 

Dump 

Quartz-calcite vein 

0.69

2.9

A cutoff grade of 0.25 g/t Au was used for the samples, which is the cutoff grade for the existing resources at Gold Springs.

Table: Previous Rock Chip Sampling Results from Midnight:

Sample 

Sample Type  

Description 

Au (g/t) 

Ag (g/t) 

33853 

dump 

Vuggy, bladed quartz vein 

57.32 

59.4 

33893 

outcrop 

Quartz vein 

0.60 

33896 

float 

Quartz veinlets 

0.91 

2.8 

33897 

dump 

Quartz after calcite vein 

0.69 

6.1 

33898 

float 

Quartz after calcite vein 

0.35 

1.2 

33899 

dump 

Gossan with silicification  

5.75 

25.4 

102527 

dump 

Veins from Midnight dump 

1.72 

3.5 

102530 

outcrop 

Bladed quartz-calcite vein 

0.93 

4.3 

102531 

outcrop 

Quartz-calcite vein zone  

0.29 

3.7 

102532 

outcrop 

Banded quartz vein 

0.59 

7.1 

102533 

outcrop 

2 meters banded quartz vein 

0.75 

16 

102587 

outcrop 

2 meters banded quartz vein 

0.30 

12.1 

102589 

outcrop 

3 meters quartz vein 

0.25 

8.4 

102591 

outcrop 

2 meters quartz-calcite vein 

0.27 

6.2 

113299 

Trench Channel 

2 meters stockwork veining 

0.74 

2.7 

113311 

Trench Channel 

2 meters stockwork veining 

0.46 

10.3 

113312 

Trench Channel 

2 meters stockwork veining 

0.77 

9.7 

113313 

Trench Channel 

2 meters stockwork veining 

0.52 

5.7 

113315 

Trench Channel 

2 meters stockwork veining 

0.56 

6.2 

87381 

Trench Channel 

2 meters stockwork veining 

0.40 

1.9 

87382 

 Trench Channel 

2 meters stockwork veining 

1.20 

6.3 

87396 

Trench Channel 

2 meters stockwork veining 

1.06 

16.5 

87397 

Trench Channel 

2 meters stockwork veining 

0.47 

7.2 

54298 

outcrop 

Quartz-calcite vein and stockwork zone 

1.83 

8.3 

54299 

outcrop chip 2’

Clay altered andesite 

0.43 

2.4 

54300 

outcrop chip 2’

Stockwork veining 

0.48 

0.9 

52913 

outcrop chip 10’ 

Stockwork veining 

0.70 

52927 

outcrop chip 6’ 

Stockwork veining 

0.49 

2.1 

52928 

outcrop chip 3’ 

Stockwork veining 

0.38 

3.3 

52929 

outcrop chip 18” 

Quartz-calcite vein 

0.27 

52930 

outcrop chip 4’ 

Quartz-calcite vein 

0.73 

5.7 

102627 

 Trench Channel 

Quartz-calcite vein 

0.81 

102630 

 Trench Channel 

Quartz vein and brecciated andesite 

1.15 

5.9 

102631 

 Trench Channel 

Quartz-calcite vein 

0.99 

3.9 

102632 

 Trench Channel 

Quartz vein and brecciated andesite 

0.74 

1.9 

102633 

 Trench Channel 

Quartz vein 

1.05 

8.3 

40701 

 Trench Channel 

2 meters andesite breccia and stockwork veins  

0.25 

0.9 

40708 

 Trench Channel 

2 meters massive quartz vein 

1.16 

4.9 

40709 

 Trench Channel 

2 meters massive vein and brecciated andesite 

0.39 

3.7 

40710 

 Trench Channel 

2 meters fractured andesite 

0.32 

1.1 

40711 

 Trench Channel 

2 meters silicified brecciated with quartz vein 

0.52 

4.8 

40712 

 Trench Channel 

2 meters massive quartz vein 

0.42 

2.4 

40713 

 Trench Channel 

2 meters massive quartz vein 

0.66 

6.7 

A cutoff grade of 0.25 g/t Au was used for the samples, which is the cutoff grade for the existing resources at Gold Springs.

 

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