Ethos stakes district-scale gold projects in Quebec and Ontario
Ethos Gold is targeting two major mining projects, one in Northwestern Ontario and the other in Quebec. Craig Roberts, President & CEO of Ethos: "We are very excited to be embarking on this new strategy to acquire district scale gold projects in Canada driven by an outstanding technical team. This team brings a long affiliation with Discovery Group and we look forward to working closely with Discovery Group in pursuing this new strategy. We are currently reviewing several other project opportunities and will announce any additional acquisitions as they occur."
The company is pleased to announce that Rob Carpenter, Ph.D., P.Geo. has joined the Company as Chief Technical Advisor. He will lead a new highly experienced technical advisory team which includes Dr. Robert Brozdowski, Dan MacNeil M.Sc., and Dr. Alan Wainwright. As CEO of Kaminak Gold Corporation, Rob led the Kaminak team from initial listing in 2005 through acquisition and discovery of the multi-million ounce Coffee Gold Project, Yukon. That project was acquired by Goldcorp in 2016 for over $500 million. This team has had a close and successful working relationship over many years leading to a number of significant discoveries and has a long affiliation with Discovery Group of which Ethos is a member. Principals of Discovery Group including John Robins and Jim Paterson are also advisors to Ethos and long-standing shareholders. Ethos is further pleased to announce that Marc L'Heureux, P.Geo., M.A.Sc. has joined the Company as a technical advisor to oversee the Company's activities in Quebec. Finally, Ethos is pleased to announce that Jeff Sundar a long standing member of Discovery Group has joined Ethos as Corporate Development Advisor. Resume's for the new Ethos advisory team are included in the addendum to this news release.
Rob and his team will work closely with Jo Price, VP Exploration of Ethos, to pursue a new strategy by Ethos to acquire and explore district scale gold projects in Canada. To initiate this strategy, based on the recommendations of the new advisory team, Ethos has recently staked two projects: the Schefferville Gold Project in Quebec and the Fuchsite Lake Gold Project in Ontario.
Schefferville Gold Project, Quebec
In Quebec, Ethos has staked a total of 288 km2 area in two claim blocks: the Sable block (234 km2) is centered 80 kilometers northwest of Schefferville and the Hamard block (54 km2) is centered 35 kilometers due west of Schefferville. The Sable and Hamard claims cover extensive areas of the Lilois Complex, a 2.7 billion-year-old unit characterized by the presence of numerous iron formations, many of which locally host gold mineralization. Sable and Hamard occur within a 20 km wide (east-west) by 70 km long (north-south) corridor along the Quebec - Labrador border. In 1985, a Quebec Ministry field team discovered the Lac du Canoe gold occurrence (up to 18.9 g/t Au). Between 1986 and 1997, follow up work by the Quebec Ministry and several companies resulted in the discovery of approximately forty (40) gold occurrences grading from 1 g/t Au to up to 40 g/t Au in mineralized iron formations with 3-20% pyrrhotite and up to 10% arsenopyrite. Subsequent drilling yielded intervals including 18.1 g/t Au over 0.7m, 5.83 g/t Au over 3.1m, and 1.05 g/t over 12.55m (Quebec Assessment Reports GM45903 & GM66613).
The primary exploration target is sulphidized iron formation, which occurs where the iron formations are cut by late, steep fault and shear structures that were pathways for hydrothermal fluids during deformation and metamorphism. This resulted in suphidization of the iron formations, with attendant gold and arsenopyrite mineralization, along and adjacent to these structures. Additionally, significant mineralization may extend into the bounding paragneisses, and also may be controlled by structures adjacent to contacts of paragneiss and iron formation with various intrusive bodies.
Planned work by Ethos on the Sable and Hamard claims aims to extend systematic gold exploration into geologically analogous but thinly till covered terrain, particularly along the major poorly exposed structures. A detailed aeromagnetic survey is planned for the claim blocks, to assist in defining the regional structural framework, but also (as confirmed possible by examining the results of some small-scale historic ground magnetic surveys) to directly define areas of magnetite-bearing iron formation within the paragneiss that tend to be expressed as subtle magnetic highs where unaltered, and are cut by discrete magnetic low trends where they are altered and sulphidized in areas favorable for gold mineralization. Marc L'Heureux, P.Geo., M.A.Sc. will act as adviser on the Schefferville Gold Project.
Figure 1: Sable and Hamard Projects, Quebec
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Fuchsite Lake Gold Project, Ontario
The newly staked Fuchsite Lake claim block comprises 3750 hectares located 20 km north of the town of Armstrong, Ontario. The southern boundary of the claim block can be accessed by forestry roads that link the property to the nearby town. The target is Archean shear zone hosted gold within deformed and altered ultramafic (fuchsite altered) and mafic volcanic rocks. This setting and rock type association is a major indicator of gold mineralization in many world class gold camps in the Superior Province of Ontario and Quebec.
The prospective shear zones each extend more than 5km along trend and were first identified by regional mapping programs in the 1970's by the Ontario government (OGS Report 251). The region, however, has largely been overlooked by exploration companies. The only recorded work for gold comprises 5 short drill holes (all less than 40m deep) completed on the "Lett Occurrence" in 1981. Drill logs detail extensive hydrothermal alteration, brecciation, quartz veining and sulphide mineralization however no assays are available. The Ontario government sampled this outcropping zone (OGS Report 251) and obtained 1.7 grams per tonne gold and 1.4 grams per tonnes gold from two separate samples. No follow up work has been recorded in nearly 30 years.
The Fuchsite Lake claims represent a new greenfield fault zone gold target that has been overlooked and under explored despite reasonable access and favourable rock types and alteration that commonly accompany large gold discoveries. The presence of anomalous gold in outcrop samples within shears suggest a systematic structural and targeting program on the claim block will help assess the gold potential. Initial work will consist of ground truthing our shear zone model followed by an airborne magnetic survey designed to map out the structural geometry at the property scale.
Figure 2: Fuchsite Lake Project
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The qualified person has not verified the drilling data disclosed in this release, including sampling data and assays. These data come from historical assessment and OGS reports made between 1981 and 1997.
Corporate Update
A technical team recently completed a site visit to the Company's Perk Rocky copper-gold porphyry project. Exploration plans and budgets for this project are current being finalized and Ethos will provide an update on this project shortly. Plans and budgets for the Company's Iron Point gold project in Nevada are also being finalized and an update on this project will be provided shortly. Ethos owns 1.9 million shares of Ridgeline Minerals which holds a portfolio of gold projects in Nevada. Ridgeline is currently completing an IPO priced at $0.45 per unit. As at mid-July Ethos has cash, receivables (primarily Quebec and BC tax and exploration credits) and securities (including the Ridgeline shares) of approximately Cdn $3.4 million.
Financing
Ethos announces the following private placements (collectively, the "Private Placements"):
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a private placement of 10,000,000 units priced at $0.14 per unit for gross proceeds of $1,400,000. Each unit will comprise one common share, and one half of one common share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant will be exercisable into one common share of the Company at an exercise price of $0.20 for a period of two years following closing. The common share purchase warrants will be subject to acceleration at the Company's discretion in the event its common shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange on a volume weighted average price ("VWAP") basis of C$0.40 or more for a period of ten consecutive trading days. Proceeds of this offering will be utilized on the Company's Iron Point project in Nevada and for general working capital.
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an Ontario flow through private placement of 2,000,000 flow through units priced at $0.16 per unit for gross proceeds of $320,000. Each unit will comprise one flow through share, and one half of one non-flow through common share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant will be exercisable into one common share of the Company at an exercise price of $0.22 for a period of two years following closing. The common share purchase warrants will be subject to acceleration at the Company's discretion in the event its common shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange on a volume weighted average price ("VWAP") basis of C$0.40 or more for a period of ten consecutive trading days. Proceeds of this offering will be utilized on the Company's Fuchsite Lake Gold Project in Ontario or on eligible flow through expenditures on other Ontario projects.
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a British Columbia charity flow through private placement of 3,000,000 flow through units priced at $0.18 per unit for gross proceeds of $540,000. Each unit will comprise one flow through share, and one half of one non-flow through common share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant will be exercisable into one common share of the Company at an exercise price of $0.24 for a period of two years following closing. The common share purchase warrants will be subject to acceleration at the Company's discretion in the event its common shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange on a volume weighted average price ("VWAP") basis of C$0.40 or more for a period of ten consecutive trading days. Proceeds of this offering will be utilized on the Company's Perk Rocky copper-gold porphyry project in British Columbia or on eligible flow through expenditures on other British Columbia projects.
Members of the new technical advisory group are expected to participate in certain of the Private Placements. Finder's fees may be paid on a portion of the Private Placements. The Private Placements are subject to the approval of the TSX Venture Exchange and customary closing conditions.
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