Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. {TSX.V: BGM}. announced that additional drilling results from the ongoing 130,000 metre Phase II Island Mountain exploration and infill drilling program at the Company’s flagship Cariboo Gold Project have confirmed short range continuity of the vein systems and expanded a veining corridor at depth in the Shaft Zone.
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BGM DISCOVERS 53.26 G/T AU OVER 11.55 METRES AT SHAFT ZONE
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September 6th, 2017 – Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. {TSX.V: BGM}. is pleased to announce that additional drilling results from the ongoing 130,000 metre Phase II Island Mountain exploration and infill drilling program at the Company’s flagship Cariboo Gold Project have confirmed short range continuity of the vein systems and expanded a veining corridor at depth in the Shaft Zone.
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The Company is currently exploring and delineating the Valley and Shaft Zones with nine drill rigs, while drill ten is expanding the known mineralization on the BC Vein. Detailed drilling results, a drill hole location plan map and vertical section are presented at the end of this release.
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Phase II Infill Drilling Intersects Additional Mineralisation
A previously unidentified corridor of high tenor veining has been discovered in Phase II drillhole
IM-17-131 which intersected 53.26 g/t Au over 11.55 metres in the Shaft Zone at a vertical depth of 400 metres below surface. This infill drilling discovery is situated 12 metres below drillhole IM-17-138. Further downhole, IM-17-131 also intersected 12.85 g/t Au over 20.00 metres which correlates spatially very well with IM-17-138 having intersected 6.67 g/t Au over 17.10 metres. These new intersections are situated proximal to previously reported drillholes IM-17-124, 18.84 g/t Au over 30.85 metres and IM-17-078, 11.42 g/t Au over 28.55 metres. Additional new mineralization was also discovered by IM-17-138 grading 9.18 g/t Au over 7.40 metres at a vertical depth of 600 metres below surface. These wide corridors of sandstone hosted veining are open for expansion in all directions.
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Qualified Persons
Exploration activities at the Cariboo Gold Project are administered on site by the Company’s Exploration Manager, Maggie Layman, P.Geo. As per National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, Paul Geddes, P.Geo. Vice President Exploration, is the Qualified Person for the Company and has prepared, validated and approved the technical and scientific content of this news release. The Company strictly adheres to CIM Best Practices Guidelines in conducting, documenting, and reporting its exploration activities on the Cariboo Gold Project.
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Quality Assurance – Quality Control
Once received from the drill and processed, all drill core samples are sawn in half, labelled and bagged. The remaining drill core is subsequently stored on site at the Company’s secure facility in Wells, BC. Numbered security tags are applied to lab shipments for chain of custody requirements. The Company inserts quality control (QC) samples at regular intervals in the sample stream, including blanks and reference materials with all sample shipments to monitor laboratory performance. The QAQC program was designed and approved by Lynda Bloom, P.Geo. of Analytical Solutions Ltd., and is overseen by the Company’s Qualified Person, Paul Geddes, P.Geo, Vice President Exploration.
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Drill core samples are submitted to ALS Geochemistry’s analytical facility in North Vancouver, British Columbia for preparation and analysis. The ALS facility is accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025 standard for gold assays and all analytical methods include quality control materials at set frequencies with established data acceptance criteria. The entire sample is crushed and 250 grams is pulverised. Analysis for gold is by 50g fire assay fusion with atomic absorption (AAS) finish with a lower limit of 0.01 ppm and upper limit of 100 ppm. Samples with gold assays greater than 100 ppm are re-analysed using a 1,000g screen metallic fire assay. A selected number of samples are also analysed using a 48 multi-elemental geochemical package by a 4-acid digestion, followed by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES) and Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy (ICP-MS).
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For further information on Barkerville Gold Mines Ltd. please contact:
Chris Lodder
President & Chief Executive Officer.
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