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VANCOUVER, BC, July 20, 2020
VANCOUVER, BC, July 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - Tectonic Metals Inc. (TSXV: TECT) (the "Company" or "Tectonic") today announced that Rotary Air Blast ("RAB") drilling commenced on the Company's Tibbs Gold Project ("Tibbs"), less than 35 kilometres ("km") from Northern Star Resources Ltd.'s high-grade Pogo Gold Mine in Alaska's Goodpaster Mining District. Initial drilling at Tibbs is targeting expansion of the Company's 2019 drill discovery of 6.03 grams per tonne gold ("g/t Au") over 28.95 metres ("m") at the Michigan Zone. Immediately following the Tibbs drill campaign, Tectonic will launch the first drill program in over 20 years on the Company's Seventymile Gold Project, which covers a >40 km long, underexplored greenstone belt in eastern Alaska. Each drill program is projected to consist of approximately 2,500m of RAB drilling, with an average hole length of 100m.
Tony Reda, President & CEO, states, "Drilling creates value, yet it can also destroy value. As part of our business model, we assess the risk versus the reward versus the cost of capital to execute a drill program before making any decision. Given our strong treasury in conjunction with the compelling targets and the untapped potential at our Tibbs and Seventymile projects, the Tectonic team has unanimously concluded that we must move forward with two drill programs this summer. The truth machine is currently hard at work at our Tibbs Project following up on last year's drill intercept of roughly 6.0 g/t Au over 29.0m. It will work through at least three exciting discovery-stage targets at Tibbs before moving to our Seventymile Project for our first-ever drill program on this underexplored greenstone belt. Health and safety are always at the forefront of our minds, and even more so now. We have a robust, COVID-19 mitigation plan in place to protect our employees, contractors, and the communities in which we work, and are excited to provide our shareholders exposure to two potentially game-changing drill programs."
Tibbs Gold Project – Stepping Out on 2019 Drill Success
The Tibbs Gold Project is located less than 35km from Northern Star Resources' operating Pogo Mine in the Goodpaster Mining District of Alaska. Tectonic's first drill campaign at Tibbs in 2019 (view press release here: https://www.tectonicmetals.com/news/tectonic-metals-drills-603-gt-au-over-2895-metres-discovering-new-mineralized-structure-at-tibbs-property), encountered 6.03 g/t Au over 28.95m at the Michigan Zone, one of twenty-one gold targets presently known at Tibbs that have the potential for near-surface, high-grade, lode gold mineralization. Drilling in 2020 will focus on stepping out from this highlight drill intercept at Michigan, while also testing for additional Michigan-style structures along a 3km long prospective corridor.
Seventymile Gold Project – Underexplored 40 km Long Greenstone Belt
The Seventymile Project is comprised of approximately 149,900 acres of land owned by Doyon, Limited ("Doyon"), a top tier Alaska Native Regional Corporation with more than 12.5 million acres of land in Alaska and over 20,000 shareholders. Tectonic and Doyon signed a milestone exploration and production lease agreement on Seventymile in the summer of 2018. In April 2020, Tectonic welcomed Doyon via a strategic equity financing, becoming the Company's single, largest shareholder and further solidifying the relationship between the two entities.
The highly prospective, 8km Flume orogenic gold trend is located in the northwestern region of the underexplored 40km long late Paleozoic greenstone belt, which constitutes the Seventymile Property. Tectonic's 2020 RAB drilling at Seventymile will test up to six highly prospective top-of-bedrock gold targets that coincide with gold-in-soil and geophysical anomalies within the Flume trend. The six main targets are the Flanders, East Flanders, Deep Creek, Bonanza Creek, Flume-Bonanza Link, and Flume prospects. In each case, drilling will test prospective shear structures occurring at major lithologic contacts and directly beneath high-tenor gold anomalies from 2019 top-of-bedrock sampling.
Seventymile Drill Targets
In 2019, Tectonic's Geoprobe top-of bedrock sampling program defined a new 465m long, highly anomalous top-of-bedrock gold trend located immediately southwest of the Flanders prospect. This trend is situated entirely outside of the basalt, where historic surface shovel soil sampling failed to recover anomalous gold values due to +3m thick permafrost and organic soil cover. The new gold trend, open to the east and west, contains 14 Geoprobe assays exceeding 0.15 g/t Au, four exceeding 0.30 g/t Au, and a peak value of 2.47 g/t Au. The zone also includes a 5 to 10m wide, 350m long high-grade corridor, which is supported by 2018 power auger soil sampling results in its western and extreme eastern areas. The Company interprets this newly defined gold trend as a previously unrecognized, steeply south-dipping shear zone, which may represent the feeder structure to the historically drilled tension gash quartz veins.
Qualified Person
Tectonic's disclosure of a technical or scientific nature in this press release has been reviewed, verified and approved by Eric Buitenhuis, M.Sc., P.Geo., Tectonic's Vice President Exploration, who serves as a Qualified Person under the definition of National Instrument 43-101.
About Tectonic
Tectonic Metals Inc. is a mineral exploration company created and operated by an experienced and well-respected technical and financial team with a track record of wealth creation for shareholders. Key members of the Tectonic team were involved with Kaminak Gold Corporation, the company that raised C$165 million to fund the acquisition, discovery and advancement of the Coffee Gold Project in the Yukon Territory through to the completion of a bankable feasibility study before selling the multi-million ounce gold project to Goldcorp Inc. (now Newmont Goldcorp) for C$520 million in 2016.
Tectonic is focused on the acquisition, exploration, discovery and development of mineral resources from district-scale projects in politically stable jurisdictions that have the potential to host world-class orebodies.
Tectonic believes that responsible mineral exploration and development can positively impact the communities in which the company lives and operates and is committed to early and ongoing community engagement, best practices in environmental stewardship and the development of a strong safety culture. Whether at home or at work, the Tectonic team is grounded on the following core values: passion, integrity, patience, focus, perseverance, honesty, fairness, accountability, respect and a play big mindset. The company works for its shareholders and is committed to creating value for them.
On behalf of Tectonic Metals Inc.,
Tony Reda
President and Chief Executive Officer
For further information about Tectonic Metals Inc. or this news release, please visit our website at www.tectonicmetals.com or contact Tony Reda, President & CEO of Tectonic, at toll-free 1.888.858.9887 or by email at [email protected].
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Although Tectonic considers these beliefs and assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available to it, they may prove to be incorrect, and the forward-looking statements in this release are subject to numerous risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause future results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements necessarily involve known and unknown risks, including, without limitation: the Company's ability to implement its business strategies; risks associated with mineral exploration and production; risks associated with general economic conditions; adverse industry events; marketing and transportation costs; loss of markets; volatility of commodity prices; inability to access sufficient capital from internal and external sources, and/or inability to access sufficient capital on favourable terms; industry and government regulation; changes in legislation, income tax and regulatory matters; competition; currency and interest rate fluctuations; and other risks.
Readers are further cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as there can be no assurance that the plans, intentions or expectations upon which they are placed will occur. Such information, although considered reasonable by management at the time of preparation, may prove to be incorrect and actual results may differ materially from those anticipated. Forward-looking statements contained in this news release are expressly qualified by this cautionary statement. Although Tectonic 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. There can be no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Tectonic does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
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