Signature increases land position by over 1,500% by staking 38 claims
The new claims were staked along a 22 kilometer gold trend. — Photo courtesy Signature Resources Ltd.
Signature Resources Ltd. (TSXV:SGU) (OTCQB:SGGTF) ("Signature" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has staked 38 claims totaling 9,280 hectares. The Company is aware of numerous mineral occurrences throughout the new staked claims, including one area with over 40 reported occurrences.
“This 1,500% increase in our land position is an exciting acquisition for Signature Resources. The land package includes numerous mineral occurrences that have been under-explored. Beyond the known occurrences, the contact zone and regional structural settings have never been adequately assessed for gold mineralization. We intend to explore these regional geologic features with state of the art methods, which includes vectoring by geophysics, geochemistry and geological modelling,” commented Walter Hanych, President and CEO of Signature Resources.
A PDF of the Lingman Lake Property Map is available at: http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/45aa9d4c-5ee6-4224-8e02-37cd8157d218
The new claims were staked along a 22 kilometer gold trend. The trend is defined by the contact between volcanic and granitic rocks along the north margin of the Lingman Lake Greenstone belt. The Lingman Lake gold deposit, known as the Lingman Lake Gold mine, which Signature is currently actively exploring and developing and which hosts an historic estimate of 234,684 oz of gold, is associated with this contact.
The area with over 40 reported mineralized occurrences is located 15-kilometers west of Signature’s Lingman Lake Gold Mine property. Numerous blast trenches and limited drilling have been performed in the past in this area. Gold, silver, molybdenite, galena, chalcopyrite and sphalerite mineralization have been reported from these occurrences.
With this acquisition, Signature land holding amounts to 9,896.8 hectares of land available for gold exploration within the Lingman Lake Greenstone Belt.
Exploration Plan for 2017
The Company will be continuing to review historical assessment filings, among other data available on the claims that have been staked. This additional data will be considered as the Company works through its 2017 exploration plan which can be found in the investor presentation on the Company’s website.
Qualified Persons
The scientific and technical content of this press release has been prepared, reviewed and approved by Walter Hanych P.Geo. and President-CEO of Signature Resources who is a Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101 - Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.
About Signature
The Lingman Lake gold property consists of four free hold patented claims and the fifty staked claims, comprising 9,896.8 hectares. The property hosts an historic estimate of 234,684 oz of gold* (1,063,904 tonnes grading 6.86 g/t with 2.73 gpt cut-off) and includes what has historically been referred to as the Lingman Lake Gold Mine, an underground substructure consisting of a 126.5-meter shaft, and 3-levels at 46-meters, 84-meters and 122-meters depths.
*This historical resource estimate is based on prior data and reports obtained and prepared by previous operators, and information provided by governmental authorities. A Qualified Person has not done sufficient work to verify the classification of the mineral resource estimates in accordance with current CIM categories. The Company is not treating the historical estimate as a current NI 43-101-compliant mineral resource estimate. Establishing a current mineral resource estimate on the Lingman Lake deposit will require further evaluation, which the Company and its consultants intend to complete in due course. Additional information regarding historical resource estimates is available in the technical report entitled, “Technical Report on the Lingman Lake Property” dated December 20, 2013, prepared by Walter Hanych, P.Geo., and Frank Racicot, P.Geo., available on the Company’s SEDAR profile at www.sedar.com
To find out more about Signature Resources Limited, visit our website at www.signatureresources.ca or contact: Walter Hanych, Chief Executive Officer
Cautionary Notes
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