Mineral Mountain Resources Ltd. Significant New Gold Target Identified at Standby Project Black Hills, South Dakota
Highlights:- Recent drilling on Standby Target continues to intersect and define intense hydrothermal alteration including complex brecciated quartz veining and Homestake-style mineralization over down hole intervals of up to 259 meters (802 feet)
- 2 holes completed, a third hole ST20-012, designed to undercut ST19-011B is in progress
- Over 200 core samples have been submitted to the lab for analysis
- Analytical results will be released after the completion of ST20-13
- East Shear Zone with Homestake-style mineralization now extended to about 900 meters (2,790 feet) from surface and remains open down plunge
- The East Shear Zone extends to at least 1600m (4,960 ft.) to Target 2
- Bore Hole EM will be used to define the contacts of the East Limb Shear on the next drill hole.
VANCOUVER, Jan. 21, 2020 - Mineral Mountain Resources Ltd. and Mineral Mountain Resources (SD) Inc ("Mineral Mountain" or the "Company") (TSXV: "MMV") is very pleased to report that 2 drill holes, ST19-011 and branch hole ST19-011B have now intersected the East Shear at Standby Target 1 Area and a third hole, branch hole ST20-012, designed to undercut ST19-011B, is now in progress.
In branch hole ST19-011B, multiple intervals of moderate to strong arsenopyrite-pyrrhotite mineralization, quartz-flooded, hydrothermal chlorite-altered were intersected and sampled between 462m to 632m (East Limb Shear) (see select photos of mineralized core posted on the website www.mineralmtn.com/projects/rochford/maps-images/. Approximately 200 split core samples have been submitted to the laboratory for gold analysis.
A summary of the two recent drill holes penetrating the East Shear Zone follows:
DDH ST19-11
DDH ST19-11 intersected branches of the East Shear Zone from 374m (1159 ft.) to 633m (1962 ft.) , including a brecciated quartz flooded alteration zone from 373m to 384m with typically 5%, but locally semi-massive arsenopyrite, followed by hydrothermal chlorite altered and quartz flooded Rochford Iron Formation from 538m to 551m, and five major intervals of quartz veining with altered wall rock septa between 584m and 633 m. (see detail arsenopyrite mineralization from 374m (1,159 ft.) to 383m (1,187 ft.) and of quartz-flooded Rochford Iron Formation with pyrrhotite and hydrothermal chlorite posted on the Company's website at www.mineralmtn.com/projects/rochford/maps-images/.
DDH ST19-11B
DDH ST19-11B Intersected the major East Shear Zone from 545m to 633m, which includes, complex brecciated quartz veining with up to 10% hydrothermal chlorite, 3% hydrothermal cummingtonite, up to 3% magnetic pyrrhotite, and trace arsenopyrite from 545m to 578m, followed by chlorite-cummingtonite-chert Rochford Iron Formation with 10% hydrothermal chlorite, 5% hydrothermal cummingtonite, 20% grey quartz flooding, 3% magnetic pyrrhotite, and up to 2% finely disseminated to blady arsenopyrite to 633m (1962 ft.) see quartz vein with hydrothermal chlorite and arsenopyrite in ST19-11B at 553m and centimeter-scale blady arsenopyrite in chert-chlorite-cummingtonite banded iron formation at 582m posted on the Company's website www.mineralmtn.com/projects/rochford/maps-images/.
Qualified Persons
The technical information in this news release has been prepared in accordance with Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101 and reviewed and approved by Nelson W. Baker, P.Eng., the President and CEO of Mineral Mountain Resources Ltd. and a Qualified Person for this project. All exploration activities at the Standby Project are carried out under the strict supervision of Kevin Leonard, P.Geo., also a Qualified Person for this project.
Quality Control
Drill core samples are transported, handled and stored with chain of custody procedures. Core is sawn or split in representative halves with one half submitted to the laboratory for analysis and the second half saved for archival purposes. Typical core samples are 0.5 to 1.5 m in length. Gold (Au) assays are by 30 g fire assay with atomic absorption finish with a lower limit of 0.005 ppm and upper limit of 10 ppm. The 48 element geochemical package, including silver (Ag), uses a 4 acid digestion followed by Induced Coupled Plasma with Atomic Emission Spectrometry (ICP-AES) and Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), when gold values are greater than 10 ppm then the sample is reanalyzed using fire assay with a gravimetric finish. All over limits are also analyzed using the screened metallic method.
The laboratory for the Standby Project is ALS located in Reno, Nevada. ALS is a certified laboratory that used standard reference material and duplicate sampling to ensure quality control. Mineral Mountain routinely sends a set of 4 blind standards as well as one blank sample with every shipment of core. The results of the analysis of the standard material are continuously reviewed to ensure quality assurance.
Mineral Mountain's President and CEO, Nelson W. Baker, commented:
"The Standby Target is an exciting near-term discovery opportunity for the Company. It's multi-kilometer plunge length of structurally thickened iron formation is of sufficient scale to host a large, economic gold resource analogous to the Homestake Mine deposits."
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Mineral Mountain Resources Ltd.
"Nelson W. Baker", President and CEO
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Contact
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