Tectonic Gold Plc Further Drilling Update

 
TIDMTTAU 
 
12 January 2021 
 
                               TECTONIC GOLD PLC 
                      ("Tectonic Gold" or the "Company") 
 
                 FURTHER GOLD MINERALISATION FROM SPECIMEN HILL 
 
                  AND COMMENCEMENT OF MOUNT CASSIDY DRILLING 
 
Tectonic Gold plc (TDIM: TTAU), the Intrusive Related Gold System ("IRGS") 
explorer, is pleased to announce further drilling success from the December 
2020 program at Specimen Hill in Queensland, Australia, and commencement of 
drilling at the nearby Mt Cassidy discovery, following a short break from field 
work over the Christmas Holiday period. 
 
Specimen Hill Highlights: 
 
  * Assays from hole SHRC24 returned with 2m @ 3.69 g/t Au, from 79m. 
 
  * Maintains the 100% track record of Tectonic's drill targeting 
  * Extends the drill tested zone at Specimen Hill to 800m of a 4km+ 
    mineralised corridor 
  * 500+ samples being pre-screened for assay 
  * A geological map is provided at this link 
      + http://www.tectonicgold.com/site/PDF/ 
        8effb993-6049-4f39-8a0c-146055ef6767/20210112SpecimenHill4kmStrike 
  * Drilling at Specimen Hill will recommence following the Mt Cassidy program 
    currently underway 
 
Mount Cassidy Highlights: 
 
  * Previous testing returned assays of +30g/t gold 
  * Tectonic has completed extensive geochemical and deep penetrating 
    geophysical mapping 
  * Textbook IRGS system identified which had been overlooked by previous 
    explorers 
  * Drilling began on 9 January 2021 
  * An initial 1,500m is budgeted to test targets down to 200m 
 
Following a 1,500 metre drilling campaign at Mount Cassidy, drilling will 
return to Specimen Hill to test the Southern Copper target which returned 16% 
copper and 9g/t gold from surface sampling. 
 
Mr. Brett Boynton, Managing Director - Tectonic Gold Plc 
 
"It is extremely encouraging to open the New Year with another gold hit 
following the success of the campaign in December. Hole SHRC24 takes us out to 
about 800m of the 4km long strike being successfully tested at depth. We sent 
material from these first few holes for rapid assay turnaround prior to 
Christmas so that we can use them as a baseline to filter the remaining 
samples. We now have over 500 samples being prepped that will be scanned with 
XRF scanners calibrated to the known assays from December. XRF scanning 
provides a quick and cost-effective way to identify the best samples containing 
gold/silver/copper mineralisation to send for assay going forward ensuring 
efficiencies on time and budget. 
 
This project is already showing the characteristics of a very large system and 
to provide some content, we have posted a map to the website at: 
 
  * http://www.tectonicgold.com/site/PDF/8effb993-6049-4f39-8a0c-146055ef6767/ 
    20210112SpecimenHill4kmStrike 
 
From the Main Lodes in the North East to Southern Copper in the South West, 
Tectonic has mapped a 4km+ strike with detailed geochemistry and deep 
penetrating geophysical reconnaissance. It is important to note that the system 
remains open at both ends and at depth; and in due course we intend to map it 
further. For comparison, the "Super Pit" at Kalgoorlie, one of Australia's most 
prolific mines, is 2.6km in length. 
 
Tectonic is the first company to have taken a regional scale approach to 
looking at the known gold occurrences at Specimen Hill. The patient years of 
fieldwork and analytics, digitising this data and utilising our proprietary 
IRGS exploration approach to stitch together a largely "blind" or under cover 
system, are now paying off. The drilling completed prior to the December break 
has proven up 800m of this 4km long strike with intersections targeted at about 
100m depth consistently showing medium to high grade over a few metres within a 
wider 5m to 10m+ lower grade halo. We look forward to returning to Specimen 
Hill at Southern Copper as soon as we have completed the initial 1,500m at Mt 
Cassidy. 
 
The team is very excited to be drilling Mt Cassidy. It is a fantastic 
discovery, made possible through our in-house developed Intrusive Related Gold 
System exploration IP. This has been well supported over many years by the 
Australian Federal Government and we are pleased to be delivering on our 
promise to them to make the new generation of Australian gold discoveries and 
help drive the gold industry forward. 
 
As soon as we have completed the initial drilling at Mt. Cassidy, we will 
relocate back to Specimen Hill and drill Southern Copper at the South Western 
end of the strike. This is a new discovery following the 2019 bush fires in the 
region clearing the ground for the first time in a generation and allowing our 
geologists to survey the area. We were hopeful of a discovery, as our airborne 
"SAM Survey" geophysics had shown the Specimen Hill system extended through 
this area and we were rewarded with assays above expectations of 16% copper and 
9g/t gold from surface sampling. 
 
For the team this is going to be a busy quarter and for investors we expect to 
have plenty of news flow from both Specimen Hill and Mount Cassidy." 
 
Results (including SHRC24) 
 
  Hole ID       Easting          Northing          RL         AZI      Dip  Total Depth 
               MGA94 z56         MGA94 z56        (AHD)      (MAG)              (m) 
 
  SHRC17        270,816          7,321,726         547        055      -66      104 
 
              * 7m @ 3.01g/t Au; 2.33 g/t Ag and 0.14% Cu from 96m 
              * Incl. 1m @ 16.30g/t Au; 8.31 g/t Ag and 0.34% Cu from 98m, and 
              * 3m @ 6.95 g/t Au; 5.09 g/t Ag and 0.32% Cu from 98m. 
 
  SHRC20        270,999          7,321,843         552        214      -70      150 
 
              * 9m @ 0.84 g/t Au; 0.62g/t Ag and 0.19% Cu from 18m 
              * Incl. 1m @ 2.37g/t Au from 18m, and 
              * 1m @ 0.85 g/t Au; 2.58 g/t Ag and 1.56% Cu from 23m. 
 
  SHRC22        271,950          7,321,675         582        144      -70      200 
 
              * 1m @ 1.23g/t Au; 15.85 g/t Ag and 1.77% Cu from 136m 
 
  SHRC24        270,563         7,321,441         560        105      -65       104 
 
              * 2m @ 3.69 g/t Au, from 79m. 
 
 
Samples from the remaining 6 holes have been logged with very similar 
characteristics being observed. We expect assays from these holes to return 
similar results with gold, silver and copper mineralisation. 
 
The mineralisation is held in a textbook hydrothermal breccia zone which is 
tightly controlled within the Andrews Gulley and Specimen Hill shear zones. The 
strike of the system that has been mapped and sampled at surface, extending 
over 4kms. This is identified to be open in both directions and further 
exploration will likely increase this length of the mineralised corridor. 
Further drill testing of this mineralised corridor provides evidence of 
Tectonic's initial assessment that the Specimen Hill prospect is a large-scale 
polymetallic system with multi-million-ounce potential. 
 
About the Specimen Hill Prospect: 
 
Specimen Hill has produced over 8,000ozs of gold from historic small-scale 
surface mining with grades reported up to 40g/t Au. 
 
Tectonic Gold has identified a large Intrusive Related Gold System (IRGS) 
manifesting as a 4km long mineralised corridor at the Specimen Hill and has 
identified the possibility of a much larger system under cover. 
 
Gold, copper and silver mineralisation within the known 4km corridor manifests 
itself near surface as a polymetallic, high-sulphidation (HS) system that has 
been enriched by late-stage intermediate-low sulphidation (IS-LS) gold 
mineralisation. At depth, Tectonic is seeing that this is a gold-copper 
porphyry co-incident with a high-temperature magnetite rich core (identified at 
Specimen Hill and Southern Copper Targets which are associated with high copper 
and gold grades). 
 
Rock chip samples from surface skarn outcrops mapped so far over the area of 
18 km2 have returned grades of consistently elevated Au, Ag and Cu. 
 
Tectonic has recently completed a second drilling campaign at Specimen Hill. 
All holes have intersected mineralization at depths to over 100m from surface, 
validating the continuity of both geology and grade observed at surface. 
 
About the Mount Cassidy Prospect: 
 
The Mount Cassidy prospect is located near Tectonic Gold's flagship Specimen 
Hill project, approximately 50km NW of the regional centre of 
Rockhampton, Queensland Australia. 
 
A large ovoid 4km2 magmatic hydrothermal IRGS system, confirmed from mineral 
chemistry and geophysical research, has been further assessed through a 
collaborative research project between CODES and Tectonic Gold. 
 
Gold bearing veins emanating within this porphyry system have been historically 
mined with grades of 15g/t Au recorded from selective mining. 
 
Geological mapping of the hydrothermal system at Mount Cassidy has confirmed 
classic porphyry style potassic and phyllic alteration over a large area that 
has been overprinted by gold bearing fluids emanating from a regional 
reidel-style shear system that cross-cuts the prospect. 
 
About Tectonic Gold: 
 
Tectonic Gold is a specialist gold exploration company, focused on the 
identification and delineation of large-scale, multimillion-ounce Intrusion 
Related Gold Systems ("IRGS"). Tectonic Gold holds a number of gold discoveries 
in the New England Orogen in Eastern Australia, a prolific gold region that is 
home to Australia's two largest gold production companies, Newcrest Mining and 
Evolution Mining. Rio Tinto, one of the largest copper companies in the world 
has recently taken a large tenement alongside Tectonic's Specimen Hill project. 
 
Qualified Persons: 
 
Mr Jonathan Robbeson - BSc (Hons1), MEconGeol, MMinEng, (CP Geo) is a full time 
employee Signature Gold Limited and is a registered Chartered Professional 
(Geology) with the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM - 
304542). Mr Robbeson has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of 
mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and the activity being

undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the Note for Mining 
Oil & Gas Companies, June 2009, of the London Stock Exchange and the 2012 
Edition of the 'Australian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral 
Resources and Ore Reserves' (JORC Code). Mr Robbeson consents to the inclusion 
in the release of the matters based on his information in the form and context 
in which it appears. 
 
Table 1 information for this release can be found on the Company website. 
 
The Directors of the Company accept responsibility for the contents of this 
announcement. 
 
For further information, please contact: 
 
Tectonic Gold plc                                             +61 2 9241 7665 
Brett Boynton 
Sam Quinn 
www.tectonicgold.com. 
@tectonic_gold 
 
 
VSA Capital Limited 
Financial Adviser, AQSE Corporate Adviser and Broker 
                                                    +44 20 3005 5000 
Andrew Raca - Corporate Finance 
Andrew Monk - Corporate Broking 
 
Ends 
 
The information contained within this announcement is deemed by the Company to 
constitute inside information as stipulated under the Market Abuse Regulations 
(EU) No. 596/2014. Upon the publication of this announcement via a Regulatory 
Information Service, this inside information is now considered to be in the 
public domain. 
 
 
 
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