Prime Mining Corp. (“Prime” or the
“Company”) (TSX-V: PRYM, OTCQX: PRMNF, Frankfurt:
04V3) is reporting expansion drilling results from the Company’s
Los Reyes Project (the “Project”), located in Sinaloa State,
Mexico. These results come from the Z-T Area and are not included
in the Company’s May 2, 2023 Mineral Resource Estimate (“MRE”).
Prime Mining Corp. Chief Executive Officer
Daniel Kunz commented, “The drill results released today continue
to extend the high-grade plunge at the south-east end of the Z-T
Area, known as Tahonitas. Today’s results, along with previously
released holes in this area, have extended mineralization
approximately 250m down-dip from the May 2023 resource pits. We are
excited by how the mineralization in this area is developing and
continue to drill Z-T as part of our success-based drill
program.”
Scott Smith, Executive Vice President of
Exploration, added, “The exploration team is working diligently to
execute on our strategic drilling plan with six drills currently
operating. Today’s release reflects a portion of the Tahonitas
drilling in-progress, as we continue to process and receive
drilling results from Z-T in addition to other expansion and
generative areas.”
Expansion Drilling Highlights in the Z-T
Area:
Tahonitas The Company is
reporting nine core holes in the Tahonitas area that include the
following highlights:
- 2.49 grams per tonne (“gpt”)
gold-equivalent (“AuEq”) (2.11 gpt Au and 29.3 gpt Ag) over 20.1
metres (“m”) estimated true width (“etw”) in hole 23TA-79,
including:
- 6.30 gpt AuEq (5.74 gpt Au and 42.9 gpt
Ag) over 6.3 m etw.
- 2.00 gpt AuEq (1.06 gpt Au and 72.6 gpt
Ag) over 5.5 m etw in hole 23TA-80, including:
- 3.59 gpt AuEq (2.57 gpt Au and 78.5 gpt
Ag) over 1.8 m etw.
- 1.14 gpt AuEq (1.04 gpt Au and 7.7 gpt
Ag) over 4.45 m etw in hole 23TA-73, including:
- 3.51 gpt AuEq (3.26 gpt Au and 19.6 gpt
Ag) over 1.0 m etw.
Figure 1: Expansion drilling
update
Drill Hole
Highlights1
Hole ID |
From (m) |
To (m) |
Interval (m) |
ETW (m) |
Au (gpt) |
Ag (gpt) |
AuEq |
Au Cut-off |
Area |
23TA-72 |
319.35 |
320.20 |
0.85 |
0.85 |
1.07 |
74.8 |
2.04 |
1 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-72 |
361.10 |
362.15 |
1.05 |
1.05 |
0.44 |
4.6 |
0.50 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-73 |
234.55 |
239.15 |
4.60 |
4.45 |
1.04 |
7.7 |
1.14 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
including |
236.60 |
237.65 |
1.05 |
1.00 |
3.26 |
19.6 |
3.51 |
1.0 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-73 |
339.50 |
343.90 |
4.40 |
4.40 |
0.51 |
13.5 |
0.68 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
including |
339.50 |
340.40 |
0.90 |
0.90 |
1.28 |
48.9 |
1.91 |
1.0 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-74 |
417.95 |
425.00 |
7.05 |
6.95 |
0.52 |
7.8 |
0.62 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
including |
422.70 |
424.10 |
1.40 |
1.40 |
1.87 |
13.4 |
2.04 |
1.0 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-75 |
13.50 |
15.00 |
1.50 |
1.45 |
0.49 |
16.1 |
0.70 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-75 |
267.70 |
269.10 |
1.40 |
1.35 |
0.76 |
2.5 |
0.79 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-75 |
285.85 |
289.25 |
3.40 |
3.40 |
0.42 |
4.5 |
0.48 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
including |
285.85 |
286.70 |
0.85 |
0.85 |
1.11 |
4.4 |
1.17 |
1 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-75 |
295.00 |
299.00 |
4.00 |
4.00 |
0.44 |
16.2 |
0.65 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-75 |
303.50 |
305.40 |
1.90 |
1.90 |
0.30 |
59.6 |
1.07 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-76 |
263.70 |
266.00 |
2.30 |
2.15 |
0.32 |
0.9 |
0.33 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-77 |
91.50 |
94.50 |
3.00 |
2.70 |
0.95 |
0.8 |
0.96 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
including |
93.00 |
94.50 |
1.50 |
1.35 |
1.62 |
0.6 |
1.63 |
1 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-78 |
242.50 |
244.00 |
1.50 |
1.50 |
0.39 |
1.0 |
0.40 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-78 |
281.70 |
284.30 |
2.60 |
2.55 |
0.36 |
2.7 |
0.39 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-78 |
292.35 |
295.60 |
3.25 |
3.20 |
1.11 |
44.6 |
1.69 |
1 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-78 |
299.00 |
305.10 |
6.10 |
6.00 |
0.55 |
24.8 |
0.87 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
including |
302.00 |
303.00 |
1.00 |
1.00 |
1.17 |
36.3 |
1.64 |
1 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-79 |
235.90 |
236.80 |
0.90 |
0.80 |
0.62 |
5.3 |
0.69 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-79 |
248.15 |
251.40 |
3.25 |
2.95 |
0.37 |
10.5 |
0.51 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-79 |
289.65 |
311.75 |
22.10 |
20.05 |
2.11 |
29.3 |
2.49 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
including |
301.55 |
308.45 |
6.90 |
6.25 |
5.74 |
42.9 |
6.30 |
1 |
Tahonitas |
including |
303.65 |
306.00 |
2.35 |
2.15 |
11.67 |
46.4 |
12.27 |
1 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-80 |
293.95 |
302.30 |
8.35 |
7.55 |
0.57 |
25.5 |
0.90 |
0.2 |
Tahonitas |
including |
293.95 |
295.00 |
1.05 |
0.95 |
1.82 |
28.4 |
2.19 |
1 |
Tahonitas |
23TA-80 |
306.00 |
312.00 |
6.00 |
5.45 |
1.06 |
72.6 |
2.00 |
1 |
Tahonitas |
including |
307.00 |
309.00 |
2.00 |
1.80 |
2.57 |
78.5 |
3.59 |
1 |
Tahonitas |
1) See
notes below, and the Company's website for further details, and the
full set of drill results.
The nine Tahonitas drill holes summarized in this news release
intersected high grades at meaningful widths, continuing to build
on the mineralized envelope discussed in the Company’s September
12, 2023 news release. The exploration team is targeting specific
areas of these growing high-grade shoots to add Resources within
the Z-T Area pit constrained shapes.
Tahonitas continues to demonstrate higher silver
grades compared to other zones within the Z-T area. These higher
silver grades have the potential to increase the overall AuEq
grades and gold-silver ounces in these areas.
High-grade plunging shoots are still open at
depth and along strike in multiple areas along the Z-T area and
will continue to be a focus of resource expansion drilling for the
remainder of the year.
Figure 2: Z-T Area drilling
update
Figure 3: Z-T
Area long section with drill holes
highlighted (A-A’)
Figure 4: Z-T Area (Tahonitas) cross
section B-B’
With the end of the rainy season last month, the exploration
team has added an additional two drill rigs. Six drill rigs are now
turning at Los Reyes, focusing on:
- extending the high-grade Z-T Area
shoots that remain open at depth, as well as along strike north and
south;
- expanding the two other MRE
resource areas, including the eastern extensions of the Guadalupe
System; and,
- exploring the new generative
targets, which include Las Primas, Mariposa and a return to Mina
21
Prime has completed over 48,000 m of its planned
60,000 m 2023 drill program and will continue to evaluate its
drilling plans using its success-based approach.
Link 1– PDF FigureLink
2 – PDF Drill Hole Tables
Note 1: Gold equivalent grades
are calculated based on an assumed gold price of $US 1700 per ounce
and silver price of $22 per ounce, based on the formula AuEq grade
(gpt) = Au grade + Ag grade x ($22 / $1,700). Metallurgical
recoveries are not considered in the in-situ grade estimate but are
estimated to be 93% and 83% for gold and silver, respectively, when
processed in a mill, and 72% and 25% respectively when
heap-leached.
QA/QC Protocols and Sampling Procedures
Drill core at the Los Reyes project is drilled
in predominately HQ size (63.5 millimetre “mm”), reducing to NQ
(47.6 mm) when required. Drill core samples are generally 1.50 m
long along the core axis with allowance for shorter or longer
intervals if required to suit geological constraints. After logging
intervals are identified to be sampled, the core is cut and one
half is submitted for assay. RC drilling returns rock chips and
fines from a 133.35 mm diameter tricone bit. The returns are
homogenized and split into 2 halves, with one half submitted for
analysis and the other half stored.
Sample QA/QC measures include unmarked certified
reference materials, blanks, and field duplicates as well as
preparation duplicates are inserted into the sample sequence and
make up approximately 8% of the samples submitted to the laboratory
for each drill hole.
Samples are picked up from the Project by the
laboratory personnel and transported to their facilities in Durango
or Hermosillo Mexico, for sample preparation. Sample analysis is
carried out by Bureau Veritas and ALS Labs, with fire assay,
including over limits fire assay re-analysis, completed at their
respective Hermosillo, Mexico laboratories and multi-element
analysis completed in North Vancouver, Canada. Drill core sample
preparation includes fine crushing of the sample to at least 70%
passing less than 2 mm, sample splitting using a riffle splitter,
and pulverizing a 250-gram split to at least 85% passing 75
microns.
Gold in diamond drill core is analyzed by fire
assay and atomic absorption spectroscopy of a 30 g sample (code
FA430 or Au-AA23). Multi-element chemistry is analyzed by 4-Acid
digestion of a 0.25-gram sample split (code MA300 or ME-ICP61) with
detection by inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometer for a
full suite of elements.
Gold assay techniques FA430 and Au-AA23 have an
upper detection limit of 10 ppm. Any sample that produces an
over-limit gold value via the initial assay technique is sent for
gravimetric finish via method FA-530 or Au-GRA21. Silver analyses
by MA300 and ME-ICP61 have an upper limit of 200 ppm and 100 ppm,
respectively. Samples with over-limit silver values are re-analyzed
by fire assay with gravimetric finish FA530 or Au-GRA21.
Both Bureau Veritas and ALS Labs are ISO/IEC
accredited assay laboratories.
Qualified Person
Scott Smith, P.Geo., Executive Vice President of
Exploration, is a qualified person for the purposes of National
Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical
content in this news release.
Additional Notes
Metres is represented by “m”; “etw” is
Estimated True Width and is based on drill hole geometry or
comparisons with other on-section drill holes; “Au” refers to gold,
and “Ag” refers to silver; “gpt” is grams per metric tonne; some
figures may not sum due to rounding; Composite assay grades
presented in summary tables are calculated using a Au grade minimum
average of 0.20 gpt or 1.0 gpt as indicated in “Au Cut-off” column
of Summary Tables. Maximum internal waste included in any reported
composite interval is 3.00 m. The 1.00 gpt Au cut-off is used to
define higher-grade “cores” within the lower-grade halo.
About the Los Reyes Gold and Silver
Project
Los Reyes is a rapidly evolving high-grade, low
sulphidation epithermal gold-silver project located in Sinaloa
State, Mexico. Since acquiring Los Reyes in 2019, Prime has spent
approximately US$32 million on direct exploration activities and
has completed over 158,000 m of drilling. On May 2, 2023, Prime
announced an updated multi-million-ounce high-grade open pit
constrained resource (see below, and refer to Note 1 and the May 2,
2023 press release for more details).
May 2, 2023 Pit Constrained Resource
Statement
Drilling is on-going and suggests that the three
known main deposit areas (Guadalupe, Central and Z-T) are larger
than previously reported. Potential also exists for new discoveries
where mineralized trends have been identified outside of the
currently defined resource areas.
Historic operating results indicate that an
estimated 1 million ounces of gold and 60 million ounces of silver
were recovered from five separate operations at Los Reyes between
1770 and 1990. Prior to Prime’s acquisition, recent operators of
Los Reyes had spent approximately US$20 million on exploration,
engineering, and prefeasibility studies.
About Prime Mining
Prime is managed by an ideal mix of successful
mining executives, strong capital markets personnel and experienced
local operators all focused on unlocking the full potential of the
Los Reyes Project. The company has a well-planned capital structure
with a strong management team and insider ownership.
Prime is targeting a material resource expansion at Los Reyes
through a combination of new generative area discoveries and
growth, while also building on technical de-risking activities to
support eventual project development.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Daniel KunzChief Executive
Officer
For further information, please contact:
Daniel KunzChief Executive
Officer and DirectorPrime Mining Corp.1307 S. Colorado Ave.Boise,
Idaho 83706Telephone: +1 (208) 926-6379 officeemail:
daniel@primeminingcorp.ca
Scott HicksExecutive Vice
PresidentPrime Mining Corp.710 – 1030 West Georgia StreetVancouver,
BC, V6E 2Y3Telephone: +1 (604) 428-6128 officeemail:
scott.hicks@primeminingcorp.ca
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