Evergold Corp. (TSX-V: EVER, WKN: A2PTHZ)(“Evergold” or the “Firm”) is happy to report assay outcomes for 2 core holes (DEM24-04 and DEM24-05) accomplished on the DEM Mountain Zone close to Fort St. James, B.C. in early October this yr, in comply with as much as extremely encouraging outcomes from an preliminary 3-hole drill program (DEM23-01,02,03), carried out in fall 2023 (see information, January 15, 2024). The DEM Mountain Zone consists of a polymetallic sulphide-bearing vein and vein-breccia and associated alteration system hosted inside what’s interpreted to be a zone of hornfels developed round an intrusive centre (see figures, under). The newest outcomes, mixed with these of the autumn 2023 program, exhibit a broad zone endowed regionally with elevated treasured and high-value important components, every regionally exhibiting excessive grades on the stage of particular person half to 2 metre lengths in core samples, or consecutive samples, together with values to highs of 8.37% antimony (DEM24-05), 29.5 g/t gold (DEM23-03), 182 g/t silver (DEM23-03), 0.12% cobalt (DEM23-03), 42 g/t tellurium (DEM23-03), 0.83% molybdenum (DEM23-02), 3.7 g/t rhenium (DEM23-02), and 0.32% tungsten (DEM23-01). Usually, the entire higher-grade intervals are related to, or encompassed by, an envelope of anomalous pathfinder components and gold and silver. For instance, an estimated true width 48 metres of 0.58 g/t gold and 11 g/t silver in DEM23-03, and 135 metres of 0.12 g/t Au from floor in DEM23-01.
Highlights, DEM Mountain Zone (Notice: Drill outcomes from 2023 core holes DEM23-01 and DEM23-02, which collared within the anomalous zone, coupled with gridded soil pattern outcomes, recommend that the DEM Mountain Zone approaches floor. Antimony is presently valued at roughly $US33,000 per tonne, or roughly 3.5 instances the worth of copper. See feedback under.)
- Excessive-grade antimony: The DEM Mountain Zone delivers the best grades of antimony seen in precise drilling from any Canadian mineral prospect lately. This consists of particular person core assay highs to 8.37% antimony over 0.50 metre inside 40 metres of 0.42% antimony in DEM24-05, together with 3.60% antimony over 2.5 metres (see core images, under). Notice: the trade usually considers “considerably elevated” grades of antimony mineralization as containing better than 0.40% antimony and cut-offs for extraction functions could also be as little as 0.1% antimony.
- Excessive-grade antimony with elevated silver, and a few gold: 1.67% antimony (not beforehand reported) with 182 g/t silver and 2.89 g/t gold over half a metre in DEM23-03 (core images, under).
- Excessive-grade gold, with some antimony, cobalt and high-grade tellurium: 29.5 g/t gold and 22 g/t silver with 0.09% antimony, 0.12% cobalt, and 41.5 g/t tellurium over half a metre in DEM23-03 (core images, under).
- A broad zone: The DEM Mountain Zone, as outlined by seen alteration and the persistence, sample-to-sample throughout the zone of extremely elevated values of its varied defining components – significantly manganese and arsenic – is broad within the two instructions Evergold has intersected it from to this point – i.e. an estimated 48 metres true width from 303 to 351.2 metres in west azimuth gap DEM23-03, and an estimated 40 metres (true width unknown) from 344 to 384 metres in south drilling gap DEM24-05.
- Wealthy in high-value components: The DEM Mountain Zone carries a powerful array of high-value components: system pathfinder components manganese and arsenic; treasured metals gold and silver; and demanding mineral components antimony, zinc, copper, cobalt, tellurium, molybdenum, rhenium and tungsten.
- Native higher-to-high grades of all of the above components: The foregoing components have been proven to be strongly elevated to high-grade on the stage of particular person samples or consecutive samples, together with antimony to pattern highs of 3.6% Sb over 2.5 metres together with 8.4% Sb over half a metre in DEM24-05, tellurium to highs of 42.0 g/t Te over half a metre in DEM23-03, cobalt to pattern highs of 0.12% over half a metre in DEM23-03, molybdenum to highs of 0.82% Mo over 1 metre in DEM23-02, rhenium to highs of 3.7 g/t Re over 1 metre in DEM23-02, and tungsten to highs of 0.32% W over 1 metre in DEM23-01.
“Antimony has emerged as a spotlight for speculative curiosity this yr, due to its outsize position in varied know-how and navy functions, and provide shortages precipitated by China’s banning of exports, together with these to the U.S. simply final week,” mentioned Kevin Keough, President and CEO. “Quite a lot of junior explorers have been making an attempt to capitalize on this curiosity by touting property acquisitions and excessive values of antimony in seize samples. Nonetheless, our outcomes are, to the very best of our information, the one antimony-rich drill outcomes delivered year-to-date in Canada. On the DEM Mountain Zone we now have drilled genuinely high-grade antimony over metre+ widths inside a lot bigger envelopes, with related gold and silver credit – and regionally, high-grade gold and a variety of different high-value components – all of them in the identical system, although not at all times in the identical samples. I’m subsequently assured that, because the drill density is introduced up inside this method, and exploration expands past the comparatively small magnetic low related to the DEM Mountain Zone into areas under and adjoining to those early intersections, together with the big magnetic lows adjoining to the west, we are going to see the DEM challenge evolve in a course that rewards shareholders.”
Dialogue of Drill Outcomes(discuss with figures and images under)
Drilling to this point (three holes for 947 metres in 2023, and two holes for 654 metres in 2024) on the DEM prospect has targeted solely on that small a part of the 4 km2 DEM prospect space that underlies the topographic and (total) magnetic highs of DEM Mountain. DEM Mountain is surrounded by the commonly a lot decrease elevations of the DEM Lowlands (see Figures 1 and 4 under, and DEM Mountain fly-over movies on Evergold’s dwelling web page at www.evergoldcorp.ca) which embrace a number of low-relief knolls trending off from DEM Mountain to the west, coincident with a roughly donut-shaped arc of underlying magnetically constructive anomalies. DEM Mountain and these knolls at the moment are interpreted to be a part of the topographically increased elevation, comparatively nicely uncovered hornfelsed and (usually) magnetically constructive alteration halo probably surrounding a topographically decrease and glacial till-covered intrusion, or intrusions, principally underlying the DEM Lowlands, and recognized partially by magnetic lows; the lows additionally exhibit regionally excessive IP chargeability and low resistivity.
DEM24-05 was drilled due south (azimuth 180 levels) at an inclination of minus 65 levels to a downhole depth of 393 metres, from a pad positioned 100 metres due west of DEM24-04. The opening was designed to focus on the broad mineralized quantity intercepted between 303 and 351.2 metres in DEM23-03. At 230 metres downhole the opening got here in above the zone intersected in DEM23-03, approached to inside a number of tens of metres of it, earlier than intersecting a deeper zone of strongly elevated manganese and antimony to the south, between 344 and 384 metres downhole. Inside that zone, distinctive highs of three.6% Sb over 2.5 metres have been achieved between 360 and 362.5 metres.
DEM24-04 was drilled due west (azimuth 270 levels) at an inclination of minus 50 levels to a downhole depth of 261 metres from a pad positioned 100 metres north and 100 metres west of the location of DEM23-03, and roughly 100 metres south and 200 metres east of the collars for DEM23-01 and DEM23-02. This comparatively shallow angle gap was designed to undercut a powerful north-south trending soil geochemical anomaly which, additional to the northwest on the web site of final season’s DEM23-01 & 02, delivered an extended intercept from floor of anomalous gold – i.e. 135 metres of 0.12 g/t Au and a pair of g/t Ag from 6 to 141 metres, together with a higher-grade interval working 0.32% tungsten with 155 g/t silver and 5 ppm tellurium, from 131 to 132 metres. Nonetheless, solely disappointingly low silver and gold values have been returned from DEM24-04. We speculate that this a part of the DEM Mountain Zone could also be barely deeper on this space, and maybe trending extra towards the north-northeast.
Mineralization of the DEM Mountain Zone
The DEM Mountain Zone consists of variably calcareous fine-grained sedimentary rocks, principally interbedded sandstone and siltstone, reduce regionally by north-trending metre-scale porphyritic dykes, with the host rocks reduce by variably sulphide-bearing veinlets and veins, very regionally of semi-massive to large character, and generally related to disseminated sulphides. Sulphide minerals noticed in core embrace arsenopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, stibnite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, and molybdenite. Sulphosalts are additionally noticed regionally. Excessive-grade treasured metals, antimony, and tellurium, together with attendant cobalt, zinc, and lead values are localized to the very best developed components of the vein methods, significantly the huge sulphide sections, whereas the molybdenum, though current at elevated ranges usually all through the vein system, achieves excessive grades inside a single slender porphyritic intrusive (dyke) intercepted from 299 to 301 metres in DEM23-02, the place it’s accompanied by high-grade rhenium in addition to gold, silver and the suite of components characterizing different components of the DEM mineralizing system. Very speculatively, the dyke could signify an apophysis from a bigger physique of porphyry-style mineralization close by, though most dykes intercepted within the drilling look like unmineralized.
About Antimony
One among antimony’s main makes use of (accounting for about 50% of consumption) is within the type of antimony trioxide in flame retardants for plastics, rubber, textiles, paper and paints, whereas antimony trisulfide is used within the manufacturing of explosives, pigments and antimony salts. It can be used for producing semiconductors, infrared detectors and diodes. Due to its relative inflexibility, it’s normally blended into alloys for additional functions within the manufacture of lead storage batteries, solder, sheet and pipe metallic, bearings, castings and so forth. The newest new know-how to make the most of the metallic is antimony molten salt batteries for mass storage. Nonetheless, the comparatively new use of antimony within the type of sodium antimonate as a clarifying agent in photovoltaic (PV) glass, which improves the effectivity of photo voltaic panels, is predicted to surpass its use in flame-retardants within the very close to future.
In accordance with america Geological Survey, whole international antimony mine manufacturing in 2023 was roughly 83,000 tonnes, with China producing greater than 40,000 tonnes, or 48% of the entire, adopted by Tajikistan at 21,000 tonnes (26%), Turkey at 6,000 tonnes (7.2%), Myanmar at 4,600 tonnes (5.5%), Russia at 4,300 tonnes (5.2%), Bolivia at 3,000 tonnes (3.6%), and Australia at 2,300 tonnes (2.8%), with varied different nations making up the rest. China’s mine manufacturing has fallen considerably lately as a result of depleting mine reserves, issues with sustaining product high quality, and tighter environmental safety rules. On September 15 this yr, China applied export restrictions on antimony and associated merchandise together with ore, ingots, oxides, chemical substances and smelting and separation know-how. This was adopted, on December 3, 2024, by an outright banning of all exports of antimony to the U.S.. Elsewhere, inside battle in Myanmar has led to restricted and unreliable provides popping out of southeast Asia, and Russian provides to the West have been eradicated as a result of sanctions imposed following their invasion of Ukraine. These detrimental provide shocks drive dwelling the significance of securing dependable sources of antimony, and different important components.
In consequence of the discount in provides, antimony costs have soared in 2024 from round $US12,000 a tonne firstly of the yr, to $US33,000 presently, or nearly 4 instances the present worth of copper per tonne.
In recognition of the significance of antimony to a variety of business and navy functions, the excessive diploma of management exerted over world manufacturing by a restricted variety of authoritarian states, and the decline of provides from these states, antimony has grow to be one of many few metals to be registered as important within the rankings of all nations within the West: i.e. the US, EU, Canada, Japan, UK and Australia.
Desk 1 – Important Assay Outcomes for Diamond Core Holes DEM24-04 and 05. Notice: Each DEM24-04 and 05 have been sampled prime to backside. All widths reported are drilled core lengths. Because of the low density of drilling to this point, true widths for the intercepts in each DEM24-04 and 05 can’t presently be decided. Nonetheless, knowledge gathered from 2023 drill gap DEM23-03 suggests zone width could approximate 50 metres, though this estimate could change with the acquisition of extra knowledge. Core diameter is 47.6 mm (NQ). Manganese and arsenic values have been decided to be the important thing indicators of system presence.
| 2024 Gap ID | From (m) |
To (m) |
Width (m) |
Au (g/t)1 |
Ag (g/t)2 |
Sb (%)1 |
| DEM23-04 (totally sampled) – no vital assays (gap drilled above the zone?) | ||||||
| DEM23-05 (totally sampled) – robust intercept | ||||||
| 303.00 | 306.00 | 3.00 | 0.70 | 14 | 0.03 | |
| Together with | 303.50 | 304.00 | 0.50 | 2.19 | 50 | 0.11 |
| Zone intercept – first prevalence of high-grade antimony to final |
344.00 | 384.00 | 40.00 | 0.10 | 2 | 0.42 |
| Together with | 344.00 | 345.00 | 1.00 | 0.18 | 7 | 0.74 |
| And Together with | 350.00 | 351.00 | 1.00 | 0.63 | 3 | 0.03 |
| And Together with | 354.00 | 356.00 | 2.00 | 0.80 | 10 | 0.09 |
| Together with | 355.00 | 356.00 | 1.00 | 0.98 | 17 | 0.07 |
| And Together with | 358.00 | 364.00 | 6.00 | 0.10 | 2 | 1.63 |
| Together with | 360.00 | 362.50 | 2.50 | 0.06 | 1 | 3.60 |
| Together with | 361.00 | 361.50 | 0.50 | 0.04 | 2 | 8.37 |
| And Together with | 366.00 | 368.00 | 2.00 | 0.06 | 2 | 0.37 |
| And Together with | 372.00 | 374.15 | 2.15 | 0.04 | 1 | 0.52 |
| And Together with | 377.00 | 382.40 | 5.40 | 0.03 | 1 | 0.67 |
| Together with | 379.00 | 380.00 | 1.00 | 0.03 | 1 | 2.42 |
Notes: 1. Values rounded to 2 decimals. 2. Values rounded to no decimals.
Determine 1 – DEM prospect perspective view of terrain wanting north, exhibiting postulated central intrusion, its encompassing alteration halo, and the situation of drilling to this point on the heights of DEM Mountain
Determine 2 – DEM prospect exhibiting the postulated central intrusion, its encompassing alteration halo, and the situation of drilling to this point, on the primary vertical spinoff magnetics
Determine 3 – DEM prospect schematic part view wanting north, exhibiting the postulated central intrusion or intrusions(?), with encompassing hornfels and/or alteration halo, and the situation of drilling to this point on the heights of DEM Mountain
Determine 4: DEM drilling on geology exhibiting the focused native magnetic low on the heights of DEM Mountain, and the significantly bigger magnetic low instantly adjoining to the west
Determine 5 – Drillhole DEM24-05 part, considered west
Images 1 to three under: Core samples of antimony-rich vein-breccia exhibiting darker gray, angular fragments of fine-grained sedimentary rock surrounded by paler gray stibnite (antimony sulphide) and white to very pale gray quartz-carbonate veining exhibiting drusy textures and native open house. The mineralization is critical, with considerable stibnite as breccia infill in addition to clots and patches marginal to veins. Minor pyrite can also be seen as clots throughout the host rock. The quartz-carbonate veins crosscut the sulphide vein breccia, suggesting {that a} multiphase high-level hydrothermal occasion occurred alongside an energetic construction – this mix was additionally evident within the better-mineralized intervals intersected within the 2023 drilling at Dem Mountain (see images 4 and 5).
Picture 1: Antimony-rich core, 361 metres, DEM24-05
Picture 2: Antimony-rich core, 360.5 metres, DEM24-05
Picture 3: Antimony-rich core, 361 metres, DEM24-05
Picture 4 – Excessive-grade gold (29.5 g/t), cobalt (0.11%), tellurium (42 g/t), with silver (22 g/t) and copper (0.19%) 340-340.50 metres, DEM23-03
Picture 5 – Excessive-grade molybdenum (0.82%) with robust gold (1.2 g/t), silver (8 g/t), rhenium (3.66 g/t), 299 to 300 metres, DEM23-02
Concerning the DEM Venture
The 12,728-hectare DEM property is ideally positioned in average terrain solely 40 kms northwest of Fort St. James in central B.C.. The challenge space lies towards the south finish of the Nation Lakes porphyry camp and throughout the Quesnel terrane, the latter of which hosts massive deposits and long-life mines together with the Mount Milligan mine (50 kms to the northeast of DEM) and Lorraine deposit and, farther south, the Mt. Polley, Afton, Copper Mountain, and Brenda mines, along with the Highland Valley mines and deposits.
Positioned central to the DEM property is the DEM prospect, a roughly 4km2 goal space outlined by alteration and mineralogy suggestive of the presence of a porphyry system, by a multi-element soil geochemical signature, by compelling high-relief magnetic, IP-chargeability and CSAMT resistivity anomalies, and by the presence of close by regional scale buildings. Intensive logging within the space and related forest service roads present drive-on entry on to the DEM prospect.
A reconnaissance drill program (3 holes for 947 metres) carried out in October and November 2023 returned slender intercepts of high-grade gold, silver and strategic metals (molybdenum, cobalt, tungsten, tellurium, rhenium) encompassed by a broad low-grade envelope, localized to a magnetic low throughout the excessive elevations of DEM Mountain (see information, January 15, 2024). Every of the three holes intercepted variably calcareous fine-grained sedimentary rocks reduce regionally by metre-scale porphyritic dykes, with the host rocks, and regionally the dykes, cross-cut over core lengths of as much as 50 metres by sulphide-bearing veinlets and veins, regionally of semi-massive to large character, together with related disseminated sulphides. These intervals have been additionally encompassed by broader halos of lower-intensity disseminated and sulphide-bearing veinlets and veins. Sulphide minerals noticed in core included considerable disseminated and vein-hosted arsenopyrite, pyrite, and pyrrhotite, with lesser however vital sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, and molybdenite. Sulphosalts have been additionally generally noticed.
Additional particulars on the DEM prospect could also be discovered on the Firm’s web site at www.evergoldcorp.ca/projects/dem-property/ and in a NI 43-101 technical report dated August 30, 2023, posted thereon and on the Firm’s issuer profile at SEDAR+.
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The corporate has a sturdy high quality assurance/high quality management program that features the insertion of blanks, requirements and duplicates. Samples of drill core are reduce by a diamond-blade rock noticed, with half of the reduce core positioned in individually sealed polyurethane baggage and half positioned again within the authentic core field for everlasting storage. With the uncommon exception, pattern lengths usually differ from a minimal 0.5-metre interval to a most 3.0-metre interval, with a median of 0.5 to 1.0 metres in closely mineralized sections of core, the place exact identification of the mineralogical supply of metallic values is essential. Drill core samples are shipped by truck in sealed woven plastic baggage to the ALS pattern preparation facility in Langley, BC, and thereafter taken by ALS to their North Vancouver analytical laboratory. ALS operates based on the rules set out in Worldwide Group for Standardization/Worldwide Electrotechnical Fee Information 25. Gold is decided by hearth assay fusion of a 50-gram subsample with atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). Samples that return values better than 10 components per million gold from hearth assay and AAS (atomic absorption spectroscopy) are decided by utilizing hearth assay and a gravimetric end. Numerous metals together with silver, gold, copper, lead, antimony and zinc are analyzed by inductively coupled plasma (ICP) atomic emission spectroscopy, following multi-acid digestion. The weather copper, lead, antimony and zinc are decided by ore-grade assay for samples that return values better than 10,000 ppm by ICP evaluation. Silver is decided by ore-grade assay for samples that return better than 100 ppm.
About Evergold
Evergold Corp. is a TSX-V listed mineral exploration firm with tasks in B.C. and Nevada. The Evergold crew has a monitor report of success within the junior mining house, most lately the institution of GT Gold Corp. in 2016 and the invention of the Saddle South epithermal vein and Saddle North porphyry copper-gold deposits close to Iskut B.C., bought to Newmont in 2021 for a completely diluted worth of $456 million, representing a 1,136% (12.4 X) return on exploration outlays of $36.9 million.
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kevin.keough@evergoldcorp.ca
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