Fremont Gold Announces Drill Programs at Gold Bar and Gold Canyon Projects in Nevada
Vancouver, January 18, 2019 - Fremont Gold Ltd. (TSXV: FRE) (FSE: FR2) (OTC Pink: USTDF) ("Fremont" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that drilling will be underway at the Company's Gold Bar project by the end of January, with drilling to start at the Gold Canyon project soon thereafter. Fremont's Gold Bar and Gold Canyon are both past producing gold mines in the Gold Bar District, Eureka County, Nevada.
- The 1,000-metre reverse circulation drill program at Gold Bar will target a coincident gold and mercury geochemical anomaly that may represent an extension to the historic Gold Bar mine (see Figure 1 and the October 30, 2018, news release). Gold Bar was exploited by Atlas Precious Metals Corp. from 1986-1994 and produced 286,354 ounces of gold (1).
- The 500-metre diamond drilling program at Gold Canyon will be focused on further defining a previously unrecognized mineralized zone approximately 50 metres below the pit floor (see the July 25, 2018, news release).
"We believe that there is excellent potential to find new zones of gold mineralization at these past producing gold mines," said Blaine Monaghan, CEO of Fremont. "Our focused drill program at Gold Bar and Gold Canyon has been designed to help unlock that potential and create value for shareholders."
Gold Bar and Gold Canyon Projects
Fremont's Gold Bar and Gold Canyon projects are both former mines in the Gold Bar District, Eureka County, Nevada, an active mining district within the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend. The district contains several Carlin-style sediment-hosted gold deposits, including McEwen Mining Inc.'s ("McEwen") Gold Bar project, which is scheduled to begin production in early 2019.
Fremont's Gold Bar and Gold Canyon projects are adjacent (west) and immediately north of McEwen's Gold Bar project. While McEwen's project and Fremont's project share the same name, the historic Gold Bar mine is held by Fremont. McEwen's project comprises four of the five satellite pits to the historic Gold Bar mine, whereas Fremont controls the remaining satellite pit, Gold Canyon (see Figure 2).
Fremont's Gold Bar project encompasses the historic Gold Bar mine, which produced 286,354 ounces of gold from 1986 to 1994 (1), and the Millsite deposit, which hosts a historic resource of 147,000 ounces of gold (1.62 Mt @ 2.57 g/t gold) (1,2). Millsite is believed to be a faulted offset of the historic Gold Bar mine and is located to the northwest of the open pit. Fremont recently completed a soil sampling program based on a new structural interpretation and identified coincident gold and mercury geochemical anomalies to the southeast of the historic Gold Bar mine. This new interpretation and data suggest that gold mineralization related to the historic Gold Bar mine may extend to the southeast.
Gold Canyon is adjacent to and directly northwest of McEwen's project, approximately 800 metres from McEwen's Gold Ridge deposit. Gold Canyon produced approximately 41,000 ounces of gold from 1990-1994(1) and a stockpile of previously mined ore still exists at site.
Figure 1: Gold in Soil Anomalies to Southeast of Historic Gold Bar Mine
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Figure 2: The Gold Bar District
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About Fremont Gold
Fremont's mine-finding management team has assembled a portfolio of high-quality gold projects in Nevada with the goal of making a new discovery. Fremont's Gold Bar and Gold Canyon are past producing gold mines adjacent to McEwen's Gold Bar project, where mine construction is underway. Other projects include North Carlin, Goldrun, Hurricane, and Roberts Creek. We are aligned with our shareholders: Insiders own approximately 20% of Fremont.
The content of this news release was reviewed by Dennis Moore, Fremont's President, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
"Blaine Monaghan"
CEO
Telephone: +1 604-676-5664
Email: blaine@fremontgold.net
www.fremontgold.net
1 Internal report, Atlas Precious Metals, Mines, December 13, 1995, prepared by Pincock, Allen & Holt
2 The Company has not verified these historical resources and is not treating these historical estimates as current mineral resources
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