VANCOUVER, BC, Jan. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ – Scottie Resources Corp. (“Scottie” or the “Company“) (TSXV: SCOT) (OTCQB: SCTSF) (FSE: SR8) is pleased to report new assays on its Blueberry Contact Zone including two high-grade shallow intercepts in drill hole SR22-170 of 8.21 g/t gold over 19 metres and 6.30 g/t gold over 8.15 metres. These most recent intercepts compliment the already released results from the 2022 exploration program and support the company’s goal of defining a road accessible gold deposit in BC’s Golden Triangle. The Blueberry Contact Zone is 100% owned and royalty free and is located 2 kilometres north-northeast of the past-producing high-grade Scottie Gold Mine, 35 kilometres north of the town of Stewart, BC, along the Granduc Road.
Table 1: Selected results from new drill assay results (uncut) from the Blueberry Contact Zone.
Drill Hole | From (m) | To (m) | Width* (m) | Gold (g/t) | Silver (g/t) | |
SR22-170 | 32 | 40.15 | 8.15 | 6.30 | 1.7 | |
50.5 | 69.5 | 19.00 | 8.21 | 0.4 | ||
including | 51.8 | 53.3 | 1.50 | 73.3 | 5.0 | |
104.05 | 105 | 0.95 | 1.24 | 9.0 | ||
125.2 | 126.75 | 1.55 | 1.65 | 0 | ||
190.45 | 192.15 | 1.70 | 3.87 | 2.0 | ||
SR22-196 | 199 | 200.49 | 1.49 | 1.11 | 2.0 | |
283 | 284.5 | 1.50 | 2.97 | 55.0 | ||
SR22-197 | 228.5 | 231.5 | 3.00 | 1.64 | 6.5 | |
293 | 305 | 12.00 | 1.54 | 2.7 | ||
including | 293 | 296 | 3.00 | 4.72 | 5.5 | |
312 | 321 | 9.00 | 1.40 | 7.9 | ||
327 | 328 | 1.00 | 1.14 | 29.0 | ||
355.5 | 357 | 1.50 | 1.67 | 5.0 | ||
SR22-202 | 42.6 | 46.1 | 3.50 | 5.63 | 1.9 | |
53.1 | 54.1 | 1.00 | 2.09 | 0 | ||
63.1 | 69.6 | 6.50 | 3.04 | 0 | ||
including | 68.1 | 69.6 | 1.50 | 11.4 | 0 | |
84.9 | 85.95 | 1.05 | 43.8 | 10.0 | ||
SR22-207 | 359 | 361 | 2.00 | 9.34 | 8.0 | |
417.25 | 420.5 | 3.25 | 3.46 | 1.2 | ||
including | 419.5 | 420.5 | 1.00 | 9.70 | 0 | |
423.5 | 424.5 | 1.00 | 1.33 | 44.0 | ||
429.5 | 430.81 | 1.31 | 4.52 | 40.0 |
* True thicknesses of mineralized intercepts are undetermined |
President and CEO, Brad Rourke: “The majority of drill holes from our 2022 drill program were expansionary holes testing step outs with spacings greater than 75 metres from previous drilling. These recent results exemplify the continued success we’ve had in hitting wide high-grade intercepts along the structure and are a testament to the scale and tenor of the deposit that we have tapped into. Our 2023 drill campaign will continue to expand and test for new high-grade zones along the Blueberry Contact.”
About the Blueberry Contact Zone
The Blueberry Zone is located just 2 kilometres northeast of the 100% owned, past-producing Scottie Gold Mine located in British Columbia, Canada’s Golden Triangle region. Historic trenching and channel sampling of the Blueberry Vein include results of 103.94 g/t gold over 1.43 metres, and 203.75 g/t gold over 1.90 metres. Despite high-grade surficial samples and easy road access, the Blueberry Vein had only limited reported drilling prior to the Company’s exploration work. The target was significantly advanced during Scottie’s 2019 drill program when an interval grading 7.44 g/t gold over 34.78 metres was intersected in a new splay off zone of the main Blueberry Vein. The drill results received in 2020 and 2021, coupled with surficial mapping and sampling suggest that this splay is in fact a major N-S mineralized structure, of which the Blueberry Vein was only a secondary structure. This zone is much wider than pursued in previous exploration models and drilling in 2022 has expanded its strike length to >1,450 metres and its depth to 390 metres. The zone is steeply dipping, and there is no current restraint on its potential depth; the mineralization at the adjacent Scottie Gold Mine has a vertical extent greater than 450 metres. The Blueberry Zone is located on the Granduc Road, 20 kilometres north of the Ascot Resources’ Premier Project, which is fully financed for construction (Dec 12, 2022). Newcrest’s Brucejack Mine is located 25 kilometres to the north.
Thomas Mumford, Ph.D., P.Geo and VP Exploration of Scottie, a qualified person under National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed the technical information contained in this news release on behalf of the Company.