Metamorphic petrology

Roxgold Receives Environmental Permit Approval for the Séguéla Gold Project

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Monday, September 28, 2020

Roxgold is a Canadian-based gold mining company with assets located in West Africa.

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  • Roxgold is a Canadian-based gold mining company with assets located in West Africa.
  • The Company owns and operates the high-grade Yaramoko Gold Mine located on the Hound greenstone belt in Burkina Faso and is advancing the development and exploration of the Sgula Gold Project located in Cte dIvoire.
  • Roxgold trades on the TSX under the symbol ROXG and as ROGFF on OTCQX.
  • This news release contains forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws (forward-looking statements).

Rupert Resources Drills 1.3g/t Gold Over 172.4m From Surface, 2.0g/t Gold Over 71.2m From Surface, 1.2g/t Gold Over 130.5m From 166m and 2.1g/t Gold Over 31m Extending the Strike and Width of the Ikkari Discovery

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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Gold is associated with fine-grained disseminated pyrite within planar quartz-carbonate veins and / or disseminated in the host rocks, commonly as fine-grained visible gold.

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  • Gold is associated with fine-grained disseminated pyrite within planar quartz-carbonate veins and / or disseminated in the host rocks, commonly as fine-grained visible gold.
  • Host rocks observed thus far include sedimentary rocks overprinted by albite-sericite alteration, and strongly foliated chlorite-altered ultramafic rocks.
  • A broader, variably mineralised alteration zone comprising magnetite hematite tourmaline K-feldspar fuchsite is also present.
  • Rupert is a Canadian based gold exploration and development company that is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol RUP.

Harte Gold Provides Corporate Update and Announces Results from Annual and Special Meeting of Shareholders

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Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Harte Gold holds a 100% interest in the Sugar Zone Mine located in White River, Canada.

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  • Harte Gold holds a 100% interest in the Sugar Zone Mine located in White River, Canada.
  • The Sugar Zone Mine entered commercial production in 2019.
  • The Company has further potential through exploration at the Sugar Zone Property, which encompasses 79,335 hectares covering a significant greenstone belt.
  • Harte Gold trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol HRT, on the OTC under the symbol HRTFF and on the Frankfurt Exchange under the symbol H4O.

A Steaming Cauldron Follows the Dinosaurs' Demise

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Friday, May 29, 2020

The team recovered rock core samples which can be used to study the thermal and chemical modification of Earth's crust caused by the impact.

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  • The team recovered rock core samples which can be used to study the thermal and chemical modification of Earth's crust caused by the impact.
  • The core samples show the crater hosted an extensive hydrothermal system that chemically and mineralogically modified more than 100,000 cubic kilometers of Earth's crust.
  • Nearly two dozen minerals precipitated from the fluids as they coursed through the rock, replacing the rock's original minerals.
  • Thousands of these types of systems were produced during a period of impact bombardment more than 3.8 billion years ago.

Caldas Gold to Acquire Juby Project in Abitibi Greenstone Belt in Ontario, Canada

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Thursday, May 21, 2020

Pursuant to the terms of the Acquisition Agreement, Caldas Gold will issue twenty million common shares of the Company (the Consideration Shares) to current shareholders of SARC.

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  • Pursuant to the terms of the Acquisition Agreement, Caldas Gold will issue twenty million common shares of the Company (the Consideration Shares) to current shareholders of SARC.
  • In addition, SARC is party to an acquisition agreement pursuant to which it will acquire from LSGC a 25% joint venture interest in certain claims adjoining the Juby Project (the Knight JV Acquisition).
  • The Juby Project is an advanced exploration-stage gold project located in Ontario, Canada, approximately 15 km west-southwest of the town of Gowganda and 100 km south-southeast of the Timmins gold camp within the Shining Tree area in the southern part of the Abitibi greenstone belt.
  • The Transaction has been unanimously approved by each of the boards of directors of Caldas Gold and SARC.

Rockridge Doubles Size of Landholding at its Raney Gold Project, SW of Timmins, Ontario

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Raney Gold Project Location Map:

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  • Raney Gold Project Location Map:
    The Raney Gold Project is located within the highly prospective west extension of the Abitibi Greenstone belt, proximal to several regional deposits.
  • A total of 2,070 metres in nine diamond drill holes were completed during the program to assess the potential of the Raney Gold Project.
  • Historical drilling at the Raney Gold Project focused on identifying near-surface gold mineralization along an extensive structural corridor.
  • The Companys Raney Gold Project is a high-grade gold exploration project located in the same greenstone belt that hosts the world-class Timmins and Kirkland Lake lode gold mining camps.

Roxgold Announces New High Grade Discovery at Boussoura, Burkina Faso

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Monday, February 3, 2020

Roxgold Inc. (Roxgold or the Company) (TSX: ROXG) (OTC: ROGFF) is pleased to announce a new high grade discovery at Galgouli, and excellent results following up historic drilling at Fofora at the Boussoura Project in the southern portion of the Hounde Greenstone Belt in southern Burkina Faso (Figure 1).

Key Points: 
  • Roxgold Inc. (Roxgold or the Company) (TSX: ROXG) (OTC: ROGFF) is pleased to announce a new high grade discovery at Galgouli, and excellent results following up historic drilling at Fofora at the Boussoura Project in the southern portion of the Hounde Greenstone Belt in southern Burkina Faso (Figure 1).
  • Paul Weedon, Vice President Exploration commented We are excited about these high grade results, especially from Galgouli as they represent the first drilling into this new discovery and support the numerous high grade rock chip samples collected by the exploration team in late 2019.
  • These results are setting up the potential for Roxgolds third high grade project.
  • High grade mineralization is associated with a series of steeply dipping quartz-chlorite-carbonate-pyrite veins with coarse gold (1-3mm) commonly identified on vein margins and selvedges.

Eastmain Completes Drilling Program at KS Horizon, Clearwater

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Friday, January 24, 2020

Holes ER19-859 and ER19-861 tested the KS Horizon sequence approximately midway between the Caradoc and Percival showings.

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  • Holes ER19-859 and ER19-861 tested the KS Horizon sequence approximately midway between the Caradoc and Percival showings.
  • As drilling progressed further east, the KS Horizon lithologies persist, including sedimentary breccias, however intensity of silicification and sulphide mineralization is reduced.
  • With the discovery of Percival breccia gold mineralization, 2019 exploration at the Clearwater property has targeted silicified breccias within the KS metasedimentary horizon.
  • Soft sediment deformation and slumping have affected BIF, siltstone, mudstone and graphitic mudstones creating sedimentary breccia units within the KS metasedimentary package.

Balmoral Announces Closing of First Tranche of Non-Brokered Private Placement for Gross Proceeds of $1.9 Million

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Monday, October 28, 2019

As previously announced the Company anticipates that the second and final tranche of the Offering will close on or about November 8, 2019.

Key Points: 
  • As previously announced the Company anticipates that the second and final tranche of the Offering will close on or about November 8, 2019.
  • The gross proceeds from the sale of the Flow-Through Share Offering will be used for the exploration of the Companys Canadian exploration properties, principally those located in the province of Quebec.
  • The Company also paid a total of $2,000 in legal and administration fees upon closing.
  • Balmoral is a multi-award winning Canadian-focused exploration company actively exploring a portfolio of gold and base metal properties located within the prolific Abitibi greenstone belt.

Magna Gold Corp. Enters Into Letter of Intent to Acquire San Judas Gold Project in Sonora, Mexico – Provides Corporate Update

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Monday, September 30, 2019

It is presently anticipated that the Corporation will enter into the Definitive Agreement with the Concessionaires to acquire a 100% undivided interest in the San Judas Project.

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  • It is presently anticipated that the Corporation will enter into the Definitive Agreement with the Concessionaires to acquire a 100% undivided interest in the San Judas Project.
  • The combined gold reserves and resources identified within the trend to date total in excess of 20 million ounces of gold.
  • San Judas is an early stage exploration project hosting structurally controlled mineralization within lithologies similar in age to the La Herradura and San Francisco gold mines.
  • The project is underlain by a basement composed of a Precambrian aged igneous-metamorphic sequence including granite, gneiss, pegmatites and schists.