by Greg Klein | March 16, 2017
Growing an already major position in the Windfall Lake-inspired Urban Barry area play, BonTerra Resources TSXV:BTR announced additional property acquisitions March 15. Among them is Thubiere, northwest of the company’s Arena property and surrounded by Osisko Mining TSX:OSK turf.
One day previously BonTerra closed a $1-million private placement, bringing the March total to about $15 million. Obviously well-funded, the company has at least four rigs working a program of up to 40,000 metres at its nearby Gladiator gold project. Recent results have graded up to 16.8 g/t gold over 3.8 metres and 15.7 g/t over 8.5 metres as the company endeavours to connect zones across a 1.2-kilometre potential strike.
BonTerra describes the 338-hectare Thubiere property as poorly explored, despite historic, non-43-101 assays grading 13.7 g/t gold over 1.2 metres, 10.98 g/t over 1.83 metres and 74.8 g/t over 0.61 metres.
The historic work “strongly supports a pattern of future exploration along the main fault and specifically in areas where porphyritic felsic intrusives are recorded to exist,” BonTerra stated. “This gold-fault-felsic intrusive association is beginning to emerge as a useful gold pathfinder [in the] Urban Barry greenstone belt of Quebec, based on recent discoveries.”
The company staked four new claims north of its Gladiator project’s Lacroix Lake block and intends to buy another 226 contiguous hectares.
In Ontario, BonTerra signed a purchase agreement for another 56-hectare claim proximal to the company’s Larder Lake gold project, currently active with 25,000 metres of resource development and exploration.
Subject to approvals, Thubiere’s price tag comes to $5,000 and 150,000 shares. The 226 hectares north of Lacroix would cost $10,000 and 150,000 shares. The Larder Lake addition calls for 100,000 shares and a 2% NSR, half of which may be subject to a $750,000 buy-back.
Due for updates are the Gladiator and Larder Lake resources. Gladiator’s 2012 estimate used a 4 g/t cutoff to show 905,000 tonnes averaging 9.37 g/t for 273,000 Gold Ounces Inferred.
Historic, non-43-101 estimates at Larder Lake give the Bear Lake deposit 683,000 gold ounces inferred, and the Cheminis deposit 43,800 gold ounces indicated and 233,400 ounces inferred.
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