Update: On July 27, 2020, Gaia Metals announced a definitive agreement to acquire Freeman Creek on the LOI terms reported below. Immediate plans include prospecting, mapping and sampling of historic occurrences, and potential soil sampling and ground geophysics. A possible Phase II program would drill the property to verify and expand on previous results.
On July 17 the company closed an over-subscribed private placement of $603,000.
by Greg Klein | June 4, 2020
Impressive earlier work in one of the world’s top-ranked mining jurisdictions has brought new attention to a neglected property. Under terms of a non-binding letter of intent Gaia Metals TSXV:GMC would pick up Freeman Creek, a 599-hectare site of previous trenching, drilling and mining. Two targets about three kilometres apart have the company especially encouraged.
Mineralization at the Gold Dyke prospect has been traced for 457 metres along strike and 183 metres at depth. Trench samples as far back as 1910 brought obviously non-43-101 results as high as:
- 6.86 g/t gold and 199 g/t silver over 7 metres
- 5.49 g/t gold and 130 g/t silver over 5.8 metres
- 19.9 g/t gold, 65 g/t silver and 1.05% copper over 3.7 metres
One grab sample reached 60 g/t gold and 1,440 g/t Silver.
An historic 1970s-era drill intercept brought:
- 0.46 g/t gold, 7.1 g/t silver and 0.1% copper over 13.7 metres
More non-43-101 assays, from two 1980s holes, showed:
- 1.5 g/t gold and 12.1 g/t silver over 44.2 metres
- 1.7 g/t gold and 17.1 g/t silver over 21.3 metres
Although records haven’t been found, Cominco and BHP explored Gold Dyke for large-scale copper potential during the 1990s.
The historic Carmen Creek mine prospect has delivered samples from outcrop and former workings with these non-43-101 results:
- 14.15 g/t gold, 63 g/t silver and 1.2% copper
- 1.8 g/t gold, 43 g/t silver and 1% copper
The historic work at Freeman Creek appears to have only scratched the surface of this project’s potential. Coupled with a relatively simple and straightforward permitting process, we are excited to aggressively pursue this opportunity.—Adrian Lamoureux,
Gaia Metals president/CEO
Located about 15 kilometres from the town of Salmon, Freeman Creek can be reached by highway, gravel roads and trails. Last year Idaho ranked #8, up from 16th the previous year, on the most important index of the Fraser Institute Survey of Mining Companies.
A 100% interest would cost Gaia a total of $90,000, four million shares and two million warrants within a year of TSXV approval. The company would pay an additional $1 million in cash or shares on defining a gold-equivalent resource exceeding a million ounces. The vendor would retain a 2.5% NSR, half of which Gaia could buy for $1.5 million.
In Quebec’s James Bay region, Gaia’s Corvette-FCI property has yielded high-grade gold, copper-gold-silver and lithium-tantalum grades. Announced last April, a new interpretation of geophysical data found additional drilling potential. Gaia holds 100% of the project’s Corvette claims and a 75% earn-in from Osisko Mining TSX:OSK spinout O3 Mining TSXV:OIII on the FCI-East and FCI-West blocks.
Among other assets, Gaia’s portfolio includes the Pontax lithium-gold property in Quebec, the Golden silica property in British Columbia and a 40% stake in the Northwest Territories’ Hidden Lake lithium property.
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