yellowknife gold project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion...

17
Yellowknife Gold Project Advancing gold exploration in the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt January 2021 INVESTOR PRESENTATION 1 TSX-NEX: VKG.H

Upload: others

Post on 20-Jan-2021

1 views

Category:

Documents


0 download

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Yellowknife Gold Project Advancing gold exploration in the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt

January 2021 INVESTOR PRESENTATION 1

TSX-NEX: VKG.H

Page 2: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

This presentation contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, that address activities, events or developments that the Company believes, expects or anticipates will or may occur in the future including, without limitation, statements relating to proposed exploration and development programs, funding availability, anticipated exploration results, grade of gold and tonnage of material, resource estimates, anticipated gold price and future exploration and operating plans are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements reflect the current expectations or beliefs of the Company based on information currently available to the Company.

Forward-looking statements are made based upon certain assumptions by the Company and other important factors that, if inaccurate, could cause the actual results, performances or achievements of the Company to be materially different from future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. Such statements and information are based on numerous assumptions regarding present and future business strategies and the environment in which the Company will operate in the future, including the ability to achieve goals. Certain important factors that could cause actual results, performances or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to future exploration plans and objectives and range estimates for tonnage and grade.

Forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that may cause the actual results of the Company to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements and, even if such actual results are realized or substantially realized, there can be no assurance that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, the Company. Factors that could cause actual results or events to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things, uncertainties relating to availability and cost of funds, timing and content of work programs, results of exploration activities, interpretation of drilling results and other geological data, risks relating to variations in the gold grade and host rock lithologies; variations in rates of recovery; variations in future gold prices; the state of world gold markets, reliability of mineral property titles, changes to regulations affecting the Company's activities, delays in obtaining or failure to obtain required project approvals, operational and infrastructure risk and other risks involved in the mineral exploration and development business. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made and, except as may be required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any intent or obligation to update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or results or otherwise. Although the Company believes that the assumptions inherent in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and accordingly undue reliance should not be put on such statements due to their inherent uncertainty.

This presentation has been prepared under the supervision of Carl Verley, P. Geo., a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.

2

Forward-looking Information

Page 3: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

THE PROJECT:

• Provides investors with the opportunity to participate in an early stage exploration venture that has been de-risked by the results of previous work.

• Located 75 kilometres north of Yellowknife, NWT, along the extension of a world class gold district where over 15 million oz. of gold has been recovered.

• Includes the main Viking Zone and numerous prospects over a 6 kilometre strike length.

3

Page 4: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

The property has strong geological similarities to the Kirkland Lake camp in Ontario, where 26 million ounces of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone.

Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections include:

4

THE POTENTIAL:

Intercept length Gold Assay Hole No. & Date metres grams/tonne ounces/ton 3.14 16.80 0.54 Hole 1, 1946 7.01 9.47 0.30 Hole 10, 1946 2.13 161.43 5.19 Hole 17, 1946 9.53 12.46 0.40 Hole U-2, 1947 4.00 8.23 0.26 Hole VK-88-3, 1988 8.25 12.34 0.39 Hole VK-88-4, 1988 1.30 195.63 6.29 Hole VK-89-6, 1989 5.00 8.11 0.26 Hole VK-89-11, 1989 3.00 9.12 0.29 Hole VK-89-16, 1989

Future exploration will focus on: i) confirming previous results by diamond drilling;

ii) estimating gold resources for the Viking Zone by continued diamond drilling;

iii) investigating the gold resource potential of other zones on the property; and

iv) demonstrating, with drill results, the multi-million ounce potential of Norse Gold’s ground.

Page 5: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Land Status:

• JL 1 – 7 claims and three mining leases covering 3,231 hectares;

• 75 km north of Yellowknife, aircraft accessible, permitted for winter road;

• Land Use Permit (Class A) approved, allows for two drills to operate.

Previous work:

• Diamond drilling in excess of 14,000 metres, 100 holes (Viking zone); 1,200 m in 33 holes Greenlee Zone;

• High resolution airborne magnetic and electromagnetic surveys (Fugro, 2006);

• Initial underground development (Viking Zone).

Work undertaken by Norse Gold:

• Compilation of all available drill and geophysical data;

• Located old drill hole collars;

• Flew LiDAR and air imaging survey;

• Saw-cut channel sampling;

• Permitting for diamond drilling.

5

Page 6: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Norse Gold

Geological Setting & Mineralization Model:

• Gold is hosted in dilational vein structures and altered wall rock at the contact between metasediments and metavolcanics along a regional scale shear zone;

• Host rocks consist of isoclinally folded metasediments and metavolcanics of the Archean Burwash Formation;

• A classic Archean orogenic gold deposit setting, analogous to the Kirkland Lake camp in Ontario, where 26 million ounces of gold have been mined from a 6 km shear zone – the “Main Break” Fault.

6

Page 7: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Norse Gold - Drill tested gold showings:

1. Viking 2. Max 3. Greenlee 4. Lucky Lake 5. East Zone

Other: Whiskers zone, which consists of gold–bearing quartz veins.

Adjacent properties :

GoldMining Inc. holds:

1. Past producing Discovery Mine (approximately 1 million ounces gold from 1 million tonnes)

2. Bruce and Ormsby zones. have NI 43-101 compliant pit constrained resources: M & I gold: 861,000 oz; Inferred gold 136,000 oz.

3. Goodwin Lake: inferred gold resource of 870,000 tonnes averaging 1.28 g/t (33,000 oz Au)

4. Narrow Lake: gold showings similar to the Ormsby zone.

7

Page 8: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Viking Zone

Greenlee

Lucky Lake

Max East Zone

Whiskers

8

PROPERTY &

Location of known Gold zones

GEOLOGY JL 1-7 claims and leases

Page 9: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Aerial image Viking Zone

Bert Lake

Viking “mine” Shaft

Trenches

Mine dump

9

Page 10: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Previous Drilling – Viking to Max Zones

Max zone

Viking zone

10

Page 11: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

High-grade gold values are indicative of potential for high-grade shoots.

Mid-grade gold values provide support for Increasing tonnage potential of high-grade shoots.

Low-grade gold values are indicative of gold disseminated in altered wall rock to veins, providing potential for large-tonnage, low-grade, bulk-mineable deposits.

Previous drill results for the Viking Zone, while non-compliant with NI 43-101 criteria for resource estimation because of QA/QC limitations and lack check samples, are indicative of the potential of this one zone.

11

Page 12: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Initial high-grade, underground target:

Assumptions:

- gold grade and SG: 15 gm/t, 2.5 t/m3

- multiple (say 12) ore shoots within Viking shear zone:

- width of shoots: 5 m wide,

- length: 20 m,

- depth: surface down to 1,000 m,

- 90% gold recovery by conventional gravity

separation methods.

Initial Resource potential:

3,000,000 tonnes at 15 gm/t for 1,200,000 ounces of gold.

Note: high-grade mining may be the most cost effective initial approach to project development, to be followed later by bulk mining.

12

Page 13: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Initial low-grade, bulk mineable target:

Assumptions:

- gold grade and SG: 1 gm/t, 2.5 t/m3

- width of zone: 50 m wide,

- length: 2 km, from Max to Viking zone,

- depth: surface down to 250 m,

- 80% gold recovery by conventional heap leach.

Initial Resource potential:

62,500,00 tonnes at 1 gm/t for 1,500,000 ounces of gold.

Note: if bulk mining is initially realized it is likely to morph into high-grade underground mining as it advances to depth.

13

Page 14: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

2020-21 PROGRAM

Designed to confirm resource potential indicated by previous drilling at the Viking Zone.

1. Initial drilling 1,000 m in 8 holes

2. To be followed by an aggressive drill program (10,000 m+) to firm up an initial resource estimate for the Viking zone.

3. Test resource potential at other zones on the property by:

i) Integrating existing geophysical data into an updated geological framework,

ii) Saw-cut channel sampling of existing showings;

iii) Prospecting, mapping and sampling of new zones arising from i);

iv) Drill testing best targets.

14

Page 15: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Norse Gold’s Capital Structure :

Shares Issued & Outstanding: 41,422,073

Options 2,800,000

Total fully diluted 44,222,073

Market Cap. FD (Jan. 11, 2021) $6.2 million

Exchange & Symbol TSX-NEX, VKG.H

15

Page 16: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Favorable location, close to Yellowknife (73 km),

Established, prolific gold belt,

Historic drill indicated resource potential, significantly reduces risk,

Other targets on long (6km+), persistently mineralized shear zone.

Multi-million ounce gold resource potential.

Experienced and focused management team.

Summary:

Contact: Carl Verley, President & CEO for further information [email protected]

16

Page 17: Yellowknife Gold Project · 2021. 1. 12. · of gold have been recovered from a 6 kilometre portion of the “Main Break” shear zone. Select Historic Viking Zone drill intersections

Management Team & Board:

Carl Verley, B.Sc., P. Geo., CEO, President and Director Carl is a Professional Geoscientist, registered in B.C. and the NWT and Nunavut, with over 35 years experience in mineral

exploration. His recent focus has been on diamond, gold, and lithium projects. He has been responsible for generation and management of exploration projects. He has served as a director of a number of public companies, with extensive Board experience in compensation, corporate governance and special committees.

Jim Owen, CPA, CA, CFO James Owen is a Chartered Accountant, CPA. During the last 35 years he has been involved in the financial and administrative areas of public companies. He has extensive experience in the natural resource exploration industry in Canada and internationally. Jim has served as a Director and Officer of numerous public companies.

Paul Bolger, LL.B., M.B.A., Corporate Secretary Paul is a partner with Tingle Merrett LLP, a Calgary-based corporate and securities law boutique firm, with a practice focused on corporate securities, corporate finance and commercial transactions involving emerging, growth and mid-capitalization companies. He has extensive experience acting for public and private companies in a range of matters.

Ray Hodgkinson, B.Sc., P. Eng., Director Ray has 40 years of experience in the natural resources sector and is a Member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta. He has operating and Board experience with public companies in the minerals and energy sector.

Thomas MacNeill, CPA-CGA., Director Mr. MacNeill is the President, Chief Executive Officer ( “CEO”) and a director of Omineca Mining and Metals Ltd, a BC based resource company developing gold resources in the Caribou Mining District. He is President, CEO and a director of 49 North Resources Inc. Mr. MacNeill is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a CA-CGA. With over 25 years in the resource investment and corporate finance industry, Mr. MacNeill ‘s work history includes positions as Investment Advisor and Chief Financial Officer of a trust company. 17