White Metal Resources Completes Airborne Survey - Begins Interpretation and Initial Targeting on Gunners Cove Gold Property
Thunder Bay, April 13, 2018 - White Metal Resources Corp. (TSXV: WHM) ("White Metal" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has completed flying its heliborne electromagnetic time-domain ("HTEM") and magnetics geophysical survey on its Gunners Cove Property (the "Property"), located 20 km north of St. Anthony on the Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland. The Property is easily accessible by means of local roads and trails, and consists of 682 claim units (59,402 ha or 594 sq-km). The HTEM survey was contracted to Triumph Instruments, headed by Steve Balch. Initial surface grab samples from the new discovery made in September 2017 (news release: September 25, 2017), and follow up sampling (news release: November 20, 2017), outline a large area (approximately 15 sq-km) of anomalous gold and other metals associated with pyrite-nodules and pyrite stringers, and hosted by black shale. The Company believes there is an opportunity to expand the known gold mineralization over a much larger surface area, at depth, and to develop high-grade gold targets.
A review and preliminary interpretation of the airborne survey data has identified numerous high priority targets over the 13.5km (N-S) by up to 7km (E-W) Property. Many magnetic highs are coincident with EM conductors including some at or near the known gold zones but many lie outside of the main discovery areas. Having not yet mapped the Property, it is difficult to make interpretations and direct correlation between the magnetic highs-lows and EM conductors, targets which will therefore require substantial ground-truthing. Preliminary images from the HTEM-mag survey will be made available on the Company website.
The Company will continue to review and interpret the new airborne data which will assist us in better understanding and delineating geological features (i.e., structural and stratigraphic), and in generating priority targets over the Property. White Metal is planning a spring-summer-fall 2018 work program that will consist of detailed mapping and prospecting over the entire Property. This work program will begin mid-May or as soon as weather conditions allow.
In Fall 2017, 133 surface grab samples were collected from the 10 mineralized zones on the Property. The distribution of the samples containing anomalous gold values define an area roughly 5 km x 3 km. Approximately 50% of the grab samples collected in the Gunners Cove area assayed 100 ppb Au (0.1 g/t Au) or greater, with a maximum of 5.9 g/t Au (Mossberg Zone). Silver assay results are also elevated, ranging from less than 1 ppm Ag to a maximum of 9.1 g/t Ag (Cooey Zone) [note: grab samples are selective by nature and are unlikely to be representative of average grades]. Work to date at the Gunners Cove Property has highlighted a large area of anomalous gold values and extended the discovery area substantially. Historically, this Property has seen very little exploration work and is a recent prospecting discovery, adding to its importance. Precious metal and base metal mineralization is associated with, and appears to be largely hosted by, pyritic nodules and stringers accompanied by minor silicification and local brecciation, and hosted by an extensive black shale unit.
Technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Dr. Scott Jobin-Bevans (P.Geo.), Vice President Exploration and a Director of White Metal, who is a Qualified Person under the definitions established by the National Instrument 43-101.
For more information in regards to the Gunners Cove Property you can visit the company's Web Page at www.whitemetalres.com.
About White Metal Resources Corp (TSXV: WHM):
White Metal Resources Corp. is a junior exploration company exploring in Canada and currently has 39,855,240 common shares issued and outstanding.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of White Metal Resources Corp.
"Michael Stares"
Michael Stares, President and CEO
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Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, P7B 4A8
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