Orford Intersects 41.1 m Grading 1.36 g/t Au at Jones Keystone Project in North Carolina

TORONTO, Aug. 2, 2018 /CNW/ - Orford Mining Corp. ("Orford") (TSX-V: ORM) is pleased to announce the completion of its drilling program on the Jones Keystone and Faulkner properties in North and South Carolina, respectively. A total of 6 holes have been drilled totaling 1,121m (655m at Jones-Keystone and 466m at Faulkner). Assay results for the first hole on the Jones-Keystone Property have been encouraging, reporting 41.1 m grading 1.36 g/t Au, including 9m grading 2.63 g/t Au. The Drilling at Jones-Keystone has confirmed continuity of historical mineralization and extended mineralization into a previously unexplored zone which opens up the size potential of this mineralized system. Drilling at Faulkner has discovered a new sulphide mineralized zone.

Orford's President and CEO, David Christie noted: "We are excited with the initial results from drilling on the Jones-Keystone property showing thick shallow gold mineralization and we look forward to receiving the full assay results. We are also eagerly awaiting the assay results from the drilling on the Faulkner property, including the new sulphide mineralization discovery."

Table 1: Significant Assay Results for 2018 Drilling at Jones-Keystone and Faulkner Properties*

Carolina Gold Properties

At the Jones-Keystone property in North Carolina, drilling of strong chargeability anomalies (Figure 1) that not only coincide with historically drilled mineralization, but also extend at depth and along strike beyond this mineralization (reported in Orford's press release of March 1, 2018), has yielded promising results.

JK-18-054 was drilled to a depth of 203m to test the historic gold trend associated with historical drill hole JK-11-017 (104m @ 1.27 g/t Au from 28m to 132m, including 40m @ 2.33 g/t from 64 to 104m)² and a deeper chargeability anomaly, and to acquire structural information on shallower historical mineralization to test an alternative structural model of the mineralized trend.  While drilling confirmed the continuity of historical gold mineralization, the sulphide mineralization zone associated with the deep IP anomaly did not yield significant gold results.   More detailed structural evaluation of the new core is ongoing. Additional hole descriptions and locations can be found in Tables 2 & 3.

At the Faulkner property, Orford drilling targeted multiple parallel zones of sericitic and silicic alteration associated with strong IP anomalies. One of these zones is also with a strong 600m-long chargeability and resistivity anomaly and is coincidently situated under a historical surface grab sample occurrence of 6.33g/t Au and was targeted by holes FM-18-001 and FM-18-003(Figure 2). Both of these holes intersected strong pyrite mineralization and quartz-sericite alteration associated with the IP anomalies. Hole FM-18-002 drilled on the northern anomalous trend and intersected strong sulphide mineralization with strong sericite quartz alteration over 20 to 30m coincident with the IP anomaly.  Assay results from all Faulkner holes are pending.

Table 2: Drill Hole Description for Jones-Keystone and Faulkner Holes

Table 3: Location and orientation information for Jones Keystone and Faulkner drillholes (NAD 83 UTM Zone 17N)

About the Carolina Gold Properties

Orford has entered into an option agreement with Carolina Gold Resources Inc. to earn a 70% interest in both the Jones-Keystone and Faulkner Properties located respectively in North Carolina and South Carolina in the southeastern US. The properties are located in the Carolina Gold Belt, home to Oceana Gold's producing Haile Mine (3.3 Moz measured and indicated resource - 58.2 Mt at 1.77 g/t Au⁵), and the past-producing Ridgeway Mine. 

The Jones-Keystone and Faulkner Properties occur at or near the same regional geological contact as the Haile and Ridgeway mines.  At Jones-Keystone, mineralization is exposed at surface and historical drilling has yielded multiple drill hole intercepts in the 1 to 3 g/t range including an interval of 1.56 g/t Au over 54m core length including 3.01 g/t Au over 28m core length in historical hole JK-10-006, and an interval of 1.27 g/t Au over 104m core length including 3.03 g/t Au over 14m core length in historical hole JK-11-017^1,2.

Qualified Person

The disclosure of scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been approved by Alger St-Jean, Vice President, Exploration of Orford, a Qualified Person under NI 43-101. 

The information concerning the Carolina Gold properties in this release has been prepared by management of Orford based on current work and available historical information.  There is no current report prepared in conformance with NI 43-101.  Reference is made to the Management Information Circular dated September 18, 2017 filed on Orford's profile on SEDAR.

The information regarding work disclosed herein in respect of the Qiqavik Property is based on the independent report of Clement Dombrowski, P.Geo of IOS Services Geoscientifiques Inc. titled "NI 43-101 Technical Report on Qiqavik Project, Northern Quebec, Canada" effective September 14, 2017, and on Orford Mining's press releases of October 26^th, 2017 and November 15^th, 2017 available on Orford Mining's website and on SEDAR.

About Orford Mining Corporation

Orford Mining is a mineral explorer focused on highly prospective and underexplored areas of Northern Quebec and the Carolina Gold Belt in United States. Orford's principal assets are the Qiqavik and West Raglan projects comprising of a land package totaling over 70,000 hectares in the Cape Smith Belt of Northern Quebec and properties in the U.S. Carolina Gold Belt. The Qiqavik Project hosts several new high-grade gold discoveries along a mineralized trend in excess of 40 km. Orford's common shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol ORM.

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