April 21, 2020, Toronto, Ontario – Troilus Gold Corp. (TSX: TLG; OTCQB: CHXMF) (“Troilus” or the “Company”) reports additional results from the 6,000 metre drill program completed earlier this year in the Southwest Zone (the “Southwest Zone” or “SWZ”) at its 100%-owned Troilus property (the “Troilus Project”) located northeast of Chibougamau, Quebec. All drill holes reported herein successfully intersected gold and demonstrated geology similar to the main mineralized zone on the property, Z87, located less than 3.5 kilometres to the northeast of the SWZ (see Figure 2).
Highlights from the Southwest Zone drilling include*:
*See Table 1 for all drill intercepts, see Figure 1 for Section view and Figure 3 for drill hole locations
Justin Reid, Chief Executive Officer of Troilus commented: “Drill hole TLG-ZSW20-189 is a spectacular stand out, not only from this recent drill program but also in the context of all the drilling that we have completed from the main Z87 and J Zones over the last couple of years and historic drilling from Inmet Mining Corporation when defining the original Troilus mine. It demonstrates AuEq mineralization grading well over 1 g/t AuEq sustained over material intercepts including one section of 1.56 g/t AuEq over 73 metres. This mineralization is being encountered at shallow depths and demonstrate technical similarities to Z87, the largest of the Troilus ore bodies. These results are further evidence that the Southwest Zone could be of considerable scale and have the potential to add to Troilus’ existing mineral resources estimate of 4.71 million ounces of Indicated gold equivalent and 1.76 million ounces of Inferred gold equivalent (see press release dated November 12, 2019). We believe that the results we are seeing from the Southwest Zone provide further evidence that the Troilus property has the potential to host a large, regional scale gold mineralizing system and remains materially underexplored. The Troilus team is excited to further expand our knowledge of this system by applying our evolving geological model to this area and the rest of the property. The Southwest Zone remains open along trend and at depth.”
Table 1: Summary of Southwest Zone Drill Results
*Note drill intervals reported in this news release are down-hole core lengths as true thicknesses cannot be determined with available information.
Figure 1: Section view of drill holes TLG-ZSW20-185 and TLG-ZSW20-189.
Initial drilling completed late last year at the Southwest Zone defined an area of 500m x 250m located 3.5 kilometres southwest of the Z87 pit, being readily accessible to the existing mine road (see Figure 2). All seven drill holes from the December 2019 program successfully intersected gold including high-grade intersections and demonstrated geology similar to that of Z87 (see press release dated January 28, 2020). Based on these positive results, Troilus completed another 6,000 metres of drilling through February of 2020 with the objective of testing a larger area and confirming continuity of mineralization across the SWZ. All 5 drill holes from the February drilling reported to date (see press release dated April 14, 2020) and all 7 drill hole results reported earlier this year (see press release dated January 28, 2020), have successfully intersected gold at shallow depths and defined internal high-grade zones demonstrating analogues to that of Z87 (see Figure 4). The results to date from the SWZ confirm a more than 1 km mineralized trend.
The Southwest Zone remains open along trend and at depth. Further results from the Southwest Zone drilling are expected to be released in the coming weeks.
Figure 2: Geological and Structural Interpretation of Mineralized Zones. Current Drill results are from the newly discovered Southwest Zone which is 3.5 kilometres south of Z87 and accessible from the main road.
Figure 3: Southwest drill hole locations . See Figure 1 for Section view of drill holes TLG-ZSW20-184 and TLG-ZSW20-189. See press releases dated January 28, 2020 and April 14, 2020 for previous drill results from the Southwest Zone.
Figure 4: Geological Map of the Troilus trend.
Quality Assurance and Control
During the Southwest Zone drill program in 2020, one metre assay samples were taken from NQ core and sawed in half. One-half was sent for assaying at ALS Canada Ltd. (“ALS”), a certified commercial laboratory, and the other half was retained for results, cross checks, and future reference. A strict QA/QC program was applied to all samples; which included insertion of one certified mineralized standard and one blank sample in each batch of 25 samples. Every sample was processed with standard crushing to 85% passing 75 microns on 500 g splits. Samples were assayed by one-AT (30 g) fire assay with an AA finish and if results were higher than 3.5 g/t Au, assays were redone with a gravimetric finish. For QA/QC samples, a 50 g fire assay was done. In addition to gold, ALS carried out multi-element analysis for ME-ICP61 analysis of 33 elements four acid ICP-AES.
Qualified Person
The technical and scientific information in this press release has been reviewed and approved by Bertrand Brassard, M.Sc., P.Geo., Senior Project Geologist, who is a Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101. Mr. Brassard is an employee of Troilus and is not independent of the Company under NI 43-101.
About Troilus Gold Corp.
Troilus is a Toronto-based, Quebec focused, advanced stage exploration and early-development company focused on the mineral expansion and potential mine re-start of the former gold and copper Troilus mine. The 16,000-hectare Troilus property is located northeast of Chibougamau, within the Frotêt-Evans Greenstone Belt in Quebec, Canada. From 1996 to 2010, Inmet Mining Corporation operated the Troilus project as an open pit mine, producing more than 2,000,000 ounces of gold and nearly 70,000 tonnes of copper.
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Paul Pint President +1 (416) 602-1050 paul.pint@troilusgold.com
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Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability; the estimate of Mineral Resources in the updated Mineral Resource statement may be materially affected by environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, socio-political, marketing, or other relevant issues. There is no certainty that the Indicated Mineral Resources will be converted to the Probable Mineral Reserve category, and there is no certainty that the updated Mineral Resource statement will be realized.
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