VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 18, 2020 / Majestic Gold Corp. ("Majestic" or the "Company") (TSXV:MJS)(FSE:MJT) reports that it will commence a 1,200 metre aircore ("AC) drill program at its Fair Adelaide Project, located in Western Australia. It will be the first phase of drilling undertaken by the Company at Fair Adelaide and will consist of a number of short holes to inexpensively confirm and expand on mineralization in holes drilled by previous operators at the Fair Adelaide East and Puzzle Bear prospects. The program is scheduled to begin in early January 2021.
The Property is located approximately 60 kilometres northwest of Kalgoorlie in the Ora Banda region of Western Australia. The eight contiguous tenements owned by Plutus Resources Pty. Ltd. ("Plutus") comprise a total area of 1,322 hectares and are within the Eastern Goldfields Province of the Archaean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia which covers a portion of the Ora Banda Domain of the Kalgoorlie Terrane. The property is situated within the Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt of the Eastern Goldfields Province.
The Fair Adelaide property covers a highly prospective portion of ultramafic rocks on the western limb of the Goongarrie-Mt Pleasant anticline in the prolific Kalgoorlie gold district which also hosts significant base metal occurrences. The greenstone rocks that host gold mineralisation at Fair Adelaide East play host regionally to the Siberia, Mt Pleasant and Paddington gold deposits.
At the Fair Adelaide East prospect target area, initial drilling targeted near surface gold mineralization intersected in a well oxidized ultramafic unit at the contact of a granodiorite. Drilling along the granite-ultramafic contact identified a zone of sericite-pyrite alteration, with lesser quartz veining, that can be traced for several hundred metres in a north-south direction. These alteration assemblages are consistent with those observed on the edges of quartz veins and within small shears through the granodiorite.
This program will drill several shallow holes through the contact zone between the ultramafic and granitoid as well as drill some deeper holes to test for primary mineralization in unoxidized ultramafics, similar to the style of gold mineralization found at Tarmoola, in the northern Kalgoorlie-Wiluna Belt, where mineralization is hosted in sub-vertical contact sheared margin of a large granitoid.
At the Puzzle Bear prospect, two sub-parallel nickel bearing gossans adjacent to thrust faults were discovered in 2004. The geology at Puzzle Bear is along strike with rocks that hose nickel-cobalt mineralization at the nearby Cawse Laterite deposits (Norilsk Nickel Australia). The Company will drill several shallow holes to confirm results from a reverse air blast drilling program down by Crusader in 2004.
The Company has been granted an option to acquire a 51% interest in the property from Plutus, a privately owned Australian company, by paying Plutus A$30,000 on execution of the Agreement, a further A$30,000 on or before December 2020 and expending a total A$2,000,000 in exploration expenses on the properties during the ensuing two years ending December 15, 2023, provided that Majestic expends a minimum of A$500,000 on the properties during the year commencing December 15, 2021 and ending December 15, 2022.
Alternatively, Majestic may elect to acquire a 51% interest in fewer than the full eight tenements by making the two cash payments of A$30,000 and electing to expend a minimum of A$250,000 on any one or any number of tenements each and relinquishing the balance of the tenements back to Plutus, again provided Majestic expends a minimum of $500,000 during the year commencing December 15, 2021 and ending December 15, 2023.
Following Majestic having earned a 51% interest either in the full 8 Tenements or any fewer number Plutus and Majestic shall either negotiate a joint venture for the further development of the then jointly-owned properties or negotiate a sale of a 44% interest in the said properties by Plutus to Majestic.
About Majestic Gold
Currently focused solely in China, Majestic Gold Corp. is a British Columbia based company engaged in commercial gold production at the Songjiagou Gold Mine in eastern Shandong Province, China. Additional information on the Company and its projects is available at www.sedar.com and on the Company's website at www.majesticgold.com.
For further information, please contact:
Stephen Kenwood, P.Geo., President and CEO
Telephone: (604) 560-9060
Email: info@majesticgold.com
Website: www.majesticgold.com
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