Sokoman Minerals Commences 2024 Exploration Program at the Fleur de Lys Gold Project, Northwestern Newfoundland
ST. JOHN'S, NL / ACCESSWIRE / May 16, 2024 / Sokoman Minerals Corp. (TSXV:SIC)(OTCQB:SICNF) ("Sokoman" or the "Company") is pleased to report that the 2024 exploration program at the 100%-owned Fleur de Lys gold project has commenced. An …
ST. JOHN'S, NL / ACCESSWIRE / May 16, 2024 / Sokoman Minerals Corp. (TSXV:SIC)(OTCQB:SICNF) ("Sokoman" or the "Company") is pleased to report that the 2024 exploration program at the 100%-owned Fleur de Lys gold project has commenced. An earlier-than-normal snow melt over the northern and central Baie Verte Peninsula has allowed prospecting to begin a full month earlier than usual. The program will begin on areas of active logging around the Golden Bull Prospect, discovered in 2023, and as the weather improves extend to other target areas.
The Golden Bull Prospect consists of 35 rock grab samples of variably banded, stylolitic, quartz blocks, some weighing several tonnes (Photo 1) (see news release dated October 4, 2023). Seventeen samples with moderate to strong stylolitic banding (Photo 2), gave Au values >500 ppb (0.50 g/t Au) to a high of 9,020 ppb (9.02 g/t Au). The Prospect lies in a larger area (Map 1) of anomalous till and soil geochemistry defined by Sokoman in 2023, where geochemical and geophysical (VLF-EM) anomalies are shown in historical work by Noranda Inc. in the late 1980s.
A crew has been mobilized to prospect the newly logged areas to define drill targets planned for the third quarter of 2024. The initial drilling will be a 2,000 m program of holes from 50 m to 150 m testing surface geochemical and geophysical anomalies mainly in the Golden Bull area.
Timothy Froude, P.Geo., President, and CEO of Sokoman states; "We are pleased to announce the start of the 2024 field program at the Fleur de Lys gold project, on the Baie Verte Peninsula of Newfoundland. The early start will help us get the data we need to focus as quickly as we can on the Phase 1 drill targets at Golden Bull. Most of the initial drilling will be in a 2 km by 1.5 km area defined as the Golden Bull Prospect. In the meantime, we still have many unexplained till geochemical anomalies elsewhere on the property that we will be working on as part of the 2024 program to define Phase 2 drill targets for later this year or early 2025."
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This news release has been reviewed and approved by Timothy Froude, P.Geo., a "Qualified Person" under National Instrument 43-101 and President and CEO of Sokoman Minerals Corp.
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