The Northern Miner April 1 2019 Issue 7

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Troilus drills ‘land that time forgot’ in central Quebec GOLD

| Junior sees upside in past-producer BY TRISH SAYWELL tsaywell@northernminer.com

B A drill rig at Skeena Resources’ Eskay Creek gold project in November 2018.

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keena Resources (TSXV: SKE; US-OTC: SKREF) has tabled an updated resource estimate for its Eskay Creek gold project in northwestern British Columbia, divided between pit constrained and underground mining scenarios. In pit-constrained resources, the project contains 12.7 million indi-

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cated tonnes grading 4.5 grams gold and 117 grams silver, or 6 grams gold equivalent, for 1.81 million oz. gold and 47.7 million oz. silver, or 2.45 million equivalent oz. gold. It also contains 13.5 million inferred tonnes at 2.2 grams gold and

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42 gram silver, or 2.8 grams gold equivalent, for 984,000 oz. gold and 18.45 million oz. silver, or 1.2 million equivalent oz. gold. In underground resources, the project contains another 819,000 indicated tonnes grading 6.4 grams gold and 139 grams silver, or 8.2 grams gold equivalent, for 169,000 oz. gold and 3.65 million oz. silver, or 218,000 equivalent oz. gold. It also contains 295,000 inferred tonnes at 7.1 grams gold and 82 grams silver, or 8.2 equivalent grams gold for 68,000 oz. gold and 778,000 oz. silver, or 78,000 equivalent oz. gold in underground resources. “It doesn’t get that deep,” Skeena president and CEO Walter Coles Jr. says in an interview with The Northern Miner. “The average depth of these pit-constrained See SKEENA / 2

etween listing on the TSX Venture Exchange in January 2018 and graduating to the Toronto Stock Exchange in October the same year, Troilus Gold (TSX: TLG; US-OTC: CHXMF) drilled 36,000 metres of drilling on its namesake property in Quebec and boosted the project’s mineral resources by 90%. In November the junior exploration company reported its Troilus gold project contains indicated resources of 3.40 million oz. gold and 231 million lb. copper held in 121.7 million tonnes grading 0.87 gram gold and 0.086% copper (3.2 million oz. gold at 1 gram per tonne gold equivalent), and a further 1.02 million oz. gold and 66.2 million lb. copper in 36.1 million inferred tonnes grading 0.88 gram gold and 0.083% copper (1.2 million oz. at 1 gram per tonne gold equivalent). Since then, the company’s share price has more than doubled to 93¢, and last month management kicked off its 2019 drill program of 40,000 metres, a campaign that CEO Justin Reid says will show “significant results over the next little while.” “The history of Troilus is really what’s driving this,” Reid says, noting that mineralization on the property was discovered in 1986, and an open-pit mine built by its previous owner, Inmet Mining, went on to produce 2 million oz. gold and nearly 70,000 tonnes copper. “It was rushed into production so Inmet could become a gold producer and garner that gold multiple as a base metal producer, and they accomplished that,” he says. “But what we’ve found is that very little exploration ever occurred outside of the main orebody or below the old resource shells ... because they put the deposit into production in a US$350 per oz. gold price environment, so the money wasn’t there to do that.” This year the company plans to build on the success of its first drill program, which included extending the main Z87 orebody (the source of most past production) from a 500- to 850-metre depth, where it remains

open. It also extended J4 — a small, adjacent past-producing pit — down to 350 metres below surface from its previous depth of 100 metres, where it remains open for expansion, and probed below the expected limits of the J5 mineralized zone, a shallow, historic pit that produced 50,000 tonnes of mineralized material near the end of the mine’s life in 2010, and found more mineralization. “This year is really a follow-up of what we accomplished last year. We are extending J4 and J5 down dip, we are moving southwest from Z87, and we’re going northeast along the trend,” Reid says. “It’s a big program.” Extending the J Zone (J4 and J5) to the northeast will be facilitated by the company’s decision late last year to triple its land position north of its property boundary, with the acquisition of 120 sq. km owned by Emgold Mining (TSXV: EMR; US-OTC: EGMCF). Reid refers to Troilus as “the land See TROILUS / 15 PM40069240

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