VANCOUVER, BC, May 29, 2024 /CNW/ - GoldMining Inc. (the "Company" or "GoldMining") (TSX: GOLD) (NYSE American: GLDG) is pleased to announce that it has recently commenced drilling at its 100% owned S?o Jorge Gold Project ("S?o Jorge" or the "Project"), a large-scale (45,997 hectare) project located within the prolific Tapajos Gold District in Pará State, Brazil.
Highlights:
The drilling program (the "Program") at the Project consists of approximately 1,000 metres (m) of proposed diamond core drilling and 3,000 m of power auger drilling.
The Program has the following objectives:
Confirmatory drilling within and near the margins of the existing S?o Jorge gold deposit* (the "Deposit"), to test a reinterpretation of the structural controls on high-grade mineralization; and
Testing targets for potential new discovery along the broader multi-kilometre NW-SE striking high strain corridor that hosts the Deposit.
The Program includes a mobile power auger drill rig to test for bedrock sources of surficial soil geochemical anomalies and to define targets for deeper core drilling.
Auger drilling will focus on the broad surficial soil geochemical footprint, expanded over the past 12 months, which comprises a large 12 km x 7 km area of elevated gold ± copper ± molybdenum.
Auger drilling is designed to penetrate through the soil profile into the underlying saprolite zone, and vector into potential bedrock hosted mineralization targets.
S?o Jorge is located in the Tapajos Gold District, which hosts multiple gold projects including producing mines, development projects and exploration properties over approximately 200 km along the Tocantinzinho - S?o Jorge Trend (see Figure 1).
* Please see the technical report titled "S?o Jorge Gold Project, Pará State, Brazil: Independent Technical Report on Mineral Resources", prepared for the Company and dated effective May 31, 2021, for details on the S?o Jorge deposit mineral resource estimate, which is available under the Company's profile at www.sedarplus.ca.
Tim Smith, Vice President of Exploration of GoldMining, commented: "We are excited to commence the first drilling program at the S?o Jorge Project in more than ten years. We expect the Program will build upon our recent exploration work that has expanded a regional scale gold and copper footprint. The Program aims to confirm a new geological model for the S?o Jorge deposit, which may help to optimize and improve confidence in our mineral resource estimate. The proposed drilling also tests a number of new target areas defined from our extensive geochemical and geophysical datasets. The mobile mechanized auger drill program is designed to expedite target definition by allowing us to rapidly test beneath broad high-tenor gold ± copper soil anomalies surrounding the S?o Jorge deposit, enabling us to vector into bedrock targets for follow-up core drilling. Overall, we're optimistic about the potential for new discoveries at S?o Jorge given it remains currently relatively underexplored, yet boasts indications of a significant mineral system located within a prolific gold mining district."
Figure 1 – Tapajos Gold District and location of S?o Jorge (CNW Group/GoldMining Inc.)
Tapajos Gold District
S?o Jorge sits within the active and rapidly developing Tapajos Gold District. This region is estimated to have produced over 20 million ounces of gold from artisanal mining of surface deposits, according to the Brazil National Mining Agency. The paved Cuiabá-Santarém Highway (Hwy BR-163) has reduced hurdles for more traditional bedrock mine development in the region, including Serabi Gold Plc.'s producing high-grade underground Palito Mine and G Mining Ventures Corp.'s ("G Mining") Tocantinzinho open pit mine which is nearing completion of construction and remains on track for commercial production in H2-2024 (see G Mining news release May 27, 2024).
S?o Jorge straddles Hwy BR-163 which includes a 138 kV powerline corridor tied into the district electrical grid that was recently constructed for Tocantinzinho. Exploration activities at S?o Jorge are operated from a permanent camp located adjacent to the existing Deposit and just 3 km from the highway.
Update on Activities
The Company has commenced the Program with the goal of confirming a new structural interpretation which may help to optimize modelling of the mineral resource. Structural analysis of historic mapping and oriented core from drilling by previous operators, has identified two principal vein/fracture orientations, the intersection of which produces a steeply plunging high-grade 'shoot' geometry. Infill confirmatory oriented core drilling is underway within the Deposit and near its margins to test this interpretation which could provide evidence for a better understanding of the controls on high-grade mineralization and optimization of the resource modelling methodology.
The Company also plans to conduct core drilling along the broad northwest-southeast striking S?o Jorge high-strain corridor (see Figure 2), which has previously been drill tested over a strike length of approximately 1.4 km in the area of the currently defined Deposit, but which remains open and largely untested along strike.
The S?o Jorge high-strain corridor occurs within a broader 12 km x 7 km surface geochemical footprint defined by elevated gold ± copper ± molybdenum, and the Company is conducting systematic follow-up exploration activities over several high priority target areas (see Figure 2), including ongoing soil sampling and geological mapping, with a view to define and prioritize new bedrock diamond core drilling targets. A mobile power auger drill rig has recently been added to the Program to expedite the testing of several high-tenor surficial geochemical targets. Auger drilling can reach depths of around 10 - 20 metres vertical to effectively penetrate through the colluvial/alluvial soil profile and into the underlying saprolite zone. This efficient method of shallow geochemical drilling can cover large areas rapidly and cost effectively, and may ultimately allow the Company's exploration team to vector into new potential bedrock mineralization occurrences for follow-up diamond core drilling.
Figure 2 – S?o Jorge showing extent of gold ± copper ± molybdenum surficial geochemical anomalies, the outline of the defined S?o Jorge high-strain corridor and the Deposit, and the location of preliminary target areas (blue circles) which are undergoing systematic follow up exploration. (CNW Group/GoldMining Inc.)
Figure 3 – Photographs of GoldMining’s local team conducting exploration work at S?o Jorge, 2024. A: Mapping and sampling along the exposure of a vein containing quartz + iron-oxide (weathered sulphides); B. Diamond core drill, night shift; C. Auger drill preparing configuration for sampling. (CNW Group/GoldMining Inc.)
Qualified Person
Paulo Pereira, P. Geo., President of GoldMining, has supervised the preparation of and approved the scientific and technical information contained herein. Mr. Pereira is a qualified person defined in National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects ("NI 43-101").
About GoldMining Inc.
The Company is a public mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of gold assets in the Americas. Through its disciplined acquisition strategy, the Company now controls a diversified portfolio of resource-stage gold and gold-copper projects in Canada, U.S.A., Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. The Company also owns approximately 21.5 million shares of Gold Royalty Corp. (NYSE American: GROY), 9.9 million shares of U.S. GoldMining Inc. (Nasdaq: USGO), and 26.7 million shares of NevGold Corp. (TSXV: NAU). See www.goldmining.com for additional information.
Notice to Readers
Technical disclosure regarding S?o Jorge has been prepared by the Company in accordance with NI 43-101. NI 43-101 is a rule of the Canadian Securities Administrators which establishes standards for all public disclosure an issuer makes of scientific and technical information concerning mineral projects. These standards differ from the requirements of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") and the scientific and technical information contained in this news release may not be comparable to similar information disclosed by domestic United States companies subject to the SEC's reporting and disclosure requirements.
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