VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Nov. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Prosper Gold Corp. (“Prosper Gold” or the “Company”) (TSXV:PGX) is pleased to announce that it has exercised its previously announced option under the Option Agreement dated August 9, 2020 (the “Option Agreement”) between the Company and Sabina Gold & Silver Corp. (“Sabina”) to acquire a 100% interest (the “100% Interest”) in the Golden Sidewalk property ( the “Golden Sidewalk Property”) and the Skinner property (together with the Golden Sidewalk Property, the “Properties”) consisting of approximately 3,000 hectares of mineral claims, leases and patents in the Red Lake mining district of Ontario.
“The exercise of the Option approximately 2 years ahead of schedule represents a significant milestone for the Company,” commented Peter Bernier, CEO. “This solidifies Prosper’s ownership of 160 square kilometers of mining claims and leases in a world-class mining jurisdiction.”
In order to acquire the 100% Interest in the Properties, the Company has (i) issued an aggregate of 1,500,000 common shares from its treasury to Sabina; (ii) paid an aggregate of $50,000 in cash to Sabina; and (iii) incurred expenditures on the Properties of not less than $2,600,000. Concurrent with the Company’s previously announced acquisition of a 70% interest in the Properties on February 7, 2022, the Company and Sabina entered into Royalty Agreements (the “Royalty Agreements”) pursuant to which Prosper Gold will pay to Sabina (i) a 2.0% net smelter returns royalty ("NSR") on the proceeds from the production and sale of all ores, minerals, metals and materials (“Products”) mined or removed from the Golden Sidewalk Property and (ii) a 1.0% NSR on the proceeds from the production and sale of Products mined or removed from certain “Additional Property” (as defined in the Option Agreement).
About the Golden Sidewalk
The Golden Sidewalk is a district-scale gold exploration project covering over 160 square kilometres of contiguous mineral claims and mining leases in the western Birch-Uchi Greenstone Belt, approximately 60 km east of Red Lake, Ontario. The vehicle-accessible project straddles 12 kilometres of the Balmer Assemblage – Narrow Lake Assemblage unconformity, a regional-scale feature that has been the Red Lake exploration guide, but which has seen limited exploration in the project area. The “Golden Corridor” lies immediately north of the unconformity and is characterized as a highly prospective trend of coincident favourable magnetic and resistivity lineaments supported by highly anomalous gold-in-till samples covering 7.0 by 0.5 kilometres. An additional highly prospective target area was defined in 2021, termed the Skinner North Target Area, where 2022 channel sampling results include 9.69 gpt gold over 3.0 metres and 13.13 gpt gold over 1.8 metres and till samples containing up to 1,014 gold grains, was drilled for the first time in November of 2022. Historical drilling by previous operators at the Bathurst Mine, Joe Vein, KT vein, Dunkin and Vihonen prospects reported high-grade gold intercepts which have yet to be followed up by Prosper Gold.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information in this news release has been reviewed by Rory Ritchie, P.Geo., Vice-President of Exploration for Prosper Gold and a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.
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ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Per: “Peter Bernier”
Peter Bernier
President & CEO
For further information, please contact:
Peter Bernier
President & CEO
Prosper Gold Corp.
Cell: (250) 316-6644
Email: Pete@ProsperGoldCorp.com
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