Jaxon Completes Initial Report on Its More Creek Project in the Golden Triangle: Identifies High Priority Drill Targets
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - April 19, 2018) - Jaxon Mining Inc. (TSXV: JAX) (FSE: OU31) (OTC: JXMNF) is pleased to announce that it has received initial results from its first data compilation efforts on the More Creek Project in the Golden Triangle, northern BC. This compilation has identified a priority target at More Creek, which covers gold-silver and VMS mineralization. Jaxon has submitted a Notice of Work, including drilling, to maximize its 2018 exploration season.
Highlights include the following:
Over $10 million of historical work, including the compilation of data from 14,523 m of drilling in 71 holes
Initial focus, two mineralized VMS systems identified 2 km apart with a 6.5 km marker horizon
Hole FM04-04, in the marker horizon: 15 g/t Au, 6.5% Zn, 1075 g/t Ag, over 3.1 m
Jaxon's geological team has identified the primary target as the untested marker horizon associated with the two discovered VMS systems, the BRT Zone and the Ryder Zone. Historically, 42 drill holes were completed - over 10,000 m of drilling in total - within the zones. A highly encouraging part of this target is the extensive 2 km area of potential, located between the BRT and Ryder Zones. This connecting area is Jaxon's preliminary area of focus for exploration efforts on the More Creek Property.
The BRT and Ryder Zones are both massive sulphide discoveries, separated by over 2 km of potential area, joined by a distinct marker horizon. This untested marker horizon has been mapped over a total of 6.5 km. In 2008, a wide-spaced Induced Polarization (IP) geophysical survey clearly indicated a coincident high chargeability associated with the marker horizon. The 2008 IP survey proposed a 15-hole drill program, but since the financial crisis in 2008, the property has not been the subject of substantial exploration efforts. Jaxon plans on completing a detailed IP geophysical survey over the area of interest to establish continuity and confirm the historical drill targets. Upon confirmation of this data, Jaxon intends to complete the previously proposed 15-hole drill program. Jaxon considers there to be high potential for discovery between the BRT and Ryder Zones.
The property has undergone14,523 metres of drilling historically, with 2010.9 metres drill by Cominco in the 90's and 12,513.05 m done by Roca Mines between 2003 and 2008. As noted above, the BRT-Ryder Zones have undergone 10,303 m of drilling, focusing primarily on the separate zones, two kilometres apart. The two known mineralized zones lie along a northeast-trending rhyolitic to sericitic schist and chloritic volcanic schist contact, that dips 20°— 50° southeast. Figure 1 illustrates both past drilling and the highly prospective marker horizon to be tested. Each zone has encouraging past drilling results summarized in Tables 1 and 2, and Jaxon believes the prospective marker horizon may extend this mineralization.