First Nordic Announces Exploration Program Underway on Gold Line Belt Projects in Sweden
Highlights:
- Storjuktan project: continue detailed property-wide geochemical survey by collecting ~38,000 glacial till samples to cover remaining 23,000 hectares of project; full property 25,000 ha UAV magnetic geophysical survey (50 m spaced lines).
- Paubäcken project: BoT drilling on Brokojan target (~100 holes) and following up on best BoT drill result to date, 5.01 g/t Au, at Aida target
- Klippen project: BoT drilling (~120 holes)
- BoT drilling programs will set up for diamond drilling on priority targets later this year
Storjuktan Project Program
A detailed property-wide geochemical survey was initiated in 2023 in which FNM discovered a cohesive 5 km gold pathfinder glacial till anomaly at the Nippas target. Exploration planned for summer / fall 2024 includes a continuation of this survey and will include the collection of up to 38,000 B-Horizon (subsoil) glacial till samples (see Figure 1 in Appendix). The survey is designed to cover the remaining 23,000 ha of the 25,000 ha project area. A high-density sample spacing is used (15 meter ("m") x 75 m sample spacing) to identify anomalous areas. All samples are screened using XRF analysis (x-ray fluorescence) for gold pathfinder elements and samples from anomalous areas will be sent for gold assay at an external laboratory.
The Company is also planning to fly an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) magnetic geophysical survey over the entire 25,000 ha of the Storjuktan project area.
Paubäcken Project Program
Exploration planned for summer / fall 2024 includes top of bedrock drilling on the Brokojan target identified in the 2023 surface till sampling survey. The Brokojan target is defined by a As-Cu-Zn-Mo (arsenic-copper-zinc-molybdenum) pathfinder element till anomaly extending over 2.3 km by 1.0 km and is located just northwest of the Harpsund gold and pathfinder anomaly. Collectively the two targets now form a large, semi-continuous southeast-northwest trending anomaly over a 5.5 km strike of the Harpsund structural corridor. Up to 100 BoT drill holes are planned as a phase-1 testing of the bedrock geochemistry of the Brokojan target area (see Figure 2 in Appendix). FNM will likely also continue BoT drilling on the Aida target to continue to confirm gold mineralization on the 4 km corridor and to follow up on the highest-grade BoT drill sample to date, 5.01 g/t Au (2024).
Klippen Project Program
The summer / fall Klippen exploration program is designed to investigate bedrock sources of a +5 km by 500 m wide historic Au (gold), As, Cu and Zn glacial till anomaly. The anomaly is oriented in the prominent ice flow direction. The program will include up to 120 top of bedrock drill holes and is designed to systematically test the bedrock along a 2 km zone interpreted to be the most probable source of the till anomaly based on interpretation of geophysical data and ice flow direction (see Figure 3 in Appendix).
Program Budget
The cost of the summer / fall exploration program is estimated at
About the
The Storjuktan project is a large project strategically positioned north of the Company's Barsele project [1]. It consists of seven contiguous licenses covering 30,000 ha located in the northern portion of the Gold Line belt. The Storjuktan project contains over 60 km of the Gold Line structure. All mineralization discovered to date shows a spatial relationship to this structural corridor, occurring mainly on second- and third-order splay structures.
About the Paubäcken Project
The Paubäcken project consists of three licenses totalling 17,097 ha on the Gold Line belt. The Gold Line belt is host to several significant gold deposits, including the Company's nearby resource-stage Barsele project [1], as well as the Svartliden mine and Fäboliden development project (operated by Dragon Mining Ltd). The Svartliden mine was in production from 2005 to 2015 and a total of 3.18 million tonnes of material grading 4.1 g/t Au was processed during its operation (http://www.dragonmining.com/svartliden). Paubäcken is strategically positioned between Barsele and Fäboliden, is a few hundred meters northeast of the Svartliden mine, and features a regional shear zone with multiple untested gold anomalies.
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The Klippen project is located in a southern extension of the Gold Line belt in northern
About the Gold Line Belt Geology
The geology of the Gold Line belt consists of an inverted volcano-sedimentary sequence intruded by small pre- to syn-kinematic granitic intrusions within a broad, anastomosing high strain structural corridor. Lithologies are regionally metamorphosed to upper greenschist and amphibolite grade facies, and gold mineralization is associated with intense sericite, carbonate, biotite, and calc-silicate alteration assemblages and sulphide minerals pyrite, arsenopyrite, and pyrrhotite. The regional Gold Line structural corridor runs up the axis of the belt with many jogs, splays, and zones of structural complexity that are potential locations for dilation and deposition of gold bearing fluids. These lithological sequences are deemed to be highly prospective for orogenic gold deposits.
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[1] Technical Report and Mineral Resource Estimate for the Barsele Property, 2020, InnovExplo
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