Goldshore Resources updates Winter Exploration Program at Moss Project, Ontario
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Goldshore Resources Inc. [TSXV: GSHR; OTCQB: GSHRF; FSE: 8X00] provided the following update on the Moss Project winter exploration program, Ontario, with all key activities under way including the completion of 5,848 metres of the 15,000-metre in-pit diamond drill program of which the company anticipates further assay results by the end of February.
Michael Henrichsen, Goldshore CEO, commented: “We’re excited to see our exploration program yielding promising results, with the discovery of extended altered diorite intrusions along the Superion trend and ongoing progress in infilling critical data gaps along the Kawa Trend. The addition of ground IP geophysics will further enhance our understanding of the property’s potential, and we look forward to reviewing the preliminary results and integrating them into our ongoing exploration efforts.”
In-Pit Drilling Update: The company has completed 19 drill holes for 5,848 metres of the 15,000-metre winter drill program. This includes 14 holes from dry land at the Southwest Zone that have been accessible without any need for a consistent period of winter conditions. These holes successfully intersected shear zone hosted mineralization within the altered diorite package, targeting previously unpopulated resource blocks as defined in the current resource model.
Additionally, these holes helped to better define the near-surface extent of the southern margin of the zone, refining our understanding of the margin of the system in this area.
Since late December, work has focused on building ice on Snodgrass Lake and on packing snow over the muskeg areas at Superion and QES. This work has allowed the Company to move the rigs in late January and to complete four drill holes at Superion and, most recently, the first hole at QES Up. Although the program is still in its early stages, drilling has intersected a broad chlorite-epidote-silica altered diorite intrusive with localized sericite-silica sulphide bearing shear zones on the northern flank of the main shear zone corridor.
A third drill rig is being sourced to assist with the upcoming lake ice portion of the drilling program. Further assay results from the in-pit diamond drill program are anticipated by the end of February.
The bedrock geochemical sampling program began last December using a track-mounted sonic rig focused on drilling the extensive area of esker that covers the boundary between the Hood Lake Stock and volcanic rocks of the Kawa Trend that is interpreted to be marked by the Knife Lake Fault. Drilling has been conducted from existing tracks and trails, pending the onset of winter conditions that will enable access to areas with muskeg terrain once frozen.
As part of the bedrock geochemistry program, 41 holes have been completed out of the planned 200. To date, 39 holes have successfully intersected bedrock at depths ranging from 10 to 50 metres. Additionally, two holes reached a maximum depth of 64 metres, remaining in esker material, which represents the operational limit of the drill rig. The holes that have intersected bedrock encountered unmineralized intrusion of the Hood Lake Stock in the southwest, sheared and faulted rocks of the Knife Lake Fault, and altered gabbro and volcanic rocks, which exhibit significant pyrite mineralization, in the northwest.
The company also announces that in connection with her appointment as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary, Ms. Erica Borgstrom has been granted 500,000 incentive stock options and 250,000 restricted share units (RSUs), under the company’s omnibus incentive plan. The Options are exercisable at $0.38 per share for a five years and vest as follows: 1/3 on August 10, 2025, 1/3 on August 10, 2026 and 1/3 on August 10, 2027. The RSUs became fully vested on February 10, 2025.
The company entered into an online marketing agreement dated February 10, 2025 with i2i Marketing Group, LLC, an arm’s length marketing and media company (the Consultant), pursuant to which the Consultant has agreed to provide to the company corporate marketing and investor awareness services, including, but not limited to, content creation management, author sourcing, project management and media distribution.
In consideration of such services, the Company will pay the Consultant an aggregate cash fee of USD$325,000, with USD$81,250 payable upon the execution of the Agreement and USD$243,750 payable immediately prior to media distribution testing to take place on or about three weeks from the date of the Agreement. The fees will be paid from the Company’s general working capital account.
The agreement is for an initial term of three months, subject to extension through supplemental insertion orders as agreed to by the parties, which will set out a monthly media spend and the services to be provided, with the maximum monthly media spend not to exceed USD$150,000 over the term of such extended arrangement unless otherwise approved by the TSX Venture Exchange.
Goldshore’s current focus is the advanced stage 100%-owned Moss Gold Project which is positioned in Ontario, Canada, with direct access from the Trans-Canada Highway, hydroelectric power near site, supportive local communities and skilled workforce.
The company has invested over $60 million of new capital and completed approximately 80,000 meters of drilling on the Moss Gold Project, which, in aggregate, has had over 235,000 metres of drilling. The 2024 updated NI 43-101 mineral resource estimate (MRE) has expanded to 1.54 million ounces of Indicated gold resources at 1.23 g/t Au and 5.20 million ounces of Inferred gold resources at 1.11 g/t Au.
The MRE only encompasses 3.6 km of the 35+ km mineralized trend, remains open at depth and along strike and is one of the few remaining major Canadian gold deposits positioned for development in this cycle.