REG-ECR Minerals plc Anticline Identified Close to Maori Reef Line at the Bailieston Gold Project

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Anticline Identified Close to Maori Reef Line at the Bailieston Gold Project

 

1 July 2021

ECR MINERALS plc

(“ECR Minerals”, “ECR” or the “Company”)

ANTICLINE IDENTIFIED CLOSE TO MAORI REEF LINE AT THE BAILIESTON GOLD PROJECT

ECR Minerals plc (LON: ECR), the gold exploration and development company
focussed on gold exploration in Australia, is pleased to announce drilling
updates across the Bailieston Project in central Victoria, Australia.

ECR Minerals plc has 100% ownership of Bailieston Project which is operated
under their Australian owned subsidiary Mercator Gold Australia Pty Ltd
(“MGA”).

Craig Brown, Chief Executive Officer of ECR Minerals plc, commented:

“I am delighted to announce a highly significant development resulting from
the aggressive drilling programmes currently underway in the Victoria
Goldfields. ECR Minerals has the advantage of owning its own diamond drilling
rig and, with a centralised operational hub at Bendigo, we have been able to
swiftly and efficiently interpret the core samples and secure valuable data
from the programmes.

As suspected by our senior geologists, logging of three diamond holes at the
Maori and Dan Genders Reef at the HR3 prospect has confirmed a steep
south-plunging anticline to exist sub-parallel to the Maori Reef line which
hosts quartz-arsenopyrite mineralisation and elevated gold grades.

Most significantly, the data and presence of gold in the core samples confirms
the south plunging anti-cline runs close to the historical mined portions of
the Maori Reef. The additional drilling planned for the northern end of the
zone will help us further understand the size and shape of the structure in
order that we can determine next exploration steps.”

KEY POINTS


 * Four initial diamond drill holes have been completed into the Maori and Dan
Genders Reef lines for a total of 869.3m.


 * Structural logging of three diamond holes now confirms a steep south-plunging
anticline that exists sub-parallel to the Maori Reef line which hosts
quartz-arsenopyrite mineralisation with elevated gold grades. 3D projections
of this folding are spatially associated with high-grade historic percussion
drill intersections.

PROGRESS AT BAILIESTON GOLD PROJECT

First pass diamond drilling has been completed over the Maori and Dan Genders
Reef lines. A summary of these four diamond holes is as follows;

BH3DD005 was drilled to investigate the merging of the Hard Up Reef and the
Maori Reef structures beneath historic gold workings. The Hard Up Reef was
intersected down the hole at 62.4m and is present as strongly oxidised
fracturing with silica alteration. Only elevated gold was detected from this
part of the reef (0.5m @ 0.80 g/t Au). The Maori Reef was intersected at 94.8m
grading (0.8m @ 0.58 g/t Au). Plotting of bedding measurements in 3D software
shows the hole drilled through the nose of a fold where the Maori Reef was
intersected. Increasing silica alteration with disseminated pyrite is present
on the immediate western limb of this fold. Assay results show the
pyrite-silica zone to carry above background gold grades (0.2-0.5 g/t Au)
within the fire assay analysis of the tails of the cyanide-leachwell solution.
This is indicating the pyrite is carrying a refractory gold component. Another
quartz-stockwork zone was drilled through at 140m (1m @ 2.89 g/t Au). The hole
ended at 174.3m.

BH3DD006 was drilled to investigate a postulated anticline through the central
part of the HR3 goldfield and possibly hosting the Dan Genders Reef system.
Structural logging shows the Dan Genders Reef to be hosted within west dipping
sediments. Assays from this Reef returned low grades from 70.3m down-hole
(0.8m @ 0.86 g/t Au). The drillhole was continued to look for the fold into
east dipping sediments. This fold was intersected at a drilled depth of 225m.
Accompanying this fold was bedding parallel quartz-sulphide mineralisation
with assays returning (0.7m @ 1.25 g/t Au) from 224.6m. Drilling continued
across the fold where another unknown narrow bedded laminated quartz vein was
drilled through at 342.7m depth. This intercept was the best from this hole
(0.3m @ 6.06 g/t Au) from 342.7m. This drillhole ended at 344.7m. 3D modelling
of bedding shows the fold axis drilled through at 225m projects up-dip to the
fold drilled through at 95m in BH3DD005. This fold plunges approximately -40
degrees to the south. The up-dip projection of this fold to surface coincides
with the historic Maori mine workings and a high-grade historic percussion
drill hole from a previous explorer during the late 1980’s (1m @ 34 g/t Au)
from 44m depth in hole BLP136. Mineralisation associated with this fold will
need to be investigated further.

BH3DD007 3D projections of quartz veins and the plunge of the fold at 225m
downhole in BH3DD006 hypothesised quartz veins to potentially roll over the
fold hinge and become limb-thrust hosted within the east dipping beds on the
eastern side of the fold further to the north of BH3DD006. BH3DD007 drilled
through the fold at a drilled depth of 185.35m. Accompanying the fold was a
laminated quartz vein showing fine acicular arsenopyrite needles that assayed
(0.65m @ 2.90 g/t Au) from 185.35m. A supplementary rubbly quartz zone giving
off high arsenic readings using a pXRF was also drilled through at 43.9m
depth. Assays from this zone shows the potential of broader, low-grade gold
mineralisation in the oxide levels. Assays from 43.9m (5.3m @ 0.70 g/t Au,
including 0.55m @ 1.08g/t Au from 44.65m), accompanied by lower grades ranging
between 0.51 and 0.89 g/t Au. Due to poor drill recoveries within this oxide
zone, BH3DD008 was collared 10m away from BH3DD007 and drilled to 96.1m. Best
result was (0.8m @ 0.38 g/t Au from 37.3m).

Table 1 Summary of averaged grade mineralised drill intercepts
BH3DD005-BH3DD008 (g/t Au)
 DD HOLE    From (metres)  Interval (metres)  @ g/t Au  Geological Comment                                           
 BH3DD005   140            1                  2.89      Quartz stockwork zone                                        
 BH3DD006   224.6          0.7                1.25      Anticline structure                                          
 
          
              
                  
         
                                                            
                                                                                                                     
 
          
              
                  
         
                                                            
 BH3DD006   342.7          0.3                6.06      Bedded laminated vein                                        
 BH3DD007   185.35         0.65               2.90      Arsenopyrite needles                                         
 
          
              
                  
         
                                                            
                                                                                                                     
 
          
              
                  
         
                                                            
 BH3DD007   44.65          0.55               1.08      Part of broad mineralisation 5.3m @ 0.70 g/t Au from 43.9m   
 BH3DD008   37.3           0.8                0.38      Shallow re-drilled hole twinning BH3DD007                    


PHASE TWO DRILLING

Structural measurements of diamond drill core combined with 3D modelling have
proved a steep south plunging anticline to now exist sub-parallel along strike
to the Maori Reef line. Spatially, intense historical mined portions of the
Maori Reef and high-grade percussion drill results from previous explorers
coincide with the up-dip projection of the anticlinal fold.

Drilling to date has confirmed the presence of gold associated with the
anticline along strike and depth to the south. Further diamond holes will be
drilled in strategic positions to understand the structural controls on the
high-grade portions of veins associated with this fold.

Plans for diamond drilling on the northern end of this fold zone have been
submitted for approval. These plans are part of a larger campaign to drill
underneath recent high-grade soil anomalies in this central and northern part
of the goldfield (see previous release 15(th) June 2021).

REVIEW OF ANNOUNCEMENT BY QUALIFIED PERSON

This announcement has been reviewed by Adam Jones, a director of ECR Minerals
plc. Adam Jones is a professional geologist and is a Member of the Australian
Institute of Geoscientists (MAIG). He is a qualified person as that term is
defined by the AIM Note for Mining, Oil and Gas Companies.

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(EU) No. 596/2014 (MAR). Upon the publication of this announcement via
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ABOUT ECR MINERALS PLC

ECR Minerals is a mineral exploration and development company. ECR’s wholly
owned Australian subsidiary Mercator Gold Australia Pty Ltd (“MGA”) has
100% ownership of the Bailieston and Creswick gold projects in central
Victoria, Australia, has eight licence applications outstanding including two
licence applications lodged in eastern Victoria. (Tambo gold project). MGA is
currently drilling at both the Bailieston and Creswick projects and has an
experienced exploration team with significant local knowledge in the Victoria
Goldfields and wider region.

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ECR also owns 100% of an Australian subsidiary LUX Exploration Pty Ltd
(“LUX”) which has three licence applications covering 900 km2 covering a
relatively unexplored area in Queesnland, Australia.

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Following the sale of the Avoca, Moormbool and Timor gold projects in
Victoria, Australia to Fosterville South Exploration Ltd (TSX-V: FSX) and the
subsequent spin-out of the Avoca and Timor projects to Leviathan Gold Ltd
(TSX-V: LVX), MGA has the right to receive up to A$2 million in payments
subject to future resource estimation or production at any of those projects.

ECR has earned a 25% interest in the Danglay gold project; an advanced
exploration project located in a prolific gold and copper mining district in
the north of the Philippines, and holds a royalty on the SLM gold project in
La Rioja Province, Argentina.



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