Northern Lights begins exploration at Secret Pass

Feb 12, 2020

2020-02-10 10:24 ET – News Release

Mr. Albert Timcke reports

NORTHERN LIGHTS COMMENCES EXPLORATION WORK AT SECRET PASS GOLD PROJECT

Northern Lights Resources Corp. has commenced exploration work at the company’s 100-per-cent-owned Secret Pass gold project located in Mohave county, northwestern Arizona.

Secret Pass 2020 exploration program

The Tin Cup gold zone is an initial priority for the company’s exploration work in 2020 at Secret Pass. The Tin Cup zone accounts for less than 10 per cent of the total licence area. Only the area between Tin Cup and FM gold zones has been drill tested over a strike length of 1.2 kilometres and very limited surface exploration was conducted on the structures located outside of Tin Cup and FM gold zones.

The mineralized zone has a strike length of approximately 245 metres and a drill-indicated depth of up to 180 m, both open along strike and depth. High-grade mineralization greater than three g/t Au is localized in a three m to 7.6 m wide, steeply northeast-dipping structure that occurs within a much wider mineralized fault zone that ranges from 30 m to 45 m in width. The mineralization has a northwest plunge and is open at depth.

The historic Tin Cup mine reportedly produced several hundred tons of mineralized material grading 15 grams per tonne (0.5 ounce per ton) to 31 g/t (one ounce per ton) of gold. Historic workings from the 1930s included an open pit and an inclined shaft to a depth of 21 m (70 feet) with minor underground level workings. There has been no known production from the Tin Cup mine since the 1930s.

Exploration drilling completed by Santa Fe Pacific Mining and Fisher-Watt Gold Company during the period from 1984 to 1991 intersected significant high-grade gold mineralization in the Tin Cup gold zone with gold assays ranging as high as 40 g/t.

Selected historic intersections from the Tin Cup zone include:

TC-01 from/to 22.9 to 30.5 m, depth 7.6 m at average 7.6 g/t Au;
TC-10 from/to 89.9 to 121.9 m, depth 32 m at average 13.6 g/t Au:
- Including 12.2 m at average 20.8 g/t Au;
TC-15 from/to 111.2 to 115.8 m, depth 4.6 m at average 13.1 g/t Au;
TC-30 from/to 88.4 to 97.5 m depth 9.1 m at average 17.7 g/t Au.

Note, these results are historical in nature and a qualified person has not done sufficient work to verify these previous drilling intersections.

Northern Lights’ initial goals for the project are to confirm high-grade historic drilling results, generate a National Instrument 43-101 compliant resource estimate for the Tin Cup zone and to establish additional exploration targets over the rest of the 868-hectare licence area.

The 2020 exploration program will be conducted in two phases.

Phase 1 exploration program:

Evaluation and compilation of historic drilling and surface geology into a modern digital format to be used in the GIS and geological modelling — in progress;
Completion of drone aeromagnetic and photogrammetry mapping survey over the Tin Cup and FM zones:
1. The company has appointed MWH Geo-Surveys International Inc. to conduct a UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) orthophoto-digital mapping survey, which will generate a high-resolution surface model of the entire licence area plus a UAV magnetic survey to produce high-resolution geological map used to identify structure and mineralized target areas. The UAV surveys are planned to be flown in early March, 2020;
Geochemical sampling over target areas to include multiple element as well as low-level gold background survey; for areas of anomalous gold results, additional samples will be taken to determine the extent of a halo of gold mineralization;
Geological mapping to identify structure and alteration to extend known mineralization;
3-D modelling of historical data and aeromagnetic survey results to allow Northern Lights to refine the phase 2 exploration targets and confirm the historical surface and underground mineralization at Tin Cup for resource and mine planning purposes.

The phase 1 exploration program has an estimated cost of $150,000 (U.S.) and is expected to be completed over the next two months.

Phase 2 exploration program

The phase 2 exploration program for the project will focus on confirmatory and infill drilling of the high-grade mineralization at the historic Tin Cup zone leading to a resource estimate. Northern Lights plans to commence this drilling immediately following the completion of the phase 1 exploration program.

The Tin Cup drilling will be followed by selective drilling of the additional target areas identified in phase 1.

The scientific and technical data contained in this news release was reviewed and approved by Gary Artmont (fellow member AUSIMM No. 312718), head of geology and qualified person to Northern Lights Resources, who is responsible for ensuring that the geologic information provided in this news release is accurate and who acts as a qualified person under NI 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

About Northern Lights Resources Corp.

Northern Lights is a growth-oriented exploration and development company that is advancing the Medicine Springs project located in Nevada. Northern Lights is earning a 100-per-cent equity interest in the Medicine Springs project, a prospective silver-zinc-lead property located in southeastern Elko county, Nevada.

We seek Safe Harbor.

https://northernlightsresources.com/