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at 3:28 PM on Monday, January 6th, 2020
American Creek owns a 20% Carried Interest to Production at the Treaty Creek Project in the Golden Triangle. 2019’s first hole averaged of 0.683 g/t Au over 780m in a vertical intercept. The Treaty Creek property is located in the same hydrothermal system as the Pretivm and Seabridge’s KSM deposits.
Welcome to 2020, a year in which the President of the United States conducts war via his Twitter account:
Regardless of how you feel about President
Trump or the US/Iran situation, the fact is that things escalated a
great deal over the weekend after a US airstrike eliminated Iranian
General Suleimani on Thursday night in Baghdad.
This
dangerous escalation of posturing between the mightiest military on the
planet and a country of more than 80 million people which also happens
to possess formidable conventional and unconventional military
capabilities could have potentially far reaching financial market
implications.
With Middle East equity indices already
down between 3% and 5% I fully expect S&P futures to open lower
Sunday night. Gold futures and crude oil futures could also rise sharply
in thin Sunday night trading as scared short sellers are forced to
close out losing positions.
My interest is in gold in
particular. Turning to the monthly chart we can see that gold ended
last week right at previous support from 2011-2013:
Gold (Monthly)
There is layer of resistance stretching from
the September 2019 peak at $1565 to the April 2013 high at $1604.30. If
gold gaps higher into the teeth of this resistance it should make for an
interesting week of trading which is likely to be characterized by
higher volatility and higher trading volumes. Gold sentiment is running
hot after a more than $100 rally over the span of five weeks. In
addition, positioning among gold futures traders is also at an extreme
with commercial traders (producers, swap dealers, etc.) in gold futures
holding their largest net notional short position on record (more than
US$50 billion):
Technically speaking, gold is getting a bit
overheated on shorter time frames (daily, hourly, etc.). However, on the
weekly and monthly charts the gold party could be just getting started
after a 6+ year bottoming process that only transitioned into a nascent
uptrend six months ago.
Nobody knows how the US/Iran situation is going to unfold, but one thing is for sure and that is that it’s a scary situation which has the potential to get a lot worse before it gets better. If there was ever a time to own gold it would be now, and perhaps that is why we should take standard sentiment/technical indicators with a grain of salt. Judging by the massive commercial short position in gold futures the yellow metal is in the midst of a massive short squeeze – short squeezes can often reach crazy extremes before experiencing a reversal (only once the most leveraged short players have been forced to cover at the highs). This may be what is about to unfold in gold.
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at 9:20 AM on Tuesday, December 31st, 2019
Cardston, Alberta–(December 31, 2019) – American Creek Resources
Ltd. (TSXV: AMK) (OTC Pink: ACKRF) (“American Creek”) (“the
Corporation”) is pleased to report that Canadian billionaire Eric Sprott
has invested an additional $2,900,000 in our JV partner Tudor Gold for
the upcoming 2020 drill program on Treaty Creek, located in the “Golden
Triangle” of Northwestern British Columbia.
The 2019 drilling at Treaty Creek was very successful and produced
some of the most significant gold intercepts in the exploration
industry. The focus has been on the gold enriched Goldstorm Zone which
is on trend with Seabridge Gold’s Iron Cap Zone located approximately
five kilometers to the southwest. Drilling was designed to define a gold
deposit with the potential of being open pit mined.
The Treaty Creek Project is a joint venture with Tudor Gold owning
3/5th and acting as project operator. American Creek and Teuton
Resources each have a 1/5th interest in the project. American Creek and
Teuton are both fully carried until such time as a Production Notice is
issued, at which time they are required to contribute their respective
20% share of development costs. Until such time, Tudor is required to
fund all exploration and development costs while both American Creek and
Teuton have “free rides”.
Darren Blaney, CEO of American Creek stated: “Mr. Sprott has now made
multiple significant investments in Tudor Gold in 2019 for the
development of the Treaty Creek property. On December 13, 2019 Mr.
Sprott stated: “Treaty Creek has a great shot at having 20 million
ounces, the holes are so deep, they have a thousand-meter holes that are
running close to a gram a ton and it’s wide open, so I’m very excited
about the opportunity there”. He continues to put his money where
his mouth is and has given another huge endorsement to the Treaty Creek
project with this latest significant injection of cash. He also made two
prior $1,000,000 investments in American Creek earlier in 2019.”
The Treaty Creek Project lies in the same hydrothermal system as
Pretium’s Brucejack mine and Seabridge’s KSM deposits however, the
Treaty Creek project has far better logistics.
On December 27, 2019 Sprotts “Weekly Roundup” show hosted Bob
Thompson, Senior Vice President of Raymond James in Vancouver who does
an excellent job at describing where we are on the “Mining Clock” along
with other valuable insights into the precious metals industry.
We highly recommend you take a few minutes to listen:
About American Creek
American Creek is a Canadian mineral exploration company with a
strong portfolio of gold and silver properties in British Columbia.
Three of those properties are located in the prolific “Golden Triangle”;
the Treaty Creek and Electrum joint venture projects with Tudor
Gold/Walter Storm as well as the 100% owned past producing Dunwell Mine.
The Corporation also holds the Gold Hill, Austruck-Bonanza, Ample
Goldmax, Silver Side, and Glitter King properties located in other
prospective areas of the province.
For further information please contact Kelvin Burton at: Phone: 403 752-4040 or Email: [email protected]. Information relating to the Corporation is available on its website at www.americancreek.com
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at 9:56 AM on Thursday, December 19th, 2019
American Creek Resources (TSXV: AMK) (OTC Pink: ACKRF) (the “Corporation” or “American Creek”) is pleased to announce its partner Tudor Gold has concluded the interpretation of a copper-silver mineralized zone, the ‘CS 600 Horizon’,
within the Goldstorm Zone. Composite grades for drill holes GS19-42,
47, 48, 49, 52 and CB18-39 were re-calculated utilizing the copper and
silver grades obtained from the 2019 drill-hole program. These holes are
located in the northeastern-most area of the project. The copper and
silver mineralization contributed greatly to increasing the gold
equivalent content of all drill holes that cut the new copper-rich ‘CS 600 Horizon’.
The largest increase in gold equivalent content to the ‘300 Horizon’
was from GS19-42. The gold-only grade previously reported for the 370.5 m interval was 1.097 gpt Au. After adding the copper-silver mineralization, the gold metal equivalent content has increased to 1.275 gpt Au Eq over the same 370.5metre interval. This was due mainly to the elevated silver grades.
Copper grades were very consistent within the ‘CS 600 Horizon’. Grades ranged from approximately
0.16% Cu to 0.34% Cu over intervals of 69m to 151.5m in holes GS19-42,
47, 48, 49 and 52. These intercepts led to the largest gold equivalent
increases within the Goldstorm System.
Silver grades averaged as high as 10 gpt within both the ‘300 Horizon’ and the ‘CS 600 Horizon’ and the metal appears to occur throughout the entire Goldstorm System.
Vice President of Project Development, Ken Konkin P.Geo. comments:“The
newly discovered copper-rich ‘CS 600 Horizon’ is a very important
feature of the Goldstorm System. The presence of copper and silver
mineralization gives this discovery a true polymetallic nature yet it
remains a gold-dominant project. Copper grades appear to be increasing
with depth within the ‘CS 600 Horizon’. In the following weeks our
technical team will continue to examine the rest of the drill holes to
re-compute the gold-equivalent grades to include copper and silver
throughout the entire system.”
Table l provides gold equivalent composites from
five drill holes completed on three sections that cut the ‘300 Horizon’
and the ‘CS 600 Horizon’ within the Goldstorm System. Although the sixth
hole in this table (CB18-39) did not intersect the ‘CS 600 Horizon’,
the Au Eq composite increased the grade of the intercept by over 11%
within the ‘300 Horizon’. Sections attached demonstrate that the copper
pulse is un-like the main gold mineralization within the ‘300 Horizon’
as the ‘CS 600 Horizon’ appears to be dipping sub-parallel to the main
Treaty Thrust Fault (TTF1) shown in section 111+00 NE. The Company’s
Press Release dated October 24th provides the drill collar data
including drill hole location, elevation, inclination, azimuth and drill
hole length.
* All assay grades are uncut and intervals reflect drilled intercept
lengths. True widths of the mineralization have not been determined. HQ
and NQ2 diameter core samples were sawn in half and typically sampled at
standard 1.5m intervals.
**Prices used to calculate the AuEq metal content are: Gold $1322/oz,
Ag: $15.91/oz, Cu: $2.86/lb. All metals are reported in USD and
calculations do not consider metal recoveries.
The goal is to design a diamond drill hole program that will
fast-track the exploration program for 2020 with the objective to begin
the Mineral Resource Estimate work at the end of the 2020 field season.
Tudor hopes to accomplish as much drilling needed to bring a Measured
and Indicated Mineral Resource Estimate forward as quickly as possible.
Walter Storm, President and CEO, stated: “These
new gold equivalents are extremely encouraging as our technical team
continues to take positive steps advancing Tudor Gold’s flagship Treaty
Creek Au-Ag-Cu project. During the following months our geologist and
engineers will continue to work with the geological model and begin to
prepare the diamond drill hole proposal for 2020 .”
Darren Blaney, President and CEO of American Creek, stated:“The
Goldstorm deposit on Treaty Creek continues to amaze us. Its scale has
grown exponentially over the last two years to close to a billion tonnes
and these recent calculations are giving us a more accurate indication
of the grades within the system. The focus has been on the 300 zone as
it’s a gold enriched area just below the surface giving it great
potential to be open pitted, and now we’re starting to see the
tremendous potential at depth in the CS 600 zone. The Goldstorm is open
at depth and to the north and east which is where these pulses of copper
and silver are becoming more concentrated. With power and the highway
only 20km down the valley, and the deposit increasing in size
exponentially, the Goldstorm truly has the potential to be a world class
deposit.”
The Treaty Creek Project is a Joint Venture with Tudor Gold owning
3/5th and acting as operator. American Creek and Teuton Resources each
have a 1/5th interest in the project. American Creek and Teuton are both
fully carried until such time as a Production Notice is issued, at
which time they are required to contribute their respective 20% share of
development costs. Until such time, Tudor is required to fund all
exploration and development costs while both American Creek and Teuton
have “free rides”.
The Treaty Creek Project lies in the same hydrothermal system as
Pretium’s Brucejack mine and Seabridge’s KSM deposits with far better
logistics.
Drill core samples were prepared at MSA Labs’ Preparation Laboratory
in Terrace, BC and assayed at MSA Labs’ Geochemical Laboratory in
Langley, BC. Analytical accuracy and precision are monitored by the
submission of blanks, certified standards and duplicate samples inserted
at regular intervals into the sample stream by Tudor Gold personnel.
MSA Laboratories quality system complies with the requirements for the
International Standards ISO 17025 and ISO 9001. MSA Labs is independent
of the Company.
Qualified Person
The Qualified Person for this news release for the purposes of
National Instrument 43-101 is the Company’s Vice President of Project
Development, Ken Konkin, P.Geo. He has read and approved the scientific
and technical information that forms the basis for the disclosure
contained in this news release.
American Creek is a Canadian junior mineral exploration company with a
strong portfolio of gold and silver properties in British Columbia.
Three of those properties are located in the prolific “Golden Triangle”;
the Treaty Creek and Electrum joint venture projects with Tudor
Gold/Walter Storm as well as the 100% owned past producing Dunwell Mine.
The Corporation also holds the Gold Hill, Austruck-Bonanza, Ample
Goldmax, Silver Side, and Glitter King properties located in other
prospective areas of the province.
For further information please contact Kelvin Burton at: Phone: 403 752-4040 or Email: [email protected]. Information relating to the Corporation is available on its website at www.americancreek.com
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at 3:03 PM on Wednesday, December 18th, 2019
Sprott is eager to believe junior gold miners are on the verge of striking the motherlode, but skeptical of nearly everything else related to the industry
One week before Halloween, Canada’s biggest gold enthusiast,
the septuagenarian billionaire Eric Sprott, wearing a neatly pressed tuxedo,
bounded onto a stage in a downtown Toronto ballroom and accepted his induction
into Canada’s Investment Industry Hall of Fame.
He declared himself both humbled and honoured, and then
rollicked into the wee hours of the night at his home in a nearby tower with
expansive views of the city’s sparkling skyline. The next morning, though 75
and technically retired, he showed up at his office, grumbling about a lack of
sleep, but dressed in a magenta-coloured, paisley button-up, ready for a 9 a.m.
meeting with a penny stock exploration company.
“I keep reading that people are never making (gold)
discoveries, the rate of discoveries is going down,†he said, occasionally
rubbing his temples and closing his eyes. “The funny thing, well, I guess I’m
the sucker then because I keep buying guys who say they’re making discoveries.â€
Just as the price of gold often moves in the opposite
direction of the stock market, Sprott has a strong contrarian streak that means
he also often moves in the opposite direction of the market. For example, this
past spring, after years of middling precious metal prices and declining
discoveries had led most investors to abandon Canada’s gold and silver
explorers, he decided to go all-in.
Sprott launched an investment blitz, the likes of which the
junior mining precious metals sector had seldom seen, doling out somewhere
between $200 and $300 million in a matter of just a few months to acquire large
stakes in about two dozen companies, most of which have never earned a dollar
of revenue
His investments between May and July accounted for about one
in every four dollars raised by junior miners, according to Vancouver-based
market research firm Oreninc. During that time, gold prices started to rise,
breaking through US$1,400 in June for the first time in six years, bringing
some investors back to the major miners — exactly where Sprott doesn’t want to
be.
“They’re the worst place to put money, okay?†he said.
Putting his money where his mouth is, he has been selling his position in Kirkland Lake Gold Ltd., one of, if
not the lowest-cost gold producers and one of the best-performing stocks on the
S&P/TSX Composite Index since 2016.
Sprott was an early investor in Kirkland Lake, was appointed
chairman in 2015, and one year later helped engineer its merger with Newmarket
Gold Inc., a small gold producer in Australia. Not long after, the newly merged
company discovered high-grade veins at two mines, which propelled its stock
upwards to $63 per share.
Many investors pride themselves on not selling when a stock
hits a bump, but Sprott said it is equally important to not sell when the stock
rises, at least not until it’s gone up five or even 10 times, a so-called
tenbagger.
“I’ve had lots of tenbaggers and the important thing is to
stay in it,†he said.
But when his stake in Kirkland Lake reached about $1.3
billion earlier this year, and it looked like gold prices would keep rising,
Sprott said he decided it was time to sell.
“Here’s what I say to the management of Kirkland Lake: you
will not be the No. 1 performing stock this year,†he said during an interview
in October. “You will not be, because companies like Eldorado (Gold Corp.) and
Detour (Gold Corp.) are going to kick your butt.â€
And yet, Sprott — who found out about the deal on a day he
was meeting with a junior mining company seeking investment — elected to
support the deal, and waxes enthusiastic about Detour.
It’s one of the reasons why Sprott doesn’t much care about Canada’s major gold miners.
The
best-run companies might provide 20- or 30-per-cent returns, or maybe
100 per cent in a few cases, but Sprott would rather invest in a company
that might strike gold and give him a 500-per-cent return, or even a
coveted 1,000-per-cent return.
In
July, Sprott had bought about 10 million shares at $3.10, meaning he
made about $25 million or a 75-per-cent return in just a few months. But
he was nonplussed, saying the buyout may have come a little early.
“You’ve got to have the dream, right?†he said. “You’ve got to have the dream you’re going to find something.â€
Therein
lies Sprott’s biggest paradox: he’s eager to believe that junior gold
miners are on the verge of striking the motherlode, but skeptical of
nearly everything else related to the gold industry.
You’ve got to have the dream, right? You’ve got to have the dream you’re going to find somethingEric Sprott
After a five-decade career in the financial
services industry, during which he worked as an investment banker and
founded an eponymous empire that includes fund and asset management
firms, a brokerage firm, bullion storage and more businesses, he is
skeptical of commercial banks, major precious metals miners, central
banks, the stated rate of annual inflation and, perhaps above all, gold
and silver prices.
“One of the things about the media, they never
talk about the gold conspiracy,†he said. “Look at the guys who are
paying fines for spoofing the precious metals markets. Every two weeks
some guy’s paying a fine.â€
Case in point, U.S. prosecutors in
September filed criminal charges against three JPMorgan Chase & Co.
bankers for allegedly spoofing the precious metals market, which means
placing fake orders and then quickly cancelling them to manipulate the
price. The indictment alleged a decade-long conspiracy.
Sprott
believes the futures market — where investors can buy options that
essentially allow them to place bets on the price of gold or silver
without actually having to own any of the metals — allows commercial
banks to exert way too much influence on the market for physical metals.
As someone who stockpiles bullion, and often gives it out as
a gift, he watches the prices of silver and gold so closely it often
colours his mood.
This fall, Sprott was out fishing for grouper on
a staffed boat somewhere warm on a Friday when he normally records his
podcast. In spite of his idyllic circumstances, he sounded distinctly
downtrodden when he called in to the podcast.
“I’ve had better days, you know, it’s a bit of a tough one,†he said.
As
the podcast progressed, it soon became clear that gold and silver
prices were both down, about four and six per cent, respectively, and
options market manipulation appeared to be the reason to him.
Juan
Carlos Artega, director of investment research at the World Gold
Council, is skeptical that banks are having a significant effect on gold
or silver prices through the futures market, but believes options do
have an impact on short-term prices.
As
someone who stockpiles bullion, and often gives it out as a gift, he
watches the prices of silver and gold so closely it often colours his
mood
“What you find is that the gold price is
responding to demand-and-supply dynamics including those on the
(options) market, but it’s only one component,†he said.
Artega
said central bank and consumer buying, production numbers, recycling,
investment in gold-backed exchange-traded funds and a host of other
factors play a role in determining long-term prices.
Sprott would
hear none of it, and said he’s long disagreed with the World Gold
Council about many things. His skepticism of the futures market ties in
to his skepticism of the financial market writ large.
“We have a weird financial system; it doesn’t make any sense to a rational thinker,†he said.
Gene
McBurney, co-founder of GMP Securities LP, once a competitor of Sprott
Inc. in the investment business and now a friend, said part of the key
to understanding Sprott is that he enjoys entertaining other people with
provocative comments.
“He’s told people there’s no gold in Fort Knox; that kicks off an interesting conversation,†he said.
But
McBurney added that he believes Sprott is extremely well versed in the
companies in which he invests, and he has even given some of his
personal money to Sprott to manage.
Peter Grosskopf, chief
executive of Sprott Inc., the asset management firm Sprott founded and a
mentee, said Sprott is always covered as being this “unbelievable gold
bug,†but there’s a lot more to it than that.
“I mean, he’s a savant at what he does,†said Grosskopf, who added that it’s not easy to explain how Sprott does what he does.
That’s
mainly because Sprott is investing in companies that have no revenue,
which means standard investment metrics, such as internal rate of
return, aren’t necessarily useful, never mind that he said they’re not
something he would use.
He’s a savant at what he doesPeter Grosskopf, chief executive of Sprott Inc.
Instead, he attempts to value companies based on whether they are likely to discover a deposit of precious metals.
Of
course, even if a company discovers a deposit, it would still need to
figure out whether it makes economic sense to extract the deposit,
including how much it would cost to build and operate a mine, which
requires further calculations about energy costs, transportation,
processing and refining, and so on.
Sprott said he focuses solely
on the deposit and how big it could be. Though he has no education in
geology, he said he has devised his own valuation method, which involves
looking at a few variables to determine the potential size of a
deposit.
“I want to turn it into numbers, like, okay, what could
this thing earn?†he said. “You know, you multiply the strike by the
depth by the width by 2.7 specific gravity times the ounces — it’s just
four or five things you’ve got to multiply, five things.â€
People
close to him said he studies junior mining companies and can recall the
details of his investments better than most fund managers.
“The
guy gets up at ungodly hours, he might get up at 2 a.m. studying,†said
Conor O’Brien, a former capital markets manager who joined Sprott in May
to help with the investment blitz. “Neither one of us are geologists,
we’re just financial people that can do mathematics, as opposed to the
geology. We more kind of conceptualize, and dream and kind of multiply.â€
Putting
his latest investment spree of more than $200 million in perspective,
the TSX Venture Exchange’s junior mining sector through August was on
course to raise $2 billion for all of 2019, about 27 per cent less than
it did in 2009.
Sprott takes a birdshot approach to investment
that spreads his money far and wide, so that his portfolio contains
companies exploring for high-grade and low-grade mines, potential
open-pit and potential underground mines, and so on.
“Most of them won’t make it,†he said. “But what about the ones that do? If I’m in early and I stay the ground, I press the bet. It’s like being at a table with a winning run, you keep doubling down.â€
Grosskopf said Sprott calls it “stealing value,†not because he’s
conning anyone, but because he’s investing in assets the market has
mispriced. He said the billionaire is an expert trader, adept at sizing
up an opportunity and timing his entrance and exit.
And because of
his outsized profile, recently juiced by his epic returns while
chairman of Kirkland Lake, there are hordes of investors who will follow
his lead, Grosskopf said.
Not all of Sprott’s bets work out, of course. In 2017, Sprott said he invested in Garibaldi Resources Corp., a nickel explorer, based on comments he read on an online chat board.
Its
stock surged 1,731 per cent that year, and Sprott has continued to
invest even though two years later, its stock has declined from a peak
above $4 in late 2017 to 87 cents today.
“They’re for sure
drilling, we know that, and they’ve announced some holes, and they’ve
got more to go,†Sprott said. “They haven’t found the motherlode they’re
looking for. Even I’ll say that.â€
Sprott’s vast ownership may
also have a downside: It’s not easy to liquidate his positions in
companies without attracting attention. But his vast wealth also means
he’s relatively insulated from a lot of threats, such as dilutive
financings or litigation, that smaller investors can’t afford to
participate in.
He also owns a private gold mining company in
Nevada called Jerritt Canyon Gold LLC, which he said made its first
profit in the third quarter.
Kevin Small, vice-president of
operations at that mine, said Sprott likes to be generous. In April, he
said Sprott showed up at the site and handed out silver coins to several
hundred people who work there.
“He said when you guys make lots of money, I’ll give you each a gold coin, but he hasn’t been back yet,†Small said.
But he added that Sprott has been investing heavily in the
operation, which has a capacity to produce 280,000 ounces of gold per
year, and predicted the company would soon be well known.
Colleagues
also add that he can be unrelenting when judging a company’s financial
performance. Case in point, one of his biggest gripes with Kirkland Lake
is that he wants it to increase its dividend, an issue he once again
raised in October after the miner posted solid quarterly results.
Kirkland
Lake pays a quarterly dividend of four cents, and chief executive Tony
Makuch said he may consider raising it, but the company still needs to
spend money on exploration so it can improve its reserves of gold.
“We’re
not an industry people should be buying for dividends,†Makuch said.
“You should be buying bank stocks or something else. If you look at our
share price, that comes from investing in new projects.â€
It’s a sentiment that Sprott would likely agree with.
“I still have a lot of money in Kirkland and it’s a great company, but it’s not a tenbagger from here,†he said. “And I like tenbaggers as opposed to 100 per cent. It’s just my nature.â€
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at 3:06 PM on Thursday, December 12th, 2019
Ken Konkin Discusses the Goldstorm Deposit at Treaty Creek (including recent outstanding drill results like 0.725 g/t over 838.5m), it’s Potential, and 2020 Development Plans
American
Creek is a Canadian junior mineral exploration company with a strong
portfolio of gold and silver properties in British Columbia.
Three
of those properties are located in the prolific “Golden Triangleâ€; the
Treaty Creek and Electrum joint venture projects with Tudor Gold/Walter
Storm as well as the 100% owned past producing Dunwell Mine.
The
Treaty Creek Project is a Joint Venture with Tudor Gold owning 60% and
acting as operator. American Creek and Teuton Resources each have 20%
interests in the project. American Creek and Teuton are both fully
carried until such time as a Production Notice is issued, at which time
they are required to contribute their respective 20% share of
development costs. Until such time, Tudor is required to fund all
exploration and development costs while both American Creek and Teuton
have “free ridesâ€.
The Corporation also holds the Gold Hill, Austruck-Bonanza, Ample Goldmax, Silver Side, and Glitter King properties located in other prospective areas of the province.
For further information please contact Kelvin Burton at: Phone: 403 752-4040 or Email: [email protected]. Information relating to the Corporation is available on its website at www.americancreek.com.
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at 2:21 PM on Thursday, December 5th, 2019
Ken Konkin Discusses the Goldstorm Deposit at Treaty Creek (including recent outstanding drill results like 0.725 g/t over 838.5m), it’s Potential, and 2020 Development Plans
American
Creek is a Canadian junior mineral exploration company with a strong
portfolio of gold and silver properties in British Columbia.
Three
of those properties are located in the prolific “Golden Triangleâ€; the
Treaty Creek and Electrum joint venture projects with Tudor Gold/Walter
Storm as well as the 100% owned past producing Dunwell Mine.
The
Treaty Creek Project is a Joint Venture with Tudor Gold owning 60% and
acting as operator. American Creek and Teuton Resources each have 20%
interests in the project. American Creek and Teuton are both fully
carried until such time as a Production Notice is issued, at which time
they are required to contribute their respective 20% share of
development costs. Until such time, Tudor is required to fund all
exploration and development costs while both American Creek and Teuton
have “free ridesâ€.
The
Corporation also holds the Gold Hill, Austruck-Bonanza, Ample Goldmax,
Silver Side, and Glitter King properties located in other prospective
areas of the province.
For further information please contact Kelvin Burton at: Phone: 403 752-4040 or Email: [email protected]. Information relating to the Corporation is available on its website at www.americancreek.com.
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at 11:47 AM on Thursday, November 14th, 2019
23 holes drilled in the last two years have intersected significant mineralization and dramatically increased the size of the Goldstorm deposit at Treaty Creek
Eric Sprott re-emphasized the potential of the project in a podcast where he stated that he is “hoping they can prove up a 20-million-ounce depositâ€
11:30 –“I still believe there’s going to be huge deposit proven
up there. If we get the right environment in precious metals, which it
looks like we might be getting here, people are going to start looking
at these things again, and it could be very, very exciting, so…and I am,
kind of, hoping that they can ultimately pull up, like, a 20 million
ounce deposit there. So these stocks would prove to be very, very
inexpensiveâ€
SUMMARIZING THE 2019 PROGRAM
The Company’s JV partner, Tudor Gold’s 2019 exploration program at
the Goldstorm Zone on Treaty Creek totalled 9,781.8 meters with 14
diamond drill holes. This year’s drilling program generated the best
near-surface results attained to date on the project. Specifically, in
addition to several hundred meters extension along strike to the
northeast, the 2019 program significantly expanded the mineralized
limits to the southeast, where one of the best near-surface intervals
averaged 2 g/t Au over 87m, within 336 m averaging 1 g/t Au in hole GS19-52.
RESULTS OF THE FINAL 5 DRILL HOLES
Hole GS19-49 was drilled to 960.1 m, at -80° dip, on Section
111+00 NE next to the previously announced vertical hole GS19-48, which
yielded 0.725 g/t Auover 838.5m, including an upper horizon that averaged 1.048 g/t gold Au over 328.5 m. Hole GS19-49 returned equally impressive results with a comparable 0.7 g/t Au over 826.5 m and the upper horizon averaging 1 g/t Au over 249 m
Along
the same section, hole GS19-52 (-50° dip at 115° azimuth) was drilled
much longer than expected because the Goldstorm System continues at
least 700 m to the southeast ; GS19-52 averaged 1 g/t gold over 336 meters with a higher grade core of 2 g/t gold over 87 meters within the upper horizon.
Tudor Gold Exploration Manager, Ken Konkin explained:
“Clearly the results of the previously reported deep vertical step-out
holes demonstrate the impressive size and grade consistency of the
Goldstorm system. Within the overall mineralized package of fragmental
intermediate volcanic rocks there are several sub-horizontal horizons of
significantly higher gold grades. The uppermost portions of the
previously reported holes GS19-42, GS19-47 and GS19-48 contained
respectively, 1.268 g/t gold over 252 m, 0.828 g/t gold over 301.5 m and
1.048 g/t gold over 328.5 m. We now have several other drill holes with excellent near-surface gold values to add to this list of growing intercepts. GS19-52 has returned the highest core gold grades of 2.006 g/t Au over 87 m within a 336m intercept of 1.004 g/t Au.
These
intercepts are part of the uppermost portion of the Goldstorm system
which we refer to as the ‘300 Horizon’. The ‘300 Horizon’ remains open
along strike to the northeast as well as to the southeast. In addition,
the lower horizons of the Goldstorm system also remain open in all
directions and the lowest horizon is open at depth.â€
Furthermore, Mr. Konkin added:
“We are seeing consistent silver and copper mineralization associated
with the deeper gold horizons such as the previously reported 151.5 m zone of 0.572 g/t gold, 8.5 g/t silver and 0.21% copper that was intercepted from 665.0 to 816.5 m in GS19-47 and a 66.0 m zone with 0.958 g/t gold, 3.9 g/t silver and 0.35% copper, whichwas intercepted from 874.5 to 940.5 m in GS19-48. Similarly, we have now seen in GS19-49, a 78 m intercept averaging 1.145 g/t gold, 11.2 g/t silver and 0.21% copper (750-828 m) and in GS19-52 an 88.5 m interval averaging 0.352 g/t gold, 9.3 g/t silver and 0.25% copper (515-603.5
m). Not only does the Goldstorm Zone remain open at depth and along
strike, we are now seeing base-metal associations possibly as part of a
zonation within the hydrothermal system.â€
The final three footwall
extension holes (GS19-50, GS19-51 and GS19-53) were completed on
section 110+00 NE. These were successful in extending the width of the
mineralized zone to the southeast:
Hole GS19-50 returned an average of 0.602 g/t Au over 577.5 m including 0.811 g/t Au over 267.0 m in the ‘300 Horizon‘
Hole GS19-51 returned an average of 0.721 g/t Au over 246 m in the ‘300 Horizon’ and a lower horizon that averages 1.017 g/t Au over 40.5 m.
Hole GS19-53 returned an average of 0.984 g/t Au over 147.0 min the ‘300 Horizon’
About American Creek
American
Creek is a Canadian junior mineral exploration company with a strong
portfolio of gold and silver properties in British Columbia.
Three
of those properties are located in the prolific “Golden Triangleâ€; the
Treaty Creek and Electrum joint venture projects with Tudor Gold/Walter
Storm as well as the 100% owned past producing Dunwell Mine.
The
Treaty Creek Project is a Joint Venture with Tudor Gold owning 60% and
acting as operator. American Creek and Teuton Resources each have 20%
interests in the project. American Creek and Teuton are both fully
carried until such time as a Production Notice is issued, at which time
they are required to contribute their respective 20% share of
development costs. Until such time, Tudor is required to fund all
exploration and development costs while both American Creek and Teuton
have “free ridesâ€.
The
Corporation also holds the Gold Hill, Austruck-Bonanza, Ample Goldmax,
Silver Side, and Glitter King properties located in other prospective
areas of the province.
For further information please contact Kelvin Burton at: Phone: 403 752-4040 or Email: [email protected]. Information relating to the Corporation is available on its website at www.americancreek.com.
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Cardston, Alberta–(Newsfile Corp. – November 4, 2019) – American Creek Resources Ltd.
(TSXV: AMK) (“American Creek”) is pleased to extend congratulations to
Ken Konkin, PGeo, for his new role at Tudor Gold as Vice President for
Project Development. Mr. Konkin was the exploration manager for the
hugely successful 2019 drill program on our JV Treaty Creek property.
The Treaty Creek property adjoins to the north of Pretium Resources’
Brucejack-Snowfield property and Seabridge Gold’s KSM property, along
the geological trend. Drilling at Treaty Creek in 2019 was very
successful under the direction of Mr. Konkin, hitting significant
mineralization in all 14 holes which reconfirmed a 300m+ gold rich zone
close to surface and an extension of mineralization to over one
kilometer in depth.
Mr. Konkin has over 35 years of geological
experience throughout North and South America as well as Russia. Mr.
Konkin worked for Silver Standard for 19 years and managed advanced
exploration programs at Manantial Espejo (Argentina), San Luis and
Berenguela (Peru) as well as Snowfields (Pretium) in the Golden
Triangle, British Columbia. Mr. Konkin was appointed the project manager
for Pretium Resources after it purchased the Snowfields-Brucejack
project from Silver Standard in 2010. Subsequently, he was
instrumental in the discovery of the Valley of Kings deposit at the
Brucejack Lake mine, an eight-million-ounce gold deposit currently in
production. He spent seven years managing all aspects of the
exploration programs at Snowfield-Brucejack. During his tenure with
Pretium, the company received the Bill Dennis award in 2013 for a
Canadian discovery (presented by the Prospectors & Developers
Association of Canada); Mr. Konkin was also the co-recipient of the
prestigious H.H. “Spud” Huestis award for “excellence in prospecting and
mineral exploration in B.C. and/or Yukon” in 2017.
Darren
Blaney, CEO of American Creek stated: “Since Ken came on board the
Treaty Creek property has been fast tracked and is now looking like a
world class property. The knowledge and experience he gained by
discovering and developing the neighbouring Brucejack mine is being
applied on Treaty Creek and it really shows. Ken clearly has the
expertise and credibility to bring the Treaty Creek project to the next
level. A world class project deserves a world class VP of Project
Development.”
The Treaty Creek Project is a joint venture between
Tudor Gold, Teuton Resources Corp., and American Creek. Tudor is the
operator and holds a 60% interest with both American Creek and Teuton
each holding respective 20% carried interests in the property (fully
carried until a production notice is given).
American Creek holds a strong portfolio of gold and silver properties in British Columbia.
Three
of those properties are located in the prolific “Golden Triangle”; the
Treaty Creek and Electrum joint venture projects with Tudor Gold (Walter
Storm) as well as the 100% owned past producing Dunwell Mine.
There
is a drill program ongoing at the high-grade, past producing Dunwell
Mine. More information on the Dunwell Mine can be found here:
The
Corporation also holds the Gold Hill, Austruck-Bonanza, Ample Goldmax,
Silver Side, and Glitter King properties located in other prospective
areas of the province.
For further information please contact Kelvin Burton at: Phone: 403 752-4040 or Email: [email protected]. Information relating to the Corporation is available on its website at www.americancreek.com
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23 holes drilled in the last two years have intersected significant mineralization and dramatically increased the size of the Goldstorm deposit at Treaty Creek
Eric Sprott re-emphasized the potential of the project in last Friday’s podcast where he stated that he is “hoping they can prove up a 20-million-ounce deposit”
11:30 –“I still believe there’s going to be huge deposit proven up there. If we get the right environment in precious metals, which it looks like we might be getting here, people are going to start looking at these things again, and it could be very, very exciting, so…and I am, kind of, hoping that they can ultimately pull up, like, a 20 million ounce deposit there. So these stocks would prove to be very, very inexpensive”
SUMMARIZING THE 2019 PROGRAM
The Company’s JV partner, Tudor Gold’s 2019 exploration program at the Goldstorm Zone on Treaty Creek totalled 9,781.8 meters with 14 diamond drill holes. This year’s drilling program generated the best near-surface results attained to date on the project. Specifically, in addition to several hundred meters extension along strike to the northeast, the 2019 program significantly expanded the mineralized limits to the southeast, where one of the best near-surface intervals averaged 2 g/t Au over 87m, within 336 m averaging 1 g/t Au in hole GS19-52.
RESULTS OF THE FINAL 5 DRILL HOLES
Hole GS19-49 was drilled to 960.1 m, at -80° dip, on Section
111+00 NE next to the previously announced vertical hole GS19-48, which
yielded 0.725 g/t Auover 838.5m, including an upper horizon that averaged 1.048 g/t gold Au over 328.5 m. Hole GS19-49 returned equally impressive results with a comparable 0.7 g/t Au over 826.5 m and the upper horizon averaging 1 g/t Au over 249 m
Along
the same section, hole GS19-52 (-50° dip at 115° azimuth) was drilled
much longer than expected because the Goldstorm System continues at
least 700 m to the southeast ; GS19-52 averaged 1 g/t gold over 336 meters with a higher grade core of 2 g/t gold over 87 meters within the upper horizon.
Tudor Gold Exploration Manager, Ken Konkin explained:
“Clearly the results of the previously reported deep vertical step-out
holes demonstrate the impressive size and grade consistency of the
Goldstorm system. Within the overall mineralized package of fragmental
intermediate volcanic rocks there are several sub-horizontal horizons of
significantly higher gold grades. The uppermost portions of the
previously reported holes GS19-42, GS19-47 and GS19-48 contained
respectively, 1.268 g/t gold over 252 m, 0.828 g/t gold over 301.5 m and
1.048 g/t gold over 328.5 m. We now have several other drill holes with excellent near-surface gold values to add to this list of growing intercepts. GS19-52 has returned the highest core gold grades of 2.006 g/t Au over 87 m within a 336m intercept of 1.004 g/t Au.
These
intercepts are part of the uppermost portion of the Goldstorm system
which we refer to as the ‘300 Horizon’. The ‘300 Horizon’ remains open
along strike to the northeast as well as to the southeast. In addition,
the lower horizons of the Goldstorm system also remain open in all
directions and the lowest horizon is open at depth.â€
Furthermore, Mr. Konkin added:
“We are seeing consistent silver and copper mineralization associated
with the deeper gold horizons such as the previously reported 151.5 m zone of 0.572 g/t gold, 8.5 g/t silver and 0.21% copper that was intercepted from 665.0 to 816.5 m in GS19-47 and a 66.0 m zone with 0.958 g/t gold, 3.9 g/t silver and 0.35% copper, whichwas intercepted from 874.5 to 940.5 m in GS19-48. Similarly, we have now seen in GS19-49, a 78 m intercept averaging 1.145 g/t gold, 11.2 g/t silver and 0.21% copper (750-828 m) and in GS19-52 an 88.5 m interval averaging 0.352 g/t gold, 9.3 g/t silver and 0.25% copper (515-603.5
m). Not only does the Goldstorm Zone remain open at depth and along
strike, we are now seeing base-metal associations possibly as part of a
zonation within the hydrothermal system.â€
The final three footwall
extension holes (GS19-50, GS19-51 and GS19-53) were completed on
section 110+00 NE. These were successful in extending the width of the
mineralized zone to the southeast:
Hole GS19-50 returned an average of 0.602 g/t Au over 577.5 m including 0.811 g/t Au over 267.0 m in the ‘300 Horizon‘
Hole GS19-51 returned an average of 0.721 g/t Au over 246 m in the ‘300 Horizon’ and a lower horizon that averages 1.017 g/t Au over 40.5 m.
Hole GS19-53 returned an average of 0.984 g/t Au over 147.0 min the ‘300 Horizon’
About American Creek
American
Creek is a Canadian junior mineral exploration company with a strong
portfolio of gold and silver properties in British Columbia.
Three
of those properties are located in the prolific “Golden Triangleâ€; the
Treaty Creek and Electrum joint venture projects with Tudor Gold/Walter
Storm as well as the 100% owned past producing Dunwell Mine.
The
Treaty Creek Project is a Joint Venture with Tudor Gold owning 60% and
acting as operator. American Creek and Teuton Resources each have 20%
interests in the project. American Creek and Teuton are both fully
carried until such time as a Production Notice is issued, at which time
they are required to contribute their respective 20% share of
development costs. Until such time, Tudor is required to fund all
exploration and development costs while both American Creek and Teuton
have “free ridesâ€.
The
Corporation also holds the Gold Hill, Austruck-Bonanza, Ample Goldmax,
Silver Side, and Glitter King properties located in other prospective
areas of the province.
For further information please contact Kelvin Burton at: Phone: 403 752-4040 or Email: [email protected]. Information relating to the Corporation is available on its website at www.americancreek.com.
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100% owned Gold Hill property located in the Boulder Creek drainage, a tributary of the Wildhorse River located east of Fort Steele, British Columbia.
Re-logging of the drill core has confirmed that much of the gold within several drill core intersections was in fact not reflected in the initial assay results.
Cardston, Alberta–(Newsfile Corp. – October 23, 2019) – American Creek Resources Ltd. (TSXV: AMK) (“American Creek”) reports that further work is being conducted related to the drill core from the phase one drill program conducted in 2018 on its 100% owned Gold Hill property located in the Boulder Creek drainage, a tributary of the Wildhorse River located east of Fort Steele, British Columbia.
The preliminary program included four diamond drill holes on two sections totaling 2,087 meters of drilling. Nine hundred and twenty-nine (929) drill core samples were analyzed and assay results were reported on March 15, 2019. While management was pleased and very encouraged by the results as there were multiple gold intersections in all 4 preliminary drill holes, it was suspected that the initial assay results did not accurately reflect the amount of gold within the core and may have in fact missed much of the gold due to “nugget effect” and the coarse nature of the gold.
Re-logging of the drill core has now been concluded and this effort, along with further recent prospecting on the property, has confirmed that much of the gold within several drill core intersections was in fact not reflected in the initial assay results. During re-logging of the core visible gold was discovered in quartz veins in at least four new locations where assays indicated only trace or very low grade gold values.
As a first step, several samples have been selected for re-assay which will include screening for metallics in an effort to mitigate against and eliminate the “nugget effect” and get a more accurate assay as to actual gold present. Additional assay results, findings and conclusions will be reported in due course.
2018 Drill Program
The 2018 drill program was conducted to test a Cretaceous age swarm of syenite porphyry dykes intruded into lower and middle Cambrian sediments. Four holes on two sections were drilled (see map below) This is the first time that this package of rocks has ever been drilled.
A high-grade intersection in hole NS18-01 contained 66.4 g/t gold over 0.2 meters (true width unknown). This intersection correlates with prior historic gold values obtained in the area. Car samples and face samples from a drift (small tunnel) driven partially along the hanging wall of a syenite porphyry dyke in 1937 were assayed over a width of 1.5 feet (~0.5m). The car samples averaged 0.43 oz. Au per ton (13.4 g/t), 0.48 oz. (14.9g/t) Ag per ton and 2.3% Pb per ton over 40 feet (12.2m). The face samples along 22 feet (6.7m) averaged at 2.4 oz. Au per ton (74.6 g/t) 2.17 oz. (67.5 g/t) Ag per ton and 5.51% Pb.
About the Gold Hill Project
The Gold Hill property covers approximately 836 hectares and is located along the eastern edge of the Kimberly Gold Trend. The property is road accessible by paved highway to Fort Steele and then by main logging roads to (and through) the property. Driving time from Cranbrook to the center of the property is less than one hour.
The property contains a significant portion of the Boulder Creek drainage, a tributary of the Wild Horse River which is considered to be one of the greatest placer gold rivers in the entire province. Gold rushes have taken place there since the 1860’s that have yielded over 48 tonnes of reported gold, making it Canada’s 4th largest placer producer. The majority of the gold recovered from the Wild Horse was located along a 6 km stretch between Boulder Creek (upstream) and Brewery Creek (downstream). From the point where Boulder Creek enters the Wild Horse River for a distance of 6 kilometers downstream, a minimum of 1.5 million ounces (45,655,215 grams) of placer gold was recovered between 1864 and the 1930’s. In addition, an undetermined amount of placer gold was sold in the United States during this period but no records of the amount are available. The Boulder Creek drainage is the logical source of the placer gold recovered from the Wildhorse River below.
Early efforts by prospectors to locate the source of the Wild Horse placer gold led explorers up Boulder Creek to what is now called the Gold Hill property. Although lode gold was first found in the area by prospectors in the late 1800’s, the Gold Hill property has not been the subject of any systematic modern exploration and prior to this program, the property has never been drill tested.
There are two main highly prospective targets on the property:
1. The Midas / Gold Hill prospect which is situated on the southern part of the property. The Midas is in an area of steep topography and is structurally controlled.
2. The Big Chief prospect which is situated on the northern portion of the property. The Big Chief is located on an area of moderate relief and is formed by hydrothermal activity from intruded syenite dikes of Cretaceous age.
The property is nominally divided into north and south portions by Boulder Creek which flows westerly through the property. Phase 1 of the exploration program focused solely on a portion of the Big Chief prospect. The highly prospective area of the property situated south of Boulder Creek was not explored during 2018. This southern area, which includes high grade gold values in grab samples including 25.14 g/t from the Guggenheim showing, will be included in future phases of exploration.
Total Metal Discussion
Gold values, as tested by initial ICP analysis, ranged from slightly less than 0.5 g/t to 5.68 g/t. With reference to sample 043174 in hole NS18-01, where the initial analysis placed gold at >30,000 ppb (30.0 g/t), total metal analysis of the same sample returned a value of 66.4 g/t. To date, this is the only sample that has been analyzed for total metal. It was originally selected because of the proximal galena and visible gold.
Historical work on the property has noted the presence of metallic gold in samples that is not detected by conventional ICP analysis. A skilled, well trained and experienced Prospector discusses this phenom in Assessment Report 27,173 (Dec. 29, 2004). Again, in AR 34,920, (July 2015) a P. Geo. explained the presence of metallic gold. The following is a direct quote from AR 34,920 by the highly experienced P. Geo. who mapped the property: “work by the original prospectors and miners on the property from 1898 to 1957 did a good job of exposing gold-bearing structures and the related sulphides and gangue minerals. This work demonstrated the course nature of the gold which is commonly visible to the naked eye.”
Darren Blaney, CEO of American Creek stated: “This recent work has confirmed our suspicions that much of the high grade gold in the drill core was missed by the initial assays. While it will be challenging to determine the exact amount of gold we have in the core, we welcome the problem as it means we have successfully discovered multiple intersections of high grade visible, coarse gold in quartz veins in our preliminary phase one program. A further significant step in unravelling the mystery of the potential source of the large quantity of Wild Horse river placer gold collected downstream.”
Figure 1: Image of visible gold found in core at Gold Hill
American Creek holds a strong portfolio of gold and silver properties in British Columbia.
Three of those properties are located in the prolific “Golden Triangle”; the Treaty Creek and Electrum joint venture projects with Tudor Gold (Walter Storm) as well as the 100% owned past producing Dunwell Mine.
The Corporation also holds the Austruck-Bonanza, Ample Goldmax, Silver Side, and Glitter King properties located in other prospective areas of the province.
For further information please contact Kelvin Burton at: Phone: 403 752-4040 or Email: [email protected]. Information relating to the Corporation is available on its website at www.americancreek.com