Klondike Gold Corp. · TSXV:KG
Klondike Gold — Investor Presentation (2013)
71 slides from Klondike Gold's investor presentation, 2013
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Slide 2: Klondike Gold Corp.
Klondike Gold Corp. Klondike Gold Corp. (TSXV: KG) is an established mineral exploration company. The Company has been conducting mineral exploration programs for over 30 years and is a pioneer of hard rock exploration in the Klondike. The company recently consolidated its position in all of its pro
Slide 3: Management and Directors
Management and Directors Erich Rauguth, President, CEO & Director Alan D. Campbell, CFO & Director Manfred Peschke, Director Steven Chan, Director
Slide 4: Exploration Team
Exploration Team Iain Mitchell, B.Sc. Trygve Höy, P.Eng., Ph.D. – Consulting Geologist – Senior Consulting Geologist Tim Liverton, Ph.D. William Mann, M.Sc. – Senior Geologist – Consulting Geologist Katie Dodd, B.Sc. Doug Anderson, BASc, P.Eng. – Project Geologist – Consulting Geologist
Slide 5: Capital Structure
Capital Structure Class Number Common Shares 115 M Warrants 9M Options 10 M Fully Diluted 134 M M= million
Slide 6: The 1898 Klondike Gold Rush
The 1898 Klondike Gold Rush “Yukon’s gold potential was first recognized during the great Klondike gold rush of 1898. Over 20 million ounces (600 million grams) of gold have been recovered from the Klondike placer mining district and production is ongoing.” - Yukon Geological Survey Boulder Lode Ope
Slide 7: The Lone Star Property
The Lone Star Property • 728 contiguous quartz claims • 14 crown grants • 137.6 km² of prospective ground • Anomalous gold across the property • 60 percent of the property is underexplored
Slide 8: Why the Lone Star Property?
Why the Lone Star Property? • Estimated placer production of 20 million oz Au from the Klondike gold fields • Very large geochemical anomaly • Last known major placer camp with large scale hard rock mine yet to be discovered • Scientific studies and exploration confirms gold sources on the Lone Star
Slide 9: Why is there no Klondike hard rock mine?
Why is there no Klondike hard rock mine? • A lack of deposit model • Advancing towards a working model • Thick overburden and permafrost • Technical solutions • High nugget effect • Understanding sampling results and quality control to increase confidence • Sporadic exploration and a lack of data co
Slide 10: 2012 Exploration Approach
2012 Exploration Approach • Focusing on the Klondike gold fields • Traditional “boots on ground” exploration o Systematic work using modern techniques o Explore outside known mineralisation o Using and building on existing data with compilation of 30 years of exploration data • Use of expert scienti
Slide 11: Exploration Approach to Drilling
Exploration Approach to Drilling • RC Drilling for improved grade control and efficiency • Diamond drilling for geological and geotechnical information • There are several examples in past Lone Star property drilling where closely spaced RC and Diamond drill holes offer comparison – Gold is usually
Slide 12: The Boulder Lode and Pioneer Zones
The Boulder Lode and Pioneer Zones • Historic Production • First time Boulder Lode was exposed since the early 1900s was in summer 2012 • A new understanding of structure and mineralisation in the Boulder Lode
Slide 13: Boulder Lode Excavation 2012
Boulder Lode Excavation 2012 • Boulder Lode excavation and sampling • Showed a stacked package of late D4 mineralised quartz veins with mineralised schist between • Total true thickness is locally 8 + metres • High vein sample of 41.3 g/t Au • High schist sample of 4.1 g/t Au
Slide 14: Boulder Lode Plan
Boulder Lode Plan 147 Sample average of 1.86 g/t Au in the West Block Further infill sampling shows continuity of the West Block(2.33g/t over 3 samples) 11 Sample average of 3.96 g/t Au in the West Block Extension
Slide 15: Boulder Lode Open Cut Results
Boulder Lode Open Cut Results Block Area of Sample Number of Samples Average Grade West Block 6 x 25 m 147 1.86 g/t including 2.5 x 4.2 m 8 9.43 g/t with high channel over 2.05 m (2 samples)of 14.10 g/t and 1.8 x 2.5 m 5 7.15 g/t with high channel over 1.75 m (2 samples)of 7.37 g/t and 3.3 x 8 m 26
Slide 16: 2012 Boulder Lode Structure Contour and Lithogeochemical Mapping
2012 Boulder Lode Structure Contour and Lithogeochemical Mapping • Lithogeochemical and structure contour mapping also gave a new understanding of gold and structural relationships • Repeating gold enrichment related to structure highs on the S3 surface
Slide 17: 2012 Boulder Lode 3D Modeling
2012 Boulder Lode 3D Modeling: Lithogeochemical and Structure Contour Conceptual development of S3 surface
Slide 18: Violet to 310 Zone Quartz Vein Trend
Violet to 310 Zone Quartz Vein Trend • Target of 2012 exploration by prospecting, soil sampling, and trench sampling • Work from 1980 to 2011 left this trend underexplored • The potential for significant continuous strike length between the Violet and 310 zone encouraged us to revisit this target •
Slide 19: Aerial View of 310 and Violet
Aerial View of 310 and Violet 310 Zone Cross Trench Looking Southwest Violet Mine Area Looking Southwest Violet Trench Violet Mine Head Frame
Slide 20: Violet to 310 Zone Compiled Results
Violet to 310 Zone Compiled Results • Sharp soil anomalies of 20 to 100 ppb Au in a very low background • 2012 results of Violet grab samples of 41.25 g/t Au with 524 g/t Ag and 47.4 g/t Au with 894 g/t Ag (fire assay) • Previous results from 310 zone trenches (43-101 report Dec 2011) o 2.037 g/t ov
Slide 21: Nugget to Buckland Trend
Nugget to Buckland Trend • Significant past results o Drilling data o Trenching data o Soil data • Recognised but untested corridor of mineralisation • Possible strike length of more than a kilometer
Slide 22: Nugget to Buckland Trend Aerial View
Nugget to Buckland Trend Aerial View Nugget to Buckland Trend Looking Southeast Upper Buckland Veins Nugget Zone Veins
Slide 23: Nugget to Buckland Trend
Nugget to Buckland Trend • Past high grade results Nugget Zone Bulk Sampling Weight of Sample Au Grade • 2012 Results: 05NZ-B7-A (kg) 1886 Kg (g/t) 6.46 o Nugget grab sample of 05NZ-B4-B 2769 Kg 8.61 179.0 g/t Au with 78 g/t Ag Nugget Zone Drilling Interval (meters) (30 g fire assay with 06NZ02 28.9
Slide 24: JF Zone Retrenching
JF Zone Retrenching • 2006 trenching at the JF zone yielded anomalous results • The JF zone trench was deepened and extended with a further 100 meters of new trenching
Slide 25: JF Zone Results
JF Zone Results • The new trench gave results of 1.75 g/t over 10.2 m across mineralised structures at the western most section of the trench • High intervals in the mineralised zone were 1.64 m of 4.04 g/t Au and 1.1 m of 4.05 g/t Au • Further work perpendicular to the trench along this mineralised
Slide 26: Boy Soil Anomaly
Boy Soil Anomaly • Newly discovered Boy zone at the headwaters of Little Blanche creek • Up stream of active placer operations • 2012 soil sampling results show a strong north-south trending anomaly of approximately 400 by 900 meters which is open to extension at either end
Slide 27: Boy Soil Geochemistry Results
Boy Soil Geochemistry Results • The anomaly shows an average 26.2 ppb Au over 108 samples • Spot high of 153.2 ppb Au • All 524 samples in the dataset averaged a background 9.2 ppb Au • Fine visible gold panned from crushed quartz in the stream bed 200 metres down slope of the anomaly • The Boy warr
Slide 28: Upper Eldorado Gold Occurrence
Upper Eldorado Gold Occurrence • Underexplored • Two prospecting finds of visible gold separated by 100 metres in quartz veins • Significance of lithology is noted more work is encouraged to relate this to the Pinching of quartz vein stockwork at lithologic contact due to competence Boulder Lode fav
Slide 29: Upper Eldorado Gold Occurrence
Upper Eldorado Gold Occurrence • Visible gold in rock • 0.6 cm hackly nugget with very similar morphology to local placer grains • Found in a previously explored and sampled area VG
Slide 30: 2013 Lonestar Plan
2013 Lonestar Plan • Systematically moving all Lone Star occurrences forward • Focus on extensive RC exploration drilling and selective trenching • Goal of proving grade and continuity of targets • Continued regional exploration
Slide 31: An Old Property with a New Future
An Old Property with a New Future In 1911, just prior to the opening of the Lone Star (Boulder Lode Pit) Mine, this advertisement appeared in the local Dawson City newspaper.
Slide 32: Klondike Gold Corp.
Klondike Gold Corp. In southeast British Columbia, the Company has a highly prospective portfolio of gold projects and holds a large land package prospective for sedimentary exhalative (Sedex, Sullivan) style mineralization.
Slide 33: Sedex Zn-Pb-Ag Targets and Au Targets, Southern British Columbia
Sedex Zn-Pb-Ag Targets and Au Targets Southern British Columbia, Canada In southeast British Columbia, the Company has a highly prospective portfolio of gold projects and holds a large land package prospective for sedimentary exhalative (Sedex, Sullivan) style mineralization.
Slide 34: Klondike Gold BC Properties
Klondike Gold BC Properties Panda Irishman Group Pit Ash • Thea Gold Vine JV • Lewis McNeil Creek South Vine • Leadville Cruz-Midway • Kid-Star Cold Creek • Panda Irishman Red Point Hughes Range Clubine Quartz Mountain Ron Gold
Slide 35: Klondike Gold Project Summary
Klondike Gold Project Summary Property Gold Target Sedex Target Status Panda Irishman X Extensive deep drilling, vectoring to source Lewis McNeil (Brook) X 2012 mapping, sampling, and geophysics Thea Gold X 2012 exploration extended mineralization to north Leadville X 2012 exploration found new Au m
Slide 36: B.C. Exploration Properties
B.C. Exploration Properties
Slide 37: Two Property Target Types
Two Property Target Types ► Sedex Type Targets • Extensive land holdings in 6 prospective Proterozoic basins • Targets proximal to the Sullivan mine with production during its 92 year lifespan of: • 18.5 billion pounds of lead • 17.5 billion pounds of zinc • 298 million troy ounces of silver. • Sull
Slide 38: Sedex Exploration (2002-2009)
Sedex Exploration (2002-2009): 1. Intense exploration for Sullivan type deposit 2. Recognition of major northeast-trending Proterozoic structure 3. Recognition of at least 6 fault bounded Aldridge basins, similar to Sullivan basin 4. Reconnaissance deep drill testing of basins 5. Vectoring in to sou
Slide 39: Aldridge basin exposures in Canada
Vulcan Kootenay Aldridge basin Pit Ash King exposures Pakk in Canada Fran-Davent Panda Cold Creek
Slide 40: Klondike Gold Holdings East Kootenays, BC Sedex Project Targets
Klondike Gold Holdings East Kootenays, BC Sedex Project Targets Panda Irishman Hughes Range •Kootenay King Deposit Kid-Star Pit Ash Cold Creek
Slide 41: Sedex Target – Tectonic Setting
Sedex Target – Tectonic Setting T. Hoy
Slide 42: Basin Model
Sulphides Basin 2nd order Model First order
Slide 43: Klondike Gold
Klondike Gold Deep drill hole locations (to Sullivan time horizon) Panda basin
Slide 44: Panda Basin
Panda Basin 1995 to 2008 deep drilling Vectoring to source 10 km
Slide 45: Panda basin drill sections to Sullivan horizon
Panda basin drill Gabro sills sections to Sullivan horizon Increasing to South (basin axis): Middle Aldridge Sullivan horizon thickness Sullivan Time Horizon Total metal values Lower Aldridge Pb/Zn ratios
Slide 46: Pit Ash Property
Pit Ash Property A prospective Aldridge basin Sedex Target adjacent to the Sullivan mine
Slide 47: Pit Ash Claim Area Detail Map
Pit Ash Claim Area Detail Map 5498000 m.N. LOWER ALDRIDGE N Sewage POL ST ARI Treatment .M S FA AR ULT Y Dam RI VE R P3-4 P3-1 P3-2 5497000 m.N. P3-3 Creek MIDDLE ALDRIDGE ESCARPMEN T T FAUL Y S MAR ST. 574000 m.E. 575000 m.E. KITCHENER 5496000 m.N.
Slide 48: Pit Ash Claims Looking South
Pit Ash Claims Looking South St. Mary Fault
Slide 49: Pit Ash Claims Cross Section
Pit Ash Claims Cross Section SOUTH NORTH Sullivan P3-4 P3-3 P3-2 Intersection 0 P3-1 ST. MARY FAULT KITCHENER (Laminated Sulphides) 200 E R MARK DDH P3-2 400 Metres 0.3% Pb POLARIS FAULT 0.9% Zn 600 MIDDLE ~ 4.5 m ALDRIDGE LOWER 800 ALDRIDGE 1000
Slide 50: Cold Creek Property
Cold Creek Property A prospective Aldridge basin under-explored for Sedex targets Only one hole CC-09-01 drilled to Sullivan horizon
Slide 51: Kid-Star Property
Kid-Star Property • Sedex and gold targets • M. Aldridge host • Bounded by north trending faults • East of Eagle Plains exploration on similar structures Kid-Star
Slide 52: Kid-Star Sedex Exploration
Kid-Star Sedex Exploration -Past exploration: 1990-1991 relatively shallow drilling by Barkhor and Kokanee Exploration - 14 diamond drill holes, with weak to highly anomalous sulphide intersections in all holes - Py, sph, galena: cross cutting veins or layer parallel, stratiform mineralization - S90
Slide 53: Kid-Star Gold Exploration Potential
Kid-Star Gold Exploration Potential Eagle Plains Results Adjacent to Kid-Star
Slide 54: Gold Exploration Projects, B.C.
Gold Exploration Projects, B.C. Historical Lode Production Significant Placer Gold > 4.5 million oz Au and Past Lode Production
Slide 55: Saugum Golden Egg Price’s Pit
Saugum Golden Egg Price’s Pit St. Joe Brook Thea Gold
Slide 56: 2012 Exploration Programs
2012 Exploration Programs • Mainly focussing on gold mineralization in the Cranbrook Gold Belt • New investigations into: Thea gold extension Brook gold occurrence New exposures on Quartz Mountain and extension of Price’s Pit Hughes Range disseminated copper mineralization • Costs prudently
Slide 57: Brook 2012 Exploration
Brook 2012 Exploration Two Mag-EM/VLF geophysical grids Samples of up to 15 g/t Au Extension of the known and inferred trend to over 300 m Prospecting finds of new shear zones with samples up to 2.2 g/t Au
Slide 58: Thea and Leadville Properties 2012 Exploration
Thea and Leadville Properties 2012 Exploration Focusing on the area to the north of the Thea gold zone along trend Nine shear zones with multi gram gold were discovered The largest zone found: -traceable over 200 m -1 to 2 m wide -High sample of 4.2 g/t Au -Intense brecciation / silicification -
Slide 59: Thea Gold Prior Exploration
Thea Gold Prior Exploration Rid Thea 9 g e Thea Highlights 100 meters F 2002/3 Drilling E’ -25 holes - 1203 m E N -Traced for 700 m Silicified shear D zone C Trench Samples of up A to 14.5 g/t Au over 4 m B 5456600 Select grab samples G Silicified shear up to 43.2 g/t Au Soil sample > 15ppb Au
Slide 60: Hughes Range Property 2012 Exploration
Hughes Range Property 2012 Exploration Copper Mineralization in Ft Steele Sandstone Focussing on Au veins and disseminated, fracture controlled copper mineralization 73 rock samples collected: - Up to 0.74 % Cu - Up to 2.5 g/t Au Copper mineralization is a new find and deserves further investigat
Slide 61: Quartz Mountain Property
Quartz Mountain Property Price’s Pit Quartz Mountain Targets IOCG / Porphyry Vein Gold Targets Price’s Pit Production (1930s) 381 tonnes 3173 g Au, 5194 g Ag Golden Egg 2012 road cuts exposed a significant extension Golden Egg Production (1973/4) 1480 tonnes 14900 g Au, 13400 g Ag
Slide 62: Quartz Mountain IOCG / Porphyry Potential
Quartz Mountain IOCG / Porphyry Potential • Intense alteration • Major faults • Felsic intrusions • Hematite breccias • Copper-Gold • Bonanza Au veins
Slide 63: Quartz Mountain IOCG / Porphyry Potential
Quartz Mountain IOCG / Porphyry Potential Prominent Airborne Magnetic Anomaly
Slide 64: Red Point Property
Red Point Property Red Point Summary •6 km east of Rossland camp • Similar host rocks, structural setting, but at deeper level • Several Rossland-style massive pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite –gold veins • Gold-quartz veins with values ranging from 25-45 g/tonne Au • Main target: porphyry Cu-Au system; sout
Slide 65: North
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Slide 66: Red Point Geology
Red Point Geology DDH07-7 DDH 97-2 1.0 g/t Au/106 m Porphyry Cu-Au target Similar setting as Rossland camp, but deeper structural High grade level Au vein Massive Cu-Po-Au veins
Slide 67: Red Point DDH 07-07
1 Cu ppm/m Au ppb/m 1 1166 6 1214 0 + 2205 6445 6 1 0 1097 1384 + 2088 Red Point 1 1 0 DDH 07-07 5 9 1 1523 1644 7 + 3889 2 1925 3 Most northern hole + 1338 1563 drilled in 2007 in Au-Cu porphyry environment + 3043
Slide 68: Clubine Property
Clubine Property Clubine Highlights • Past gold-silver producer (1930s) • Klondike Gold exploration: soil survey, ground physics, small drill program late in 2009/2010 • 2 parallel shear zone veins: 1. 38 g/t Au across 0.98 m 2. 54 g/t Au across 0.58 m 150 m strike length open to extension Clubine
Slide 69: Ron Property
Ron Property Ron Highlights • South of Kenville Gold Mine gold-silver producer (1880 - 1954) • Limited Drilling (one hole) KE12- 04 intersected several intervals of anomalous gold • Expanding exploration model to Drill hole KE12-04 include both shear related Au Hole ID From (m) To (m) Core Length (m
Slide 70: Klondike Gold Project Summary
Klondike Gold Project Summary Property Gold Target Sedex Target Status Panda Irishman X Extensive deep drilling, vectoring to source Lewis McNeil (Brook) X 2012 mapping, sampling, and geophysics Thea Gold X 2012 exploration extended mineralization to north Leadville X 2012 exploration found new Au m
Slide 71: Disclaimer
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