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Fancamp signs final deal to sell Que. claims to Uragold

2014-10-08 10:44 ET - News Release

Also News Release (C-UBR) Uragold Bay Resources Inc (2)

Mr. Peter Smith of Fancamp reports

FANCAMP SIGNS FINAL AGREEMENT WITH URAGOLD BAY RESOURCES

Fancamp Exploration Ltd. has signed the final agreement with Uragold Bay Resources Inc. regarding the sale of 32 claims adjoining Uragold's Beauce placer gold project located in the municipality of Saint-Simon-les-Mines in the Beauce region of Southern Quebec. Uragold's current Beauce paleoplacer project, five claims situated between the Rang Chaussegros and the Rang Gustave, covers only 26 per cent of the entire historic paleoplacer gold channel. Now that the transaction is closed, the Uragold Bay claims cover the full 6.5-kilometre strike length of the paleoplacer gold channel.

The Beauce placer project overview

The property is located southeast of Beauceville and three km northeast of Saint-Simon-les-Mines, in the Gilbert River Valley (in the Appalachians of Southern Quebec) where the discovery of an egg-sized gold nugget in the river sands was made in 1846. News of this find attracted hundreds of prospectors who panned just about every stream, brook and river in the area. Two of the largest recorded gold nuggets found in Canada came from the Gilbert River, in areas now covered by Uragold. In 1866 J. Kilgour found a nugget weighing 52 ounces on the north branch of the Gilbert River; and in 1867 Mr. MacDonald found a nugget weighing 45 ounces in the same general area.

By 1880, the profitable properties were taken over by larger mining companies, and gold was mined intermittently in various tributaries of the Chaudiere River (into which the Gilbert River flows). Unfortunately, legal challenges between the old Seigneurial rights owners, landowners and the mining companies created such a hindrance to the development of gold projects in the region that almost all work had stopped by 1900. The result was that prospectors and the mining companies moved their attention elsewhere in Quebec and in Canada.

In 1957, M.J. Boylen formed the Beauce Placer Mining Company. The company drilled the area to estimate the volume and gold content of the buried placers. By 1959, it had defined a drilled historical resource of 168,952 gold ounces (12,978,710 cubic metres at 0.405 gram per cubic metre) (June, 1959 -- GM08785) on a paleochannel striking from the Rang St-Charles through to Rang Delery, Rang Chaussegros and Rang St-Gustave, all the way to Rang 6. Parts of the paleochannel were mined from 1959 to 1964 using dragline and dredging operations. Some of this mining was conducted on the western part of the original Uragold property. Despite a significant production of 56,000 ounces of gold, the operations ceased some time in 1963/1964 because of a technical problem.

On the section of the deposit previously mined by Beauce Placer Mining, the unpublished gold production data for the dredging and dragline operation from 1959 to the early 1960s, and the 1958-1959 exploration reports mentioned a historical drilled resource and compared it with gold dredged, as presented in the attached table.

    HISTORICAL DRILLED RESOURCE COMPARED WITH GOLD DREDGED (ASSAY VALUES)
     (Based on production figures from the Beauce Placer Mining Company)

          Drilled resource                          Gold dredged

Resource volume         1,050,000 m3    Volume processed        1,050,000 m3
Gold contained          294,000 g Au    Gold dredged          1,768,000 g Au
                         9,440 oz Au                            56,800 oz Au
Gold grade             0.279 g/m3 Au    Gold grade             1.677 g/m3 Au

The table infers that the actual gold grade recovered during dredging was approximately six times the suggested grade derived from the Beauce Placer Mining drilling program.

This point was emphasized by Rose (1959) which, in relation to the proposed dredging by Beauce Placer Mining at the time, stated: "Gold obtained in the drill samples has been coarse, and in a number of holes, small nuggets were found. In estimating volumes and values, these nuggets have been included. When the gold is coarse, it usually follows that actual dredging recoveries are higher than the drill estimates."

In March, 2014, the Uragold technical team concluded, after having reviewed all the technical data available, derived from 30 boreholes (seven recently drilled sonic boreholes and 23 historical boreholes from work done in the 1980s), located only on Uragold's original claim blocks, that there was enough recent and historical information to disclose an inferred polygonal resource on the claims block controlled by Uragold.

Following the signature of the letter of intent with Fancamp, the Uragold technical team reviewed all the technical data available, derived from 90 boreholes now located on the new Uragold claim blocks (seven recently drilled sonic boreholes and 83 historical boreholes from work done in the 1980s). From this recent and historical information, a new historical polygonal resource was calculated, and a new resource potential was estimated for the Beauce placer.

It must be emphasized that any grade/tonnage calculation at the Beauce project will be fraught with difficulty. Key amongst the problems with the Beauce (and many other gold projects) is ore grade variability. The grade can and will change from almost nothing to a value of several grams per cubic metre within a very short distance.

Due to the nugget effect, and the clear disparity between drilled and mined gold grades at the Beauce, the Uragold technical team believes that gold volumes contained in the deposit will be larger than indicated by the historical drilling. However, until the completion of additional drilling that can validate the historical data, the only way to quantify and divulge the historical information, while taking into consideration the nugget effect, is to look at the historical polygonal resource as a guideline for a new potential exploration target range. (Potential quantity and grade are conceptual in nature, there has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource, and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the discovery of a mineral resource.)

Making the assumption that recovered gold could be up to six times the historical polygonal resource figure (as per the data derived from the historical mining figures) suggests that the gold potential for the entire deposit now controlled by Uragold could range between 61,000 ounces (2.2 million cubic metres at 0.87 gram of gold per cubic metre) and 366,000 ounces (2.2 million cubic metres at 5.22 grams of gold per cubic metre), using six as a multiplier.

All information such as resource estimates and grades herewith presented is historical in nature, and while relevant, the information was obtained before the implementation of National Instrument 43-101 and as such does not meet National Instrument 43-101 reporting standards. The historical estimates should not be relied upon until the company can confirm them.

While the presence of significance quantities of visible (placer) gold in the region is a fact, the source/sources of these gold showings has/have not yet been identified. Studies by Uragold of the auriferous basal till and the underlying saprolite suggest a close-proximity source of gold, and since the acquired claims cover an extensive area of the Gilbert River Valley, this increases the chances that the unknown Bellechasse-/Timmins-type deposit mentioned in the company's March 27, 2014, press release will be found on Uragold claims.

Subject to regulatory approval, the Uragold and Fancamp definitive agreement transaction contains the following salient points:

  1. Uragold will acquire the 32-claim block contained in the Appalachian properties that surrounded the Uragold Beauce property through:
    1. As consideration for the transfer and the sale of the claims and related assets to Uragold, Uragold will issue, at the closing, an amount equal to eight million Uragold units. Each unit will comprise one common share and one common share purchase warrant of Uragold;
    2. Each full warrant will entitle Fancamp to purchase one common share of the capital stock during a period of 60 months from the date of the issuance of the units. Each warrant shall entitle Fancamp to purchase one additional common share of Uragold at a price of 20 cents per share during the first 24 months from the date of issuance of the units, at a price of 30 cents from the start of the 25th month until the end of the 48th month and at a price of 40 cents per share at the start of the 49th month until the end of the 60th month;
  2. Contemporaneously with the signing of the definitive agreement:
    1. Uragold will make a cash payment of $25,000 to Fancamp within six months of the signing of the definitive agreement;
    2. Uragold will finance $400,000 worth of exploration work on the claims over the next four years, under the following schedule: year 1 -- $50,000, year 2 -- $75,000, year 3 -- $100,000 and year 4 -- $175,000;
    3. Uragold has granted Fancamp a 3.5-per-cent gross metal royalty on any gold production extracted from the 32-claim block acquired by Uragold;
  3. Fancamp and Uragold have signed a covenant regarding the sale of Uragold shares held by Fancamp:
    1. Included in the covenant is a standstill agreement whereby Fancamp agrees not to sell any of its Uragold shares during a 12-month period starting on the day of the issuance of the Uragold units to Fancamp;
    2. The covenant also includes a change-of-control clause whereby, in the event that a change-of-control event occurs at either of the parties, then either the Fancamp standstill period will be automatically increased by 36 months or a new 36-month standstill period will start, or in the case that the change of control occurs at Uragold, then the standstill agreement will lapse;
    3. Included in the covenant is a vote-with-management clause whereby Fancamp agrees to vote all of its share proxies in favour of Uragold management. This section of the covenant could be subject to disinterested shareholder approval at the next annual general meeting of the company;
    4. So long as Fancamp owns at least 10 per cent of the issued and outstanding Uragold shares, Fancamp can have one nominee elected as a director to the Uragold board of directors;
  4. Fancamp intends to nominate Peter H. Smith to the Uragold board.

It should be noted that the Uragold claim block, extremely significant from a paleoplacer perspective, forms only a small part of the company's surrounding Beauce property holdings, which today amount to approximately 387 claims and which remain highly prospective for bedrock gold occurrences.

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