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Bravada Gold Corp (2)
Symbol BVA
Shares Issued 131,638,502
Close 2023-07-19 C$ 0.05
Market Cap C$ 6,581,925
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Bravada Gold options Baxter to Endeavour Silver

2023-07-19 11:07 ET - News Release

Mr. Joe Kizis reports

BRAVADA AND ENDEAVOUR SILVER SIGN DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT TO OPTION BAXTER AU/AG PROPERTY IN NEVADA

Bravada Gold Corp. has entered into a definitive agreement with Endeavour Silver Corp., granting Endeavour the option to earn an 85-per-cent interest in the company's Baxter gold and silver property, located directly north of Endeavour's Bruner project in Nevada's Walker Lane gold trend. Baxter consists of 114 unpatented lode claims (approximately 920 hectares).

Pursuant to the definitive agreement, Endeavour has the right to explore and the option to earn an 85-per-cent interest in Baxter by, among other things, incurring $4.5-million (U.S.) in exploration and development expenditures on Baxter over a five-year period from the effective date of the definitive agreement.

The definitive agreement provides that Endeavour shall make annual cash option payments of $100,000 (U.S.) to Bravada, 50 per cent of which may be paid in common shares of Endeavour at its sole discretion, and incur the exploration expenditures on Baxter as follows:

  • Year 1 -- $250,000 (U.S.);
  • Year 2 -- $250,000 (U.S.);
  • Year 3 -- $500,000 (U.S.);
  • Year 4 -- $1-million (U.S.);
  • Year 5 -- $2-million (U.S.).

Endeavour shall be entitled, in its sole discretion, to accelerate any time period for incurring the exploration expenditures or to elect to satisfy any of the exploration expenditures by cash payment to Bravada.

Upon completion of the exploration expenditures and payment of all of the option payments, Endeavour shall have exercised the option and Endeavour and Bravada will form an 85/15 joint venture, with Bravada carried to production with payback of Bravada's carried portion from the company's share of net income from the sale of all minerals produced from Baxter.

Extensive low-sulphidation-type gold and silver mineralization is exposed at surface and in reverse circulation holes drilled by Bravada and others on several target areas within Baxter. Additional mineralization may lie beneath a relatively thin veneer of gravel and postmineral volcanics in portions of the property. Drilling at the Sinter target has outlined near-surface gold mineralization that is open along strike and at depth. The best hole to date at Sinter is BAX16-13 (previously reported), which returned 0.88 gram of gold per tonne (g/t) from 32 to 64 metres (m) depth, including 6.1 m of 2.2 g/t gold. Approximately 300 m along strike is a single hole, BAX17-07 (previously reported), which returned a 9.1 m interval beginning at 198.6 m depth of 1.38 g/t Au, including three m of 3.7 g/t Au. The intercept in hole BAX17-07 is untested up and down dip, and the intervening ground to BAX16-13 is undrilled and covered by shallow alluvium. Exploration plans include detailed mapping, soil sampling and a geophysical survey that will be used to develop drill targets.

President Joe Kizis commented: "Endeavour Silver is a growing, successful mining company that owns the Bruner gold property, which is adjacent to Baxter and hosts similar gold mineralization. Bruner was historically mined and has unmined historic gold resources. Potentially high-margin, shallow oxidized gold from the Sinter target at Baxter should be an attractive addition to a previously modelled historic heap-leach site on the Bruner property that is directly south of Baxter's claim boundary."

About Bravada Gold Corp.

Bravada is an exploration company with a portfolio of high-quality properties in Nevada, one of the best mining jurisdictions in the world. Bravada has successfully identified and advanced properties with the potential to host high-margin deposits while successfully attracting partners to finance later stages of project development. Bravada's value is underpinned by a substantial gold and silver resource with a positive preliminary economic assessment at Wind Mountain, and the company has significant upside potential from possible new discoveries at its exploration properties.

Since 2005, the company entered into 32 earn-in joint venture agreements for its properties with 19 publicly traded companies, as well as a similar number of property acquisition agreements with private individuals. Bravada currently has 10 projects in its portfolio, consisting of 810 claims for approximately 6,500 ha in the Battle Mountain/Eureka and Walker Lane trends, two of Nevada's most prolific gold trends. Most of the projects host encouraging drill intercepts of gold and already have drill targets developed.

Mr. Kizis (AIPG CPG-11513) is the qualified person for the company and is responsible for reviewing and preparing the technical data presented in this release and has approved their disclosure.

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