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Melkior Resources to acquire Beschefer East project

2023-06-14 10:53 ET - News Release

Mr. Jonathan Deluce reports

MELKIOR ENTERS DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT FOR THE BESCHEFER EAST PROJECT

Melkior Resources Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 100 per cent of the Beschefer East project from Soquem Inc., an entity at arm's length to the company. Soquem is a subsidiary of Investissement Quebec. The Beschefer East project is located approximately 90 kilometres west of Matagami and 100 km north of La Sarre, Que., with good road access and a power line running through the project.

The project has significant gold and polymetallic potential with geological similarities to Soquem's B26 deposit, located seven km east, which hosts an indicated resource of 6.97 million tonnes (Mt) at 1.32 per cent copper, 1.80 per cent zinc, 0.60 gram per tonne gold and 43 g/t silver, and an inferred resource of 4.41 Mt at 2.03 per cent Cu, 0.22 per cent Zn, 1.07 g/t Au and nine g/t Ag. The project shares a border with Goldseek Resources' Beschefer project, where historical drilling has identified 55.63 g/t gold over 5.57 metres, including 224 g/t over 1.23 metres within the B14 gold zone.

Jonathon Deluce, chief executive officer of Melkior, stated: "We are excited to announce signing the definitive agreement with Soquem at the Beschefer East project and will shortly commence our summer fieldwork. We believe that the project has significant potential given the multikilometre gold-copper-silver targets identified by Soquem. With the amount of mineralization intercepted to date amongst these large targets, we believe there is a higher metal factor source which we will target in upcoming programs. We also believe that the B14 gold zone extends onto the Beschefer East project, which is one of our top targets for phase 1 drilling. To prepare for our maiden (Melkior-operated) drill program, we will shortly commence our surface geochemical program. This program aims to screen the large targets identified to determine priority drill areas."

Project summary

Location: The project comprises 55 claims covering 2,906 hectares in the Eeyou Istchee Baie-James territory, Nord-du-Quebec region.

History: The project was worked intensively from the sixties to the early nineties by BHP Billiton while operating the Selbaie mine. The use of diverse geophysical approaches in conjunction with overburden gold sampling was essential due to the thick overburden blanket. It led to the discovery of multiple gold, copper, silver and zinc anomalies in a felsic volcanic rock environment.

The project was then systematically explored by Soquem between 1992 and 2012, building a tight grid of geophysical anomalies, followed by drill testing. Exploration was done using a checkered geophysics line pattern to evaluate the potential of different structural orientations. Around 300 kilometres of surveyed lines were completed in conjunction with drilling 11,200 metres distributed in 42 holes. The company aims to expand on the gold, copper and silver anomalies identified in prior drill programs and integrate data to confirm gold trends spatially associated with extensive low-grade base metal mineralized systems.

Results: The best gold results were obtained from the Power Line target located in the northern part of the project. Hole 1172-99-30 returned a series of individual mineralized intervals from two to five g/t over lengths of 0.5 metre to six metres within a large interval of 70 metres. Hole 1172-13-40 intercepted 2.1 g/t over 5.4 metres, including 7.9 g/t over 0.9 metre. Gold mineralization is hosted in a quartz-carbonate centimetric veins network crosscutting felsic to the intermediate volcanic rock affected by variable pervasive alteration associated with minor amounts of pyrite. Hole 1172-98-24 intersected the same type of mineralization but was hosted in deformed and carbonate-altered andesite located in the southern half of the property.

Short anomalous copper anomalies were intersected in a sector identified as the Noramco target. From prior Soquem programs, the best results were 0.26 per cent over 4.8 metres and 0.24 per cent over four metres (1172-98-24 and 1172-99-30, respectively).

A summary of selected historical drill results is noted herein.

Geology: The project is located in the eastern part of the Brouillan volcanic complex, which is a part of the North volcanic zone of the Abitibi greenstone belt. The drill coverage has highlighted the felsic dome facies, along with related lapillis and fine tuffs that have been affected by a northeast-trending polyphased folding pattern. To the south, basalt and gabbros have been identified interlayered with graphitic sediments and cherts. Hydrothermal alterations have favourable characteristics for the exploration of volcanogenic massive sulphides deposits (VMS). On the west side of the Brouillan syn-volcanic intrusion, the Selbaie mine produced 53 Mt of ore at grades of 0.96 per cent Cu, 1.9 per cent Zn, 40.7 g/t Ag and 0.58 g/t Au. The rock units of the project have been affected by deformation and structural elements related to the Bapst fault. Additionally, the northeast deformation zones, including the extension of the Beschefer gold structure, are interpreted to pass through the property.

Terms of the definitive agreement

Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Melkior has the right to earn a 100-per-cent interest in the project through an option, subject to a net smelter return royalty of up to 2.5 per cent on certain claims made up of a historical NSR of 1.5 per cent and 1 per cent granted to Soquem. To earn an undivided 100-per-cent interest in the project, Melkior must make total cash payments of $50,000, issue $500,000 worth of common shares in the capital of Melkior to Soquem and incur work expenditures of $1.5-millionin total, all in accordance with the anniversary dates in the attached table.

The definitive agreement and issuance of shares to Soquem thereunder is subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval and the company's filing requirements with TSX-V. All common shares of Melkior issued under the definitive agreement will be subject to a hold period of four months and one day from the date of issuance.

Qualified person

This press release was reviewed and approved by Martin Demers, PGeo, OGQ No. 770, who is a qualified person as defined under National Instrument 43-101, and responsible for the technical information provided in this news release. Mr. Demers is a consultant for Melkior.

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