Affinor Growers Announces New Advisory Board Member for Commercial Strawberry Production
Affinor Growers Inc. (“Affinor” or the “Company”) (CSE: AFI OTCQB: RSSFF) is pleased to announce Bo Slack has joined the Affinor advisory board to assist with growth plans for local, year-round, strawberry production across Canada, the USA and internationally.
Mr. Bo Slack is an accredited produce leader with over 30 years of progressive experience in all facets of Innovative Agricultural Operations, Marketing, Food Safety and Sustainability. He has led high-level teams in the Pacific Northwest representing the largest group of Independent Berry Growers in all facets of production and operations. It’s been his honor to supply some of the finest Conventional and Organic produce grown in the Northwest to wholesale and retail channels. Innovative substrate farming is the key to the future of farming, embracing new concepts to improve yield to acreage ratio while managing the land to its highest potential. Appointed by the USDA to the United States Highbush Blueberry Council, he serves as Chairman of the Industry Relations Committee.
Affinor CEO Nick Brusatore comments: “As we begin strawberry production in our 15,000 square foot, Abbotsford BC greenhouse in the next 90 days, we are bringing on experienced executives and experts to ensure that we execute the 5 year business plan available on our website, I am excited about working with an industry leader like Bo, to develop strategic relationships and deliver high quality produce to Canadian and US markets throughout the year.”
About Affinor
Affinor is a publicly traded company listed on the CSE under the symbol “AFI” and on the OTCQB under the symbol “RSSFF”. Affinor is focused on developing vertical farming technologies and using those technologies to grow fruits, vegetables, and cannabis in a sustainable manner.
To learn more about Affinor, visit: www.affinorgrowers.com
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Newlox Gold Identifies Significant Brazilian Opportunities
Newlox Gold Ventures Corp. (“Newlox” or the “Company”) (C NSX : LUX ) ( Frankfurt/Stuttgart: NGO ) (OTC : NWLXF ) is pleased to provide further information related to the Company’s entrance into the Brazilian gold scene. Newlox Gold intends to develop ESG-focused (environmental, social, and corporate governance) precious metals projects in Brazil through partnerships with local artisanal mining groups.
As previously announced ( 16 June 2021 ), Newlox Gold has begun working in partnership with NAP.Mineração/USP , the centre for small-scale responsible mining at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. The centre supports the dissemination of responsible mining practices to artisanal and small-scale mining operations through applied research, training, and education. NAP.Mineração/USP’s actions are oriented to foster responsible and integrated management of mineral exploration, mine development, mining, rehabilitation, governance and sustainable development within the artisanal mining sector.
With the support of NAP.Mineração/USP, the Company has identified three promising areas suitable for deploying Newlox Gold’s ESG-focused precious metals processing plants. These projects offer very significant opportunities to the Company and represent the backbone of an ambitious expansion program envisioned by management. The Company has now deployed personnel on the ground to undertake in-field due diligence of these projects and is interpreting data from sampling and geological work.
The first area is located in the state of Mato Grosso in the Amazon region, where Dr. De Tomi and NAP.Mineração/USP are conducting a World Bank sponsored project to improve the economic, social, and environmental conditions of artisanal miners and other stakeholders. The established cooperative operating in this area has more than 5,900 members, with 133 mining claims maintaining 300 active mining faces. Gold production in this district in 2020 was estimated to be over 4.8 tons.
Newlox Gold intends to complete its due diligence on these projects over the coming months with the intention of breaking ground on its first Brazilian processing facility (The Company’s 3 rd plant) in the winter of 2021/2022. Management looks forward to providing updates during the due diligence, planning, and construction phases as it executes its Latin American growth strategy.
A Message from Ryan Jackson, President & CEO:
“We are excited to see Newlox Gold begin its ambitious expansion in Brazil, which will be a significant milestone in the Company’s growth strategy. The Brazilian mining industry is several orders of magnitude larger than what is found in Costa Rica, with over 250,000 known artisanal miners operating in the Amazonia region alone.
This first project in Brazil will be Newlox’s third such unit in its Latin American growth program geared toward increasing productivity while delivering social and environmental benefits to local stakeholders.”
Join Ryan Jackson for the Newlox Gold Brazil Expansion Overview Presentation on Zoom
1:45 pm Pacific Time (4:45 pm Eastern Time) on Tuesday the 13 th of July
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Sun Summit Intersects Longest Interval of Continuous, near Surface Gold Mineralization to Date: 87 Metres of 1.13 g/t Gold Equivalent Within 409 Metres of 0.52 g/t Gold Equivalent
Sun Summit Minerals Inc. (TSXV: SMN) OTC Pink: SMREF) (“Sun Summit” or the “Company”) is pleased to report the final assay results from the first phase of its 2021 exploration program on its Buck Property, central British Columbia.
Highlights
Long intervals of continuous gold mineralization cut in BK21-033 (Horseshoe zone):
- 87 metres of 1.13 grams per tonne (g/t) gold equivalent (AuEQ) within 265 metres of 0.66 g/t AuEQ and 409 metres of 0.52 g/t AuEQ.
- 409 metre interval starts at six metres down hole and represents the longest zone of continuous gold mineralization intersected on the property.
- BK21-033 together with previously reported BK21-017 (241 metres of 0.77 g/t AuEQ, including 109 metres of 1.15 g/t AuEQ; May 11th, 2021 News Release) and BK21-032 (187 metres of 0.73 g/t AuEQ including 54.0 metres of 1.19 g/t AuEQ and a lower interval of 59.1 metres of 0.95 g/t AuEQ; June 10th, 2021 News Release) demonstrate significant bulk-tonnage gold potential of the northern-extent of the Horseshoe zone.
- Based on 2020 and 2021 drilling, the mineralized system at Buck is at least 950 metres east-west by 900 metres north-south, with limits not yet defined.
Note: Intervals are downhole core lengths. True widths are unknown. AuEQ based on a 65:1 silver to gold ratio.
Bob Willis, Sun Summit’s CEO, commented:
“The 2021 drill program is a clear success. All holes cut multiple intervals of strong gold mineralization associated with significant hydrothermal alteration. In addition, large step-out holes from previously drilled areas, have yet to constrain the limits of the epithermal-related mineralized system.”
“In this final batch of assays, BK21-033 yielded 211 gram*metres (409 metres x 0.52 g/t AuEQ), the highest gram*metre intersection to date on the property. This drill hole, along with holes BK21-017 and BK21-032, demonstrates the potential of the northern extent of the Horseshoe zone. This will be a priority area to further drill test once we ramp up our drill program.”
“We aggressively stepped-out 400 metres to the east and drilled through post-mineralization volcanic rocks and hit Horseshoe zone-style breccia mineralization right below the basalts. This exploration success significantly opens the eastern side of the property for gold zone expansion.”
“All Trench zone holes in 2021 were designed based on results from one hole – discovery hole BK20-012 (17.0 metres of 5.89 g/t AuEQ including 3.0 metres of 23.10 g/t AuEQ). With no assays to guide hole placement while drilling was ongoing, we sited holes to maximize coverage within the known Trench-Horseshoe area, rather than trying to target specific high grade intercepts. Even so, drilling succeeded in delivering numerous additional drill intercepts of similar grade from this area. Our team is now working on a modified and still evolving geological model that we will use in generating our plan for the next phase of drilling. We plan to aggressively explore Buck with an expanded drill program as soon as this geological modelling is complete. The Buck gold mineralized hydrothermal system has been intercepted over an area of approximately 950 metres by 900 metres, based on drilling to date. Its limits and full extent are still unknown.”
“We also look forward to reporting the results of our ongoing property-wide exploration program as they become available. Early indications from this work are encouraging and may add targets for drill testing sooner rather than later.”
Sun Summit has drilled 18 holes so far in 2021. Results from the first five holes were announced on May 11th, 2021 and results from six additional holes were announced on June 10th, 2021. Results from the final seven holes are reported in this news release (Tables 1, 2 and 3).
Horseshoe Zone:
Drill hole BK21-033 was designed to test the lateral and depth extent of significant mineralization intersected in holes BK21-017 and BK21-018 (see SMN news release dated May 11th, 2021). Based on modelling of results from BK21-017 and BK21-018, BK21-033 was collared on the same pad as BK21-017 but drilled at a shallower dip and to the east. The hole cut long intervals of breccia-hosted, sphalerite-associated, bulk tonnage-style gold mineralization highlighted by 409 metres of 0.52 g/t AuEQ (211 AuEQ gram*metres) including 265 metres of 0.66 g/t AuEQ and 87 metres of 1.13 g/t AuEQ. The nature of gold-associated with zinc mineralization is similar to BK21-017 and BK21-032 – the 409 metre interval also returned 0.57% zinc.
Using the same interval calculation parameters as BK21-033 (i.e., 0.10 g/t AuEQ cut-off), BK21-017, when recalculated, intersected 241 metres of 0.77 g/t AuEQ (186 AuEQ gram*metres) including 109 metres of 1.15 g/t AuEQ (see SMN news release dated May 11th, 2021) and BK21-032, when recalculated, intersected 187 metres of 0.73 g/t AuEQ (137 AuEQ gram*metres) with 54.0 metres of 1.19 g/t AuEQ and a lower interval of 59.1 metres of 0.95 g/t AuEQ (see SMN news release dated June 10th, 2021). These long intervals of high gram*metres demonstrate the significant near surface, bulk-tonnage potential of the Horseshoe zone. These new data integrated with the Company’s exploration model, suggests that significant additional drilling is warranted to define the extent and trend of the broad mineralized zones.
Table 1. Assay results – Horseshoe Zone
- Previously reported intercept (May 11th and June 10th, 2021).
- AuEQ (gold equivalent) based on a 65:1 silver to gold (Ag:Au) ratio.
- Calculations are uncut and length-weighted using a 0.10 g/t gold equivalent cutoff.
- Intervals are downhole core lengths. True widths are unknown.
Step-out holes:
Sun Summit drilled three widely-spaced step-out holes (BK21-030, 031 and 034):
- BK21-031 collared through over 160 metres of post-mineralization, Eocene aged basalts and bottomed in the same package of dacitic volcanic rocks, breccias, and quartz-feldspar porphyries as the core of the Horseshoe zone, centered 400 metres to the northwest. BK21-031 intersected pervasive hydrothermal-related alteration (quartz + sericite + pyrite) and yielded multiple long intervals of gold mineralization over the 167 metres of drilled Horseshoe-affinity volcanic rocks and intrusive dykes (Table 2). Additional drilling in this new area (Buck SE), is clearly warranted to further test the extent of epithermal-related mineralization and to target higher-grade zones, known to lie peripheral to the styles of alteration and mineralization observed in BK21-031 (e.g., BK21-033).
- BK21-034 collared over 700 metres northwest of BK21-033 (BK20-012, BK21-017) and targeted a northwest trending magnetic-low geophysical anomaly. The hole intersected a thick sequence of variably altered, andesitic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks cut by local quartz-feldspar porphyritic dykes and a high-grade, base metal-rich, silver-bearing banded quartz vein. The vein returned an intercept of 1.3 metres of 329 g/t silver with 0.50 g/t gold, 1.40% zinc and 2.96% lead (Table 2).
- BK21-030, collared 200 metres southwest of BK21-033 (Figure 1), was drilled to the southwest to test a new area at depth previously undrilled. The hole cut numerous intervals of bulk tonnage-style gold mineralization (Table 2) and demonstrates a southern continuation of prospective Horseshoe-style breccias.
Table 2. Assay Results – Step-outs
- AuEQ (gold equivalent) based on a 65:1 silver to gold (Ag:Au) ratio.
- Calculations are uncut and length-weighted using a 0.10 g/t gold equivalent cutoff.
- Intervals are downhole core lengths. True widths are unknown.
Trench Zone:
Drill holes BK21-027, 028 and 029 were collared in the Trench zone and were designed to test the extent of gold mineralization previously discovered in BK20-012 (17.0 metres of 5.89 g/t AuEQ including 3.0 metres of 23.10 g/t AuEQ; see SMN news release dated January 5th, 2021). Hole BK21-027 was collared on the same pad as BK21-025 (62 metres of 0.85 g/t AuEQ including 19.2 metres of 1.31 g/t AuEQ; see SMN news release dated June 10th, 2021) but drilled at a shallower angle to the west. Hole BK21-028 was collared 25 metres west of BK21-024 (17.0 metres of 2.97 g/t AuEQ including 1.4 metres of 19.71 g/t AuEQ and 1.4 metres of 14.01 g/t AuEQ; see SMN news release dated June 10th, 2021) and drilled to the southwest. BK21-029 was collared 180 metres south of BK21-028 and drilled to the northeast.
All three holes cut multiple intervals of broad zones of bulk tonnage-style gold mineralization hosted in pervasively sericite + quartz altered lapilli tuffs, andesites and quartz-feldspar porphyry dykes. Mineralization is predominantly disseminated and veinlet-hosted comprised of pyrite and sphalerite. Assay results from this zone are reported in Table 3.
Table 3. Assay results – Trench zone
- AuEQ (gold equivalent) based on a 65:1 silver to gold (Ag:Au) ratio.
- Calculations are uncut and length-weighted using a 0.10 g/t gold equivalent cutoff.
- Intervals are downhole core lengths. True widths are unknown.
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Figure 1. Map showing drill hole locations.
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Figure 2. A-A’ Cross section from the Trench to Horseshoe zones showing selected highlights.
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Table 4. Drill collar locations
Hole ID | UTM E* | UTM N* | Elevation (m) | EOH (m) | Azimuth | Dip |
BK21-027 | 654251.6 | 6019726 | 888.16 | 474 | 270 | -50 |
BK21-028 | 654326 | 6019800 | 883.71 | 384 | 210 | -50 |
BK21-029 | 654322 | 6019627 | 931.56 | 459 | 45 | -70 |
BK21-030 | 654434 | 6019592 | 939.89 | 369 | 210 | -45 |
BK21-031 | 655000.3 | 6019578 | 927.27 | 327 | 210 | -50 |
BK21-033 | 654564 | 6019732 | 909.35 | 540 | 90 | -50 |
BK21-034 | 653920 | 6020060 | 812.29 | 300 | 200 | -50 |
Notes: * NAD 83 Zone 9N
Quality Assurance and Quality Control
All sample assay results have been monitored through the Company’s quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) program. Drill core was sawn in half at Sun Summit’s core logging and processing facility in Houston, B.C. Half the core was sampled and shipped in sealed and secure bags to the ALS Global preparation facilities in Yellowknife, N.T. Samples were prepared using standard preparation procedures. Following sample preparation, the pulps were sent to the ALS Global analytical laboratory in North Vancouver, B.C., for analysis.
Core samples were analyzed for 48 elements by ICP-MS on a 0.25 gram sample using a four acid digestion (method ME-MS61L or ME-MS61). Gold was analyzed by fire assay on a 30 gram sample with an AAS finish (method Au-AA23). Over limit gold (>10 ppm) was re-analyzed by fire assay using a gravimetric finish on a 30 gram sample. Over limit silver (>100 ppm) was re-analyzed using a four acid digestion and ICP-AES finish. Over limit zinc (>10,000 ppm) and lead (>10,000 ppm) was re-analysed using a four acid digestion and ICP-AES finish. ALS Global is registered to ISO / IEC 17025:2017 accreditations for laboratory procedures.
In addition to ALS Global laboratory QA/QC protocols, Sun Summit implements an internal QA/QC program that includes the insertion of duplicates, standards and blanks into the sample stream.
National Instrument 43-101 Disclosure
This news release has been approved by Sun Summit’s CEO, Robert D. Willis, P. Eng. a “Qualified Person” as defined in National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects of the Canadian Securities Administrators. He has also verified the data disclosed, including sampling, analytical and test data, underlying the technical information in this news release.
Community Engagement
Sun Summit is working to engage with First Nations on whose territory the Buck Property is located, to discuss their interests and identify contract and work opportunities, as well as opportunities to support community initiatives. The Company looks forward to continuing to work with local and regional First Nations as the project continues.
Health and Safety
The Company’s exploration programs are being carried out in full compliance with federal, provincial, and municipal guidelines established in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Sun Summit has a rigorous infection prevention and control protocol in place to protect the health of employees and contractors, as well as surrounding communities in which the Company works.
Buck Property
The recently expanded 33,000-hectare property, approximately 12 kilometres south of Houston, British Columbia, has excellent nearby infrastructure and allows for year-round road-accessible exploration.
About Sun Summit
Sun Summit Minerals is an exploration company focused on expanding its epithermal gold discovery at its flagship Buck Project located in north-central British Columbia.
The Company is exploring multiple high priority gold and silver targets through methodical, well-funded exploration campaigns with year round drilling access. The Project has high-grade and bulk-tonnage gold and silver potential and is located in a mining-established region that includes many former operating mines and current exploration projects.
Sun Summit is committed to environmental and social responsibility with a focus on responsible development to generate positive outcomes for all stakeholders.
Further details are available at www.sunsummitminerals.com.
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VP Technical Services
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Corporate Communications
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