Matador Mining’s Cape Ray Gold Project passes multiple milestones with ambitious new exploration season nearing
At the Angus deposit, Matador has made the first new gold discovery at the Cape Ray project in more than 20 years.
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AuMEGA Metals Ltd is utilising best-in-class exploration to explore on its district scale land package that spans 110 kilometers along the Cape Ray-Valentine Shear Zone, a significant under-explored geological feature recognised as Newfoundland, Canada’s largest identified gold structure. This zone currently hosts Equinox Gold’s Valentine Gold Project, a multi-million-ounce deposit which is the region’s largest gold project, along with AuMEGA’s expanding Mineral Resource.
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At the Angus deposit, Matador has made the first new gold discovery at the Cape Ray project in more than 20 years.
All results from the 2020 exploration season have been received and will be summarised before the company announces the 2021 exploration strategy scheduled for release early next quarter.
Drilling has delivered strong grades and widths, extensions to the east and better defined the geometry of high-grade domains within the existing Isle Aux Morts mineral resource area.
Canaccord analysts Paul Howard and Tim McCormack believe the real prize of a brand new + 1 million ounces discovery at the company’s Cape Ray Gold Project remains likely in 2021.
The intersection of higher gold grades over greater widths than anticipated within the existing mineral resource area demonstrates the upside potential of the resource.
Hole CRD162 is the highest-grade intersection drilled at Isle aux Morts and the best hole drilled by Matador on the project.
Exploration work at the Cape Ray Gold Project has successfully concluded for the 2020 exploration season with a total of 83 holes for 10,561 metres drilled.
The company is systematically exploring along a 120-kilometre-long strike at the Cape Ray Gold Project in Newfoundland, Canada.
Both Stuart McKenzie and Carol Marinkovich will act as joint company secretaries for the company.
Looking forward, the company is focused on its exploration program across its landholding at Cape Ray with 12 targets expected to be drill tested next year.
The company’s strategy is to prioritise growth through new greenfield discoveries while continuing to progress mineral resource extension and infill drilling in the known deposits.
Drilling also extends Window Glass Hill and Isle aux Morts mineralisation outside their existing mineral resource wireframes, with significant gold intercepts.
The gold explorer has identified 12 new top-priority exploration targets which, following additional groundwork, are expected to be drill tested in 2021.
Step-out drilling at Angus and further extensional drilling at the Window Glass Hill deposit is planned, along with drill testing of additional regional exploration targets.
Dr Nicole Adshead-Bell has been appointed a non-executive director and will support the company’s efforts to enhance its profile in North America and broaden its shareholder base.
Post the June quarter, Matador raised $8.7 million via a placement to institutional, professional and sophisticated investors.
The company believes the Cape Ray Project shows great potential to become a gold operation in the future and is planning extensive exploration to expand the project's mine life.
Potma’s appointment positions the company to deliver on its target of identifying new discoveries across the Cape Ray tenements in Newfoundland, Canada.
Shaw and Partners has initiated coverage on Matador with a Buy recommendation and an 80 cents per share price target.
Following quarter end the company set out its exploration strategy with the primary objective to grow the resource base through brown-fields expansion.
Between 2,000 and 7,000 metres of drilling is planned for follow-up on the most prospective targets identified from the magnetics and trenching.
The company’s shares closed at an all-time high of 48 cents on Friday, which is a four-fold rise from 12 cents per share in March this year.
“Mick Wilkes' recent experience in international mine development will be critical as the company progresses the Cape Ray Project towards gold production," chairman Ian Murray.
The company will simultaneously begin a two-year greenfield exploration program aimed at systematically targeting and testing new areas to generate a pipeline of future drill targets and deposits.
Nero, for which Treasury Services Group acts as trustee for, holds 7,436,574 shares valued at more than $2.157 million.
The company is well-funded to fund a major exploration program, including drilling, at the Cape Ray Gold Project in Newfoundland, Canada.
Executive chairman Ian Murray has purchased 1 million shares and executive director Keith Bowes acquired 150,000 shares.
The company recently staked an additional five licences at the northern extension of its current holdings in a gold-rich area of Newfoundland.
As part of the board transition, Grant Davey has stepped down as a non-executive director of the company.
The company has staked an additional five licences at the northern extension of its current holdings in a gold-rich area of Newfoundland.
New chairman Ian Murray features in online company presentation about Cape Ray Gold Project in Newfoundland.
A newly released scoping study for the Cape Ray Gold Project provides a solid platform for future growth as a standalone mining and processing operation.
The study is underpinned by a new, recut resource of 837,000 ounces at 2 g/t gold at the Cape Ray Gold Project in Newfoundland, Canada.
This is the first appointment of what is anticipated to be a restructure of the company’s board.
A newly released scoping study for the Cape Ray project provides a solid platform for future growth as a standalone mining and processing operation.
The company’s long-term exploration strategy is being finalised with a focus on extending mine life and replacing low-grade stockpile material with higher-grade ore earlier in the project life.
Matador Mining technical director Keith Bowes chats to Samso about the company and its 1.02-million-ounce Cape Ray Gold Project in Newfoundland.
The company’s March quarterly activities report showed growth in the mineral resource and a total average grade at just over 2.2 g/t gold.
The company is contemplating Cape Ray Gold Project construction in 2022, ahead of first production in 2023.
The scoping study is expected to "show that we’ve got a very vanilla project that’s high grade, in a first-world jurisdiction and is going to a have a rapid payback," says director Adam Kiley.
The gold exploration company is progressing the scoping study and mine plan after increasing the mineral resource at its Cape Ray Gold Project in Newfoundland, Canada.
The company aims to test several highly prospective greenfield exploration targets in the upcoming exploration program.
The test work was conducted on samples across each of the project areas that make up the recently announced mineral resource.
The average grade of the total Cape Ray resource has also increased by 26% to 2.2 g/t.
All but one of 22 diamond holes reported to date has intersected strong gold mineralisation.
Drilling has confirmed continuity between the project’s two deposits.
More than 1,000 soil samples have been collected to identify drill targets along prospective structures.
The company is exploring five projects for multiple commodities.