Commercial Terms Overview. A summary of the Agreement’s commercial terms includes:
- Purchase by EMX of Golden Predator’s NSR royalties covering the Maggie Creek (2% NSR on precious metals and 1% NSR royalty on all other minerals) and Afgan (1% NSR royalty) properties;
- Issuance by EMX of 250,000 EMX shares to TCL as consideration for the purchase; and
- Approval by the TSX Venture and NYSE MKT exchanges as a condition precedent to closing the transaction.
Maggie Creek. The Maggie Creek royalty property is located 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) northwest of Carlin, Nevada, and approximately two kilometers (~1.2 miles) north-northeast of Newmont’s Gold Quarry mining operations (please see attached Maggie Creek District location map). The project is covered by 102 unpatented lode mining claims controlled by Renaissance Gold Inc. (“Renaissance”)1 . Maggie Creek occurs along the northeast projection of the Gold Quarry fault zone, which is an important mineralizing control at the Gold Quarry mine. Exploration has been conducted by companies that include Wolfpack Gold, Newmont, Barrick, Western States, Teck, Cordex, and Freeport. Most of the historic drilling consisted of shallow, vertical holes that did not thoroughly test Carlin-type targets in the “upper plate” or “lower plate” rocks of the Roberts Mountain Allocthon. Notably, a window of favorable lower plate carbonate rocks is exposed in the Maggie Creek claim block just north of Newmont’s Rainbow deposit (described in NBMG Bulletin 111, 2002). Moderate to strong Carlin-type hydrothermal alteration (silicification, argillization, and decalcification) extends north from Rainbow onto the Maggie Creek land position.
The proposed acquisition of Golden Predator’s Maggie Creek royalty complements EMX’s existing Maggie Creek South 3% NSR royalty property which occurs approximately 1.5 kilometers (~1 mile) south-southeast of Gold Quarry, and covers about 5.2 square kilometers (2 square miles). Maggie Creek South occurs on the southeast projection of the Good Hope fault trend, which has an alignment of deposits along its length including Mike, Tusc, Mac, and Gold Quarry, as well as the down-dip projection of favorable host rocks. Taken together, the Maggie Creek and Maggie Creek South royalty properties cover approximately 12.5 square kilometers (4.8 square miles) of prospective ground in a world-class gold mining district.
Afgan. The Afgan royalty property is located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northwest of Eureka, Nevada. The Afgan claim block consists of 73 unpatented lode mining claims controlled by McEwen Mining Inc.2 The property hosts a semi-continuous, 1,050 by 450 meter (~3,500 by 1,500 feet), north-northwest oriented zone of oxide gold mineralization delineated by historic drilling programs. The mineralization occurs along the contact of thinly bedded siltstones of the Webb Formation with the underlying Devils Gate Limestone.
The Afgan property has an historic resource estimate at a cut-off grade of 0.006 oz/ton gold comprised of 3.206 million indicated tons averaging 0.021 oz/ton gold, and 3.972 million inferred tons averaging 0.014 oz/ton gold as reported by Mine Development Associates (“MDA”) of Reno, Nevada (see previous owner NV Gold Corporation’s SEDAR filed technical report with an effective date of May 9, 2011, and prepared by MDA’s independent Qualified Person Michael M. Gustin, P.Geo.). MDA’s historic resource estimate utilized inverse distance estimation constrained within interpreted mineral domains. The historic resource is not constrained by an open pit. EMX has not completed sufficient work to verify the MDA historic resource estimate and is not treating it as a current resource. The historic estimate should not be relied upon until it can be confirmed. However, the historic resource is considered relevant to provide context for the gold mineralization at Afgan. Additional work to verify the historic resource would include review of new exploration information, re-examination of the cut-off grade using a current metal price, and constraining the resource within an open pit shell configuration. The historic resource is contained within the Afgan claim block, and as noted in MDA’s technical report, is open for expansion.
1See Renaissance Gold’s web site at www.rengold.com and September 14, 2015 news release.
2 See previous owner NV Gold Corporation’s February 1, 2016 news release.
Comments on Adjacent Properties. Gold Quarry and other deposits of the district provide context for the Maggie Creek and Maggie Creek South royalty properties, which occur in a similar geologic setting. However, this is not necessarily indicative that Maggie Creek or Maggie Creek South host mineralization with similar tonnages or grades.
About EMX. Eurasian Minerals leverages asset ownership and exploration insight into partnerships that advance our mineral properties, with EMX retaining royalty interests. EMX complements its generative business with strategic investment and third party royalty acquisition.
Mr. Dean D. Turner, CPG, a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and employee of the Company, has reviewed and approved disclosure of the technical information contained in this news release.
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| David M. Cole President and Chief Executive Officer Phone: (303) 979-6666 Email: Dave@EurasianMinerals.com Website: www.EurasianMinerals.com | Scott Close Director of Investor Relations Phone: (303) 973-8585 Email: SClose@EurasianMinerals.com |
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