공시 • May 20
Orezone Gold Corporation Reports Drill Results from Casa Berardi Mine
Orezone Gold Corporation announced the first set of drill results from its recently acquired Casa Berardi gold mine, located in Quebec, Canada. The results are from the near-surface F160 and F134 zones, and serve to support planned pit expansions, and further illustrate the down-plunge continuity of high-grade mineralization in each zone. Taken together with historical drill results, these plunging zones of mineralization represent potential future underground mining centers, which are located proximal to existing underground infrastructure. In addition to ramping-up underground exploration drilling at Casa Berardi, surface drilling of the F160 and F134 zones will remain ongoing. The delineation of F160 Zone at depth is expected to further supplement the Company’s plans to increase underground mining rates by reopening the East Mine, while future step-out drilling down plunge of the F134 Zone has the potential to open a significant new exploration front in the Gap Zone. F160 Zone: The F160 Zone hosts the operating F160 pit, which is located adjacent to the Casa Berardi process plant. Mineralization is open outside of the current F160 life-of-mine pit, with mineralized lenses plunging both to the east and west at 30-40 degrees. Ongoing drilling within the F160 Zone remains focused on testing the down-plunge continuity of high-grade mineralization, with trade-off studies underway to evaluate an expanded F160 pit and a future transition to underground mining. F134 Zone: The F134 Zone comprises multiple near-surface lenses of mineralization, plunging to the east at 40-50 degrees. The zone hosts the undeveloped F134 pit, with distal mineralization traced a further 750m down plunge below the current designed pit limits. Ongoing drilling within the F134 Zone remains focused on 1) infill drilling to support an expansion of the F134 pit, and 2) down plunge infill and step-out drilling targeting high-grade veins in support of future underground mining. As drilling continues to ramp-up at Casa Berardi, one of the priority targets moving forward will be the broader delineation of mineralization down plunge of the F134 Zone into the Gap Zone, which has seen limited drilling to date. Casa Berardi Exploration Outlook: Exploration drilling at Casa Berardi has recently been reinitiated, with four exploration rigs now turning and a fifth to be added in early June. The Company plans to complete 40,000-60,000m of exploration drilling this year at Casa Berardi, with plans to systematically ramp up to a sustainable 80,000-100,000m/yr moving forward. The 2026 exploration program commenced with surface drilling at the F160 and F134 zones, with ongoing drilling targeting down-plunge extensions at each zone. These near-surface zones, which are proximal to existing underground infrastructure, represent significant and actionable exploration targets, and have the potential to materially expand the current underground resource (M&I: 4.89Mt at 5.93g/t Au containing 934,000oz, Inferred: 1.91Mt at 7.02g/t Au containing 432,000oz).2 More recently, underground drilling has commenced in the 118N Zone (~800m depth from surface) as a follow-up to several significant historical intercepts on the north side of the Casa Berardi fault. Given that the vast majority of underground mineralization identified to date at Casa Berardi is located on the south side of the fault, this exploration upside to the north has significant potential implications in-terms of future resource and production growth moving forward. Selected 118N Zone historical intercepts: 269.78g/t Au over 1.0m (CBP-1440), 14.34g/t Au over 2.6m (CBW-1018), 11.53g/t Au over 3.0m (CBW-1440). As exploration drilling continues to ramp-up at Casa Berardi, future targets include the down-plunge delineation of the well-established WMCP and Principal ore shoots at depth. In support of this drilling, the Company has mobilized an underground mining contractor to site, which in addition to increasing mine development rates, will be utilized to establish the requisite drill stations for this targeting.