Form 8-K
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Oct 30, 2009 10:41AM
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 29, 2009 (October 27, 2009)
SILVERADO GOLD MINES LTD.
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in charter)
British Columbia, Canada | 000-12132 | 98-0045034 |
(State or other jurisdiction | (Commission File Number) | (IRS Employer |
of incorporation) | Identification Number) |
1111 West Georgia Street, Suite 1820
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada V6E 4M3
(Address of principal executive offices)
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: 1 (800) 665-4646
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the Registrant under any of the following provisions:
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SILVERADO GOLD MINES LTD.
This Current Report on Form 8-K and other reports filed by the Registrant from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission (collectively, the “Filings”) contain forward looking statements and information that are based upon beliefs of, and information currently available to, the Registrant’s management, as well as estimates and assumptions made by the Registrant’s management. When used in the Filings the words “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect”, “future”, “intend”, “plan” or the negative of these terms and similar expressions as they relate to the Registrant or the Registrant’s management identify forward looking statements. Such statements reflect the current view of the Registrant with respect to future events and are subject to risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors relating to the Registrant’s industry, operations and results of operations and any businesses that may be acquired by the Registrant. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should the underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may differ significantly from those anticipated, believed, estimated, expected, intended or planned.
Item 8.01 | Other Events |
On October 27, 2009, Silverado Gold Mines Ltd. (the “Registrant”) issued a press release (the “Press Release”) announcing certain drill core assay results relating to its Nolan Creek property in Alaska. Further information is set forth in the Press Release, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1.
The foregoing summary of the Press Release does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Press Release, a copy of which is filed herewith as an exhibit and incorporated by reference herein.
Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits |
Exhibit No. | Document |
99.1 | Press Release |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
October 29, 2009 | Silverado Gold Mines Ltd. | |
By: | /s/ Garry L. Anselmo | |
Garry L. Anselmo, | ||
Chief Executive Officer |
NEWS RELEASE
Gold Results Disclose Bulk Mineable Resource Potential at
Nolan Creek Property, Alaska
Vancouver, British Columbia, October 26, 2009 — Silverado Gold Mines Ltd (OTCBB: SLGLF) (Frankfurt: SLGL) (www.silverado.com) (the “Company” or “Silverado”) announces recent findings indicating a potential bulk minable resource at the Nolan Creek Gold and Antimony property in Alaska.
Silverado has received drill core assay results from diamond drill core holes 09SH19 and 09SH20 that were drilled into the west portion of the 500 ft wide Solomon Shear Zone along the south side of Pringle Bench. Prior to 2009, drilling efforts by the Company had focused on the northeast trending gold-antimony vein-fault system on Workman’s Bench, where a narrow, high grade gold-antimony reserve previously underwent a 43-101 compliant, prefeasibility study (available on SEDAR @ www.sedar.com). Holes 09SG19 and 09SH20 were drilled at an azimuth to test the other gold-bearing structures that cut at an oblique angle to the Solomon Shear Zone on Pringle Bench, the northeast extension of the vein-fault system on Workman’s Bench. Both drill holes intercepted a network of gold-bearing quartz-carbonate veins in addition to the “A” vein gold-antimony zone, and the samples assayed between 0.01 and 1.69 oz/t of gold. A summary table of the gold and antimony values for the two holes is listed below.
Summary Table of Pringle Bench drill results for holes 09SH19 and 09SH20 | ||||||||||
Hole no. | UTM Northing (meters) | UTM Easting (meters) | Drill Azimuth | Drill Angle | Total Depth of hole | Mineralized Intercept Depth (ft) | Brief Description of Mineralized Intercept. | Assay width (ft) | Gold Assay (oz/t) | Percent Antimony |
09SH19 |
7486721 |
618874 |
250 |
-60 |
282 |
21.0 |
Three quartz-stibnite veins (>0.5 “ each) |
1.0 |
0.04 |
16.9% |
09SH19 | 7486721 | 618874 | 250 | -60 | 282 | 43.0 | 2.0 “ quartz-stibnite vein | 0.5 | 0.05 | 1.6% |
09SH19 |
7486721 |
618874 |
250 |
-60 |
282 |
43.5 |
Stockwork-style quartz- carbonate-stibnite veins. |
2.0 |
0.06 |
0.1% |
09SH19 |
7486721 |
618874 |
250 |
-60 |
282 |
49.5 |
3.0 inch quartz-stibnite vein and Veinlets |
1.0 |
0.05 |
0.6% |
09SH19 |
7486721 |
618874 |
250 |
-60 |
282 |
104.0 |
Irregular stockwork-style quartz-stibnite veins. |
1.5 |
0.03 |
5.3% |
09SH19 |
7486721 |
618874 |
250 |
-60 |
282 |
114.0 |
3.5 inch quartz-carbonate vein with trace stibnite. |
0.7 |
0.32 |
0.4% |
09SH19 |
7486721 |
618874 |
250 |
-60 |
282 |
118.0 |
Braided quartz-stibnite veins (0.75 to 1.0” ea) |
1.0 |
0.03 |
0.1% |
09SH19 |
7486721 |
618874 |
250 |
-60 |
282 |
171.0 |
quartz-stibnite stockwork ‘A’ zone hanging wall |
0.5 |
0.01 |
5.3% |
09SH19 |
7486721 |
618874 |
250 |
-60 |
282 |
174.0 |
6.0 inch (true width) ‘A’ Zone quartz-stibnite vein |
1.0 |
0.33 |
32.5% |
09SH19 |
7486721 |
618874 |
250 |
-60 |
282 |
175.0 |
Quartz-stibnite veins (0.5” avg width of veins) |
1.5 |
0.01 |
2.8% |
09SH19 |
7486721 |
618874 |
250 |
-60 |
282 |
180.0 |
Braided quartz-stib veins. Fragmental textures |
1.0 |
0.02 |
4.9% |
09SH19 | 7486721 | 618874 | 250 | -60 | 282 | 215.5 | Quartz-stib. stockwork | 1.0 | 0.03 | 7.9% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
123.5 |
5.0 “ (true width) quartz- carbonate-stibnite vein. |
2.0 |
0.08 |
0.1% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
125.5 |
One inch quartz-carbonate- stibnite vein. |
2.0 |
0.06 |
4.0% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
190.5 |
Chaotic quartz-stibnite stockwork in ‘A’ zone hanging wall. |
1.5 |
0.26 |
4.0% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
192.0 |
Brecciated quartzite with quartz-carbonate stockwork. ‘A’ Zone hanging wall. |
3.0 |
0.04 |
0.9% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
205.5 |
2-3 inch quartz-stibnite-gold vein in ‘A’ zone. |
1.0 |
1.69 |
2.7% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
210.5 |
2-3 inch quartz-carbonate- stibnite vein. |
1.0 |
0.04 |
0.2% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
223.0 |
Broken fragments of quartz- carbonate-stibnite vein (unknown width) |
1.0 |
0.04 |
11.4% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
232.5 |
Braided quartz-carbonate- stibnite veins. |
1.0 |
0.01 |
4.0% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
272.0 |
Braided quartz-carbonate- stibnite veins. |
1.0 |
0.05 |
11.0% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
300.5 |
Quartz-carbonate-stibnite veins (two 1” veins) |
1.5 |
0.06 |
3.2% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
342.5 |
2.0 inch massive stibnite vein (West Zone) |
1.0 |
0.01 |
27.3% |
09SH20 |
7486721 |
618874 |
245 |
-65 |
342 |
335.5 |
Stibnite-quartz-carbonate vein swarm or dense stockwork within crosscutting fault zone. West Zone footwall. |
2.5 |
0.13 |
9.7% |
The network of gold bearing quartz veins is interpreted by company geologist, Karl Sharp, to be a broad, 500-600 foot wide, west-northwest trending brittle fault zone along Smith Creek intersecting the Solomon Shear Zone at an oblique angle between Workman’s Bench and Pringle Bench. Sharp believes that the intersection of these two major structural zones caused an increase in dilationnal openings for larger vein development as well as a significant increase in vein density. All of the quartz veins and vein zones sampled had elevated gold values. The Company has extensive VLF/EM geophysical coverage over the Pringle Bench area that indicates an abundance of additional similar structural zones that cross-cut the main five mile long, northeast-striking shear zone.
The Solomon Shear Zone hosts both gold-bearing quartz-carbonate veins and gold-antimony veins. Less than 0.5 miles of the 5 mile long shear zone subsurface has been explored with diamond core drilling. Previously the Company had focused on the evaluation of narrow, northeast-striking, high grade, gold-antimony fault vein zones that were hosted in northeast trending sub-parallel discrete zones. The recent drill assay results and the style of additional gold-bearing mineralization encountered in these holes indicates the potential for a larger, lower grade, gold-antimony resource on the Nolan Creek property as well.
The Company plans to obtain new and existing assay information from drill core programs completed by the firm in 2007, 2008 and earlier in 2009 in order to assess bulk minable, gold-antimony deposit potential on both Pringle Bench and Workman’s Bench. Further analytical results from drill intervals and surface channel sampling of the Pringle Bench and Workman’s Bench antimony-gold deposits will be released upon receipt from the selected, certified, commercial laboratory.
Further analytical results from 2009 drill intervals and surface channel sampling of the Pringle Bench and Workman’s Bench antimony-gold deposits will be released upon receipt from the selected, certified, commercial laboratory.
Qualified Person
The technical information that is released in this news release has been reviewed by Thomas K. Bundtzen, P. Geo BS MS CPG-10912, ABSLN #279639, President of Pacific Rim Geological Consulting, Inc., of Fairbanks, Alaska, who is independent of the Company as defined by NI 43-101. Bundtzen is a Certified Professional Geologist with the American Institute of Professional Geologists (AIPG). Bundtzen is the Qualified Person as defined in NI 43-101 and also qualifies under the rules stated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and has verified the data contained in this news release for accuracy. The disclosure requirements of 3.2 and 3.3 of NI 43-101 are addressed in a previously filed report entitled “January 1, 2009 NI 43-101 Pre-Feasibility Study for Nolan Creek (Amended June 1, 2009)”. Sampling and Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QAQC) procedures deployed during the core drilling and surface sampling programs follow those outlined in Silverado’s NI 43-101 Prefeasibility Study of the Workman’s Bench Antimony Gold deposit, Amended June 1, 2009, which is available at www.sedar.com and on the company website at www.silverado.com.
About the Company
Silverado Gold Mines Ltd, a publicly traded company, is an exploration-stage enterprise focused on the exploration of gold properties with some past production. The Company has gold properties located throughout Alaska, which include a 100 percent (100%) interest in numerous mining claims located on the Nolan Creek property.
Forward Looking Statements
This news release may contain, in addition to historical information, forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements in this news release that are forward-looking statements are based on the current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and forecasts about the Company’s business and the industry and markets in which it operates.
Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties regarding the market price of gold, availability of funds, government regulations, common share prices, operating costs, capital costs, outcomes of test mining activities and other factors. Forward-looking statement are made, without limitation, in relation to operating plans, property exploration activities, including test mining activities, availability of funds, environmental reclamation, operating costs and permit acquisition. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical facts may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may”, “will”, “should”, “expect”, “plan”, “intend”, “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “predict”, “potential”, or “continue”, and the negative of such terms or other comparable terminology. Actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating these statements, you should consider various factors, including the risks detailed in the Company’s filings with the Canadian Securities Authorities and the US SEC. These factors
may cause the Company’s actual results to differ materially from any forward-looking statement. Except as required by applicable securities laws, the Company disclaims any obligation to publicly update these statements, or disclose any difference between its actual results and those reflected in these statements. Given these uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.
For further information, please contact:
Silverado Gold Mines Ltd |
1820-1111 West Georgia Street |
Vancouver, BC V6E 4M3 |
Toll Free: 1 (800) 665-4646 |
Telephone: (604) 689-1535 |
Investor Relations: ir@silverado.com |
www.silverado.com |
Trading Symbols: |
OTC BB - SLGLF |
FRANKFURT - SLGL |
File Name | Filing Type | Form Type | Sequence |
091145716.htm | CURRENT REPORT | 8-K | 1 |
0001062993-09-003784exhibit99-1.htm | PRESS RELEASE DATED OCTOBER 26, 2009 | EX-99.1 | 2 |