On July 9, 2020, ALX announced the acquisition by staking of the Sceptre Gold Project, ("Sceptre", or the "Project") located in east-central Saskatchewan. The Sceptre property is situated approximately 125 kilometres east of La Ronge, Saskatchewan and about 32 kilometres south of the Seabee Gold Operation of SSR Mining Inc. ("Seabee"), which is host to the Santoy Gold Mine and the past-producing Seabee Gold Mine. Sceptre consists of twelve claims totaling 6,226 hectares (15,384 acres).
Sceptre is situated within the central part of the Glennie Domain, which is characterized by an arcuate belt of Lower Proterozoic arc-derived supracrustal rocks and granitoids, including a series of broadly contemporaneous greenstone belts. Of the over eighty gold occurrences identified within the Glennie Domain, the vast majority appear structurally controlled, associated with multi-stage quartz-calcite veins and are related to a series of greenstone belts (Delaney, 1992). More detailed mapping is required in the Project area to ascertain the nature of the volcanic units (greenstones) present at Sceptre.
North of Sceptre, the Santoy Gold Mine and the past-producing Seabee Gold Mine lie within the Pine Lake Greenstone Belt ("PLGB"). Underground mining at the Seabee Gold Mine commenced in 1991 and lasted until 2018, while underground mining at the Santoy Gold Mine commenced in 2014. Total gold production at Seabee to date is over 1.57 million ounces of gold.
The arcuate PLGB exceeds 50 kilometres in length and is highly folded/faulted with multiple phases of deformation. At Sceptre, the Prongua Lake Volcanic Belt represents a possible extension of the PLGB; here a sequence of north trending mafic to intermediate volcanic rocks are transected by an up to 1,500 metre-wide zone of heterogeneous strain associated with the Tabbernor Fault Zone ("TFZ"). The TFZ is a major north-south crustal shear zone traced over 1,500 kilometres from the Northwest Territories to the Dakotas, and is believed to bear a spatial relationship to a number of gold and other mineral occurrences along its length.
Sceptre covers several gold and base metal showings within the north-south trending PLGB – Prongua Lake Volcanic Belt.
Within the eastern part of the Project, three gold showings about 3,000 metres apart, from north to south (Yak, Fish Dot and Sample 4528), appear related to a significant regional shear zone, possibly associated with the TFZ.
The central Fish Dot gold showing is associated with quartz veins and zones of silicification within both sedimentary and volcanic lithologies, while the northern Yak gold showing is hosted by a gabbroic sill. Each are moderately folded, with significant shearing and silicification; both arsenopyrite and disseminations of pyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite are present. The Fish Dot Gold Showing is exposed over a 60-metre length and consists of a zone of veining and silicification within metasediments. Highlights of the Sceptre gold showings include:
ALX believes that the gold showings at Sceptre could represent the surface expression of a larger mineralizing system that has been underexplored with modern exploration techniques. Planning is underway for a program of geological mapping and sampling for the summer of 2020.
The technical information in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Sierd Eriks, P.Geo., President and Chief Geologist of ALX, who is a Qualified Person in accordance with the Canadian regulatory requirements set out in National Instrument 43-101. Readers are cautioned that some of the technical information described in this news release is historical in nature; however, the historical information is deemed credible and was produced by professional geoscientists in the years discussed. Results quoted in this news release were taken directly from showings described in the Saskatchewan Mineral Deposits Index. Management cautions that historical results were collected and reported by past operators and have not been verified nor confirmed by its Qualified Person, but create a scientific basis for ongoing work in the Sceptre property area. Management also cautions that past results or discoveries on adjacent or nearby mineral properties are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be achieved on ALX’s mineral properties.
