One of Newfoundland’s Largest Undeveloped Epithermal Gold-Silver Districts
Toronto, Ontario–(Newsfile Corp. – February 24, 2025) – Carmanah Minerals Corp. (CSE: CARM) (“Carmanah” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an option agreement with Puddle Pond Resources Inc. to acquire a 100% interest in the Heritage Project, a district-scale gold-silver asset covering 145 km² (580 claims) on the Burin Peninsula in southern Newfoundland.
Fraser Rieche, CEO of Carmanah Minerals, commented:
“Newfoundland has become one of the most exciting gold jurisdictions in North America, yet the Burin Peninsula remains largely ignored. The Heritage Project gives us a first-mover advantage in unlocking a massive, underexplored system with high-grade gold and bonanza-grade silver, with a resource identified at the Eagle Zone Heritage has the potential to be Newfoundland’s next major discovery.
The Heritage Project is situated within the Avalonian Epithermal Belt, a highly prospective yet largely overlooked gold-bearing region extending from Newfoundland to South Carolina. While this belt has proven its potential through major deposits such as the Haile Gold Mine (3 Moz Au, South Carolina) and Newfoundland’s past-producing Hope Brook Gold Mine (~752,000 oz Au), the Burin Peninsula remains vastly underexplored, despite hosting a large epithermal gold-silver system with exceptional high-grade mineralization.
Figure 1: Map Showing Significant Gold – VMS Deposits in Newfoundland
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Figure 2: The Heritage Project is Located in the Avalonian Epithermal Belt, a major Gold Producing District of Eastern North America
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With 145 km² of contiguous claims, the Heritage Project is one of the largest underexplored epithermal gold-silver districts in Newfoundland. The Point May Epithermal System, which spans 4.5 km x 5.2 km, contains 21 high-priority drill targets, yet exploration has only just begun.
Historical, yet to be NI43-101 compliant Resource with Significant Expansion Potential
Drilling to date at the Eagle Zone, the first major discovery within this district-scale system has already outlined a historical resource of:
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76,074 ounces of gold equivalent
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1.08 million tonnes @ 2.186 g/t AuEq
However, this shallow resource has only been drilled to a depth of 100m over a 650m strike length, while airborne geophysics indicate a minimum 1.5 km strike length. This suggests significant potential for expansion at depth and along strike to rapidly increase the resource base.