KING SOLOMON PROJECT

IDAHO

Prospective for gold and comprises two Patented Mining Claims and a further 23 mineral claims covering an area of approximately 500 acres. It is located 10 km west of Salmon in Lemhi County, Idaho.

KING SOLOMON PROJECT

The project contains precious metal occurrences including the Lone Pine Vein Zone and King Solomon Prospect spatially related to the Eocene age Trans-Challis Fault System.
The Company completed its first drill program at the Lone Pine Project in 2023. A nine (9) hole program for 2108.5m of diamond core drilling (HQ3) was completed during the field season at the LPVZ and King Solomon prospect areas, within the greater King Solomon Project. Multiple holes were completed from several drill pad locations due to the steep terrain.

The King Solomon Project (KS) hosts numerous shallow pits and three adits located 800m southeast of the Lone Pine Vein Zone (LPVZ). Following historical mapping and sampling in 1990, initial RC drilling (6 holes) was followed by a second round of RC drilling in 1992 targeting broad stockwork quartz veining in sericite-chlorite-tourmaline alteration zones in both granite and sediments.
Current drilling has shown the orientation of geological contacts and lithologies vary considerably, being tightly folded in places and differing in part to that assumed by previous explorers. This may suggest that there is potential for several zones of mineralisation hosted by structures with varying orientations, with the mineralised quartz veins exploited in the historical adits being an example of one such trend.

KING SOLOMON CROSS SECTION

The gold mineralisation occurs in multiple zones hosted in highly altered (sericite chlorite-tourmaline) and ferrugenised quartz veined zones in  both metasediment and intrusive rocks.  The mineralisation remains open in all directions. Significant results are shown below.

  • 3m @ 2.70 g/t Au from 95m, incl. 1m @ 4.04 g/t Au
  • 13m @ 12.28 g/t Au from 46m, incl. 4.1m @ 26.26 g/t Au
  • 0.86m @ 13.75 g/t Au from 101.6m
  • 78m @ 2.30 g/t Au from 140.82
  • 2.0m @ 5.92 g/t Au from 156m incl. 1.0m @ 10.70 g/t Au from 156m

In 2020 Hawkstone completed 11 DDH holes on the Lone Pine Vein Zone (LPVZ) over some 600m of strike with significant results returned from the strike persistent, northeast-trending, 80-85o north-west dipping quartz veined – ferruginous clay zone proximal to granite sediment contact. The LPVZ has been defined by historical adits and trenches for 600m, and extends down dip for up to 150m, open in all directions.

Significant results from the 2020 drilling programme include:

  • 22m @ 17.02 g/t Au in LPDD01 incl. 0.3m @ 65.6 g/t Au from 38.43m
  • 63m @ 7.06 g/t Au in LPDD07 incl. 1.4m @ 13.23 g/t Au from 63.75m
  • 9m @ 12.93 g/t Au in LPDD08 incl. 0.8m @ 29.7 g/t Au from 107.54m

In the 2023 drill program, 2 holes (LP23-01 and LP23-02) were completed at the LPVZ with the vein zone intersected in both holes

Significant results include:

  • LP23-1 10m @ 1.42 g/t Au from 147m (Re-assayed at 1.10m @ 8.2 g/t Au)
  • LP23-2 52m @ 2.6 g/t from 151.18 (incl. 0.7m @ 7.4 g/t Au from 152m)

The Company is currently undertaking a review of previous results, including geology, structure and alteration within the mineralised zones to assess future exploration strategies.