International Montoro Resources acquires added ground adjacent to Marathon Gold’s Valentine Lake gold property in Central Newfoundland

International Montoro Resources Inc (CVE:IMT) (OTCMKTS:IMTFF) (FRA:O4T1) announced on Wednesday that it has acquired an additional 1,200 hectares of land in a cash-and-stock deal on the western boundary of Marathon Gold Corp‘s Valentine Lake project boundary, in Central Newfoundland. 

The Vancouver, Canada-based resource company acquired the project for $10,000 cash, 350,000 shares and 350,000 warrants exercisable at $0.12 each. The vendor will retain a 2% net smelter return (NSR) with an agreed 1% buyback for $1 million.

Montoro said its land holding has now increased to 7,800 hectares along the Exploits subzone and covers “a large highly prospective” structural zone along the contact of Cambrian-Ordovician siliciclastic sediments, metavolcanic, and granitoid rocks.

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The company previously acquired two projects, Slip Gold and Victoria Lake which totaled 6,600 hectares and confirmed up to 44.5 grams per tonne (g/t) of gold and 139.9 g/t silver in various grab samples hosted in quartz-tourmaline veins with additional evidence suggesting a potential orogenic epizonal-type deposit. Work on the newly acquired claims has outlined a 6.55-kilometer structural trend that has returned a nearly 1,000-meter long gold soil anomaly sampling up to 1530 parts per billion (ppb) gold.

Montoro said the new acquisition lies 6 kilometers west of Marathon Gold’s Leprechaun Deposit, that reportedly contains a measured and indicated resource of 1,078,700 ounces of gold with an average gold grade of 1.985 g/t.

Montoro Resources CEO Karim Rayani said: “Newfoundland is North America’s hottest exploration region. There is a staking boom happening, new companies are sprouting up looking for bits and pieces of the pie.”

He added: “Montoro was fortunate to acquire this strategic land position tying on to the largest undeveloped gold resource in Atlantic Canada, Marathon Gold’s 4 million-plus ounce deposit.”

The Montoro boss added that the property covers “a key component in the area” where the company’s recent gold in soil anomalies outline “a huge potential for a new discovery” and sets the pace for further development.

The company’s Victoria Lake gold-silver project lies 18 kilometers west of Marathon Gold’s Valentine Lake 4 million-plus ounce gold deposit and exhibits similar style gold-bearing veins.

Preliminary work on the project located serval quartz-arsenopyrite veins returning grab samples of 15.5 g/t to 24.9 g/t gold, and 18.6 g/t to 139.9 g/t silver.

The newly acquired claims lie further east along the eastern peninsula of Victoria Lake and tie directly onto the 100% owned Marathon Gold claims. Preliminary work has shown anomalous soil samples ranging from 600 ppb to 1530 ppb gold over a more than 1,000-meter length.

In addition, 1,200 hectares “covers 6.6 kilometers of strike length along a regional geological contact and structural zone,” said the company.

Montoro explores for copper, nickel, cobalt, vanadium, titanium, chromium, uranium, gold, PGE, and rare earth elements.

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