BNTGold Resources holds 100% of the Fox Lake–Zena property — Neoarchean greenstone in the Slave Craton. Historical 1959 drilling logged visible gold in 17 of 19 holes and returned bonanza grades to 162.5 g/t Au. Only the upper ~75 m has ever been tested.
Historical results · 1959 drilling · not NI 43-101 compliant · see disclosure below
Nine of nineteen historical holes carry bonanza-class intercepts (≥10 g/t Au). The highest grades occur where two distinct fluids mixed — a pattern that points directly at the next holes.
Property-record intercept (sample S703). Coarse visible gold and galena in a quartz reef; DDH-07 alone hosts 7 of the 19 bonanza intercepts within one 200–285 ft reef. Untested down-plunge.
Main Fox bonanza at 95–96 ft (2.86 oz/short ton). Hole completed to 139 ft; the depth extension below the reef has never been tested. Two LCT pegmatite intervals in the same hole.
Bonanza with chalcopyrite and a silver co-anomaly (Au:Ag ≈ 1.9:1) inside a muscovite halo — the diagnostic signature of Type-1 + Type-2 fluid mixing, and the highest-priority target style on the property.
The single strongest chargeability anomaly in the 2016 survey — stronger than the response over the 162.5 g/t DDH-07 cluster, and best expressed at 100–150 m, below the depth any 1959 hole reached.
One-foot core within a 24.2 g/t / 3 ft composite in brecciated aplite — the northern continuation of the same mineralised corridor, 1019 m from the Fox cluster and barely tested.
Diagnostic scheelite (CaWO₄) signature in rock chips, with lithium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatite fertility flagged separately. A second and third commodity system, never systematically explored.
The property sits in the southern Slave Craton, the same Archean greenstone setting that hosts the established gold camps of the Northwest Territories. Its structural architecture has never been systematically drilled below ~75 m.
Gold is proven by drilling. Tungsten (scheelite) and a lithium–tantalum–caesium pegmatite system are confirmed in surface geochemistry but have never been drill-tested — independent upside on the same ground.
Lithium potential is expressed as LCT-pegmatite fertility (Be, Ta pathfinders) in rock geochemistry — not a defined spodumene resource.
Fox Lake is an Archean orogenic gold system. The highest grades are not random: they occur where an orogenic gold fluid mixed with a separate magmatic fluid at structural traps in the felsite host. That intersection is the drill target.
Greenstone deformation sets the fabric, L2 lineation and shear architecture that later host fluid.
~71% SiO₂ felsite emplaced and folded — the competency-contrast host for everything that follows.
Orogenic Au-fluid mixes with the magmatic fluid at structural traps. The ore-forming event.
Post-ore dyke swarm cross-cuts and offsets the deposit — it dismembers, but does not source, the gold.
14 Fox holes and 5 Zena holes drilled in 1959, re-logged and re-compiled by the Company's geological team. Nineteen intercepts grade ≥10 g/t Au; seven exceed 30 g/t (~1 oz/short ton). Four bonanza intercepts are absent from the prior 2017 results table.
| Hole | Zone | Interval | Au (g/t) | Status | Key observation |
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| DDH-07 | Fox | 240–242 ft | 162.5 | Open | Property record (S703); coarse VG + galena; 7 of 19 bonanza intercepts in one reef |
| DDH-03 | Fox | 95–96 ft | 98.1 | Re-drill | Main Fox bonanza; hole to 139 ft; depth extension untested; two LCT pegmatites |
| DDH-04 | Fox | 164–166 ft | 71.3 | Open | Chalcopyrite + Ag co-anomaly in muscovite halo — confirmed fluid-mixing bonanza |
| Zena G-1 | Zena | 101–102 ft | 71.3 | Open | 1 ft within 24.2 g/t / 3 ft; brecciated aplite; northern corridor |
| Zena G-4B | Zena | 150–153 ft | 28.8 | Open | Building grade vector; galena + sphalerite + visible gold; D2 augen shear |
| DDH-09 | Fox | 159–160 ft | 27.4 | Open | Bonanzas above and below the diabase sill; same collar as DDH-03 (omitted from 2017 table) |
| DDH-05 | Fox | 58–59 ft | 26.7 | Open | Tourmaline pegmatite vein; LCT + bonanza at the contact |
| DDH-13 | Fox | 286–288 ft | 17.8 | Open | Deep eastern intercept; two bonanzas in aplite; open at depth |
| DDH-14 | Fox (Loc C) | 20–22 ft | 10.3 | Re-assay | Visible gold; 69–208 ft interval was never assayed — chalcopyrite + rising Au throughout |
Nine of the nineteen holes carry bonanza intercepts (≥10 g/t Au); table shows the highest grade per hole. Visible gold was logged in 17 of 19 holes.
Lithology, alteration, mineralisation and assay grade plotted to a common projection. The hatched intervals are the story: prospective rock the 1959 crews logged but never assayed — the bonanza test that was never run.
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Bonanzas to 163 / 138 / 67 g/t in Gen-2b grey-quartz stringers (68–80.6 m), grade controlled by galena, not arsenopyrite. The Mackenzie diabase offsets the ore and carries xenolithic visible gold; ore resumes on its footwall. Open down-plunge to ~70° E.
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Cuts the main schist-hosted zone (39.5–59.3 m); 4.9 g/t / 1.8 m core, peak 7.54 g/t — good grade from graphite reduction alone. Diabase offsets the deposit; the sub-diabase block is untested.
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7.30 g/t / 2.29 m incl. 17.83 g/t at 86–89 m — the deepest Fox intercept, still open. First chalcopyrite + visible gold marks a two-fluid mixing signature like DDH-04.
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A 10.3 g/t free-gold spike at the felsite contact, then 62 m of galena-bearing felsite with no galena vein ever assayed. The cheapest bonanza test on the property (<$15k).
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71.3 g/t over one foot within a 24.2 g/t composite. The highest-strain felsite (Body 3) — the best trap geometry on the section — was never sampled.
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28.1 g/t + visible gold with galena + sphalerite at Fox bonanza level. No galena → trace; trace galena → 0.7–2 g/t; full mixed assemblage → 28 g/t.
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40–50% arsenopyrite assays only trace gold (severe nugget effect), while a 5% galena pierce floors at 2.74 g/t. Together with G-1 and G-4B this solves the corridor and points the hinge target north.
Composite 3D models of the Fox and Zena fans. Rotate to see how the holes stack, where the felsite host runs, and how much prospective rock was left unsampled below ~75 m.
A 2016 induced-polarisation survey and a 2024 magnetic inversion both define targets beyond the reach of the historical drilling — including the strongest chargeability anomaly on the grid, which has never been tested.
12 lines, 26 catalogued anomalies. For this silicification-positive system, a silicification-weighted chargeability vector — not the standard Metal Factor — is the correct guide to the gold.
A 3D susceptibility inversion of the 2024 aeromagnetic survey resolves three discrete magnetic bodies within 2.5 km of drilling. Reduced-to-pole products are displaced ~305 m southeast by remanent magnetisation — a correction the targeting accounts for.
A 496-sample dataset across six sample media — till, soil, rock chip and more — independently converges on a single bonanza target, while flagging two further commodity systems on the same ground.
Peak rock-chip gold; a visible-gold rock sample (S341685) returned 7.16 g/t. All six media converge on one target near 572,074 E / 7,078,125 N.
Diagnostic CaWO₄ chemistry (high W + Ca, low As) in rock geochemistry — a tungsten target flagged for short-wave UV follow-up, never drill-tested.
Garnet pegmatite and muscovite-granite rock chips (Be to 173.5, Ta to 18.6 ppm) plot inside the productive LCT field — a lithium–tantalum pegmatite system worth testing.
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The plan starts with low-cost validation that can be completed before any new drilling, then steps out to the down-plunge and undrilled geophysical targets.
BNTGold Resources Ltd. is advancing the Fox Lake–Zena property toward a maiden resource. We welcome enquiries from investors, joint-venture partners and qualified persons.
Historical results. Drill results, assays, intercepts and visible-gold observations on this site are historical, derived primarily from a 1959 drill programme that predates and was not conducted to the standards of National Instrument 43-101. A Qualified Person (Dave White, P.Geo.) has reviewed and re-compiled this data but has not done the work necessary to verify it or to classify it as a current mineral resource or mineral reserve. The Company is not treating the historical results as current, and no mineral resource or mineral reserve has been estimated on the property. Grades reflect selectively assayed core, and sample lengths may not represent true widths.
Adjacent and analogue properties. References to Slave Craton gold camps describe regional geological context only. Mineralisation on neighbouring or analogue properties is not necessarily indicative of mineralisation on the Fox Lake–Zena property.
Forward-looking information. This site contains forward-looking information regarding exploration plans and potential. Such statements involve risks and uncertainties — including metal prices, the interpretation of geological data, financing, and permitting — and actual results may differ materially. Readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Target rankings and interpretations are the Company's and are inherently uncertain.