Freeport Completes Acquisition of Star Mountains Gold Project
Vancouver, British Columbia – (October 19, 2020) – Freeport Resources Inc. (TSX-V: FRI) (“Freeport”, or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that it has acquired all of the outstanding share capital of Quidum Resources Inc. (“Quidum”). Quidum is a privately-held company which controls Highlands Pacific Resources Limited, a corporation established under the laws of Papua New Guinea and which owns a series of contiguous exploration licenses located in Papua New Guinea and which are together commonly known as the “Star Mountains Property”.
Quidum was acquired pursuant to a share purchase agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated effective September 4, 2020, entered into with Quidum, and all of the shareholders of Quidum (collectively, the “Vendors”). Pursuant to the Purchase Agreement, in consideration for all of the outstanding share capital of Quidum, the Company has issued 10,000,000 common shares.
The Company is at arms-length from each of Quidum, and the Vendors. In connection with the acquisition of Quidum, the Company did not pay any finders fees or commissions.
About the Star Mountains Property
The Star Mountains exploration tenements comprise four leases within the highly prospective New Guinea Orogenic Belt, approximately 25 kilometres from the premier mining operation of Ok Tedi. This belt is also home to several other significant mines including Grasberg, Porgera and Frieda River. At least US$50 million has been spent on exploration since Star Mountains was first discovered. In 2018 H&S Consultants Pty. Ltd. (“H&SC”) completed a maiden Mineral Resource Estimate for the Olgal deposit within the tenements. Using a 0.3% copper cut-off grade, the deposit is estimated to contain 210 million tonnes of Inferred Resource grading 0.4% copper and 0.4 g/t gold, for 2.9 million ounces of contained gold and 0.84 million tonnes (1.9 billion pounds) of contained copper. Based on current market prices, this is equivalent to 5.7 million ounces of gold or 1.7 million tonnes (3.8 billion pounds) of copper. The logistics in the area are well-established and there remains significant potential for additional discoveries within the existing tenements.
The Mineral Resource has an effective date of February 20, 2018 and is presented in a geological report dated June 23, 2020. The Company is not treating these historical estimates as current and has not completed sufficient work to classify these historical estimates as current Mineral Resources. While the Company is not treating these historical estimates as current, it does believe the work conducted by H&SC is reliable and may be of assistance to readers.
About Freeport
Freeport is a Canadian junior exploration company with a diverse portfolio of properties -- the Red Rose Mine (a past producer of tungsten-gold-copper), Spanish Mountain Gold (adjacent to a proposed open-pit gold mine), and the Q (a large, well-known fluorspar deposit), all located in British Columbia. The Hutton Garnet Beaches in Labrador, eastern Canada, has a positive NI 43-101 Prefeasibility (2004), and a 5,000 tonne bulk sample released for environmental assessment. Please visit www.freeportresources.com or contact us for more information.
Simon Tear, P. Geo., and Arnold van der Heyden, MAIG, each Directors of H&SC, are qualified persons for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101. Messrs. Tear and van der Heyden have reviewed and approved the technical content in this news release.
On behalf of the Board,
Freeport Resources Inc.
Gord Friesen, Chief Executive Officer
(236) 334-1660 or gord@freeportresources.com
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This news release may contain certain “Forward-Looking Statements” within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and applicable Canadian securities laws. When or if used in this news release, the words “anticipate”, “believe”, “estimate”, “expect”, “target, “plan”, “forecast”, “may”, “schedule”, “intends” and similar words or expressions identify forward-looking statements or information. These forward-looking statements or information may relate to the intended completion of the Transaction, the Star Mountains Property, and other factors or information. Such statements represent the Company’s current views with respect to future events and are necessarily based upon a number of assumptions and estimates that, while considered reasonable by the Company, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social risks, contingencies and uncertainties. Many factors, both known and unknown, could cause results, performance or achievements to be materially different from the results, performance or achievements that are or may be expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company does not intend, and does not assume any obligation, to update these forward-looking statements or information to reflect changes in assumptions or changes in circumstances or any other events affecting such statements and information other than as required by applicable laws, rules and regulations.