Field Work On SAM Gold Project,


CRANBROOK, BC  - Taiga Gold Corp has mobilized crews to commence fieldwork on its' 100%-owned SAM project located 15km east of Flin Flon, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and 10km northwest of the past producing Flexar and Birch Lake mines. The 1,000ha property is located within the Amisk Group volcanic belt, and is considered to have significant potential to host both orogenic gold and Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide (VMS) mineralization. The property is contiguous with Cameco and SSR Mining Inc.. The entire region is located within the Trans-Hudson Orogen - although well known in geological terms has been significantly under-explored in Saskatchewan.

The current program will consist of geological mapping, prospecting, rock sampling and soil geochemical surveys, focusing on gold targets generated by a comprehensive geological compilation and encouraging results from 2018 fieldwork.

The property is dominantly underlain by the Amisk Group Collage which forms a major greenstone belt that hosts gold deposits and the majority of base metal deposits in the Flin Flon - Snow Lake areas. Seven documented mineral occurrences are reported on the property including both orogenic gold and VMS style copper-zinc mineralization.

Historical work includes geologic mapping, trenching, soil surveys, airborne and ground geophysical surveys, and 71 short drill holes (6496m total). The first documented work on the property was in 1952-56 when Hudson Bay Exploration completed 43 drillholes targeting VMS mineralization identified by ground EM survey anomalies. Other drill programs in 1978-80 (Granges), 1985 (SMDC) and 2000 (Aur Resources) focused on both VMS and gold targets. St. Eugene Mining completed a heliborne VTEM geophysical survey in 2011. The property was acquired in 2015 by Eagle Plains Resources and later transferred to Taiga as part of a plan of arrangement completed in April 2018.

Taiga completed fieldwork on the property in 2018 including geological mapping, prospecting, rock sampling and soil geochemical surveys, focusing on targets generated by a comprehensive geological compilation of all existing historic data. Historical drill collar locations were surveyed by GPS and a total of 783 soil samples and 59 rock samples were collected. The property area was expanded by staking in 2020.