The Northern Miner September 17 2018 Issue

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RNC finds multimilliondollar gold nuggets at Beta Hunt

IDM keen on Red Mountain in Golden Triangle SITE VISIT

| New resource estimate paves way for revised feasibility study in first quarter

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| ‘Once-ina-lifetime find’ relieves firm’s cash flow pressure BY TRISH SAYWELL tsaywell@northernminer.com

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NC Minerals (TSX: RNC) has found a 95-kilogram specimen of rock containing 2,400 oz. gold worth an estimated $4 million and another 65-kilogram specimen with an estimated 1,600 oz. gold valued at $2.6 million at its Beta Hunt mine in Australia. The rare gold-encrusted rocks were found on level 15 of the mine and could rank among the largest ever discovered. Over the last week, RNC has produced 9,250 oz. gold from a 44-cubic-metre cut — or 130 tonnes — from the mine’s level 15, worth $15 million in total at US$1,200 per oz. gold. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime find,” Mark Selby, RNC’s president and CEO, told analysts and investors on a conference call. “It’s one of the most outstanding discoveries not only in Western Australia, but globally. “More than 9,000 oz. from a small area confirms the significance of these high-grade structures,” Selby continued. “This sediment structure has been well known and documented through geological work in a broader area, and [there is] also potential for literally kilometres of strike length for high-grade structures to be discovered.” In March, the company announced it was looking for a buyer for the mine so that it could focus on its nickel-cobalt Dumont project, which it says has the world’s largest undeveloped reserves of nickel and second-largest undeveloped reserves of cobalt. In July, RNC said it had selected a preferred bidder and granted it exclusivity to complete final due diligence. But with the discovery, management says, it will reconsider all alternatives, including a sale, but See RNC MINERALS / 8

The camp at IDM Mining’s Red Mountain gold project in northwest British Columbia.   PHOTO BY COLIN DESMOND BY COLIN DESMOND

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ancouver-based IDM Mining (TSXV: IDM; US-OTC: IDMMF) is steadily advancing its wholly owned Red Mountain gold project in northwestern British Columbia’s Golden Triangle region. “We are about to have one of the few shovel-ready mines in Canada, and it’s going to do the one thing the mining business hasn’t lately — generate significant cash flow,” IDM president and CEO Robert McLeod tells The Northern Miner on a visit to the project. Red Mountain stands between the Cambria Icefield and its largest outlet, the Bromley Glacier. From the nearby town of Stewart, it is a 10-minute helicopter ride. Placer mining began in the valley below Red Mountain in the early 1900s, when prospectors were leading Stewart’s first wave of European settlement. The area’s history is one McLeod, a third generation Stewart miner, knows well. “IDM stands for Ian and Donald McLeod, two Stewart boys who

“MY FATHER TAUGHT ME TO RESPECT ALL PEOPLE, BUT ESPECIALLY OUR FIRST NATIONS NEIGHBOURS HERE IN NORTHWEST BRITISH COLUMBIA.” ROBERT MCLEOD PRESIDENT AND CEO, IDM MINING

did pretty well in life and mining,” McLeod says in reference to his late father and uncle. Ian was a miner and pack horseman at a number of Golden Triangle mines before taking over his father’s hotel in Stewart. Donald is a member of the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, who was known for his mining discoveries and developments throughout British Columbia. Robert McLeod’s personal ties to the project go beyond his hometown: his career as an exploration geologist began at Red Mountain when he was working for Lac Minerals in the early 1990s. Lac acquired Red Mountain in 1991, two years after gold-silver mineralization was found and three years after the first claim was staked. For the next five years,

the company built a productionsized exploration adit and drilled 90,000 metres from both surface and underground. McLeod left Red Mountain in 1995, shortly before Lac was bought out by Barrick Gold. From then until 2014, the project switched hands a few times, but stayed more or less dormant. “It was a project I always had in the back of my mind,” McLeod says. In 2014, he completed his return by forming IDM and buying Red Mountain from Seabridge Gold (TSX: SA; NYSE: SA). Difficult junior-financing conditions at the time, caused by a drop in metal prices, kept a lid on activity for the first couple of See IDM MINING / 2

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