Gatling reaping the rewards of exploration on Cadillac-Larder Break

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As any experienced investor will tell you, it’s hard to find a great gold exploration project these days and almost impossible to find one in a safe, favoured jurisdiction. Gatling Exploration’s 3,370-hectare project sits within the McVittie and McGarry Townships of Northern Ontario, just seven kilometres west of the Kerr-Addison gold mine. With three high-grade gold deposits over a 4.5-kilometre trend, an historical resource just shy of one million ounces Au, and prior exploration data from over $8 million of work in the last decade, Larder seems to have it all.

“We picked up the Larder assets when we were running Bonterra. Investors wanted us to stay laser focused on the Gladiator deposit so we eventually spun out Larder into Gatling, along with enough money for an aggressive drill program,” explains founder and CEO Nav Dhaliwal, who brought a carefully picked team with him to Gatling.”

“What really interested us was that these three deposits had been worked at various times by some great operators but always individually. Our VP exploration, Nathan Tribble, used to be Sprott’s principle geologist. He worked at Larder back in 2013 and had always felt the deposits were as part of a single system of great size. No one else had managed to consolidate the land packages before now and so his theory was untested until Gatling went to work.”

Drilling commenced in January 2019 and saw almost immediate success with a string of high-grade hits that quickly expanded the footprint of the Bear deposit. As the drill hits continued, Gatling’s team expanded the program from 10,000 metres to 20,000 metres and then again to 35,000 metres.

By September, the footprint of all three deposits had increased and two had been connected for a 2.5 kilometres unbroken mineralized strike length.

Proving that Larder hosts a single, very large mineralized system is not the only major win for the company. The district is known for massive but deep deposits and previous operators believed that part of Larder’s mineralization was only to be found at depth. However, Gatling has hit considerable grades at and near surface, which hints at the possibilities for future open-pit production.

Not content with hitting so many milestones in such as short space of time, Gatling scooped up more land. Adjacent to the north, the Kir Vit claims sit six kilometres from the main trend at Larder. Teck Resources had previously spent over $2 million on fieldwork, which essentially gave Gatling a very attractive, drill-ready prospect.

At the beginning of March 2020, Gatling announced that it had hit gold at Kir Vit with 13 out of 16 holes over a

500-metre strike length. The holes include the discovery of two new gold trends.

“We’re absolutely thrilled,” Dhaliwal admits. “On its own, the potential of our 4.5-kilometre strike on the Break is enough to keep any explorer busy, but now we have a secondary story on the very same property.”

Going forward, Gatling expects to keep most of its attention focused on the Break but will still look to advance Kir Vit.

“We have a lot of drilling to do,” Dhaliwal adds. “In the near-term, we hope to connect our third deposit to create that 4.5-kilometre unbroken trend, but we’ll also be pushing further expansion of each deposit. Kir Vit will also see some more drill holes and we have some other, as yet untested, areas on the property that the team is very keen to look at.”

Gatling Exploration trades on the TSX-V under the symbol GTR and on the OTC under GATGF. l

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