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J U N E / J U L Y 2 0 1 9 www.resourceworld.com 11 GOLDEN TRIANGLE ties in this geologically prolific region. Aben Resources Ltd. [ABN-TSXV; ABNAF-OTCQB; E2L-FSE] will start exploration by the end of June at its 100%-optioned flagship 23,000-hectare Forrest Kerr gold project in the heart of the Golden Triangle along the Forrest Kerr Fault. James Pettit told Resource World, "We will be focusing on the South Boundary Zone about a kilometre south of the North Boundary Zone. We will be doing in-fill drilling and deeper drilling in the North Boundary Zone. There are all kinds of exploration targets as we go south. We'll be opening up the whole southern region of the Boundary Zone." Commenting on the 49-km, north-to- south length of Aben's claim package, Pettit said, "When we acquired the land package which was three separate claim blocks with three different owners, they all had historic information, so we did a data compilation study headed by Cornell McDowell, VP of exploration." He noted that the study included 120 holes drilled over the years, over 20,000 soil, silt and rock samples and some older geophysical surveys done in specific regions rather than the whole belt. That allowed him to set up priorities for about 10 different target areas. Aben has been on the first one for two years – the Boundary Zone. There are some secondary targets in the south on the Forrest property. Copper mineralization at Forrest Kerr could be significant as well as the gold and silver. Pettit said the copper mineralization has been a pathfinder mineral for gold. "If you have elevated levels of copper, you'll have elevated levels of gold," he said. Last November Alianza Minerals Ltd. [ANZ-TSXV] reported sampling at the optioned KRL property returned high- grade gold values from the KRL showing, including 122 g/t gold from a 50 cm-wide quartz vein. The property is adjacent to Aben's Forrest Kerr Project. "We undertook this brief reconnaissance program at KRL to confirm historic sampling and to help plan 2019 exploration," said Jason Weber, P.Geo., President and CEO of Alianza. "High-grade gold-bearing samples collected correlate with high-grade miner - alization sampled by a prior operator near their property boundary." Three samples were also collected from historic Trench 7 over a strike length of 16 metres, returning 7.43, 22.4 and 0.235 g/t gold from a 30 cm-wide vein, also con - firming historic sampling. At least 11 veins have been identified over a 400 by 600- metre area. American Creek Resources Ltd. [AMK- TSXV] reports that JV partner Tudor Gold Corp. [TUD-TSXV] has retained P&E Mining Consultants to assist in planning 2019 drilling with a view to preparing an initial NI 43-101 compliant mineral resource estimate for the Treaty Creek property adja - cent to Seabridge Gold's KSM property and just north of Pretium's Brucejack gold mine. The last hole from 2018 returned 563 metres grading 0.98 g/t gold. American Creek has interests in three Golden Triangle properties: Treaty Creek, the Electrum joint venture projects with Tudor Gold/Walter Storm as well as the 100%-owned past-producing Dunwell Mine. Ascot Resources Ltd. [AOT-TSXV] has merged with IDM Mining Ltd. The arrangement consolidates Ascot's Premier gold project and IDM's nearby, advanced- stage, Red Mountain gold project at the southern end of the Golden Triangle. The combined resources would include 5.55 million tonnes of measured and indicated resources averaging 7.68 g/t gold totalling 1.37 million ounces gold, with additional inferred resources of 6.35 million tonnes averaging 7.12 g/t gold totalling 1.45 mil - lion ounces gold. Ascot is focused on restarting the past- producing historic Premier gold mine and, as such, continues to define high- grade resources for underground mining with the near-term goal of converting the underground resources into reserves while continuing to explore nearby targets on its Premier/Dilworth and Silver Coin proper - ties, collectively referred to as the Premier Project. Ascot's 15,000-metre Phase 1 drilling program is now under way at the Premier Project that is testing exploration targets, as well as step-out drilling from known mineralization and upgrading resources in FAR LEFT: Drilling at the Pretium Resources Brucejack Mine located 64 km northwest of Stewart in the Golden Triangle region of northwestern British Columbia. Photo courtesy Pretium Resources Inc. LEFT: Diamond drilling at Aben's Forrest Kerr gold project in the Golden Triangle. Photo courtesy Aben Resources Ltd.

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