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F E B R U A R Y / M A R C H 2 0 2 0 www.resourceworld.com 15 Konkin was fortunate enough to dis- cover several native gold showings as well as silver, copper, lead, zinc show- ings for various clients within the Golden Triangle throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Two of these discoveries were high-grade gold-copper showings at Treaty Creek that contained coarse-grained native gold. "After that, my affliction was far beyond gold-fever" Konkin said. "When Silver Standard acquired Snowfield and the Brucejack Lake prop- erty, I was the original geologist that was sent up to execute those drill programs," Konkin noted. "When Pretium Resources Inc. [PVG-TSX, NYSE] was created, I was appointed and the Project Manager from Silver Standard [now SSR Mining]. It was my transition from Silver Standard to Pretium as Project Manager. So yes, I've always had an attraction for anything that has a shine, whether it's silver or gold, so you can clearly call me a precious metals guy." Tudor Gold, the operator (60%), American Creek Resources Ltd. [AMK- TSXV; ACKRF-OTCQB], (20%), and Teuton Resources Corp. [TUO-TSXV; TEUTF-OTC; TFE-FSE], (20%), are part- ners at the advanced exploration Treaty Creek gold-copper-silver project 10 km east of the former Eskay Creek Mine in northwest BC's Golden Triangle region. Summarizing this past summer's explora- tion program at Treaty Creek, Konkin ran through the highlights. "The story begins prior to the 2019 exploration program," explained Konkin. "Immediately after coming on board with Tudor Gold, I examined the existing drill hole data they had from the Copper Belle system. I was able to draw several conclu- sions from that initial examination. The results they had obtained from historical drilling at the northeast part of the Copper Belle system appeared to be related to a different type of gold system than that at Copper Belle. It had a completely distinct signature to that of Copper Belle." Konkin said that the mineralization in the northeast appeared to have a much more lithological control, besides the typi- cal fracture controls as you would see at Copper Belle specifically. "This was a very important distinction as it changed the entire interpretation," said Konkin. "This was telling me that we potentially had a very large disseminated gold target on our hands rather than a smaller structurally-controlled system, as previously thought." Konkin said that although Copper Belle may be metallagenically related to the Goldstorm Zone but the nature of gold mineralization at Goldstorm suggested that lithological aspects played a major role as the dominant mineral control to the pri- mary gold mineralization. "So we decided to rename the new system Goldstorm," he remarked. "The vectoring of the gold values from my con- touring of gold grades multiplied by drill KEN KONKIN

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