Investor Insight
Dynasty Gold stands apart from its peers, offering a compelling investment value proposition, given its portfolio of brownfield, high-grade gold assets with millions of dollars in exploration expenditures, driven by an expert management and technical team.
Overview
Dynasty Gold (TSX-V:DYG) is a Canadian mineral exploration and development company with a compelling, high-grade gold project located in Northwest Ontario, Canada. The 100 percent owned Thundercloud project is a highly prospective property with significant exploration upside backed by extensive, historical exploration data. The property was acquired from Teck Resources in 2021, with $10 million in previous exploration expenditure and an NI 43-101 resource estimate completed in December 2021.
A brownfield project, Thundercloud represents a lower-risk investment opportunity potentially delivering huge value as exploration continues and the resource is expanded and upgraded. Previous drilling at the property has returned high-grade gold assays, including 73.5 m of 8.4 g/t, 34 m of 6.5 g/t, 12m of 11.0 g/t, and 14.8m of 7.14 g/t.
Since taking over the project, Dynasty has completed 7,000 meters of drilling at Thundercloud, which has resulted in considerable resource increase from 187,000 ounces inferred to 232,000 ounces measured and indicated at a high grade of 8.04 g/t gold at 3.03 g/t cut-off (internal estimate, not NI 43-101 compliant). The project also suggests a potential for open-pit mining, as more than 90 percent of the drill holes to date are less than 250 meters and it opens at depth. Despite the impressive drill results to date, about 90 percent of the property still has seen very limited drilling, presenting a tremendous opportunity for further discoveries.
Dynasty’s secondary exploration project, Golden Repeat, is located within the Midas Gold Camp in Elko County, Nevada. The project is drill-ready with permits in place.
Established in 2000 and Dynasty Gold is led by a highly experienced management and technical team setting the company on a strategic path for success. Max Baker, the former chief geologist for Newcrest Mining with over 35 years of experience in greenfield and brownfield exploration, is the lead geologist. A tightly held share capital structure with approximately 61 million issued shares, more than 40 percent of the company is owned by insiders and long-term shareholders, including Rob McEwen, Dynasty’s largest shareholder.
Company Highlights
Dynasty Gold has two highly prospective, high-grade gold projects in North America – Thundercloud and Golden Repeat.The flagship Thundercloud project, acquired from Teck Resources in 2021 with 12,000 meters of drilling and more than $10 million in previous exploration expenditures, is the current focus of Dynasty’s exploration and drilling program. To date, more than 90 percent of the drill holes are less than 250 meters in length with 90 percent of the property seeing only spaced drilling. Thundercloud is a brownfield project with extensive historical data, making it a lower-risk investment compared to other greenfield exploration projects. The project is led by a highly accomplished technical team and directors with a track record in discoveries.
Key Projects
Thundercloud Project
*Internal resource estimate, not NI 43-101 compliant
Previously owned by Teck Resources, the project has been de-risked with about $10 million dollars spent on drilling and exploration in the 2000s. Dynasty has benefited from this vast historical dataset and has been able to expedite its exploration and advance it to the current resource stage in a span of two years.
Historical drilling and exploration at Thundercloud – consisting of 87 drill holes for approximately 16,793 meters of drilling – have identified several zones of gold mineralization, with high-grade intercepts suggesting the presence of an extensive gold system. Drill holes have intercepted mineralization at depths of up to 350 m below surface. Gold mineralisation has been defined along a strike length of 1.5 km east-west trend in the Pelham Zone. The West Contact Zone is untested.
During the 2022 and 2023 drilling seasons the company successfully increased its non-compliant internal resource estimate to approximately 232,000 oz gold at 8.04 g/t. At 2.14 g/t, the project hosts 439,000 oz gold (this is an internally generated new resource model, not NI 43-101 compliant). Nearly 2,200 meters of the 4,000 meter 2024 drill program have been completed. Assays are pending as further drilling continues on the property. The company aims to have an updated NI 43-101 Resource Estimate by the end of 2024.
Thundercloud’s high-grade mineralization sets it apart from neighbouring gold projects with relatively lower grade gold intercepts, including NexGold’s Goliath and Goldlund gold projects which has a resource of 1.5 Moz of gold at 1.5 g/t, and 2.3 Moz gold at 1.5 g/t, respectively. NexGold’s similar market valuation, highlights the market’s underappreciation of Dynasty Gold’s advanced-stage, higher-grade asset.
Thundercloud comprises two main zones – Pelham and West Contact – with planned follow-up drilling in these zones expected to take place in September-October 2024.
Pelham Zone
The Pelham Zone is the most advanced exploration target within the Thundercloud project. It is 47 m south-east of Dryden in Northwest Ontario. It has been the focus of much of the drilling and exploration efforts due to its substantial high-grade, open-pit gold potential. During the 2022 exploration season, the discovery hole DP22-03 returned 8.42 g/t over 73.5 m including 6.5 m of 72.2 g/t. The zone is characterized by a series of east-west trending shear zones containing quartz-carbonate veins with visible gold. These shear zones are hosted within mafic metavolcanic rocks, which have undergone significant hydrothermal alteration.
West Contact Zone
The West Contact Zone is located 1 km to the southeast of the Pelham Zone. Limited drilling in the West Contact Zone has encountered gold mineralization associated with quartz veins and brecciated zones, with grades comparable to those found in the Pelham Zone. Further exploration is planned to expand on these initial findings. A rock chip sampling program was completed in the West Contact zone, an area immediately to the south of where Teck’s trenching data returned 8.02 g/t gold over 39 meters. The assay results from the company’s trenching program extended the mineralization by 30 meters. Total surface mineralization is 69 meters averaging 5.85 g/t gold.
Management Team
Ivy Chong – President, CEO and Director
Ivy Chong has held senior executive positions in the mining and oil and gas industries since 1996. She was credited for closing several option and joint venture agreements with Teck, AngloGold Ashanti, Azimut, Avocet Mining, and others. Chong has assisted multiple companies with their IPOs and raised capital for resource companies in Asia, Europe and North America. Prior to entering the resource industry, she worked for the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and Deloitte and Touche, LLP.
Roman Shklanka – Director
Roman Shklanka is an explorationist with over 45 years of international experience in the mining industry. His past positions include, chairman of Canico Resources, which was acquired by CVRD (Vale) in 2005; chairman of Sutton Resources, acquired by Barrick Gold Corporation; and vice-president of exploration for Placer Dome. He was responsible for the acquisition and exploration of numerous major mines, among them the Australian Granny Smith gold mine, Osbourne copper mine and the Kidston gold mine. He has received a number of achievement awards and was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in 2009.
Larry Kornze – Director
Larry Kornze brings more than 30 years of international gold exploration experience. Kornze was credited with the discovery of Barrick’s 40 million ounce gold deposit at the Betze Mine on the Carlin Trend in Nevada, in the late 80s. He was part of Barrick’s team responsible for the discovery of the Miekle, Deepstar, Screamer and Rodeo deposits in Nevada. Kornze has held positions with Newmont and Getty Mining in North America, prior to joining Barrick Gold.
Richard Redfern – Director
Richard Redfern is a certified professional geologist and “qualified person” under NI 43-101 and a consultant with 35 years of exploration and mining industry experience worldwide. He held positions as senior exploration geologist with Barrick Gold in Mexico, VP Exploration for Goldstake Explorations in South Dakota and Australia, and has worked for Homestake Mining in the western United States. Redfern has extensive exploration experience in gold and porphyry-type prospects in the southwestern US, Mexico and British Columbia. He was instrumental in the recent discovery of the Moly Dome molybdenum-rhenium-gold-silver porphyry deposit in northern Nevada.
