Update on Sanatana’s Drill Program at Gold Rush Project, Timmins, Ontario.

Highlights

  • Four holes completed in North Vein area

  • All holes intersected quartz veins, alteration and sulphides

  • Core samples sent for assay

  • Drill now targeting North Shaft prospect.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia, April 14, 2021, Sanatana Resources. (TSX-V: STA) (“Sanatana” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that G4 Drilling has completed four holes (561 m) on its 2,353 hectare Gold Rush project, located 25km west of the Timmins. All holes intersected quartz veins, alteration and sulphides.

Peter Miles, Sanatana’s CEO commented “Sanatana remains well financed with approximately $3.8 million in cash. We are pleased that despite covid restrictions, drilling is proceeding quickly and we look forward to reporting results as we receive them.”

North Vein Prospect

Initial drilling tested the North Vein prospect, one of eight confirmed gold showings on the Gold Rush project. The North Vein prospect is a 40m long E-W trending shear zone/quartz vein complex, 2m to 4 m wide on surface with grab samples ranging from trace to 11 g/t Au. A shallow shaft is present on the prospect. The drill is being used to look for extensions of the North Vein at depth and along strike.

Figure 1. Plan view of the North Vein drilling

Figure 1. Plan view of the North Vein drilling

The first two holes aimed below the North Vein showing intersected mineralized quartz veins and shearing early in the holes then cut diabase beneath the North Vein occurrence. Post processing of magnetic data using an “Edge Filter” highlight the potential contacts of the magnetic intrusive, and suggest the diabase intrusive is complex and possibly faulted near the North Vein. Geologists positioned step-out drill holes west and east of the North Vein to avoid diabase intrusive, targeting veins in adjacent gabbro.

The western drill hole NV21-03 intersected sulphide-bearing quartz veins early in the hole hosted by felsic to intermediate intrusive rocks. Veins in this hole may correspond to similar sulphide-bearing veins cut by NV21-01 and NV21-02.

The eastern drill hole NV21-04 intersected several faults in gabbro and ended in altered granophyric rocks with quartz veins and sulphide mineralization near the transition from mafic to more felsic intrusive rocks near the end of the hole.

Table 1: Location of the drill hole and their orientation.

   
Drill hole   
   
Easting   
   
Northing   
   
Bearing   
   
Dip   
   
TD (m)   
   
NV21-01   
   
448460   
   
5371072   
   
1800   
   
450   
   
156   
   
NV21-02   
   
448460   
   
5371072   
   
1800   
   
61.50   
   
96   
   
NV21-03   
   
448461   
   
5371073   
   
2360   
   
450   
   
129   
   
NV21-04   
   
448592   
   
5371058   
   
1800   
   
450   
   
180   
   
Total   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
561   

Table 2: Core intervals sent for assay.

    
Drill hole    
    
From    
    
To    
    
Number of Samples    
   
NV21-01   
   
28m   
   
36m   
   
8   
   
   
   
44m   
   
47m   
   
3   
   
   
   
54m   
   
59m   
   
5   
   
NV21-02   
   
26m   
   
32m   
   
6   
   
   
   
46m   
   
70m   
   
25   
   
NV21-03   
   
28m   
   
31m   
   
3   
   
   
   
36m   
   
38m   
   
2   
   
   
   
46m   
   
65m   
   
19   
   
NV21-04   
   
42.34m   
   
57.34m   
   
15   
   
   
   
62.79m   
   
65.79m   
   
3   
   
   
   
89.48m   
   
90.48m   
   
1   
   
   
   
91.6m   
   
94.6m   
   
3   
   
   
   
99.23m   
   
102.23m   
   
4   
   
   
   
110.43m   
   
113.43m   
   
4   
   
   
   
120.75m   
   
123.78m   
   
4   
   
   
   
145.3m   
   
180.0m   
   
35   
   
Total   
   
   
   
   
   
140   

North Shaft Prospect

The drill rig has now commenced drilling at the North Shaft, where it will conduct a similar program. The first hole is targeted 50m below a 5m wide zone of more than 1 g/t Au from channel samples at surface.

Sanatana is also field testing a very light weight small diameter portable drill rig, a “scout drill”, as a prospecting tool to augment the larger diameter program. The scout drill recently completed a 105 m hole on the North Shaft prospect. Hole GR21-01 was drilled across the North Shaft shear at an oblique angle (30 degrees off perpendicular) and encountered the shear from 45 to 93m depth. The scout drill is now testing eastern limit of the 200m long extend of the North Shaft prospect exposed by last year’s stripping and channel sampling program.

Testing ProtocolSanatana samples sheared and altered zones, quartz veins, and zones with elevated sulphides, with bracket samples on either side in fresh rock to establish background geochemistry. NQ diameter core is sawed, then sampled at nominal 1m intervals. One half is submitted for analysis, and the other half retained in the core box. Additional quarter core sub-sampling of boxed core is an option where detailed sampling of narrow veins and mineralized zones is required. Quality control samples are inserted into the sample stream at the rate of 1 blank, 1 standard, and 1 duplicate every 40 samples. Each drill hole will include a minimum of 1 blank, 1 standard and 1 duplicate sample. Samples are dispatched by secure transport to the laboratory for gold and multi-element analysis following a chain of custody protocol.

The technical information in this news release was prepared under the supervision of Kevin Kivi P.Geo. Mr. Kivi is a Qualified Person for the purposes of National Instrument 43-101 – Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects and has reviewed and approved the technical information disclosed in this news release.

Shares for Debt Settlement

Further to its news release of March 15, 2021, that, the Company has now issued 350,000 common shares in the capital of the Company (the “Shares”) at a deemed price of $0.20 per Share to a creditor for settlement of a debt in the amount of $70,000. All the Shares issued in connection with this shares for debt settlement are subject to a statutory hold period of four months plus a day ending on August 13, 2021 in accordance with applicable securities legislation.

About the Company

Sanatana Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration and development company focused on high-impact properties in Canada and the Western Pacific. With an award-winning technical team and experienced management and board of directors, Sanatana is based in Vancouver and is listed on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSX-V: STA).

SANATANA RESOURCES INC.

(signed) “Peter Miles

Peter Miles
Chief Executive Officer

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