Orford Completes Phase 1 Exploration Program and Generates High-Quality Drill Targets on its Carolina Gold Properties

TORONTO, March 1, 2018 /CNW/ - Orford Mining Corporation ("Orford") (TSX-V: ORM) is pleased to announce results from the first phase of exploration at its Carolina Gold Properties in North and South Carolina. Geophysical and geological surveys have yielded high quality drilling targets on both properties consistent with Haile gold deposit style mineralization.  The second phase of the program to be carried out beginning in March will consist of drilling of the highest priority targets on each property.

David Christie, President and CEO of Orford, commented, "We are very encouraged by the results of the ongoing program which, combined with the historial results from these properties, define excellent exploration drilling targets on Orford's very prospective properties in the re-emerging Carolina Gold Belt."

From December 2017 to February 2018, Orford completed a program of Abitibi Geophysics OreVision^TM ground Induced Polarization (IP) and ground magnetics geophysics combined with surface geological mapping and relogging of historical core on the Carolina Gold Properties. This program has yielded strong IP chargeability and resistivity anomalies that are coincident with and extend at depth and along strike well beyond known Haile-Style gold mineralization.  Geological mapping and historical core relogging led by Ken Gillon, former Regional Exploration Geologist at Haile Gold Mines, (Romarco, OceanaGold) and the past-producing Ridgeway Gold Mine (Kennecott) has identified alteration vectors that suggest that the mineralised systems may be more extensive than previously thought.

At the Jones-Keystone property, strong chargeability anomalies not only coincide with historically drilled mineralization but also extend at depth and along strike beyond known mineralization.  In the eastern portion of the property, orientation of the IP chargeability anomaly suggests that the mineralized zone may dip to the south, which is the opposite of the previous interpretation. Relogging of historical drill holes in this area also shows that drilling stopped in alteration whose intensity is increasing with depth which suggests that the mineralization system may have deep roots. In the untested southern portion of the property several coincident chargeability and resistivity anomalies occur. The two strongest of these extend over strike lengths of at least 300 m each.

At the Landrum-Faulkner property, mapping has outlined multiple parallel zones of sericitic and silicic alteration extending over the entire length of the grid. One of these zones is coincident with a strong 600m-long chargeability and resistivity anomaly and extends under a historical surface grab sample occurrence of 6 g/t Au¹.

Upcoming Investor Conferences

Red Cloud Pre-PDAC Mining Showcase:  Orford will be attending the Red Cloud Pre-PDAC Showcase in Toronto on March 2, 2018 where David Christie, President and CEO of Orford, will making a presentation.

PDAC 2018:  Orford will be attending the PDAC Convention at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre – South Building in Toronto over the March 4-7, 2018 period. Orford Mining management representatives will be on hand in the Investors Exchange area at Booth #2549.

About the Carolina Gold Properties
Orford has entered into an option agreement with Carolina Gold Resources Inc. to earn a 70% interest in both the Jones-Keystone and Landrum-Faulkner Properties located respectively in North Carolina and South Carolina in the southeastern US. The properties are located in the Carolina Gold Belt, home to Oceana Gold's producing Haile Mine (3.7 Moz resource at 1.8 g/t Au²), and the past-producing Ridgeway Mine. 

The Jones-Keystone and Landrum-Faulkner Properties occur at or near the same regional geological contact as the Haile and Ridgeway mines.  At Jones-Keystone, mineralization is exposed at surface and historical drilling has yielded multiple drill hole intercepts in the 1 to 3 g/t range including an interval of 1.56 g/t Au over 54m core length including 3.01 g/t Au over 28m core length in historical hole JK10-006, and an interval of 1.27 g/t Au over 104m core length including 3.03 g/t Au over 14m core length in historical hole JK11-017^3,4.

Qualified Person

The disclosure of scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been approved by Alger St-Jean, Vice President, Exploration of Orford, a Qualified Person under NI 43-101. 
The information in this release has been prepared by management of Orford based on current work and available historical information. There is no current report prepared in conformance with NI 43-101. Reference is made to the Management Information Circular dated September 18, 2017 filed on Orford's profile on SEDAR.

About Orford Mining Corporation

Orford Mining is a mineral explorer focused on highly prospective and underexplored areas of Northern Quebec and the Carolina Gold Belt in United States. Orford's principal assets are the Qiqavik and West Raglan projects comprising of a land package totaling over 70,000 hectares in the Cape Smith Belt of Northern Quebec and properties in the U.S. Carolina Gold Belt. The Qiqavik Project hosts several new high-grade gold discoveries along a mineralized trend in excess of 40 km. Orford's common shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol ORM.

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SOURCE Orford Mining Corporation