Tempus Resources Limited announced the completion of the first phase rock sampling program at the Elizabeth Gold Project located in Southern British Columbia. The Elizabeth Gold Project has an overall area of approximately 11,500 Hectares. The recent drilling program at Elizabeth has focused on a small area of intrusive hosted quartz veins with an area of approximately 110 hectares. The Blue Creek Porphyry, which hosts the Elizabeth gold-quartz veins, is thought to have intruded the Shulaps Ultramafic Complex during the late-Cretaceous and belonging to the late stages of the Coast Plutonic Complex. This timing makes it close in proximity to the timing of Bralorne mineralization (approximately 30km away) and being associated with the same, regional, transpressional environment. Bralorne is a well explored mesothermal vein system, which was mined to a depth of approximately
2,000 metres and produced more than 4 million ounces of gold over a period of 70 years. Historically, the boundaries of the Blue Creek Porphyry have been poorly defined based on mapping of sparse outcrops and therefore not well understood. The 2023 rock sampling and geological mapping program at Elizabeth focused on "ground truthing" the identified geophysical anomalies across three key target areas. In total, 90 rock samples have been collected across the target areas. All samples have been dispatched to SGS Laboratories in Vancouver for assay. Three historical drill holes (E04-01, E04-03 and E04-05) indicated presence of a gold-mineralized vein structure on this area, now being called as Listwanite Vein. Hole E04-01 intersected 15.5 m wide zone @ 1.01 g/t over 15.5 m, including 2.09 g/t over 1.5 m. This mineralized intersect is hosted by diorite, within contact zone with a listwanitic ultramafic rock. The 2023 rock sampling and mapping program identified dioritic intrusive "windows" within the ultramafic-dominated Elizabeth East anomaly area. This provides further support to the overall size of the Blue Creek Porphyry intrusion that hosts the gold veins at Elizabeth being much larger in size. Tempus took 55 rock samples across the Elizabeth East anomaly area. Samples were also taken to the north and south along trend of the anomaly area. Anastomosing, vuggy quartz-calcite-barite veining but with poor sulphide content were, noted within highly silicified ultramafic rocks, near contact with dioritic intrusive contacts, similar to that seen at North West area (Listwanite Vein area). Vuggy quartz is not a normal feature displayed by mesothermal veins.