Bonanza Mining Corporation announced mobilization of a drill to the Shag Property. The Shag property is situated in the Rocky Mountains of southeastern British Columbia approximately 24 km due east of Radium Hot Springs and 35 km northeast of the town of Canal Flats and can be readily accessed by good logging roads from both of those towns. It hosts twenty separate lead, zinc and silver strataform MVT style mineral occurrences hosted within three separate horizons in middle Cambrian age dolostone formations along a carbonate platform to shale basin transgressive-regressive reef complex margin.

The style of lead-zinc mineralization on the Shag property and its geological basin margin setting are similar to the NWT Pine Point district lead-zinc mineralization that is also within a transgressive/regressive barrier reef complex along a shale basin margin. At Pine Point numerous deposits were formed in Devonian age carbonate rocks above a basement fault named the Great Slave Shear Zone. There are three zinc-lead mineralized transgressive - regressive carbonate horizons known on the Shag property that occur in the Eldon and Waterfowl formations which are well exposed on the property higher in the stratigraphic section deeper than the Cathedral formation.

The Cathedral formation hosts the past producing Monarch and Kicking Horse zinc-lead mines ~100 km along strike near Field, British Columbia and is the most prospective middle Cambrian formation in the district. On the Shag property only the uppermost beds of the prospective Cathedral formation are exposed in the Albert river valley where 3DIP and seismic surveys were conducted in 2021 and it does not outcrop elsewhere on the property. The main purpose of those surveys was to locate the top and the base of the Cathedral formation and potential zinc-lead mineralized targets in the blind, subsurface Cathedral formation for drill testing.

On the Shag property only the uppermost beds of the prospective Cathedral formation are exposed in the Albert river valley where 3DIP and seismic surveys were conducted in 2021 and it does not outcrop elsewhere on the property. The main purpose of those surveys was to locate the top and the base of the Cathedral formation and potential zinc-lead mineralized targets in the blind, subsurface Cathedral formation for drill testing. A diamond drill has been mobilized to the Shag property to core initial drill holes that will test previously reported coincident 3D IP chargeability and seismic anomalies that were discovered in 2021 by a 3D IP survey and a separate vibroseis seismic survey along the Albert river valley.

The 3D IP survey was conducted by SJ Geophysics Ltd. and consisted of surveying 11.9 line km along 7 survey lines spaced 150 meters apart and between 700 meters and 2,500 meters long with a station spacing of 50 meters. The IP survey located 3 separate high chargeability anomalies named the Southwest, Central and Northeast anomalies. The Southwest chargeability anomaly defines an area measuring 1,000 meters in length and 400 meters in width that is made up of three separate high chargeability bodies C1, C2 and C3.

The C2 anomaly is a large target over 400 meters thick vertically and 600 meters north-south by 375 meters east-west and the initial drill holes are designed to test this chargeability target. The vibroseis seismic survey consisted of one seismic line 7 km long that was run along the Albert river forest service road across the northern part of the Shag property passing through the 3D IP survey grid. Interpretation of the high quality seismic imaging data effectively imaged the major components of a multi cycle middle Cambrian platform margin reef environment and the Cathedral carbonate formation shows an excellent sequence of migrating reef building eastward from the Chancellor formation shale basin on the western side of the Shag property.

Three interpreted reef crest seismic anomalies A1, A2 and B1 were outlined and are considered to be primary locales for lead-zinc deposition and they all lie within the Cathedral formation. Seismic anomaly A1 correlates well with the location of the Southwest high chargeability IP target C2 and supports the interpretation that it is a high priority drill target.