Miranda and Prism Receive Exploration Contract at Cerro Oro, Colombia
02 Abril 2014 - 5:00AM
Business Wire
Miranda Gold Corp. ("Miranda") (TSX-V: MAD) and Prism
Resources Inc. (“Prism”) (NEX:PRS.H) are pleased to announce
that on April 1, 2014, a contract for the Cerro Oro project,
Colombia was issued by Agencia Nacional de Minera (“ANM”) and
signed by Miranda.
Miranda controls approximately 1,100 hectares at Cerro Oro of
which 711 hectares are now controlled through an exploration
contract with the remainder being held through an application which
was announced on July 11, 2013. Issuance of the contract now allows
Prism to begin exploration on the license area. According to
Prism’s CEO, Robert Baxter, “Prism will commence a work program
totaling at least $100,000 that will consist of a combination of
mapping, rock chip and soil sampling, trenching and possibly an IP
(induced polarization) geophysical survey.” Miranda will act as
operator during the initial work program. Prism will additionally
fund a 43-101 report that will be written by an independent
Qualified Person. The 43-101 report will recommend a drill program
based on targets generated by Miranda during the exploration
program.
Miranda is pleased that ANM issued and signed the exploration
contract as this will enable Prism and Miranda to begin work at
Cerro Oro. The agreement between Miranda and Prism was, among other
things, conditional on obtaining an exploration contract and will
now be finalized at which time Prism will reimburse Miranda for
costs associated with the acquisition of the Cerro Oro
property.
Cerro Oro covers approximately 1,100 hectares and lies within
the resource-rich Middle Cauca Belt in the Caldas department
approximately 120 km south of Medellin. Cerro Oro appears to be one
of a cluster of large northeast trending epithermal gold systems
that includes Marmato which lies 14 km to the northeast. This trend
of epithermal deposits is located between Solvista’s Caramanta
deposit to the north and Seafield and Batero’s Quinchia deposits to
the south. Cerro Oro as an epithermal low-sulfidation gold system
provides the potential for higher grades than the typical low-grade
porphyries seen in the Cauca Belt. Miranda is excited to explore
this area with Prism.
Project Details
At Cerro Oro gold and silver mineralization is hosted in
sericitic and argillically altered 2-3MA volcanic tuffs and flows
of the Combia Formation. The mineralization is associated within
narrow veins and widespread hematitic fractures zones. Gold has a
geochemical association with arsenic, mercury and antimony and
generally low or background base metal values. The porous tuffs at
surface commonly host fracture-controlled and disseminated gold
mineralization.
Recently informal miners have developed workings on narrow
high-grade veins of quartz-adularia-pyrite and also excavated local
bladed quartz-after-calcite textures. Adularia and bladed textures
are common features of bonanza veins within the productive parts of
low sulfidation gold systems.
Cerro Oro may be an analog to Marmato but at a higher level of
exposure, thus providing both bulk-minable targets and high-grade
bonanza veins at depth.
Outcrop exposure, which is limited to creek beds, suggests
alteration and mineralization occurs over two square kilometers.
Alteration seems to occur within the damage zone of a
northwest-trending structural zone up to 600 m wide. Notably it is
common to recover fine free gold by panning crushed outcrop samples
and artisanal miners are locally recovering free gold from in situ
sap-rock by small-scale hydraulic mining. Informal miners are also
recovering a significant portion of contained gold in veins and
fractures from a simple gravity circuit without using
chemicals.
Limited reconnaissance mapping and prospecting suggests
alteration is zoned from argillic to siliceous with depth and that
the alteration cell at Cerro Oro may have a spatial and structural
relationship to potassic alteration and porphyry-style
mineralization several kilometers away. Twenty surface rock samples
returned assay values between 0.120 and 3.3 g Au/t and up to 28 g
Ag/t in stockwork-disseminated mineralization.
Early exploration work will include prospecting and mapping to
define the limits of the mineralized system and identify structural
controls. Soil grid sampling will be initiated from areas of
artisanal mining to be followed up by trenching all done in order
to advance drill targets.
Agreement Details
The agreement with Prism is now only conditional until receipt
of applicable regulatory and stock exchange approvals. Upon
satisfaction of these foregoing conditions, Prism will issue
Miranda 200,000 common shares, Prism will reimburse Miranda for the
US$90,000 underlying lease payments paid by Miranda, and Prism will
be obligated to fund exploration related expenditures of
US$4,000,000 to earn a 51% interest and through additional funding
can earn an additional 19% for a total interest of 70%. The
underlying lease agreement on Cerro Oro required payment of a
US$10,000 on signing and a subsequent payment of US$80,000 upon
conversion of the application to an exploration contract. To
maintain the lease, annual escalating payments that total $525,000
over five years will be required and thereafter annual payments of
$135,000. The project is also subject to a 1.2 % production royalty
and a per-ounce gold bonus for Measured and Indicated
NI43-101-compliant Resource.
Data disclosed in this press release, have been reviewed and
verified by Miranda’s Executive Vice President Joseph Hebert,
C.P.G., B.Sc. Geology and Qualified Person as defined by National
Instrument 43-101.
About Miranda
Miranda Gold Corp. is a gold exploration company active in
Nevada and Colombia and whose emphasis is on generating gold
exploration projects with world-class discovery potential. Miranda
performs its own grass roots exploration and then employs a joint
venture business model on its projects in order to maximize
exposure to discovery while minimizing exploration risk. Miranda
has ongoing relationships with Agnico Eagle Mines Ltd., Montezuma
Mines Inc., and Red Eagle Mining Corporation.
About Prism
Prism Resources Inc. is a junior exploration corporation listed
on the NEX board of the TSX Venture Exchange. Its focus is on
earning its interest in the Cerro Oro Project with a view to
reactivate to the TSX Venture Exchange.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS OF BOTH MIRANDA AND
PRISM
For more information related to Miranda:Joe Hebert,
Executive Vice President775-738-1877www.mirandagold.com
For more information related to Prism contact:Robert
(Bob) BaxterPrism Resources Inc.+1-778-928-1864Email:
bbaxter@prismresourcesinc.com
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accuracy of this release.
U.S. investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent
properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on our
properties. We advise U.S. investors that the SEC's mining
guidelines strictly prohibit information of this type in documents
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actual results of current exploration activities; conclusions of
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continue to be refined; possible variations in ore grade or
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Miranda:Joe Hebert, 775-738-1877Executive Vice
Presidentwww.mirandagold.comorPrism:Prism Resources
Inc.Robert (Bob) Baxter,
+1-778-928-1864bbaxter@prismresourcesinc.com
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