Eagle Mountain Gold Corp. Announces Updated Resource Estimate for the Eagle Mountain Gold Project in Guyana
21 Noviembre 2012 - 3:29PM
Eagle Mountain
("Eagle Mountain" or the
"Company") (TSX-V:Z) (Frankfurt:E9X) (OTCQX:SDMTD)
announces the results of an updated mineral resource estimate for
its Eagle Mountain Gold project (
"Project") in
Guyana, South America. The resource estimate has been completed in
accordance with Canadian Securities Administration National
Instrument 43-101 (
"NI 43-101") and CIM Standards
on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves by A.C.A. Howe
International Limited of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (
"ACA
Howe") using the Company's 2011/2012 diamond drilling
results, the historical diamond drilling results from IAMGOLD, as
well as other current and historical geological data that met QA/QC
requirements. In November 2010, the Company announced an Inferred
Resource estimate, using a block cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t gold of
17.96 million tonnes with an average gold grade of 1.27 g/tonne
gold for 733,500 ounces of gold.
The updated classified mineral resource estimate of the
Eagle Mountain gold deposit at 0.5 g/t Au cut-off consists
of:
- Indicated resource of 3,921,000 tonnes, averaging 1.49
grams per tonne Au for 188,000 ounces.
- Inferred resource of 20,635,000 tonnes, averaging 1.19
grams per tonne Au for 792,000 ounces.
Therefore, the November 2012 updated resource estimate
represents approximately a 34% increase from the November 2010
resource outline.
The updated resource estimate is based on a comprehensive
database consisting of 281 drill holes, totaling 35,993 meters and
21,235 assay samples, which were drilled by British Anaconda
Mining, the Government of Guyana, Golden Star Resources, Cambior,
IAMGOLD and Eagle Mountain. The database also contains 14,624
assays from 4,873 augers, 124 continuous channel sample segments
from nine adits, and 1,318 assays from 199 continuous channel
sample segments from trench localities. Mineral resource estimation
was carried out using only the diamond drill and trench sample
results.
The November 2012 classified NI 43-101 updated resource estimate
for gold at Eagle Mountain is summarized by material zone in the
following table:
|
November 2012 Updated
Eagle Mountain Resource Estimate by Category, Zone and Type
Material |
(using Block
Model Cut-off of 0.5 g/t Au) |
Category |
Zone |
Material |
Density (t/m3) |
Volume (m3) |
Tonnes |
Au_g/t |
Ounces |
|
|
Saprolite |
1.60 |
538,000 |
860,000 |
1.42 |
39,000 |
|
Zion |
Fresh |
2.60 |
436,000 |
1,134,000 |
1.40 |
51,000 |
|
|
Total |
2.03 |
974,000 |
1,994,000 |
1.41 |
90,000 |
|
|
Saprolite |
1.60 |
456,000 |
730,000 |
1.49 |
35,000 |
Indicated |
Kilroy |
Fresh |
2.60 |
461,000 |
1,197,000 |
1.63 |
63,000 |
|
|
Total |
2.08 |
917,000 |
1,927,000 |
1.58 |
98,000 |
|
|
Saprolite |
1.60 |
994,000 |
1,590,000 |
1.45 |
74,000 |
|
All |
Fresh |
2.60 |
897,000 |
2,331,000 |
1.52 |
114,000 |
|
|
Total |
2.05 |
1,890,000 |
3,921,000 |
1.49 |
188,000 |
|
|
Saprolite |
1.60 |
2,671,000 |
4,274,000 |
1.31 |
180,000 |
|
Zion |
Fresh |
2.60 |
3,035,000 |
7,891,000 |
1.13 |
286,000 |
|
|
Total |
2.16 |
5,706,000 |
12,165,000 |
1.19 |
466,000 |
|
|
Saprolite |
1.60 |
1,831,000 |
2,929,000 |
1.33 |
126,000 |
Inferred |
Kilroy |
Fresh |
2.60 |
2,132,000 |
5,542,000 |
1.12 |
200,000 |
|
|
Total |
2.25 |
3,962,000 |
8,471,000 |
1.20 |
326,000 |
|
|
Saprolite |
1.60 |
4,502,000 |
7,202,000 |
1.32 |
306,000 |
|
All |
Fresh |
2.60 |
5,167,000 |
13,433,000 |
1.13 |
486,000 |
|
|
Total |
2.19 |
9,668,000 |
20,635,000 |
1.19 |
792,000 |
|
Notes for mineral resource
estimate: |
1. A block cut-off
value of 0.5 g/t Au was applied to all resource blocks. |
2. Tonnes and ounces have
been rounded to reflect the relative accuracy of the mineral
resource estimate; therefore numbers may not total correctly. |
3. A notional cut-off gold
grade for mineralized domain interpretation was 0.2 g/tonne
Au. |
4. A top cut of 20 g/tonne
Au was applied to raw assay values. |
5. Composited Diamond drill
hole and trench samples are assigned to 30 layered and fault bound
resource domains that encompass the Zion and Kilroy portions of the
deposit. |
6. Corresponding domain
blocks and composite samples are projected to a horizontal plane
for grade estimation by Ordinary Kriging. |
7. The block model is
constrained by topography and saprolite and fresh weathering
domains with bulk density values of 1.6 t/m3 and 2.6 t/m3
respectively were defined. |
8. Mineral Resource tonnes
quoted are not diluted. |
9. Mineral resources are not
mineral reserves and by definition do not demonstrate economic
viability. This mineral resource estimate includes inferred mineral
resources that are normally considered too speculative geologically
to have economic considerations applied to them that would enable
them to be categorized as mineral reserves. There is also no
certainty that these inferred mineral resources will be converted
to the measured and indicated resource categories through further
drilling, or into mineral reserves, once economic considerations
are applied. |
10. This estimate of mineral
resources may be materially affected by environmental, permitting,
legal, title, taxation, socio-political, marketing or other
relevant issues |
ACA Howe considers that gold mineralization identified at Eagle
Mountain may be amenable to open-pit extraction and that mineral
resources are reported at an appropriate cut-off grade taking into
account possible extraction scenarios and processing
recoveries.
The Eagle Mountain deposit is located within the Eagle Mountain
Prospecting License ("EMPL") which covers an area of 50.50 km2
(5050ha) in west-central Guyana, South America approximately 200
kilometres south-southwest of Guyana's capital, Georgetown. The
property can be accessed by road from Georgetown in five to six
hours, or by air to the Mahdia airstrip located five km north of
the property.
Most of the gold mineralization at Eagle Mountain is related to
low-angle (20-40o), southwest dipping brittle-ductile composite
shear zones hosted in a composite granodiorite pluton that intrudes
all older rocks. The updated geological model refers to two
distinct mineralized shear zones that host the current mineral
resource estimate: the Zion and Kilroy zones. Each zone can be
distinguished based on visual geological and mineralogical
characteristics. Very fine-grained gold is associated with
chloritic ± pyritic micro-fractures and in some cases within or
adjacent to discrete chlorite – pyrite ± potassic altered mylonitic
shear zones. The mineral resource is located in both oxidized rock
(referred to as "saprolite") and non-oxidised rock (referred to as
"fresh" or "hard rock").
Qualified person
The resource estimate was prepared by Leon McGarry, B.Sc.,
Geologist, ACA Howe and supervised by Ian Trinder, M.Sc., P.Geo.,
Senior Geologist, ACA Howe. Technical information related to the
2012 Eagle Mountain Resource Estimate contained in this news
release has been reviewed and approved by Mr. Trinder, who is an
independent Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101, with the
ability and authority to verify the authenticity and validity of
this data.
The effective date of this mineral resource estimate is November
21, 2012 and a NI 43-101 technical report will be filed at SEDAR
within 45 days from this date.
On behalf of The Board of
Directors of Eagle Mountain Gold Corp.
"Ioannis (Yannis) Tsitos" President, CEO &
Director
This document contains certain forward looking statements which
involve known and unknown risks, delays, and uncertainties not
under the corporations control which may cause actual results,
performance or achievements of the corporation's to be materially
different from the results, performance or expectation implied by
these forward looking statements.
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accuracy of this release.
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CONTACT: Ioannis (Yannis) Tsitos
President, CEO & Director
Phone: 604.806.0916
info@eaglemountaingoldcorp.com
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