Mr. Jim Rogers reports
MEGA'S ONGOING STEP OUT DRILLING PROGRAM AT THE MONUMENT BAY PROJECT CONTINUES TO CONFIRM THE BROAD AND EXTENSIVE BURN ZONE MINERALIZATION; IDENTIFIES 30 NEW EXPLORATION TARGETS
Mega Precious Metals Inc. has provided an exploration update from the continuing activities at its
wholly owned Monument Bay project. These drill holes are part of a continuing exploration program within the Monument Bay camp which commenced
in June, 2011, ensuing to the last resource estimate cut-off date of May,
2011, and will continue throughout 2012.
This drilling program is aimed at expanding the current open pit
footprint of the mineralization trend both along strike and confirming
the higher-grade shoots within these open pit potential areas of the
deposit.
Drilling continues to successfully extended the broad Burn zone
mineralization by over 200 metres along strike and over 200 metres in depth;
the grade and thickness along strike continue to be consistent with
previously released results, and the grade is slightly improving at depth
where it remains wide open for expansion.
Highlights:
- The combination of narrow high-grade zones and wider low-grade gold mineralization continues to indicate a very broad and extensive gold system making up the Monument Bay camp;
- Over 90 per cent of the current resource is large, well-defined, broad
high-grade mineralized zones that are predictable along strike and dip,
with each zone containing a well-defined, high-grade plunging core;
- Strike lengths range from 450 metres to 2,425 metres;
- Dip lengths range from 212 metres to 925 metres;
- Widths range from 1.9 metres to 15.9 metres;
- The gold mineralization has been confirmed over a strike length of over
6.5 kilometres, open along strike;
- Results indicate that gold mineralization is associated with induced polarization,
magnetic, soil and geochemical anomalies, coupled with some previous
diamond drilling; an additional 30 new targets have been
identified within a 3.5-kilometre-by-1.5-kilometre area;
- Visible gold continues to be noted in multiple drill holes
throughout the 2011 drill program;
- The Burn zone continues to expand with the following:
- Drill hole TL-11-427 intersected 6.2 grams per tonne gold over 10 metres
which includes 28.8 grams per tonne gold over one metre;
- Drill hole TL-11-429 intersected 8.8 grams per tonne gold over three metres
which includes 25.0 grams per tonne gold over one metre;
- Drill hole TL-11-430 intersected two broad mineralized zones:
- 1.10 grams per tonne gold over 20 metres;
- 1.21 grams per tonne gold over 20.5 metres.
Jim Rogers commented: "Drilling results from Monument Bay continue
to provide consistently strong results. The very high hit rate of the
Burn zone is an excellent indication of the persistent nature of the
gold mineralization throughout the Monument Bay gold camp for these
results continue to expand the known resource both in size and quality, and
demonstrate the open pit potential of the mineralized corridor at our
Monument Bay project in a relatively short period of time.
"The continuity of this gold deposit is well established and we are very
confident that we will continue to achieve strong results as we further
delineate the Monument Bay camp. Our geological team is currently
planning the next stage of drilling of approximately 50,000 metres which is
aimed to continue delineating mineral resources to form the basis of a
mining reserve and a positive preliminary economic study in 2012."
Further nine more holes of the 16,546-metre summer/fall drill program are shown in the attached table.
MEGA 2011 MONUMENT BAY DRILL RESULTS
Hole No. From To Intercept Au grade
(m) (m) (m) (g/t)
TL-11-422 74.0 78.0 4.70 1.99
TL-11-423 102.4 114.0 11.6 1.30
256.9 263.9 7.0 4.44
TL-11-424 92.3 99.3 7.0 2.10
TL-11-425 Hole abandoned
TL-11-426 230.0 245.0 25.0 0.88
TL-11-427 233 243 10.0 6.20
incl 240 241 1 28.77
incl 242 243 1 8.48
TL-11-428 No significant values
TL-11-429 142 145 3.0 8.83
incl 142 143 1 25.0
TL-11-430 172 192.0 20 1.10
incl 187 192.0 5 1.89
237 257.5 20.5 1.21
TL-11-431 to TL-11-444 Assays pending
Notes:
- True width is approximately 75 per cent of intersection width.
- Minimum reported interval of five gram-metres using a variable cut-off
grade of 0.4 gram per tonne to 0.2 gram per tonne.
The Monument Bay deposit is being evaluated in an upcoming NI 43-101
update that will be completed for release in the first quarter of 2012 and will be
incorporating all additional exploration resources discovered after the
May, 2011, cut-off date.
Mega's 2011 exploration success has discovered and converted targets
into a resource estimate in less than six months. Over the past 10 months,
Mega has completed the following:
- Executed 26,482 metres of definition and step-out drilling;
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Converted over 592,000 ounces into measured and indicated categories;
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Discovered an additional 989,000 inferred ounces;
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Discovery ounce cost equalling $6 per ounce;
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Identified more than 30 new discoveries that are not in current
resource estimate;
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Completed initial work for heritage and environmental baseline
studies;
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Upgraded camp facilities and installed infrastructure to handle
multiphased exploration programs for 2012;
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Mobilized heavy equipment to camp to accelerate exploration
development.
MEGA'S JUNE 27, 2011, MONUMENT BAY MINERAL RESOURCE ESTIMATE
Classification Tonnes Gold grade Contained ounces
(g/t)
Measured 221,510 12.48 88,905
Indicated 2,199,100 7.12 503,188
Measure and indicated
subtotal 2,420,610 7.61 592,093
Inferred 6,147,000 6.01 1,187,091
Notes:
- The estimates are in situ and undiluted, and figures are rounded.
- The resource model is using a three-gram-per-tonne cut-off.
The Monument Bay deposit is open in all directions and Mega management
firmly believes that the company's Monument Bay camp is part of a much larger
gold system that encompasses the Twin Lakes/Stull Lake gold-bearing
structures.
Glen Kuntz, chief operating officer, is the qualified person for
the information contained in this press release and is a qualified
person defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Kuntz was senior resource
geologist at the Campbell gold mine and global spatial data systems
co-ordinator for Placer Dome, vice-president of enterprise mining solutions
for Runge Ltd., and most recently, vice-president of global operations for
GMC Global.
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