Mr. Adam Travis reports
COLORADO RESOURCES KSP PROPERTY UPDATE
Colorado Resources Ltd. has provided an update to its KSP property, which is under an earn-in agreement with SnipGold Corp.
The KSP property is located approximately 15 kilometres along strike to the southeast of the past-producing Snip mine and 45 kilometres west-northwest of the KSM (Kerr Sulphurets Mitchell) camp.
Colorado's 2014 exploration highlights include the new recognition of two regional deformation zones: the greater-than-20-kilometre-long KSP deformation zone and the greater-than-six-kilometre Big Rock deformation zone. Along the KSP deformation zone at Khyber Pass, the historic gold-in-soil anomaly has now been tripled in size. Within the Big Rock deformation zone, 2014 sampling is highlighted by rock samples returning values up to 125.6 grams per tonne gold and 79,400 parts per billion gold in soils.
Adam Travis, Colorado's president and chief executive officer, stated: "Continued consolidation of the area along with our fieldwork is allowing us to put the pieces of the geological puzzle together, and it's looking very promising. Our first-pass work at KSP has allowed us to get on the ground and not only confirm some of the encouraging historical results but to also significantly expand upon them. Sampling at Khyber Pass has outlined a first-rate geological setting over a 3.4-square-kilometre area with significant gold in both rock and soils suggestive of a large bulk-tonnage gold target in a similar geological setting to KSM located 45 kilometres to the east-southeast. Work along the newly recognized six-kilometre Big Rock zone is also outlining some very high-grade gold targets not only near Inel itself, but as much as six kilometres away on trend."
In light of the results of this first-pass work and newly gained appreciation of the controls to mineralization, and expansion of already historically significant gold-in-soil/rock and copper-in-soil/rock anomalies, Colorado has remobilized field crews to KSP and will conduct detailed work to follow up on these important new discoveries. This work will include detailed geological mapping, rock channel sampling, drill site selection and preparation, along with diamond drilling if pending drill permit applications are approved in time and weather permits.
Colorado's 2014 work has included the consolidation of its landholdings in the area, the acquisition and compilation of the previously fragmented historical data sets and through its recent field program examined and expanded upon the known mineralized areas, as well as make significant new discoveries.
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Consolidation of land: Colorado continues to work with SnipGold (see
SnipGold news release dated Aug. 20, 2014) to secure title to over
29,844 hectares that includes the Inel mining leases, Inel and Khyber Pass
claim blocks now held under one ownership, something that has never
occurred in its more-than-40-year history.
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Acquisition of historical data: Acquisition of the remaining private
data (only 15 per cent of the historical drill hole data at Inel was filed with
the government), and subsequent review has allowed Colorado to focus its
exploration and appreciate the significance of the previously fragmented
data, particularly in areas that once crossed property boundaries.
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Significant camp-scale controls on mineralization: Consolidation of the
Khyber-Inel-Pyramid area and related claims under one operator has
enabled Colorado to control the majority of the camp and to review and put the
more than 42 mineral occurrences in their regional context. Work by
Colorado in conjunction with regional mapping by government geologists
has newly defined a greater-than-20-kilometre-long regional thrust fault (KSP
deformation zone) that spatially correlates with known gold and copper
mineralization, as well as a greater-than-six-kilometre-long (Big Rock deformation
zone) structure that is host to high-grade gold occurrences like Inel.
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Colorado's 2014 fieldwork: The collection of 684 rock samples and 1,247
soil samples and the completion of 600 line kilometres of airborne
magnetics and detailed geological mapping over a 40-square-kilometre area have allowed
Colorado to advance the understanding and significantly expand the
previously known mineralized areas and discover new zones along trend.
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Khyber Pass: Historically at Khyber Pass, exploration work from 1983 to 1990 outlined an open-ended, 400-metre-wide-by-1,200-metre-long gold-in-soil
anomaly (see Colorado news release dated May 7, 2014). Sampling work by
Colorado peripheral to the historical work at Khyber has included the
collection of an additional 167 soil samples and 119 rock and channel
samples. These samples averaged 412 parts per billion gold in soils and 501 parts per billion gold
in rocks, with individual samples as high as 2,730 parts per billion gold in soils and up
to 14.4 grams per tonne gold in rocks. Colorado's 2014 work program
has more than tripled the size of the previously known gold-in-soil and
gold-in-rock anomaly to cover an extensive area that now totals approximately
3.4 square kilometres averaging 550 parts per billion gold in soils and over 0.5 gram per tonne gold in rocks. This very large anomaly is spatially associated with the newly
recognized greater-than-20-kilometre-long KSP deformation zone, a regional
thrust that shares many geological similarities to the Sulphurets thrust
fault. Recent geological work by government geologists in the Sulphurets
camp has shown that the Sulphurets fault is a reactivation of older
faults that control intrusion, alteration and mineralization and is host
to some of the world's largest accumulation of gold and copper.
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Big Rock deformation zone: Colorado's mapping and sampling work in the
area has outlined a newly recognized greater-than-one-kilometre-wide-by-six-kilometre-long
northeast-trending structural corridor that is host to high-grade gold
occurrences like Inel (see Colorado news release dated May 7, 2014).
Colorado's work along this corridor in a 12-square-kilometre area has
included the collection of 417 soil samples and 174 rock and channel samples,
which average 930 parts per billion gold in soils and 1.73 grams per tonne gold in rocks, with
individual samples as high as 79,400 parts per billion gold in soils and 125.6 grams per tonne in
rocks. Some of these highest sample results occur more than 2.5
kilometres on trend from the Inel underground and are indicative to the
potential size of the high-grade gold target (see Colorado news release
dated May 7, 2014).
Colorado's technical team has recognized that the Khyber/Inel/Big Rock mineralized zones, their alteration signatures, the strength of the gold-copper mineralized intervals, and their unique structural setting have many elements in common with the world-class Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell camp located approximately 45 kilometres to the east-southeast.
Qualified person
Greg Dawson, PGeo, is the qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 who supervised the work program and preparation of the technical data in this news release.
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