Ms. Kim Evans reports
GOLDEN REIGN INCREASES MINERAL RESOURCES AT SAN ALBINO GOLD DEPOSIT -
INDICATED RESOURCES INCREASED BY 67%, INFERRED RESOURCES RISE 8.5%
Golden Reign Resources Ltd. has provided an
updated mineral resource estimate for the San Albino gold deposit on its 100-per-cent-owned San Albino-Murra
property located in Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua. The resource estimate was prepared by P&E Mining Consultants
Inc. of Brampton, Ont., and updates the previous resource estimate prepared by P&E in November,
2012.
Resource estimate highlights:
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A 67-per-cent increase in indicated resources from an initial 95,000 gold-equivalent ounces to
158,800 gold-equivalent ounces at 5.97 grams per tonne contained in 827,000 tonnes;
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An 8.5-per-cent increase in inferred resources from 805,000 gold-equivalent ounces to 873,300 gold-equivalent ounces at 7.97 grams per tonne contained in 3.41 million tonnes;
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New El Jobo mineralized zone identified and included in open-pittable resources;
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The San Albino gold deposit is near surface (within 300 metres vertical depth) and remains open along
strike in both directions and at depth.
TOTAL RESOURCES
Zone Classification Tonnes Au Au Ag Ag AuEq AuEq
(g/t) (ounces) (g/t) (ounces) (g/t) (ounces)
Oxide Indicated 764,000 5.64 138,600 9.8 241,000 5.75 141,300
Inferred 857,000 4.72 130,100 7.5 208,000 4.81 132,500
Fresh Indicated 63,000 8.50 17,200 11.7 24,000 8.67 17,500
Inferred 2,553,000 8.83 724,900 12.9 1,061,000 9.02 740,800
Total Indicated 827,000 5.86 155,800 10.0 265,000 5.97 158,800
Inferred 3,410,000 7.80 855,000 11.6 1,269,000 7.97 873,300
Mineral resource estimate notes and parameters:
1. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated
economic viability. There is no certainty that all or any part of the
mineral resources estimated will be converted into mineral reserves.
2. The estimate of mineral resources may be materially affected by environmental,
permitting, legal, title, taxation, socio-political, marketing, or other
relevant issues, although the company is not aware of any such issues.
3. The quantity and grade of reported inferred resources in this estimation are
uncertain in nature, and there has been insufficient exploration to define
these inferred resources as an indicated or measured mineral resource, and
it is uncertain if further exploration will result in upgrading them to an
indicated or measured mineral resource category.
4. Gold equivalent was calculated on the basis of one gram gold equalling
to 64 grams silver.
The 2014 mineral resource estimate update categorizes resources as either in pit (open-pittable) or out of pit
(underground).
IN-PIT RESOURCES
Zone Classification Cut-off Tonnes Au Au Ag Ag AuEq AuEq
grade (g/t) (g/t) (ounces) (g/t) (ounces) (g/t) (ounces)
Oxide Indicated 0.23 750,000 5.70 137,500 9.9 239,000 5.81 140,200
Inferred 0.23 750,000 5.01 120,900 7.7 185,000 5.10 123,000
Fresh Indicated 0.50 44,000 10.51 15,000 14.6 21,000 10.73 15,300
Inferred 0.50 286,000 8.07 74,300 8.6 79,000 8.20 75,500
Total Indicated 794,000 5.97 152,500 10.2 260,000 6.09 155,500
Inferred 1,036,000 5.86 195,200 7.9 264,000 5.96 198,500
The company's 2013 exploration program at the San Albino gold deposit was designed to derisk the project
by upgrading the quality of the in-pit resource through additional infill and step-out drilling, as well as trenching. In
all, a further 6,160.5 metres were cored in 73 drill holes, including 236.9 metres across 12 drill holes utilized for
metallurgical test work. Trenching comprised 24 trenches, 28 exploration pits and four road cuts across 3,945
metres.
The program was highly successful, increasing indicated resources by 113 per cent from 70,000 gold-equivalent ounces to
155,500 gold-equivalent ounces grading 6.09 grams per tonne.
Drilling and trenching were focused on the extensions of near-surface, shallow-dipping, high-grade open-pittable mineralized zones situated within 100 metres vertical depth. This resulted in the discovery of a new
zone, El Jobo, which lies at surface, structurally above the San Albino zone. There is virtually no waste
stripping anticipated for mining of the El Jobo zone.
Four mineralized zones El Jobo, San Albino, Naranjo and Arras comprise the open-pittable resources, which
are characterized as either oxide or fresh rock. The in-pit oxide zone has a 0.23-gram-per-tonne-gold-equivalent cut-off grade. The
mining costs for this zone are anticipated to be significantly lower, as drilling and blasting will not be required
and the strip ratio is expected to be low. Notably, the lower cut-off grade for the oxide zone did not
significantly increase the total gold content due to the well constrained block model (see the resource estimate
sensitivities tables on the company's website). The fresh rock zone has a gold-equivalent cut-off grade of 0.5 gram per tonne.
The open-pit resource model was designed using a Whittle pit optimization model to ensure application of a
reasonable stripping ratio and economic assumptions. Parameters utilized in the mineral resource estimate
calculation update and pit optimizations are shown in the attached table.
Au recovery -- oxide zone 91%
Au recovery -- fresh rock zone 95%
Ag recovery -- oxide zone 59%
Ag recovery -- fresh rock zone 85%
Density -- oxide zone 2.51 t/m3
Density -- fresh rock zone 2.74 t/m3
Pit slopes 45 degrees
Pit depth, maximum 100 metres
OUT-OF-PIT RESOURCES
Zone Classification Cut-off Tonnes Au Au Ag Ag AuEq AuEq
grade (g/t) (g/t) (ounces) (g/t) (ounces) (g/t) (ounces)
Oxide Indicated 1.5 14,000 2.43 1,100 5.1 2,000 2.49 1,100
Inferred 1.5 107,000 2.69 9,300 6.5 22,000 2.77 9,500
Fresh Indicated 1.5 19,000 3.72 2,200 5.0 3,000 3.79 2,300
Inferred 1.5 2,267,000 8.93 650,600 13.5 982,000 9.13 665,200
Total Indicated 33,000 3.17 3,300 5.0 5,000 3.24 3,400
Inferred 2,374,000 8.65 659,900 13.2 1,004,000 8.84 674,700
The San Albino resource model now consists of four shallow-dipping, high-grade, narrow vein systems over a
strike length of 670 metres, a downdip extension of 905 metres, with a minimum true width of one metre and
average true width of 2.6 metres. Gold-grade capping varied from no capping to 85 grams per tonne, depending on the vein
system. All silver assays were capped at 90 grams per tonne. Inverse-distance-cubed grade interpolation was on two-metre-by-two-metre-by-six-metre blocks utilizing Gemcom modelling software. Two hundred twenty-three drill holes and 92 trenches at the San Albino gold deposit
were utilized in the resource estimate calculation.
The updated mineral resource estimate for the San Albino gold deposit was prepared by P&E, in accordance
with the Canadian securities administrators' National Instrument 43-101, and resources
have been estimated using the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) standards
on mineral resources and reserves, definitions and guidelines, prepared by the CIM standing committee on
reserve definitions and adopted by the CIM council.
The mineral resource estimates in this news release were prepared by Eugene Puritch, PEng, and Yungang Wu,
MSc, PGeo, of P&E, each an independent qualified person, as defined by NI 43-101. Mr. Puritch has reviewed
and approved the contents of this news release.
Located at the southern end of a 20-kilometre-long mineralized trend outlined and defined by Golden Reign as
the Corona de Oro gold belt, the San Albino gold deposit is the first of the five areas slated for development
by the company. The company recently completed a $15-million (U.S.) gold streaming arrangement with Marlin
Gold Mining Ltd., which will finance the construction and development of the San Albino gold
deposit (see news release dated July 11, 2014).
Quality assurance
The company's rigorous quality assurance/quality control program utilizes best industry practices, involving insertion of appropriate
standards, blanks and field duplicates. All drill holes were sampled on at most a one-metre interval within the
mineralized zones, with drill core split on site and one-half then being transported to Inspectorate America
Corp., a certified U.S.-based laboratory (UKAS, NAMAS, STERLAB, ISO 17025),
preparation facility in Managua. The samples were then transferred to Inspectorate's analytical laboratory in
Richmond, B.C., Canada. Duplicate samples were also sent to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd.
in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, for comparative analysis. Gold and silver analyses were carried out
by fire assay. In addition, for samples assaying greater than one gram per tonne gold, check assays were also carried out by the
metallic screen method to verify high-grade sample assays obtained by fire assay and to minimize gold nugget
effect.
Golden Reign's qualified person
John M. Kowalchuk, PGeo, a geologist and the company's qualified person (as defined under NI 43-101), has read
and approved the technical information contained in this news release on behalf of the company.
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