Mr. Gareth Thomas reports
WESTHAVEN COMPLETES DRILLING ON ITS SHOVELNOSE GOLD PROPERTY
Westhaven Ventures Inc. has completed drilling on its 18,412-hectare Shovelnose gold property, located within
the prospective Spences Bridge gold belt (SBGB), approximately 30 kilometres south of Merritt, B.C.
The program consisted of six drill holes, totalling 662 metres of diamond drilling. Five holes targeted
the Tower zone, where previous drilling encountered 50.4 metres of 0.54 gram per tonne gold with 4.77 g/t silver and
one hole targeted the MIK zone following up a historical drill intersection of 4.1 m grading 1.2 g/t Au.
Drilling intersected zones of silicified heterolithic breccia with discontinuous broken grey banded
quartz veins to, white quartz veins and fine-grained disseminated pyrite. Silicified fragments of grey-black banded quartz veins and quartz flooding were also encountered. Drilling was directed to a
recent reinterpretation of historical drilling suggesting the mineralized zones are dipping to the
south. All samples have now been submitted to ALS Minerals and results are pending.
Shovelnose gold property overview
To date, 26 diamond drill holes have been drilled for a cumulative total of 3,079 metres in three
separate target areas. There is evidence of a significant mineralized alteration system within the
property where float samples grading 119 g/t Au and 273 g/t Ag, veins in trenching
grading 66 g/t Au, and wide low-grade alteration zones typical of epithermal gold deposits have been
discovered.
The 18,412-hectare Shovelnose gold property is a gold-silver epithermal-style exploration target that
covers prospective stratigraphy in the southern Spences Bridge gold belt (SBGB), a 110-kilometre
northwest-trending belt of intermediate to felsic volcanic rocks of the Cretaceous Spences Bridge
group. Westhaven is currently working to earn up to a 70-per-cent interest in the property from Strongbow
Exploration Inc., a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company.
L. John Peters, PGeo, who is a qualified person within the context of National Instrument 43-101, has
read and takes responsibility for this release.
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