Emgold to drill Molybdenum and Gold Properties in British Columbia
June 12 2007 - 10:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
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Registration: 000-51411 Frankfurt Stock Exchange: EML VANCOUVER,
June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Emgold Mining Corporation
("Emgold") is pleased to announce that it has contracted Aggressive
Diamond Drilling Ltd. to conduct 2,400 metres of drilling on its
Stewart/Jazz Molybdenum and Gold Property and the Rozan Gold
Property, located in southeastern British Columbia. The main focus
of the exploration project on the Stewart/Jazz Property is to test
an area that was previously explored and drilled by Shell Minerals
and Selco Inc. in the early 1980's. The exploration programs
conducted by these companies outlined three breccia phases that
contain significant molybdenum mineralization. In 1980 Shell's best
drill intercept was 57 metres grading 0.46% MoS(2) (BC Ministry of
Energy and Mines Assessment Report # 10072). A total of 16
additional holes were drilled in 1981 by Shell and in 1983 by
Selco. Their results were summarized in the BC Ministry of Energy
and Mines Minfile # 082FSW229 Report which states that "the (Phase
II) breccia zone contains 204,000 tonnes of 0.37% MoS(2)." Reports
by Selco indicated the potential for a porphyry style molybdenum
deposit adjacent to this Phase II breccia zone (BC Ministry of
Energy and Mines Assessment Report # 12251). The historic resource
calculation reported here is not NI 43-101 compliant and must not
be relied upon for investment purposes. In late 2005, Emgold
conducted a 500 metre diamond drill program to test the historic
drill results as part of a due diligence program. Due to the
favourable results from Emgold's drill program, additional drilling
to expand the Stewart Moly mineralized area is planned. MoS(2)
results of significance from Emgold's drill program are tabulated
below: DRILL HOLE FROM TO WIDTH MoS(2) NO. (metres) (metres)
(metres) (%)
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05SM-01 1.00 138.70 137.70 0.051
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Including 46.70 107.10 60.40 0.110
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Including 59.10 62.30 3.20 0.449
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05SM-02 0.00 92.35 92.35 0.059
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Including 0.00 26.30 26.30 0.130
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Including 0.00 16.15 16.15 0.189
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05SM-03 0.00 85.65 85.65 0.041
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Including 66.40 83.80 17.40 0.088
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and 40.00 55.70 15.70 0.068
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and 32.65 36.88 4.23 0.067
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and 16.00 17.00 1.00 0.180
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05SM-04 0.00 13.11 13.11 0.118
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Including 10.90 12.00 1.10 0.292
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05SM-05 0.00 75.29 75.29 0.313
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Including 37.85 73.76 35.91 0.597
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and 0.00 20.50 20.50 0.091
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Note: Results above presented as MoS(2)% calculated from Mo% for
consistency with historic exploration results. Adjacent to the
Stewart Moly Zone is an area of historic tungsten mineralization
contained in massive sulphides that was explored in the 1940s by
Cominco Ltd. In conjunction with the molybdenum exploration,
trenching and drilling will be completed on the tungsten targets.
Grab samples collected by Emgold returned values of 1.23% WO(3) and
4.0% Zn from the historic trenches. These trenches exposed a 1
metre wide mineralized zone for 300 metres along strike. Historic
tungsten grades along the entire strike length, reported by Cominco
averaged 1.0% WO(3). 15 kilometres southwest of the Stewart/Jazz
Property, Emgold also owns the Rozan Property which hosts gold
mineralization. Gold on the Rozan Property is found in quartz
veins, sheeted veins and stockwork zones. A small (2-hole) diamond
drill program was completed on the Rozan Property by Emgold in
2000. One hole intersected the main Rozan quartz vein and returned
gold assay value of 60.73 g/T over 0.25 metres. The second drill
hole tested an area of sheeted "Fort Knox style" quartz veinlets
and returned 1.45 g/T Au over 4.1 metres. In 2007, Emgold will
follow up these prior gold drill intercepts with an additional 600
metres of diamond drilling. Trenching is expected to commence on
the Stewart/Jazz Property in late July with drilling on
Stewart/Jazz and Rozan Properties to follow in August. Mr. Perry
Grunenberg, P.Geo. of PBG Geoscience is the project supervisor and
"Qualified Person" for the purpose of National Instrument 43-101
who has reviewed and verified the contents of this news release.
For more information about Emgold, the Idaho-Maryland Project in
Grass Valley, the Stewart, Rozan and Jazz Properties in British
Columbia, please visit http://www.emgold.com/ or
http://www.sedar.com/. On behalf of the Board of Directors, William
J. (Bill) Witte, P.Eng. President and Chief Executive Officer No
regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information
contained in this news release. This news release includes certain
statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements". All
statements in this release, other than statements of historical
facts, that address future production, reserve potential,
exploration drilling, exploitation activities and events or
developments that the Company expects are forward-looking
statements. Although the Company believes the expectations
expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on
reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of
future performance and actual results or developments may differ
materially from those in the forward-looking statements. Factors
that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in
forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and
exploration successes, and continued availability of capital and
financing, and general economic, market or business conditions.
Investors are cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees
of future performance and that actual results or developments may
differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking
statements. For more information on the Company, Investors should
review the Company's filings that are available at
http://www.sedar.com/ or the Company's website at
http://www.emgold.com/. CONTACT: Michael O'Connor, Manager,
Investor Relations, Tel: (604) 687-4622, Fax: (604) 687-4212,
Email: DATASOURCE: Emgold Mining Corporation CONTACT: Michael
O'Connor, Manager, Investor Relations, Tel: (604) 687-4622, Fax:
(604) 687-4212, Email:
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