Drilling Resumes at Miranda’s Red Canyon Gold Project
15 Juli 2013 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Miranda Gold Corp. (“Miranda”) (TSX-V: MAD) is pleased to
announce its exploration funding partner at Red Canyon, Montezuma
Mines Inc. ("Montezuma"), a wholly owned subsidiary of CMQ
Resources Inc. (TSX-V:NV), has resumed drilling at Red Canyon.
Montezuma plans to drill four to five reverse circulation (“RC”)
holes in the Wall target area for a total of approximately 3,800 ft
(1,160 m). Montezuma forecasts that on completion of the drill
program Montezuma will have completed the $4M in qualifying
exploration expenditures. Upon spending $4M, Montezuma can elect to
either enter into a joint venture with Miranda or continue spending
and produce a Feasibility Study at which time they will have earned
a 70% interest in Red Canyon. If Montezuma elects not to solely
fund a feasibility study the joint venture will be Montezuma 60%
and Miranda 40%.
Red Canyon contains nine exploration targets of which the Wall
target area will be the focus of Montezuma's 2013 drill campaign.
At Wall, rock chip samples with up to 0.070 oz Au/ton (2.4 g Au/t)
coincide with a geophysically inferred fault-bounded horst block
that extends 5,000 ft (1,500 m) from Wall northwest through the
Gexa and the Ice target areas. Montezuma's 2012 vertical hole
MR12-06 was collared in the Wall target on the west side of the
horst block. Although Montezuma terminated MR12-06 at 695 ft (211.8
m) without it having intersected the horst-bounding fault or the
favorable lower-plate (of the Roberts Mountains Thrust)
carbonate-host stratigraphy, the hole did intersect three zones
with anomalous gold greater than 0.02 g Au/t. Montezuma's 2013
program will be directed to provide drill tests of the intersection
of the horst-bounding faults with the favorable carbonate
stratigraphy beneath the Roberts Mountains Thrust.
Since 2009, Montezuma performed geologic mapping, revised
stratigraphic interpretations, completed soil and rock-chip
geochemical surveys, and contracted CSAMT resistivity, ground
magnetic, and gravity geophysical surveys. Through 2012, Montezuma
drilled a total of 32 RC and three core holes for a total of 33,042
ft (10,071 m). Montezuma conducts its drilling under the Bureau of
Land Management-approved Red Canyon Plan of Operations that permits
up to 125 acres (50 hectares) of total disturbance.
Project Details
The Red Canyon project is in Eureka County, Nevada, includes 254
unpatented lode mining claims (7.9 sq mi / 20.6 sq km) on the
Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend, and adjoins U.S. Gold's Tonkin
Springs property to the west. The project covers an erosional
"window" through the upper plate of the Roberts Mountains Thrust
that exposes hydrothermally altered and brecciated lower-plate
carbonate rocks that are age equivalent to the rocks hosting
Barrick Gold's Cortez Hills gold deposit.
All data disclosed in this press release have been reviewed by
Vice President of Exploration, Joe Hebert, a Qualified Person as
defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Corporate Profile
Miranda Gold Corp. is a gold exploration company active in
Nevada, Alaska and Colombia and whose emphasis is on generating
gold exploration projects with world-class discovery potential.
Miranda performs its own grass-roots exploration and then employs a
joint venture business model on its projects in order to maximize
exposure to discovery while minimizing exploration risk. Miranda
has ongoing partnerships with, Montezuma Mines Inc., Prism
Resources Inc., Ramelius Resources Ltd., and Red Eagle Mining
Corporation.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Kenneth Cunningham”
Kenneth CunninghamPresident and CEO
For more information visit the Company’s web site at
www.mirandagold.com or contact Joe Hebert, Vice President,
Exploration at 775-738-1877.
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Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX
Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release.
U.S. investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent
properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on our
properties. We advise U.S. investors that the SEC's mining
guidelines strictly prohibit information of this type in documents
filed with the SEC.
This news release contains forward-looking statements that are
based on the Company’s current expectations and estimates.
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actual events or results to differ materially from estimated or
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actual results of current exploration activities; conclusions of
economic evaluations; changes in project parameters as plans to
continue to be refined; possible variations in ore grade or
recovery rates; accidents, labour disputes and other risks of the
mining industry; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or
financing; and fluctuations in metal prices. There may be other
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performance and accordingly undue reliance should not be put on
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Miranda Gold Corp.Joe Hebert, 775-738-1877Vice President,
Exploration
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