TerraX earns 100% interest in Stewart gold-copper property in
Newfoundland; winter drill program planned to test high-grade
epithermal mineralization at Forty Creek showing and possible core
of porphyry system at Camp Pond, SW of Stewart showing
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VANCOUVER,
Nov. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ - TerraX
Minerals Inc. (TSX.V: TXR; Frankfurt: TX0) has now completed
its work obligations and, as a result, has made the final payment
due under its option agreement whereby it can acquire a 100%
interest in the Stewart
gold-copper property in Newfoundland, subject to a 2% NSR and the
issuance of a further 175,000 shares by April 2014. TerraX intends to follow up on
the positive exploration results from this summer's field work by
diamond drilling newly defined targets at the main Stewart porphyry target and at the high grade
Forty Creek epithermal Au-Ag showing.
The Stewart
target consists of a large (6 km x 1.4 km) porphyry style
alteration zone (Stewart Porphyry Target) defined by surface
mapping, trenching, channel sampling, Titan IP surveying and
drilling. At Forty Creek, 2 km to the northeast of the Stewart alteration zone, epithermal Au-Ag
mineralization has been identified by prospecting and sampling;
grab samples included 59 g/t Au and 2,290 g/t Ag recovered
in 2010, with a sample this summer returning values of 48.8 g/t
Ag and 1,990 g/t Ag.
STEWART
PORPHYRY TARGET
Soil and lake sediment sampling in 2012 at the
Stewart porphyry target extended
the multi-element anomaly (Au-Cu-Mo) to the southwest under the
Camp Pond. This area is 1.5 km southwest of previous drilling
conducted by TerraX in 2011 (ST11-01 with 111m @ 0.11 g/t Au, 0.05%
Cu). The soil and lake sediment sampling combined with other
geological and geophysical work have all strongly suggested that
the Stewart porphyry alteration
zone continues to the southwest under this lake (see maps on our
web site at www.terraxminerals.com). As a result of this
work, TerraX feels that the core of the Au-Cu porphyry system at
Stewart may be under Camp Pond,
which has its eastern shore 250 meters southwest of the original
Stewart showing. TerraX intends to
drill up to 1,200 meters under Camp Pond to test this interpreted
extension to the porphyry mineralization.
FORTY CREEK
Mechanical stripping/trenching completed on the
Forty Creek high grade epithermal system this summer conclusively
confirms that the original high grade angular boulders discovered
in 2010 are virtually in place, with the trenches exposing in-situ,
sub-parallel quartz veins similar in appearance to the boulders and
providing strike and dip orientation to guide future drilling on
these veins. As well, numerous other angular boulders of
mineralized quartz were noted in the vicinity. A map showing
sample locations at Forty Creek is available on our web site at
www.terraxminerals.com. It is now thought that a series of en
echelon quartz veins is present at Forty Creek with grades as high
as 59 g/t Au and 2,290 g/t Ag and 48.8 g/t Ag and 1,990
g/t Ag reported in grab samples. TerraX's drill plan at Forty
Creek calls for a series of shallow holes crossing the vein
structures and totalling approximately 600-800 meters of
drilling.
The Stewart
property is comprised of 242 claims totaling 60.5 sq. km, located
30 km north-northeast of the town of Marystown on the Burin Peninsula, which is part of the Avalon
Terrane. The Avalon Terrane hosts several epithermal/porphyry
gold-copper deposits, including the past-producing Hope Brook deposit in Newfoundland.
TerraX Minerals Inc. is also one of the
major landholders of prospective ground in the burgeoning Marmion
Batholith gold district near Atikokan,
Ontario, host to Osisko Mining Corporation's (TSX: OSK)
Hammond Reef gold deposit which contains a National Instrument
43-101-compliant global inferred resource of 530.6 million tonnes
at 0.62 grams per tonne Au (10.52 million ounces gold). The Osisko
Technical Report on this project is available on SEDAR. TerraX is
actively exploring three wholly-owned gold exploration projects,
the Sunbeam-Pettigrew, Central
Canada and Blackfly properties, all of which are located
within 20 km of the town of Atikokan, 180 km west of Thunder Bay, and are within 19 km of the
Hammond Reef gold deposit.
The technical information contained in this news release has
been verified by Dr. Tom
Setterfield, P.Geo., who is a Qualified Person as defined in
"National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral
Properties."
On behalf of the Board of Directors
"JOSEPH CAMPBELL"
Joseph Campbell, P.Geo
President
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