Pengram Corporation (OTCQB: PNGM), an emerging gold exploration
company, today announced it has executed new, separate option
agreements on three of its key Nevada portfolio of properties
Golden Snow, CPG and Fish.
To view an image of the properties, please visit the following
link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/pngmi428.pdf.
Simultaneously, the Company also has successfully completed a
joint venture agreement for Golden Snow which provides for the JV
partner to pay Pengram $175,000 in staged payments, and spend $1.75
million in exploration expenditures, over 39 months to earn up to
75 percent of the project.
"We are excited to be moving Pengram solidly forward on its
business plan with the favorable structuring of these options and
particularly with the first joint venture," said Richard Donaldson,
Chief Executive Officer, Pengram Corporation. "These are highly
prospective properties, in great neighborhoods, which Pengram
wisely optioned on favorable terms nearly two years ago with far
lower gold, silver and copper prices at that time."
"As a company, we are rapidly gaining traction in the
marketplace with these transactions as well as the recent
appointment of our highly regarded, veteran geologist Howard
Metzler to the Board of Directors," Mr. Donaldson added. "We have a
number of operational initiatives under way and expect to
accelerate the pace of progress in the weeks and months ahead."
Pengram Executes New, Separate Option Agreements on its Three
Nevada Portfolio Properties
The Company's three Nevada properties initially were all covered
under one master agreement between the Company and the property
owners on May 29, 2009. At that time, the Company entered into an
agreement to acquire an option agreement to acquire the properties
under which it can acquire a 100% undivided interest in certain
mineral claims known as the Golden Snow Project in Eureka County,
Nevada, the Fish Project in Esmeralda County, Nevada and the CPG
Project in Mineral County, Nevada. Full property profiles of all
three are available on the Company's website at
www.pengramgold.com/properties/nevada-properties.
The three new option agreements announced today are on
substantially the same terms as were originally agreed, however,
the new structure enables Pengram to acquire each property
independently and to enter into agreements for joint venture
financing of exploration programs of each on a property-by-property
basis. Complete option terms are available in the Company's Form
8-K filed with SEC at www.sec.gov.
All properties are in close proximity to existing and completed
mines. The CPG and Fish projects lie within The Walker Lane Mineral
Belt of western Nevada. It is a highly mineralized area, containing
several world-class epithermal precious metals deposits, such as
the Comstock Lode (estimated production of 8.6 million ounces of
gold and 192 million ounces of silver), and Round Mountain (over 10
million ounces of gold produced since 1906), as well as porphyry
copper deposits, e.g. Yerington (1.75 billion pounds of copper
produced from 1953-1978 by the Anaconda Copper Company).
Pengram JV's Golden Snow for $175,000 Staged Payments and $1.75
Million Exploration Spend
Pengram successfully completed a joint venture agreement for its
Golden Snow property with Terrace Ventures, Inc.
Golden Snow is located in Eureka County, Nevada and is situated
near several existing gold mines. Eight miles north of the Golden
Snow Project is the East Archimedes Gold Mine where Barrick Gold
Corporation is currently mining a Carlin-type sediment hosted gold
deposit (677,000 ounces mined, 1.1 million ounces resource/reserve,
as reported by the Geological Society of Nevada 2006 Special
Publication #43). It is also contiguous to the southern end of
Staccato Gold's South Eureka property, where Staccato has
identified several mineralized areas and has defined a gold
resource estimate at the Lookout Mountain deposit.
Substantial exploration has been conducted on the Golden Snow
property including geologic mapping, 932 soil samples and detailed
ground-based gravity geophysical surveys. Based on this work,
several distinct target zones have been outlined and it is
interpreted that the Ratto Ridge Fault zone, which controls the
mineralization on the South Eureka property, continues south onto
the Golden Snow property. These target areas are well located and
are drill ready.
Also, immediately north of Golden Snow, the Company noted that
last month Timberline Resources Corporation announced in its March
3rd 2011 news release that it had closed a $5 million financing
stating the proceeds will be used to "...continue its aggressive
exploration program at its Lookout Mountain Gold Project on the
prolific Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend of central Nevada." It went
on to say, "Lookout Mountain is the most advanced project within
Timberline's 23 square-mile South Eureka land package and is
located just a few miles from Barrick Gold Corporation's
two-million ounce Archimedes / Ruby Hill mine. Lookout Mountain
hosts significant oxide gold mineralization amenable to low-cost,
heap-leach recovery, along with a smaller, high-grade, sulfide
resource."
For more information about Golden Snow, see
www.pengramgold.com/properties/nevada-properties/golden-snow-project.
Under the terms of the Earn-In Agreement, Terrace will earn up
to a 75% interest in the Company's agreement with the Golden Snow
Optionors (the "Underlying Agreement") by paying to the Company up
to $175,000 and expending up to $1,750,000 to do exploration work
on the Golden Snow Property as follows:
The first 25% interest in the Underlying Agreement upon Terrace:
a) paying the Company $25,000 by way of Promissory Note due 45 days
from the date of the Earn-In Agreement; and b) completing
exploration expenditures on the Property totalling $250,000 by July
31, 2012.
An additional 25% interest in the Underlying Agreement upon
Terrace: a) paying the Company $50,000 on or before May 31, 2013;
and b) completing exploration expenditures on the Property
totalling $500,000 by July 31, 2013.
An additional 25% interest in the Underlying Agreement upon
Terrace: a) paying the Company $100,000 on or before May 31, 2014;
and b) completing exploration expenditures on the Property
totalling $1,000,000 by July 31, 2014.
Terrace is also obligated to pay all advance royalties, county
and BLM claim fees and Nevada state taxes during the currency of
the Earn-In Agreement.
About Pengram Corporation
Pengram is an emerging gold exploration company searching the
globe for outstanding gold properties primarily in favorable mining
jurisdictions. Its strategy is to evaluate and acquire properties
where previous work has been conducted and yielded positive results
for the presence of gold. Its portfolio currently consists of four
properties -- three in Nevada and one in British Columbia -- under
active evaluation for development, in addition to the Long Canyon
Gold Trend Mineral Claims under due diligence and negotiation for
acquisition.
Forward Looking Statement
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are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and
uncertainties. Words such as "expects", "intends", "plans", "may",
"could", "should", "anticipates", "likely", "believes" and words of
similar import also identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements are based on current facts and analyses
and other information that are based on forecasts of future
results, estimates of amounts not yet determined and assumptions of
management. The statements by our officers, and other statements
regarding: optimism related to the business; expanding acquisition,
exploration and development activities; and completing, a binding
agreement for mineral project acquisitions; as well as the
prospects, forecasts and projections for such mineral projects
owned; and other statements in this news release are
forward-looking statements. Such statements are based on current
expectations, estimates and projections about the Company's
business. Actual results could vary materially from the description
contained herein due to many risk factors that affect the industry
the Company operates in and other risk factors listed from time to
time in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
filings under "risk factors" and elsewhere. In particular, there is
no assurance that Pengram will complete additional joint ventures
or that the joint ventures it enters will be completed or
properties commercialized. The forward-looking statements contained
in this news release speak only as of the date on which they are
made, and the Company does not undertake any obligation to update
any forward-looking statement to reflect events or circumstances
after the date of this press release.
Contacts: Investor Contact: Capitol Financial Media 702.997.2429
pengram@capitolfinancialmedia.com
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