West Red Lake Gold Mines (RLG-V) finds visible gold at Rowan Lake
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April 2, 2013 - News Release
West Red Lake Gold Mines Inc. has completed the winter drilling program consisting of eight drill holes on its 60-per-cent-owned Rowan Lake mine property held in a joint venture with Red Lake Gold Mines, an affiliate of Goldcorp Inc. The company successfully extended the Main mine zones to the east of the former-producing Rowan Lake mine and also established the presence of the breccia corridor adjacent to the Rowan mine Main zone structure. The assays results are expected to be received within the next 30 days. A summary of sites of visible gold in the drilling is listed in the attached table.
Hole No. Downhole depth Visible gold
RLG-13-02 309 m
More than 10 specks of one millimetre to two mm
RLG-13-02 487 m
More than 10 specks of one mm
RLG-13-04 470 m
Five to eight specks of one mm One speck of three mm
The geological information gained from the drill program supports the company's exploration concept, which suggests that the Newman Todd-Rowan-NT breccia corridor appears to bend to the northwest and continues as the Main Rowan breccia zone.
The drilling, totalling 3,283 metres, focused on the Rowan Main zone structure. Two pairs of angled holes of approximately 450 metres and 600 metres each were drilled north of the 2010 collar locations and northeast from the 2011 collar locations.
Drilling targeted both the high-grade, gold-bearing Rowan Main zone breccias and the five Rowan Main zone vein systems to the south. Additionally, two pairs of shorter holes were drilled to the east and north from 2011 collar locations. These holes targeted possible strike extensions of both the breccias to the east-northeast and the Rowan Main zone vein systems to the east for an additional 100 metres to 150 m. This program followed up on the 2010 and 2011 drilling campaign, which previously returned assay results of up to 69.3 grams per tonne gold over 6.0 metres.
The key geological outcome of the program was the intersection of the quartz-carbonate breccia in all eight holes. The true width of the nearly vertical interlaced breccias/metavolcanics structure ranges from 35 metres to 90 metres. The Rowan Main zone vein system was also intersected, with visible gold observed in some of the veins.
Vadim Galkine, PGeo, and Matt Long, PGeo (42.2K Geological Consulting Inc., Red Lake, Ont.) managed the drilling program, logged the core and supervised the core sampling for gold assays.
Drilling operations at the Rowan Lake mine property were carried out by Chibougamau Diamond Drilling Ltd. of Chibougamau, Que.
Core samples from the Rowan program were cut in half using a diamond cutting saw and sent to ActLabs, an accredited mineral analysis laboratory in Red Lake, Ont., for preparation and analysis utilizing both fire assay and screen metallic methods. Certified gold reference standards, blanks and field duplicates were routinely inserted into the sample stream as part of WR quality control/quality assurance program. The assays results are pending and are anticipated to be released in approximately 30 days time.
Vadim Galkin, PhD, PGeo, who is a qualified person under the definition of National Instrument 43-101, has reviewed the technical information contained in this press release.
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