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Gold/Mining/Energy : Virginia- VIA on Mse
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To: Luc Richard who wrote (28)3/1/1998 2:09:00 PM
From: Luc Richard  Read Replies (1) of 30
 
Attention Business/Financial Editors:

VIRGINIA GOLD MINES INC. UNCOVERS A NEW GOLD-BEARING STRUCTURE IN JAMES BAY

QUEBEC, Feb. 26 /CNW/ - Virginia Gold Mines Inc. (''Virginia'') is
pleased to publish the results of its first exploration program on its Corvet
West property (100 % Virginia), located 40 km south west of LG-4 within the
volcanic belt of Guyer, James Bay, Qu‚bec.
Prospecting and geological reconnaissance has led to the discovery of a
significant gold structure within this unexplored volcano-sedimentary belt.
The Golden Gap showing is associated to an east-west shear developed
within amphibolites and silicate and oxyde-facies iron formations.
Mineralization occurs as centimetric stringers and bands of pyrite and
arsenopyrite and is associated to silica, garnet and actinolite alterations.
The mineralized shear can be traced laterally over 22 metres on the discovery
outcrop and remains open in all directions.
Sampling on the Golden Gap showing has returned the following results:

Golden Gap Showing
------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------
SELECTED SAMPLES CHANNEL SAMPLING
(g/t Au) (g/t Au / m)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

9.33; 9.39; 8.23; 5.6 / 3.0
3.98; 16.46; 11.04; 14.3 / 2.0
32.71; 22.63; 10.15 8.0 / 2.0
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note that only three channels where performed on the mineralized zone.

Furthermore, three till samples collected consecutively with a 250 metres
spacing on a north-south traverse located one kilometre west of the Golden Gap
showing have returned the following results:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
SAMPLE TOTAL NUMBER NUMBER OF PRISTINE
OF GOLD GRAINS GOLD GRAINS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
D2 123 72
D3 27 23
D4 17 1
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Sampling results on the Golden Gap showing combined to the gold anomaly
in the till suggest the presence of a gold-bearing structure of significant
extension within the Guyer belt. An important exploration program will be
initiated in 1998 to further evaluate the potential of this new gold-bearing
structure.
Virginia Gold Mines is among the most active mining exploration companies
in Qu‚bec, Canada, with $15 million in cash, approximately 25 million shares
issued and outstanding, and is debt free. The company concentrates its
activities in the vast unexplored regions of northern Qu‚bec. Virginia owns
more than 50 properties covering 6,000 square kilometres.
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