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FEBRUARY 15, 1999
Freewest and Sparton to Drill Folson Lake Platinum,
-Palladium Copper and Nickel Showing in East Bull Lake
Intrusion, Ontario
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--Freewest Resources Canada Inc. and joint venture
partner Sparton Resources Inc. (SPTN: CDN) are pleased to announce
that a diamond drill has been mobilized onto the Folson Lake PGE-
Cu+Ni property located in Gerow Township approximately 80 km west
of Sudbury, Ontario. The 20 claim (320 hectare) property covers
part of the East Bull Lake Intrusion.
The drill progam will test a surface showing discovered in August,
1998. The showing consists of fine-grained, disseminated
sulphides within the gabbroic matrix of the Inclusion-Bearing
Zone. This intrusive interval occurs near the base of the East
Bull Lake Intrusion and has been identified by the Ontario
Geological Survey as a favourable horizon for platinum group
element (PGE) and associated copper and nickel (Cu+Ni)
mineralization.
Of the 37 grab samples collected from three blast trenches, 18 of
the samples returned combined palladium-platinum values in excess
of 1.0 g/t. They also assayed anomalous silver, gold, copper and
nickel. The best sample returned 6.6 g/t palladium, 2.8 g/t
platinum, 8.3 g/t silver, 0.3 g/t gold, 1.79 percent copper and
0.66 percent nickel. A check assay of this sample done at a
second laboratory gave 7.0 g/t palladium, 1.2 g/t platinum, 14.0
g/t silver, 0.6 g/t gold, 2.73 percent copper and 0.46 percent
nickel.
Magnetic (MAG) and horizontal loop electomagnetic (HLEM)
geophysical surveys were recently completed. The MAG survey
indicates that the Inclusion-Bearing Zone has a strike length
through the property of at least 2 km. The HLEM survey outlines a
weak conductor 450 m in length which passes through the showing.
A second weak conductor, 650 m long, has been identified 125 m
south of the showing. This geophysical feature will also be
tested by drilling.
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