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Gold/Mining/Energy : AVL.V - AVALON VENTURES -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DRT who wrote (1221)	4/23/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: Paul Thomas	Respond to of 1474

News Release: CONSOLIDATED WESTVIEW RESOURCES AVALON VENTURES LTD. JOINT NEWS RELEASE EXPLORATION RESUMES ON THE DUBENSKI GOLD PROJECT Consolidated Westview Resource Corp. (Westview) and Avalon Ventures Ltd. (Avalon) announce the commencement of the 1999 exploration program on the Dubenski property. Exploration will consist of ground magnetometer and IP surveys on the East Cedartree target. This program will be followed by geological mapping and trenching with diamond drilling to follow in the late summer and winter. The companies have also received check assays for the first four holes on the East Cedartree zone drilled in November 1998 and reported in the joint news release of December 1998. The crushed rejects from selected mineralized intervals were reassayed by Chemex labs using the metallic screen, fire assay method. The results of these check assays are as follows: INTERVAL CORE LENGTH GOLD ASSAY (grams per tonne) DRILL HOLE FROM (m) TO (m) (m) CHECK ORIGINAL E-98-02 14.05 56.00 41.95 1.69 1.88 Incl: 14.05 16.55 2.50 9.61 10.90 16.55 26.00 9.45 0.93 0.89 26.00 32.00 6.00 4.36 5.24 32.00 56.00 24.00 0.50 0.50 74.00 80.95 6.95 1.55 1.26 88.00 100.00 12.00 2.07 3.85 Incl: 94.00 96.00 2.00 18.84 18.03 E-98-03 30.62 31.20 0.58 15.45 12.82 48.15 50.70 2.55 9.00 8.01 E-98-04 8.57 10.35 1.78 1.23 1.87 22.28 23.80 1.52 1.57 1.63 Note The metallic assays compare well with the earlier fire assays and values are well distributed in both the fine and coarse fractions of the screen analysis method. In addition, the assays results from four (4) diamond holes drilled during the fall, 1998 program to test the Shaft Zone on the Dubenski property are reported below. Encouraging gold values and alteration were encountered and the zone remains open along strike and at depth. INTERVAL CORE LENGTH GOLD GRADE DRILL HOLE FROM (m) TO (m) (m) (grams per tonne) D-98-05 405.70 407.90 2.20 3.86 D-98-06 352.55 354.80 2.25 1.14 362.60 364.90 2.30 3.83 407.70 409.65 1.95 1.60 D-98-07 225.00 226.40 1.40 1.03 D-98-09 13.80 15.60 1.80 1.62 19.20 24.50 5.30 2.09 29.45 41.70 12.25 1.86 53.30 67.85 14.55 1.83 74.90 77.80 2.90 3.55 83.50 88.30 4.80 2.26 229.40 231.80 2.40 1.25 Note Assays performed by Chemex Laboratories Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario, using a fire assay method with an A.A. finish on 30g sample aliquots. Samples assaying greater than 10 g/t were re-run using a gravimetric finish. Chemex insert a duplicate sample and a standard or blank sample after every 20th sample in the sequence as an internal quality control procedure. No significant discrepancies were detected Westview, as part of its option agreement with Avalon, is required to spend $500,000 on exploration by March 1st, 2000. Westview has notified Avalon of its intent to assume operatorship of the project. Westview has the right to earn a 50% interest in the Dubenski project by spending $2.5 million on exploration over 5 years and paying 50% of the cash payments due to the underlying property owners. Bema Gold Corporation owns 35% of Westview and manages the company's affairs. The Dubenski project is located near the village of Sioux Narrows, approximately 70 km southeast of Kenora, Ontario. For further information from Avalon, please contact Donald S. Bubar, at (416) 364-4938. Corporate Information may also be accessed on the Internet at www.avalonventures.com For further information from Westview, please contact Ken Booth at 1-800-316-8855. ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD of ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD of Avalon Ventures Ltd. Consolidated Westview Resource Corp "Donald S. Bubar" "Roger Richer" __________________________________ ___________________________________ Donald S. Bubar, President Roger Richer, President