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Puma Concludes First Phase of Exploration on New Red Brook Property in New Brunswick

Sep 26 2016

Exploration has completed the first phase of exploration on its new Red Brook property in New Brunswick. The program, consisting of prospecting, trenching, stripping and channel sampling, significantly expanded the size of the original discovery and revealed three (3) new massive sulphide-rich skarn zones along strike with grab samples grading up-to 15.1% Zn, 2.6 g/t Au and 0.55% Cu.

Puma's geologists have now prospected the entire claim bloc and have increased the size of the initial discovery zone from the original 5 by 15 meters to 50 by 50 fully striped meters. Rocks exposed in this zone (Zone A) consist of skarn, limestone and hornfels in contact with a Devonian porphyric granodiorite. A total of 50 grab samples were collected from the excavated area and show distinct metal zonation, including high grade zinc and gold within a significant copper background. The sulphide zone is composed by sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrite and pyrrhotite with the highest zinc values grading 15.1% Zn, 12.0% Zn, 8.7% Zn and 8.2% Zn and the highest gold values grading 2.6 g/t Au, 1.6 g/t Au and 0.95 g/t Au. The average copper content for the 50 samples in Zone A is 0.27% Cu.

Table 1: Selected Grab samples collected from Zone A of the Red Brook Property

Metals	Sample	X	Y	Au	Ag	Cu	Zn
	#	Nad83 z19	Nad83 z19	g/t	g/t	%	%
ZINC	R668158	678262	5293842	<0.01	1.7	0.18	8.13
	R668160	678259	5293846	<0.01	1.9	0.17	7.02
	R668161	678257	5293845	0.01	2.1	0.18	6.98
	R668162	678255	5293845	0.02	4.0	0.17	7.70
	R668163	678262	5293841	<0.01	2.0	0.20	8.20
	R669916	678275	5293843	0.03	2.7	0.25	8.79
	R669917	678274	5293843	0.04	3.0	0.19	12.10
	R669925	678276	5293845	0.04	2.7	0.21	15.05
GOLD-COPPER	R668156	678257	5293842	0.28	3.3	0.47	0.02
	R668165	678262	5293845	0.13	1.5	0.22	0.02
	R668166	678264	5293846	0.21	1.6	0.43	0.01
	R668169	678263	5293853	0.44	2.0	0.29	0.01
	R668170	678261	5293857	0.95	3.4	0.45	0.02
	R668172	678257	5293867	2.62	2.3	0.44	0.01
	R668173	678255	5293869	0.24	1.5	0.31	0.01
	R668174	678255	5293872	1.61	1.9	0.36	0.01
	R668175	678254	5293874	0.91	1.0	0.18	0.00
	R668181	678246	5293846	0.27	2.9	0.45	0.06
	R668183	678242	5293863	0.53	3.9	0.43	0.02
	R668185	678248	5293847	0.22	1.4	0.33	0.07
	R668187	678255	5293839	0.79	4.3	0.55	0.02
	R668190	678254	5293837	0.33	1.8	0.34	0.01
	R668191	678243	5293837	0.19	1.8	0.32	0.03
	R668193	678238	5293844	0.32	0.9	0.26	0.01

Following the stripping of Zone A, containing mineralization that still open in all direction, exploration trenches discovered a major massive sulfide zone located 350 meters south of Zone A along the skarn horizon. This new zone has been partially stripped with three 15 by 15 meter pits spaced over a length of 100 meters. These pits expose massive to semi-massive sulphides in skarn. The zone is open in all directions.

A total of 24 grab samples were collected from the new mineralized zone (Zone B) with results grading up to 0.48% Cu and 0.33 g/t Au. The average copper content of the 24 samples collected is 0.22% Cu. The geology is similar than in Zone A showing skarn and limestone in contact with a Devonian intrusive.

Table 2: Selected Grab samples collected from Zone B of the Red Brook Property

Sample	X	Y	Au	Ag	Cu
#	NAD83 Z19	NAD83 Z19	g/t	g/t	%
R668195	678214	5293546	0.05	1.5	0.18
R668196	678214	5293548	0.14	1.6	0.22
R668197	678217	5293551	0.19	1.3	0.14
R668198	678216	5293544	0.08	1.2	0.13
R668199	678208	5293543	0.07	3.3	0.30
R668200	678207	5293554	0.33	2.5	0.24
R669903	678296	5293500	<0.01	1.5	0.28
R669905	678257	5293494	0.01	1.6	0.35
R669906	678262	5293491	<0.01	2.0	0.36
R669908	678266	5293484	<0.01	0.8	0.25
R669910	678229	5293514	0.03	2.0	0.48
R669911	678231	5293516	0.03	0.9	0.21
R669913	678228	5293524	0.04	2.2	0.32
R669914	678225	5293518	0.05	1.0	0.23
R669915	678223	5293523	0.17	1.4	0.27
R669924	678464	5293487	0.01	4.1	0.37

Following the stripping of these four (4) new mineralized zones, a channel sampling program was designed to verify the metal zonation and the grade of the massive sulphide area of the stripped areas. A total of 64.3 meters of channel sampling has been collected distributed in 119 individual samples. Results are pending.

About Red Brook Property

The Red Brook project comprises 23 claims totaling 500 hectares located 50 km west of Nicholas-Denys Project. The property was acquired from a local prospector in 2016 following the discovery of a high grade Zinc zone contained in massive sulfides. This mineralized zone is located at the contact of an intrusive body in a folded limestone horizon which is part of the Popelogan Terrane.

Source: http://www.explorationpuma.com/