Jun 13 2012
Miranda Gold Corp. ("Miranda") is pleased to announce that Ramelius Resources Ltd. ("Ramelius") (ASX:RMS), our funding partner at Angel Wing, has started a four-hole drill program. Ramelius plans a total of about 2,650 ft (800 m) of reverse circulation ("RC") drilling. Angel Wing is an epithermal vein and sediment-hosted gold project in northeast Elko County, Nevada.
The four RC holes will further test the Da Vinci vein system as well as resistivity highs flanking the Da Vinci vein and an annular-shaped magnetic anomaly. The hole directed at the Da Vinci vein is designed to intersect the vein below previous drill intercepts, the deepest of which is about 330 ft (100 m) below surface, to assess for increased gold and silver grades with depth. Epithermal veins like at those at Angel Wing have a discrete elevation interval that contains the majority of high-grade mineralization. The geochemistry, textures, and morphologies observed in the 2010 and 2011 drilling suggest this bonanza zone, if present, may be deeper in the system than the existing drill intercepts.
Angel Wing currently has seven gold target areas identified by geologic mapping of quartz-calcite veins with distinctive "angel wing" textures, rock and soil geochemistry, and geophysics. In 2011, Ramelius drill tested five of the target areas, including the Da Vinci vein, and first-ever drill tests of the Botticelli vein, a northwestward splay of the Da Vinci vein, and the Rossetti and Raphael vein targets.
Significant 2011 drill intersections, defined as those with gold grades of 0.01 oz Au/ton (0.343 g Au/t) or higher over intervals of 5 ft (1.5 m) or longer, or silver grades of 0.30 oz Ag/ton (10.29 g Ag/t) or higher, are summarized in the following table.
Project Details
The Angel Wing project consists of 87 unpatented lode claims covering 2.8 sq mi (7.3 sq km.) in northeast Elko County, Nevada. Project area stratigraphy from youngest to oldest is a) Tertiary felsic volcanic units, b) Tertiary conglomerate, and c) limestone, probably late Paleozoic or Triassic in age. Past work consisted of geologic mapping, soil and rock sampling, a gravity survey, and RC drilling. Gold values from 0.1 to 94 g Au/t (0.003 to 2.742 oz Au/t) in rock chips occur in an area about 6,700 ft (2,042 m) long and up to 3,000 ft (914 m) wide. High gold value rock-chip samples with 0.292 to 2.742 oz Au/ton (10 to 94 g Au/t) occur in steeply dipping, quartz-calcite-adularia veins within the limestone. Rock samples of altered and stockworked veined limestone and Tertiary conglomerate contain up to 0.045 oz Au/ton (1.530 g Au/t). Historic shallow vertical drilling targeted disseminated mineralization and returned up to 0.048 oz Au/ton over 50 ft (1.643 g Au/t over 15.2 m) in drill hole DC-7. Since 2010, Ramelius completed IP/Resistivity, ground magnetic, and soil geochemical surveys, three core holes, and 17 RC holes.
All data, disclosed in this press release, including sampling, analytical and test data, have been reviewed and verified by Vice President of Exploration Joseph Hebert, C.P.G., B.Sc. Geology and Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Corporate Profile
Miranda Gold Corp. is a gold exploration company active in Nevada, Alaska and Colombia and whose emphasis is on generating gold exploration projects with world-class discovery potential. Miranda performs its own grass roots exploration and then employs a joint venture business model on its projects in order to maximize exposure to discovery while minimizing exploration risk. Miranda has ongoing partnerships with Agnico-Eagle (USA) Inc., Montezuma Mines Inc., Navaho Gold Ltd., NuLegacy Corporation, Ramelius Resources Ltd., and Red Eagle Mining Corporation.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Kenneth Cunningham"
Kenneth Cunningham
President and CEO
For more information visit the Company's web site at www.mirandagold.com or contact Joe Hebert, Vice President, Exploration at 775-738-1877.
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U.S. investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on our properties. We advise U.S. investors that the SEC's mining guidelines strictly prohibit information of this type in documents filed with the SEC.
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