Heute folgenden Bericht vom 2.8.06 - MIT UPDATES VERSEHEN - von Peeyush Varshney (President v. Mantle Resources) per Mail erhalten:
Dear Anna,
Thank you for your email. I’m not sure if you saw the news release (a copy is attached for you to read) that Mantle issued last week (Aug. 2nd) – announcing the results of the first completed hole in the current 2006 exploration program. We are very pleased with the results. The news release also provides an update on the drilling program.
Regards,
Peeyush Varshney
President
Mantle Resources Inc.
Hier der Bericht:
13.58% ZINC-LEAD OVER 10.10 METERS INTERSECTED AT AKIE PROPERTY
Vancouver, B.C. – August 2, 2006 – Mantle Resources Inc. (TSX Venture: MTS; Frankfurt: AOF7E1) (the “Company”) is pleased to report that the first hole, A-06-35, of the 2006 drill campaign currently underway at the Akie zinc-lead property, in northeastern British Columbia, approximately 280 kilometers north-northwest of the town of Mackenzie, encountered the Cardiac Creek mineralized horizon and has yielded the following assay intervals:
Hole: A-06-35. (Az: 050° ; Dip: - 75° ; Grid: 3300S/0090W; Elev: 1497 meters; End of Hole: 696.00 meters)
From (m) To (m) Interval (m) Zinc (%) Lead (%) Silver (gr/t)
642.70 664.60 21.90 8.88 (8.47) 1.80 (1.74) 15.6 (N/A)
Incl: 654.50 664.60 10.10 11.06 (10.69) 2.52 (2.46) 21.3 (N/A)
677.10 681.90 4.80 9.33 (9.23) 2.16 (2.20) 17.3 (N/A)
For each of the zinc, lead and silver values presented, the first figure has been derived from assay data from Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. (Acme), Vancouver, B.C., and the second, in brackets, has been calculated from confirmatory assays carried out on assay pulps from Acme by Global Discovery Labs, Vancouver, B.C. The silver assays were not checked. The true width of the mineralization is estimated to be 60% of the core interval but is subject to revision.
This hole, drilled from the same pad as A-05-30 (drilled in 2005 – see below) pierced the mineralized horizon approximately 150 meters down-dip, and 40 meters along strike, to the south, from the interval in hole A-05-30.
“We are extremely pleased with the assay results of the first completed hole of the current 2006 drilling program. To follow the positive results of the three holes drilled in last year’s Fall / Winter phase of the Akie drill program with these results is very encouraging,” said Peeyush Varshney, president of Mantle Resources Inc. “The overall grades of zinc, lead and sliver have once again exceeded, in both grade and true width, the historical results assembled by Inmet Mining Corporation, the previous operator. This hole pierced the mineralized horizon approximately 150 meters down dip, a significant distance, from the first hole we drilled last year.”
Drilling Details and Discussion:
Drilling commenced on May 19 and, to the morning of July 31, 2006, a total of 2,491.49 meters have been completed from two drill pads located approximately 250 meters apart. Thus far, the drilling of 3 holes has been carried out successfully. In all of these holes, mineralized intervals have been noted. Three other attempted holes have been abandoned due to either excessive deviation (at a depth of 326 meters), drill rods becoming stuck in a major thrust fault (at a depth of 75.29 meters) or loss of water return (at a depth of 24.99 meters).
The other 2 holes successfully completed to date are as follows:
Hole: A-06-36A: ( Az: 055o; Dip: -80o; Grid: 3100S/0125W; Elev: 1543 meters; End of Hole 791 meters) deviated significantly from the intended track but intersected two mineralized horizons between 671.60 and 687.90 meters (16.30 meters) and 710.80 and 721.80 meters (11.00 meters), the pierce point located some 170 meters down-dip, and 90 meters along strike, to the north, from the mineralized intercept in A-05-32 (drilled in 2005 -- see below). These two intervals are thought to be spatially close to the mineralization reported by Inmet in 1995 for hole A-95-13, 7.40 meters (true width) of 8.02% zinc, 1.51% lead and 13.5 grams silver per tonne.
Hole: A-06-37A: (Az: 055o; Dip: -65o; Grid: 3100S/0125W; Elev: 1543 meters) had an intended target located 50 meters up-dip from the mineralized intercept in hole A-05-32 (drilled in 2005). As of the morning of July 31st, 2006, the hole was at 578.21 meters, and had encountered the mineralized horizon between 480.00 and 533 meters. The hole is currently in the Road River Group footwall rocks where the drilling will be finished shortly.
The core from hole A-06-36A, the second completed drill hole, has been logged, and intervals of interest split, sampled and submitted to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd., of Vancouver, B.C., for analysis.
Metallurgical studies are currently being conducted at SGS Lakefield Research Limited, Lakefield, Ontario, on selected core samples from the three holes, A-05-30, A-05-32 and A-05-33, completed in 2005. This work comprises flotation and sink-float testing to ascertain feasible processes and flow sheets for extracting zinc and lead from the Akie mineralization. Results will be released when available.
Exploration activities on the property have been designed by a joint management committee consisting of representatives from both the Company, the project operator, and the other junior exploration company from which the property has been optioned. Field activities are supervised by Mr. Bernard Dewonck, P.Geo. (BC), a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.
Assay Samples and Procedures:
All mineralized core is split by diamond saw and sampled, with a maximum of 1.5 meters of core collected for each sample. These are bagged and shipped in secure containers to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. in Vancouver, British Columbia, for analysis for zinc, lead and silver by aqua regia digestion followed by ICP emission spectrometry (Group 7A-ICP Multi-Element Assay). Check assays are carried out by Global Discovery Labs, also in Vancouver, employing aqua regia digestion followed by atomic absorption finish (Group 4).
Qualified Person:
John R. Fraser, P.Geo. (BC) is the Qualified Person for the Company and is responsible for the technical contained in this release.
About the Akie Property:
The following is a summary of the three holes drilled during the Fall / Winter phase of drilling at the Akie Property in 2005:
Hole: A-05-30.
From (m) To (m) Interval (m) Zinc (%) Lead (%) Silver (gr/t)
531.75 568.80 37.05§10.98 (11.30) 2.61 (2.65) 21.2 (NA)
Incl. 543.47 567.30 23.83 15.02 (15.57) 3.27 (3.77) 28.5 (NA)
Incl. 543.70 561.40 17.93 17.22 (18.08) 4.20 (4.23) 30.1 (NA)
Hole: A-05-32.
From (m) To (m) Interval (m) Zinc (%) Lead (%) Silver (gr/t)
555.20 581.90 26.70 11.95 2.74 22§
Incl. 558.20 581.90 23.70 12.47 2.91 23.5
Incl. 570.40 581.90 11.50 16.16 3.95 29
Incl. 576.40 580.05 3.65 28.25 6.18 44
This hole and hole A-05-30 intersected the mineralized zone approximately 180 meters apart,
Hole: A-05-33.
From (m) To (m) Interval (m) Zinc (%) Lead (%) Silver (gr/t)
558.55 577.75 19.20§8.71 (8.53) 1.83 (1.89) 16.01 (N/A)
Incl. 565.50 577.00 11.50 9.81 (9.52) 2.20 (2.23) 18.54 (N/A)
Incl. 571.00 577.00 6.00 11.97 (11.58) 2.79 (2.85) 22.00 (N/A)
This hole pierced the mineralized zone approximately 238 meters south of hole A-05-30 or 416 meters south of hole A-05-32.
For each of the zinc, lead and silver values presented above, the first figure has been derived from assay data from Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. (“Acme”), Vancouver, BC, and the second, in brackets, has been calculated from confirmatory assays carried out on assay pulps from Acme by Global Discovery Labs, Vancouver, BC. The silver assays were not checked. The true width of the mineralization reported above is estimated to be 72% of the core interval and is subject to revision.
The Akie property, which has been optioned from Ecstall Mining Corporation, comprises a total of 256 claim units, in 22 contiguous mineral claims encompassing some 5,400 hectares, situated in the Omineca Mining Division of British Columbia. Between 1992 and 1996, approximately $5.4-million was spent exploring the property, including approximately 13,000 metres of diamond drilling.
Variably siliceous, bluish-grey weathering, fine-grained clastic rocks of the Middle to Late Devonian ‘Gunsteel formation’ host a sheet-like body of laminated to massive pyrite and barite, with local finely laminated bands of sphalerite and galena, that has a strike length of 1,600 meters, a dip extent of at least 800 meters and a true width of up to 30 meters. Within this, Inmet Mining Corporation, the previous operator, identified an inferred resource, based on four widely spaced drill holes, of 13 million tonnes grading 8.52% zinc, 1.47% lead and 13.24 grams silver/tonne over a true width of 6.3 meters.
Note: This historical inferred resource estimate was prepared before the implementation of National Instrument 43-101. The Company’s Qualified Person has not reviewed the estimate but believes it to be reliable and relevant as it was calculated by Inmet Mining Corporation, a respected international mining concern, using simple polygonal blocks. However, this estimate should be treated as a historical resource estimate and should not be relied upon until additional drill hole information is available.
The Akie deposit is open to expansion in tonnage and grade both along strike and down-dip.
Photos of the Akie zinc-lead property are available at the Company’s website at www.mantleresources.com.
For further information regarding the Akie property, the reader is referred to a NI 43-101 report, titled Geological Report on the Akie Property, dated October 24, 2005, by D.G. MacIntyre, Ph. D., P.Geo.(BC)., which is filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The TSX Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this press release.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MANTLE RESOURCES INC.
“PEEYUSH VARSHNEY”
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