Wer hätte das gedacht, dass es Freegold nochmal schafft Gelder für Projekte in dieser Grrößenordnung zu bekommen. Durch die 50 % Beteiligung von Western Standard wird in das Projekt Vinsale 6,5 Mio $ gepumpt. Jetzt geht es mit großen Schritten zur Exploration. Damit hat Freegold durch die Zusammenarbeit mit Western in 2 Wochen über 12 Mio. € für die nächsten Jahre gesichert. Damit können m.E. nun die wirklich gut vorhandenen Goldressourcen zur Förderung kommen. Das Potential der Goldressourcen, selbst wenn ich es nun durch 2 teile (durch die 50 % Beteiligung von Western) könnte Kurse von 1 € rechtfertigen. Freegold war ja nur durch die starken finanziellen Probleme so stark gefallen und da niemand damit gerechnet hatte, dass sie das Kapital, dass für die Exploration notwendig ist zusammenbekommen. Jetzt sieht doch die Lage wieder recht freundlich aus. ... aber nur meine bescheidene Meinung und keine Kaufempfehlung. Hier noch die originale Mitteilung vom 22.01.2010:
News Releases
January 22, 2010
Western Standard Options Vinasale Gold Project in Alaska
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Vancouver -- Friday, January 22, 2010 -- Freegold Ventures Limited --ITF: TSX ("Freegold") and Western Standard Metals Ltd. -- WSM: TSX.V ("Western Standard") and are pleased to announce that they have signed an Option Agreement whereby Western Standard may earn a 50% interest in the Vinasale gold project ("Project") located in central Alaska. The Project is located in the Kuskokwim Mineral Belt, a northeast trending belt of intrusion related gold deposits that includes the 39 million ounce Donlin Creek deposit and the past producing Nixon Fork gold mine.
The Vinasale Project is located in the McGrath Mining District in the Kuskokwim region of central Alaska. The Kuskokwim region is underlain by sedimentary rocks of the Upper Cretaceous Kuskokwim Group that have been intruded by a suite of Late Cretaceous to Tertiary granitic rocks. Placer gold deposits are associated with several of these intrusions and recorded production totals 2.5 million ounces. At Vinasale, a Late Cretaceous quartz monzonite stock forms a prominent hill and is spatially and temporally associated with gold mineralization. The stock has a number of intrusive phases and is variably altered to a mineral assemblage including silica, sericite, dolomite, chlorite, tourmaline and sulphides. Sulphides occur as disseminations and in quartz-dolomite veins and breccias, and are primarily pyrite and arsenopyrite with lesser stibnite, sphalerite and galena, and minor silver and lead antimony sulphides. Higher concentrations of gold are associated with zones of quartz-sulphide veining and fracturing hosted by silica and sericite altered quartz monzonite.
Gold mineralization was first discovered at Vinasale by Central Alaskan Gold Company (CAG) in 1989. Exploration from 1990 to 1993 by CAG and their joint venture partner, Placer Dome, consisted of soil sampling, geophysics, diamond drilling (5,285 metres in 39 holes) and metallurgy. While the gold mineralization was found to be refractory, metallurgical testwork indicates that greater than 95% of the gold reports to the sulphide concentrate, thereby considerably reducing the volume of material required to be oxidized before extraction by cyanide. The Project was subsequently optioned by ASA-Montague and additional soil sampling, diamond drilling (5,262 metres in 26 holes) and metallurgy were completed in 1994. Drilling intersected significant gold values beneath multi-element soil anomalies in the Northeast, Central and South zones (Table 1). A resource of 925,000 ounces of gold (14.5 million tonnes grading 1.95 grams/tonne) was estimated for the Central Zone by Derry Michener, Booth and Wahl (1994) as part of a Prefeasibility study. (Note that the resource figures are historical in nature and are provide for information purposes only; they are not NI43-101 compliant and as such should not be relied upon).
Table 1: Selected drill intersections from the Vinasale deposit, central Alaska
Freegold entered into a Mining Exploration Agreement with an Option to Lease the Vinasale Project from Doyon Limited, an Alaskan Native Regional Corporation in 2007. Since that time, Freegold has completed an airborne survey and a regional geochemical survey and a ground based induced polarization and magnetic survey over the northern part of the deposit. This work has identified chargeability and resistivity targets associated with the northern edge of the Vinasale stock as well as regional targets that require follow-up exploration.
The Vinasale Project is located approximately 310 kilometres northwest of Anchorage and 26 kilometres south of McGrath. Access to the Project area is by helicopter from a base in McGrath and daily commercial flights connect McGrath with Anchorage. The McGrath airstrip is adequate to handle large bulk aircraft and the Kuskokwim River is navigable to McGrath from Bethel, a port city. McGrath can provide basic services such as labour, housing, office space, communication and logistics.
Western Standard has the option to earn a 50% interest in the Project by paying Freegold CAD$350,000 on execution and by incurring exploration expenses of US$6,500,000 over three years according to the schedule shown in Table 2. Western Standard will be the operator of the Project until such time as the option is fulfilled and a joint venture is formed.
Table 2: Exploration Expenses
Western Standard plans an initial exploration program consisting of data compilation and verification to identify targets for follow up in 2010. The exploration program will include geophysics, geochemistry and diamond drilling with the objective of expanding the existing resource as well as identifying new areas that may have the potential to host additional resources. In addition to the exploration program, Western Standard will collect samples for metallurgical testwork. Western Standard is targeting large, bulk mineable gold deposits in their exploration program.
Information in this News Release was extracted from Technical Reports written by an independent Qualified Person and a drill hole database supplied to Western Standard by Freegold; Western Standard at this time has not verified the quality of this data. Walter Melnyk, P.Eng., President of Western Standard Metals Ltd., is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed the technical disclosure contained in this News Release.
Curtis J. Freeman, M.Sc., Geological Consultant to Freegold Ventures Limited is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed the technical disclosure contained in this News Release.
About Western Standard Metals Ltd.
Western Standard Metals Ltd. is a newly re-organized Canadian based company with a focus on acquisition, exploration and development of gold properties in North America. Western Standard recently acquired a 100% interest in the Almaden Gold Project in Idaho, United States, which hosts a NI43-101 compliant measured resource of 239,000 ounces of gold (9,810,000 tonnes grading 0.754 g/t), an indicated resource of 625,000 ounces of gold (29,250,000 tonnes grading 0.651 g/t), and an inferred resource of 84,000 ounces of gold (4,780,000 tonnes grading 0.549 g/t), at the cut-off grades of 0.274 g/t, 0.411 g/t, and 0.789 g/t grams per tonne for the oxide, mixed, and sulfide mineralization, respectively.
About Freegold Ventures Limited
Freegold is a TSX listed company focused on the exploration of gold projects in Alaska. In addition to the Golden Summit Project, the company holds a 100% in lease interest in the Rob gold project, near the Pogo Gold Mine in the Goodpaster Mining District of Alaska and has an exploration agreement with option to lease the Vinasale Gold project in central Alaska. |
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