http://www.stockwatch.com/News/...2220752&symbol=RLG®ion=C2014-10-24 15:52 ET - News Release
Mr. John Kontak reports
WEST RED LAKE GOLD EXPLORATION PLAN FOR FALL 2014
West Red Lake Gold Mines Inc. has made fall 2014 exploration plans for the company's 3,100-hectare West Red Lake project located in the prolific Red Lake gold district, 20 kilometres west of Balmertown, Northwestern Ontario, Canada.
The company plans to drill several exploration holes into the high-grade gold zones on trend and to the east of the historic Rowan mine shaft. The exploration focus is on the Rowan mine gold system, where previous exploration drilling has indicated the potential to outline a gold resource.
The fall 2014 drill program is designed to follow up on positive results returned from previous drilling. The area of interest is the 600-metre strike length trending east from the Rowan mine shaft. The initial focus is on the easternmost extent where three positive holes were drilled during 2011 and 2013. Future exploration drill programs are also planned to follow up and further expand the steeply dipping high-grade Rowan mine gold zones.
Exploration targets -- high-grade gold zones
Expansion of the gold zones in the Rowan mine gold system is the focus of the exploration program. The vertical extent of the high-grade gold zones is known to exceed 300 metres depth below surface. The gold system currently has a strike length of more than 600 m. The exploration program plans to expand the gold-mineralized strike length beyond the easternmost exploration drill intercepts, which encountered high-grade results with widths ranging from 2.0 m to 17.0 m in holes 11-58 (103.46 grams per tonne Au over 4.0 m), 11-59 (37.18 g/t Au over 2.0 m) and 13-03 (6.83 g/t Au over 17.0 m).
The gold-mineralized zones lie within a regional shear structure, the Pipestone Bay-St. Paul deformation zone, and are hosted within a sequence of hydrothermally altered mafic volcanics with intercalated felsic volcanics and porphyries as well as ultramafics. The gold mineralization is associated with quartz veining and increased iron sulphide mineralization. The zones are subvertical with a slight easterly plunge.
The planned fall 2014 exploration program has been designed to expand and confirm continuity of the high-grade zones, and to outline potential for a gold resource at the Rowan mine. The Rowan mine is located in the centre of West Red Lake Gold's 12-kilometre-long property position. The Pipestone Bay-St. Paul deformation zone crosses the company property and is the host for the Rowan mine gold system. Good potential exists to expand the Rowan mine gold zones along strike and to depth.
Previous drilling in the Rowan mine gold system has confirmed the presence of several steeply dipping gold zones that are spaced approximately 50 m apart. The zones contain high-grade shoots or lenses. The gold zones appear to have good continuity along strike and to depth in the Rowan mine area. After the fall 2014 program is completed, future phases of exploration drilling are contemplated to expand the strike length of the Rowan gold zones farther to the east along the geological structure. Future exploration drilling is also expected to target expansion of the gold zones to greater depths. Red Lake area mines have been developed to depths exceeding 2,000 m.
The company property is situated on the Red Lake Archean greenstone belt, which hosts the high-grade gold mines of the Red Lake gold district. The Pipestone Bay-St. Paul deformation zone strikes east-west across the 12-kilometre length of the property, and then continues east toward the town of Red Lake. A second gold-bearing regional structure, the Golden Arm structure, trends on to the property from the southwest, and trends toward and then intersects with the Pipestone Bay regional structure approximately one kilometre east of the Rowan mine shaft. A similar geologically important intersection of two regional gold-bearing structures occurs 20 km to the east, and proximal to the world-class Red Lake mine and Campbell mine, providing a highly favourable geological model and illustrating the significant exploration potential for high-grade gold zones on the company's West Red Lake project.
Qualified person
Kenneth Guy, PGeo, is the qualified person (as such term is defined in National Instrument 43-101 -- Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects) for West Red Lake Gold and is responsible for the geological information presented herein.
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