SLAM announces gold assays from Reserve Creek
Latest Results Show Gold Grading Up To 14.2 g/t
MIRAMICHI, NB, July 29 /CNW/ - SLAM Exploration Ltd. (TSX-V:SXL) ("SLAM")
is pleased to announce assay results from the first of 3 diamond drill holes
on its wholly owned Reserve Creek project in the Fort Hope area of Ontario.
Hole RS10-14 intersected a 13.41 m core interval grading 3.07 g/t (44 ft
grading 0.089 oz/ton) gold. This includes a 2.8 m interval grading 7.40 g/t
(9.2 ft grading 0.216 oz/ton) gold with individual values up to 14.2 g/t gold
over 0.3 m (1 ft grading 0.414 oz/ton). The core intervals described above are
drilled intervals.
Holes RS10-14, 15 and 16 were drilled from the same site at angles of 45
degrees, 55 degrees and 65 degrees respectively. Assays are pending on holes
15 and 16 which intersected broad zones of mineralized iron formation similar
to hole14. All 3 holes intersected core intervals with visible gold.
Reserve Creek gold mineralization is hosted within iron formations and
mafic volcanics similar to the rocks hosting the historic Pickle Crow gold
mine where PC Gold Inc. (TSE:PKL) recently announced successful drilling
results (press release 20 July 2010) near Pickle Lake, Ontario. These
volcano-sedimentary sequences are part of the Uchi Subprovince, a huge system
of greenstone belts extending from Lake Winnipeg to the Hudson Bay lowlands
hosting the Bissett gold mining camp in Manitoba and, in Ontario, the
world-famous Red Lake gold mining camp as well as the Pickle Lake and Fort
Hope gold areas.
Mike Taylor comments: "We are excited by the results to date from this
drilling campaign. The significant grades and widths of gold mineralization in
Reserve Creek hole 14 follow very positive results reported at Keezhik and a
new discovery grading up to 64 g/t gold at Miminiska. These numbers from
widely separated properties suggest a huge gold mineralizing system similar to
the Red Lake and Pickle Lake mining camps."
All drill cores were delivered from the drill sites to a facility in Fort
Hope for logging and sampling. Selected cores were split or sawn with half
retained for reference. Sampled halves were shipped to Act-Labs in Thunder Bay
for gold assay. Standards and blanks were inserted in the sample batches to
augment the Quality Assurance and Quality Control program of duplicates and
standards utilized by the laboratory. Michael R. Taylor, P.Geo. President and
CEO of SLAM is the Qualified Person responsible for the technical information
contained herein.
The drilling activities have been performed in consultation with
Eabametoong First Nation ("EFN") in accordance with a recently signed
Exploration Agreement. This Agreement calls for EFN and SLAM to work
cooperatively to advance the gold potential of the Fort Hope area.
About SLAM: SLAM is a mineral resource company based in Miramichi, New
Brunswick and continues to be active in gold, silver and base metal
exploration in Ontario and New Brunswick. Additional information about SLAM
and its projects is available at www.slamexploration.com or from SEDAR filings
at www.sedar.com.
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