Osisko Intersects 1.50 g/t Au Over 63.6 Metres at Jeffrey Zone
MONTREAL, QUEBEC -- (Marketwire) -- 06/14/11 -- Osisko Mining Corporation ('Osisko') (TSX: OSK)(FRANKFURT: EWX) and Golden Valley Mines Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: GZZ) are pleased to announce final results from the 2010 drill program at the Jeffrey Zone on the Malartic CHL Property, currently under option from Golden Valley Mines Ltd. and located immediately east of Osisko's 100%-owned Canadian Malartic gold mine.
Highlights from 74 new drill holes include: 63.6 metres averaging 1.50 g/t Au (CHL10-2351), 64.8 metres averaging 1.47 g/t Au (CHL10-2347, uncut), and 55.4 metres averaging 1.39 g/t Au (CHL10-2297). Assay results are summarized in the table below:
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Hole No. Section From (m) To (m) Length (m) Au g/t Au g/t
(cut)
CHL10-2292 7225E 94.5 115.0 20.5 0.67 ---
And 133.5 147.0 13.5 1.25 ---
CHL10-2293 7225E 12.0 33.0 21.0 0.40 ---
And 127.5 138.0 10.5 1.09 ---
CHL10-2296 7375E 13.5 45.0 31.5 0.84 ---
And 69.0 99.5 30.5 1.47 ---
including 98.1 99.5 1.4 18.40 ---
CHL10-2297 7325E 15.0 70.4 55.4 1.39 ---
including 21.0 22.5 1.5 9.00 ---
including 64.5 66.0 1.5 14.40 ---
CHL10-2303 7400E 67.4 82.5 15.1 1.31 ---
CHL10-2304 7300E 34.0 50.0 16.0 1.15 ---
And 226.0 260.0 34.0 0.64 ---
CHL10-2305 7300E 33.0 61.5 28.5 0.63 ---
And 100.5 120.0 19.5 1.81 ---
CHL10-2306 7300E 94.7 117.0 22.3 1.10 ---
And 160.5 199.5 39.0 0.73 ---
And 216.0 229.5 13.5 0.90 ---
CHL10-2307 7225E 49.5 79.5 30.0 0.71 ---
CHL10-2309 7400E 33.5 121.0 87.5 0.77 ---
including 67.5 69.0 1.5 8.46 ---
CHL10-2310 7400E 118.5 143.3 24.8 0.81 ---
CHL10-2311 7400E 63.0 85.5 22.5 1.08 ---
And 186.0 219.0 33.0 0.70 ---
including 192.0 193.0 1.0 5.67 ---
CHL10-2312 7250E 8.8 15.0 6.2 1.51 ---
And 31.0 53.5 22.5 0.94 ---
CHL10-2313 7275E 12.1 69.5 57.4 0.72 ---
CHL10-2314 7275E 12.4 62.9 50.5 0.84 ---
CHL10-2315 7250E 46.5 89.0 42.5 0.96 ---
including 72.5 74.0 1.5 5.74 ---
including 80.0 81.5 1.5 5.86 ---
CHL10-2316 7400E 178.5 243.0 64.5 0.82 ---
And 258.7 261.0 2.3 9.84 ---
CHL10-2317 7400E 196.9 206.0 9.1 1.16 ---
CHL10-2318 7300E 186.0 203.5 17.5 0.73 ---
including 186.0 187.0 1.0 4.62 ---
And 253.5 255.0 1.5 9.67 ---
CHL10-2319 7275E 25.5 97.2 71.7 0.80 ---
including 64.5 66.0 1.5 6.22 ---
CHL10-2320 7250E 10.5 34.5 24.0 2.96 2.53
including 31.5 33.0 1.5 36.90 30.00
And 51.5 68.5 17.0 1.23 ---
CHL10-2322 7275E 148.5 187.5 39.0 0.78 ---
CHL10-2323 7250E 81.5 137.0 55.5 0.63 ---
CHL10-2324 7250E 199.5 232.5 33.0 0.59 ---
CHL10-2325 7250E 18.0 30.0 12.0 1.84 ---
including 25.5 27.0 1.5 10.55 ---
CHL10-2327 7425E 207.0 222.5 15.5 0.85 ---
And 238.5 258.0 19.5 0.72 ---
CHL10-2328 7275E 19.5 48.0 28.5 0.81 ---
And 70.5 84.0 13.5 1.65 ---
And 172.5 180.2 7.7 2.20 ---
CHL10-2330 7275E 53.5 100.0 46.5 0.78 ---
CHL10-2331 7425E 106.5 162.0 55.5 0.68 ---
CHL10-2332 7425E 21.5 29.0 7.5 1.46 ---
And 110.0 143.0 33.0 1.02 ---
including 110.0 111.5 1.5 7.24 ---
CHL10-2333 7425E 48.0 64.5 16.5 1.63 ---
And 90.0 111.4 21.4 1.77 ---
CHL10-2336 7550E 43.5 55.8 12.3 1.11 ---
CHL10-2337 7525E 32.5 42.0 9.5 1.18 ---
CHL10-2338 7600E 27.0 50.3 23.3 1.71 ---
including 34.5 36.0 1.5 11.75 ---
CHL10-2341 7425E 24.0 74.2 50.2 1.13 ---
including 59.5 61.1 1.6 8.01 ---
CHL10-2343 7425E 19.5 35.5 16.0 0.81 ---
CHL10-2344 7475E 177.5 198.5 21.0 0.58 ---
CHL10-2345 7575E 129.0 159.0 30.0 2.00 ---
CHL10-2347 7525E 145.2 210.0 64.8 1.47 1.42
including 145.2 146.9 1.7 32.00 30.00
CHL10-2348 7450E 105.9 107.1 1.2 12.20 ---
And 131.0 188.0 57.0 0.89 ---
CHL10-2349 7450E 178.0 215.7 37.7 1.19 ---
CHL10-2350 7450E 108.5 125.0 16.5 1.33 ---
CHL10-2351 7450E 75.5 139.1 63.6 1.50 ---
CHL10-2352 7450E 57.5 82.3 24.8 2.34 ---
CHL10-2353 7500E 159.4 187.5 28.1 0.97 ---
including 186.0 187.5 1.5 6.70 ---
CHL10-2354 7500E 183.0 202.5 19.5 0.81 ---
And 225.0 247.5 22.5 0.92 ---
including 246.0 247.5 1.5 6.90 ---
CHL10-2355 7475E 174.0 178.5 4.5 6.24 ---
including 174.0 175.5 1.5 12.45 ---
CHL10-2356 7475E 107.0 133.5 26.5 0.75 ---
including 107.0 108.5 1.5 5.84 ---
And 151.0 163.5 12.5 2.45 ---
including 160.5 162.0 1.5 13.65 ---
CHL10-2357 7475E 62.5 94.1 31.6 1.64 ---
CHL10-2358 7475E 18.1 48.0 29.9 2.27 ---
including 27.5 29.0 1.5 10.90 ---
CHL10-2360 7450E 25.5 55.0 29.5 1.15 ---
including 44.3 45.6 1.3 7.98 ---
CHL10-2362 7500E 163.6 175.5 11.9 1.30 ---
CHL10-2363 7500E 58.5 94.7 36.2 0.68 ---
CHL10-2367 7200E 113.0 138.0 25.0 1.15 ---
including 114.5 116.0 1.5 7.79 ---
CHL10-2368 7200E 57.0 68.0 11.0 0.84 ---
CHL10-2370 7200E 16.5 27.0 10.5 2.31 ---
And 40.5 57.5 17.0 0.85 ---
CHL10-2371 7200E 24.0 30.0 6.0 1.74 ---
CHL10-2372 7200E 61.5 63.0 1.5 13.85 ---
And 90 100.5 10.5 5.68 4.98
including 93.0 94.5 1.5 34.90 30.00
CHL10-2373 7200E 23.5 45.0 21.5 0.55 ---
And 124.5 127.5 3.0 11.59 ---
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Drill holes CHL10-2302, CHL10-2308, CHL10-2321, CHL10-2326, CHL10-2329, CHL10-2334, CHL10-2335, CHL10-2339, CHL10-2340, CHL10-2342, CHL10-2346, CHL10-2359, CHL10-2361, CHL10-2364 and CHL10-2369 did not intersect significant mineralization. Definition drilling on the Jeffrey Zone is based on a series of sections spaced at 25 metre intervals over an east-west strike length of 400-metres and north-south distance of 135 metres. The objective of the current program is to gather sufficient drill information along strike and to depth to complete an initial indicated resource calculation by the end of Q3 2011. Additional drilling is also planned in order to investigate the extent of the zone recently discovered immediately south of the Jeffrey zone (see February 28, 2011 press release).
Mineralization at the Jeffrey Zone is located along the southern limit of the Cadillac Break, where it consists of disseminated pyrite-gold in potassic-altered quartz-feldspar porphyry dikes, in contact with a predominately ultramafic flow sequence, and in subordinate diorite-gabbro and sedimentary units. Narrower, higher-grade mineralization is hosted in quartz veined (silicified) porphyry or talcose and chlorite-altered ultramafic schists.
Continuity of steeply-dipping mineralization is now well established along a strike length of 400 metres (sections 7200E to 7600E), with a true width of 30 to 60 metres. Mineralization is more sporadic further east between sections 7600E and 8100E. Mineralization has been traced to a depth of 200 metres on most sections, where it remains open at depth. The western extremity of the Jeffrey zone (section 7200E) lies 800m east of the Canadian Malartic property, where Osisko defined the extension of the Barnat deposit. Based on previous work by East Malartic Mines Ltd and confirmed by 2009 drilling from section 6400E to 6550E (see Golden Valley Mines March 23, 2010 press release), mineralization is known to extend onto the Malartic CHL property (the Mammoth zone). An additional 2,223m of drilling was conducted in this area in late 2010 and early 2011. Assay results from this work are pending.
All NQ core assays reported above were obtained by standard 50 g fire assaying-AA finish or gravimetric finish at ALS Chemex laboratories in Val d'Or, Quebec. Reported drill core weighted averages were calculated using a minimum of 0.40 g/t Au over successive intervals of 20 metres. The lengths of mineralized intervals of less than 20 metres were minimized, and an upper cut-off of 30 g/t Au was applied to individual assays where indicated. Intervals containing individual assays that are greater than six times the average of the interval are included separately. Intersected drifts or lost core within mineralized intersections were incorporated as blank intervals.
Osisko follows strict QA-QC protocol measures in keeping with industry standards and regulatory reporting requirements. Mr. Robert Wares, P. Geo. and Executive Vice-President of Osisko, and Mr. Francois Bouchard, P. Geo., are the Qualified Persons who has reviewed this news release and are responsible for the technical information reported herein, including verification of the data disclosed including the sampling, analytical and test data underlying the technical information.
Osisko has the right to acquire a 70% interest in the Malartic CHL Property in consideration for $150,000 in cash payments over a four year period (total amount paid) and by completing a minimum $2,000,000 in exploration work over a four year period (funds currently expended). Upon earning its 70% interest, Abitibi Royalties Inc., Golden Valley's wholly owned subsidiary, will maintain a free-carried interest of 30% to production.
Cautionary Notes Concerning Estimates of Mineral Resources
This news release uses the terms measured, indicated and inferred resources as a relative measure of the level of confidence in the resource estimate. Readers are cautioned that mineral resources are not economic mineral reserves and that the economic viability of resources that are not mineral reserves has not been demonstrated. In addition, inferred resources are considered too geologically speculative to have any economic considerations applied to them. It cannot be assumed that all or any part of an inferred mineral resource will ever be upgraded to a higher category. Under Canadian rules, estimates of inferred mineral resources may not form the basis of feasibility or pre-feasibility studies or economic studies except for Preliminary Assessment as defined under NI 43-101. Readers are cautioned not to assume that that further work on the stated resources will lead to mineral reserves that can be mined economically.
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