GoldQuest Mobilizes Drill Rig to Site of Romero Discovery at 100 Percent Owned Las Tres Palmas Property
29.05.2012 | Marketwire
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire - May 29, 2012) - GoldQuest Mining Corp. (TSX VENTURE:GQC) (FRANKFURT:M1W) (BERLIN:M1W) is pleased to announce that the Company has mobilized a portable drill rig to the site of its recent Romero Gold and Copper Discovery at its 100 percent owned Las Tres Palmas project. Las Tres Palmas contains Romero, and La Escandalosa Sur and Hondo Valle mineralizations. LTP 90, the only hole to date in the Romero discovery, returned an assay result of 231 metres grading 2.4 g/t gold. This true width of this mineralization is unknown at this time. The portable rig, the same unit that made the initial discovery, will test the Romero mineralization and the program will be announced shortly. This program will principally test for the lateral continuity of the mineralization."We are pleased to have a drill rig available to mobilize onto the site immediately," commented Julio Espaillat, GoldQuest's CEO. "With only a single hole at Romero, it is essential to recommence drilling to establish the potential for further mineralization, as a single hole establishes the geological setting but needs more research to assess its significance."
GoldQuest will be exhibiting at the upcoming Cambridge House Convention in Vancouver on June 3rd and 4th 2012, where the Company is speaking about the discovery on Sunday June 3rd.
An updated drilling results table is set out below, which includes the copper results for the last hole, LTP -91, at Las Tres Palmas, which in the Company's previous press release of May 23rd 2012 was marked as "pending", thus completing the assays from the recent drill program. LTP 91 is located in the Hondo Valle zone which is to the southeast of the Romero mineralization.
The table corrects mineralized intervals recalculated during data checking by the Company and the following chart should be used as the Company's official disclosure in place of the table in GoldQuest's press release dated May 23rd 2012. All the intervals are calculated using the first original assay without a top cut and a bottom cut of 0.15 g/t gold, where all intervals below that number are treated as zero, and intervals in the text are rounded.
Highlighted corrections, in the table below, are available on SEDAR. The low copper zone should read 71 m grading 1.12 g/t gold and 0.03% copper from 33 metres to 104 metres, which was previously reported in the text as containing 70 m grading 1.36 g/t gold and 0.04% copper from 33 metres to 103 metres and in the table as 58 metres grading 1.36 g/t gold and 0.04% copper from 33 metres to 91 metres. The intervals of the underlying section should read 160 m grading 3.0 g/t gold and 0.62% copper from 104 metres to 264 metres, which was previously reported in the text as containing 160 m grading 2.9 g/t gold and 0.62% copper from 104 metres to 264 metres, and in the table as 160 m grading 4.7 g/t gold and 0.78% copper. The mis-grades in the table were due to the fact that two lines were inadvertently consolidated and the grade of a 58 metre section (4.7 g/t gold and 0.78% copper) were aligned with the 160 metre interception. This 58 metre section should read 4.9 g/t gold and 0.78% copper from 200 metres to 258 metres. Also from 216 metres to 258 metres, 42 metres returned 6.63 g/t gold an increase from 6.26 g/t gold, and from 216 metres to 228 metres, 12 metres returned 18.25 g/t gold an increase from 16.95 g/t gold. These results have also been corrected on the Company's website.
Table 1. Summary of Las Tres Palmas 2012 Drilling
Hole From To Interval (m) Au (g/t) Cu (%) SECTOR
LTP-77 160.00 168.00 8.00 0.72 - La Escandalosa
and 198.00 202.00 4.00 0.73 -
LTP-78 No significant values La Escandalosa
LTP-79 52.27 68.00 15.73 0.91 - La Escandalosa
including 60.00 68.00 8.00 1.28 -
LTP-80 No significant values La Escandalosa
LTP-81 154.00 166.00 12.00 0.89 - Los Tomates Sur
and 194.00 198.00 4.00 0.55 -
LTP-82 50.00 54.00 4.00 0.33 - Los Tomates Norte
LTP-83 34.00 56.00 22.00 5.99 0.23 La Escandalosa Sur
including 38.00 52.00 14.00 9.07 0.24
LTP-84 264.00 271.90 7.90 2.96 0.52 La Escandalosa
and 278.00 282.00 4.00 0.72 -
LTP-85 26.60 36.61 10.01 0.53 - Hondo Valle Sur
LTP-86 136.00 138.00 2.00 0.34 - Los Tomates
LTP-87 74.00 78.00 4.00 0.38 - Los Tomates Norte
LTP-88 64.00 70.00 6.00 0.44 - Los Tomates Norte
LTP-89 130.00 151.43 21.43 0.66 0.34 Hondo Valle
including 146.00 151.43 5.43 1.69 0.97
and 177.00 205.00 28.00 0.67 0.13
including 195.00 205.00 10.00 1.27 0.12
LTP-90 33.00 264.00 231.00 2.42 0.44 Romero
including 33.00 103.74 70.74 1.12 0.03
and 103.74 264.00 160.26 2.99 0.62
including 103.74 148.00 44.26 3.53 0.77
including 200.00 258.00 58.00 4.93 0.78
including 216.00 258.00 42.00 6.63 1.04
including 216.00 228.00 12.00 18.25 2.14
LTP-91 186.00 222.00 36.00 1.14 0.37 Hondo Valle
including 191.95 206.00 14.05 2.36 0.72
In GoldQuest´s drill programs, composite intervals were chosen using a combination of geological criteria and mineralization, averaging around 2 metres core length. The drill core is cut in half with one half of the core sample shipped to ACME Labs by GoldQuest Technicians. The remaining half of the core is kept at the company core shack for future assay verification, or any further investigation. Intervals below a bottom cut-off grade of 0.15 g/t Au were calculated at zero gold. All drill samples were prepared and screened by ACME Labs (Santo Domingo); metallic fire assay and multi-element ICP-MS, were assayed by ACME Analytical Laboratories (Chile). Gold values are determined by standard fire assay of a 50 gram charge with an AA finish, or if over 10.0 g/t Au, were re-assayed and completed with a gravimetric finish. QA/QC included the insertion and continual monitoring of numerous standards, blanks and duplicates into the sample stream, at random intervals within each batch. Fully comprehensive Goldquest Quality Assurance and Quality Control QA/QC protocols can be viewed on our website at: http://www.goldquestcorp.com/corporate/corporate-governance.html.
About GoldQuest
GoldQuest is a Canadian based mineral exploration company with projects in the Dominican Republic traded on the TSX-V under the symbol GQC.V and in Frankfurt / Berlin with symbol M1W, with 110,108,601 shares outstanding (125,108,601 on a fully diluted basis).
The information in this press release has been approved by Mr. William Fisher, P. Geo., a Qualified Person for the technical information in this press release under NI 43-101 standards and the chairman and a director of GoldQuest Mining Corp. (wfisher@goldquestcorp.com).
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Contact Information
GoldQuest Mining Corp.
Julio Espaillat
President & Chief Executive Officer
+1-809-385-2222
jespaillat@goldquestcorp.com
GoldQuest Mining Corp.
Sebastian de Kloet
Investor Relations - Toronto
+1-416-214-9151
investorrelations@goldquestcorp.com
www.goldquestcorp.com