Gitennes Recent Drilling Contains Visible Gold in Highly Silicified Zone, New Mosher Gold Property, Chapais-Chibougamau area, Quebec
Gitennes Recent Drilling Contains Visible Gold in Highly Silicified ZoneGitennes Exploration Inc. ("Gitennes" or the "Company") - (TSXV:GIT) announces that visible gold was observed in a highly silicified and sheared zone in Hole NM-22-04 (see Figure 2). As previously announced, the Company recently completed seven holes totaling 1,002 metres with six of the holes being drilled at the New Mosher Showing ( see Figure 1) on its New Mosher gold property, Chapais-Chibougamau area of Quebec (see Figure 3).
Hole NM-22-04 was collared approximately 50 metres from the New Mosher Showing and the visible gold was observed 19 metres downhole and is located at the contact of a quartz vein within mafic volcanics. The highly silicified intersections that contained the visible gold are up to 23 metres in width and contain up to four percent pyrite and 0.5% pyrrhotite as fine disseminations or concentrated in schistosity and fracture planes. These zones are also sheared and contain up to 60% to 80% quartz with some displaying chlorite and sericite alteration.
Drill core samples have been sent for analysis with assays expected late March or early April.
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Figure 1 - New Mosher Showing - Second phase drill hole locations.
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Figure 2: Visible gold in NM-22-04 in dry core (Left) and in wet core (Right).
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Figure 2 -New Mosher Property and Gitennes other properties in Chapais-Chibougamau area
The New Mosher Property is located three kilometres from the past producing Joe Mann Mine which produced approximately 1.2 million ounces of gold at an average grade of 8.3 g/t gold(1) plus silver and copper.
(1) Readers are cautioned that the Company has no interest in or right to acquire any interest in the Joe Mann mine and that mineral deposits and production results from the Joe Mann mine are not indicative of mineral deposits on the Company's properties or any potential exploitation thereof. Source: Technical Report on the Joe Mann Mining Property dated January 11, 2016, prepared by Geologica Inc.
About Gitennes Exploration Inc.
Gitennes is in the business of exploring for and advancing mineral properties with a focus on high grade gold. The Company currently has three properties in the Chapais-Chibougamau area of Quebec: New Mosher, JMW and Maxwell, and three properties in the Gaspe Region of Quebec: VG Boulder, Serpenphior and Puma, the Snowbird gold property in British Columbia and a 1.5% Net Smelter Return royalty on the 18 million ounce Urumalqui Silver Project in Peru. All properties are 100% owned by Gitennes except for New Mosher which is under option from Kintavar Exploration and Gitennes can earn an initial 70% and has the right to increase its ownership to 85%. The Snowbird Property has been optioned to a gold exploration company.
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The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Wayne Holmstead (P.Geo.), who is a "qualified person" within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101.
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