Fairmont Begins Drilling on Marmion South Property
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/20/12 -- Fairmont Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE: FMR) ("Fairmont") is pleased to announce that it has begun drilling on the Marmion South property, located east of Atikokan, Ont., and contiguous with Osisko Mining Corp.'s Hammond Reef property. Drilling is expected to continue through to the end of March with assay results in late April.
The program is focused on the historic Olcott occurrence, located in the southern portion of the property, which has returned up to 5.41 g/t gold over 6.16 metres and 1.85 g/t over gold 19.20 metres in historic drilling during the 1980s and 1990s. The greenstone-hosted Olcott gold occurrence is located on an east-west-trending structure parallel to the regional Quetico fault. This occurrence has been the focus of historical trenching and limited drill programs in the 1980s and 1990s and is a classic quartz vein/shear-hosted gold system.
Planning is also underway for an extensive spring/summer prospecting, mapping and soil sampling program to ground truth several key northeast trends and anomalies within the Marmion batholith in the central and northern part of the property identified by the 2011 airborne geophysical survey (see press release March 6th 2012). Osisko's Hammond Reef deposit is controlled by the northeast-trending Marmion shear; numerous historic gold occurrences in the Marmion batholith are associated with similar northeast structures.
About Marmion South Property
Fairmont has an option to acquire a 100% interest in the Marmion South Property, which consists of 8,208 hectares and is located in the prolific Marmion Batholith gold district near Atikokan, Ontario. The Marmion South Property is also located south of and is contiguous with Osisko Mining Corporation's (TSX VENTURE: OSK) Hammond Reef Property which contains a National Instrument 43-101-compliant global inferred resource of 530.6M tons at an average grade of 0.62 g/t gold for 10.5 million ounces and based on a cut off of 0.30 g/t gold. Osisko's technical report on this resource can be viewed on SEDAR.
Neil Pettigrew, M.Sc., P.Geo., President, CEO & Director of Fairmont Resources Inc. and the Company's Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101, has reviewed and approved the technical information in this press release.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of Fairmont
Neil Pettigrew, M.Sc., P.Geo., President and CEO, Fairmont Resources Corporation
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