QMC Quantum Begins Work on Mugaha Gold Property, Mackenzie, BC
04.09.2012 | Accesswire
- Up to 3,670 ppb Gold in soil samples, several prominent gold anomalies were delineated- 139.1 g/t gold over 1 metre by hand trenching of one of the anomalies
- Systematic follow-up trenching to extend and define gold zones discovered in the hand trenching program and other significant soil anomalies
Vancouver, September 4, 2012 - QMC Quantum Minerals Corp. (TSXV:QMC.V - News) ("QMC" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that further to its news release of May 10 , 2012, work has commenced on the Mugaha Gold property (the 'Property') for helicopter supported systematic trenching and sampling.
The trenching will be carried out with a portable small mini-backhoe (CANDIG model 21) and will cover the 25 gold-in-soil anomalies to define the bed-rock source. The uniqueness of this back-hoe is the minimal impact for land disturbance and timely reclamation.
The Mugaha property consists of 12 MTO claims aggregating 5,502 hectares and is located 15 km. north of the town of Mackenzie and roughly 160 km. by road north of the city of Prince George, B.C. Access and infrastructure are good with the western part of the property being road accessible. The town of Mackenzie has most services including an airport and contract helicopter availability. The property is heavily forested except for a few logged areas. Topography is moderate and exploration work can be carried out between May and October.
Gold mineralization was discovered on the property in 2006 by Wealth Minerals after several years of extensive exploration of geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical surveys.
Hand trenching outlined a number of mineralized quartz veins and veinlets in sheared and faulted slate and siltstone. Several veins and veinlets were outlined and could be traced intermittently for about 120 meters along strike and remain open in both directions. Gold values are highly erratic and metallic screening analyses indicate that a significant amount of the values occur as free gold. Mineralized veins are generally sheared and highly fractured and contain sporadic pyrite and base metal sulfides. Eight of 13 trenches cut mineralized quartz veins and values ranged from less that 1 g/t gold over 1.0 meter to a maximum of 139.1 g/t gold over 1.0 meter. Other significant values obtained in the trenching are 2.97 g/t, 4.19 g/t, 3.11 g/t, 6.94 g/t and 14.81 g/t over 1.0 meter widths respectively and grab samples assaying up to 111.71 g/t and 22.81 g/t from six trenches.
The property is underlain by weakly metamorphosed and complexly deformed rocks of the Upper Proterozoic Misinchinka Group. The Misinchinka Group consists of a thick monotonous sequence of siliciclastic and lesser carbonate rocks of turbidite affinity deposited on the western margin of ancestral North America.
The mode of occurrence of the Mugaha property mineralization appears to be very similar to the sediment hosted mineralized gold deposits such as:
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|Name and location of deposit |oz/gold |
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|Muruntau, Uzbekistan |+100 million|
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|Sukhoy Log, Russia |20 million |
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|Bendigo-Ballarat district, Australia |20 million |
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|Macraes Flat, Otago Schist Belt, New Zealand|5.2 million |
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The technical content of this news release has been reviewed and approved by James M. Dawson, P. Eng who is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Dawson will also be guiding and managing the work program.
The Company is a British Columbia based company engaged in the business of acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties in Canada. Its objective is to locate and develop economic precious, base metal and REE properties of merit. The company's properties include the Mugaha gold property in British Columbia, its principal VMS properties the Rocky Lake and Rocky-Namew, Carrot River gold Property and the Cinder Lake REE property all located in Manitoba.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of QMC Quantum Minerals Corp.
"Balraj Mann"
Balraj Mann, President and Chief Executive Officer
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