VANCOUVER, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Callinan Mines is pleased to announce the
intersection of gold and silver bearing mineralization on their
Coles Creek property in Northern British
Columbia, south of Houston.
Assays of samples from diamond drill hole COLE 28 have confirmed an
intersection of 21.25 meters of core length grading 3.368 g/mt
gold, 15.33 g/mt silver, 2.04% zinc and 0.15% lead. The mineralized
zone occurs from 268.75 meters to 288.60 meters in a volcanoclastic
breccia mineralized with sphalerite, argentite and galena. Another
11.55 meter zone, also in DDH COLE 28 occurring from 181.40 meters
to 194.00 meters returned samples measuring 0.146 g/mt gold, 68.87
g/mt silver, 2.00% zinc and 1.22% lead.
The company is pleasantly surprised by the elevated gold values,
and is optimistic for the potential of further gold mineralization
along the same structure. DDH COLE 28 was collared 162 meters away
from previously reported COLE 18, which returned 141 meters of 20.5
g/mt silver and 0.32% zinc, including 4.7 meters of 200 g/mt silver
and 1.09% zinc. The company added a second drill to the project in
early August and both drills will continue drill testing further
along the mineralized structure for as long as weather conditions
permit.
"These assay results represent great progress at Coles Creek,"
Callinan President and CEO
Mike Muzylowski said today. "While
there is still much work to be done to determine the full extent of
the mineralization, I'm optimistic that 2010 will turn out to be a
great year for Callinan and for the Coles Creek Project. We hope to
be able to continue drilling well into the fall season."
Callinan Mines maintained a QA/QC
program at all stages of exploration. Sample recovery was
calculated, measured and observed at a company facility on site at
Coles Creek before being cut at the same facility. Samples were
broken in half, one half being kept for storage and the other half
placed in pre-labeled plastic bags, tagged with the sample number
and recorded in the log. Samples were then shipped to Acme
Analytical Laboratories in Vancouver,
BC, where they were crushed, split, pulverized and sieved
into approximately 30 g samples at 200 mesh. Samples were then
assayed by Aqua Regia digestion ICP-ES analysis, and assayed for
silver and gold by fire assay. The lab employs internal quality
control by assaying pulp duplicates and inserting quality control
standards of predetermined values and a blank sample.
On behalf of the board of directors,
"Mike Muzylowski"
Mike Muzylowski
All of Callinan's exploration programs are conducted under the
direction of Pat Deveaux, P.Geo, a
qualified person as defined by national instrument 43-101, who has
reviewed and approved the contents of this release.
Some statements in this news release contain forward-looking
information. These statements include, but are not limited to,
statements with respect to future expenditures. These statements
address future events and conditions and, as such, involve known
and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause
the actual results, performance or achievements to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by the statements. Such factors include, among
others, the ability to complete contemplated private placements and
the timing and amount of expenditures. Callinan does not assume the
obligation to update any forward-looking statement.
SOURCE Callinan Mines Ltd.
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