Drilling Commences at Miranda Gold’s Red Canyon Project
July 21 2010 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Miranda Gold Corp. (“Miranda”) (TSX-V: MAD) announces
that its exploration funding partner Montezuma Mines Inc.
("Montezuma"), a wholly owned subsidiary of CMQ Resources Inc., has
commenced reverse-circulation drilling at Red Canyon, a
sediment-hosted gold project in Eureka County, Nevada. A 7,200 ft
(2,195 m) drilling program is anticipated in up to eight drill
holes.
Montezuma’s drilling will attempt to expand upon results in
MR09-05C, a 2009 core hole designed to follow-up known gold
mineralization at Red Canyon's Ice prospect, that intersected 119
ft of 0.152 oz Au/t (36.28 m of 5.25 g Au/t). This result verified
the results in KR-001, a reverse circulation hole, which
intersected 95 ft of 0.117 oz Au/t from 20 to 115 ft (29.0 m of
4.012 g Au/t from 6.1 to 35.1 m), but with 30% higher grade and 25%
greater thickness. The program will test geologic, geochemical and
geophysical targets southeast of MR09-05C in an area of complex
faulting and folding.
Permitting Update
To date, Montezuma's drilling has been permitted through a
Notice of Intent (NOI) with the Bureau of Land Management. The NOI
limits surface disturbance to a maximum of 5 acres (2 hectares). A
Plan of Operations/Permit for Reclamation (POO) was filed in March
2010 with the Bureau of Land Management and is expected to be
approved later this year. The POO will allow for the drilling of 31
holes in the first phase. When complete, the POO will allow for up
to 24.6 acres (9.96 hectares) of surface disturbance and increased
flexibility in drill testing a variety of targets across the
project.
The Red Canyon project includes 254 unpatented lode mining
claims (7.9 square miles / 20.6 square kilometers) on the Battle
Mountain-Eureka Trend and adjoins U.S. Gold's Tonkin Springs
property to the west. The project covers an erosional "window" that
exposes hydrothermally altered and brecciated lower-plate carbonate
rocks that are age equivalent to the rocks hosting the Cortez Hills
gold deposit.
The data disclosed in this press release have been reviewed and
verified by Company Geologist and Nevada Projects Manager Steven
Koehler, CPG, BSc. Geology and Qualified Person as defined by
National Instrument 43-101.
Corporate Profile
Miranda Gold Corp. is a gold exploration company active in
Nevada, Alaska and Colombia whose emphasis is on generating gold
exploration projects with world-class discovery potential. Miranda
performs its own grass roots exploration and then employs a joint
venture business model on its projects in order to maximize
exposure to discovery while minimizing exploration risk. Previous
partners include Barrick Gold Exploration Inc., Newmont Mining
Inc., Placer Dome (US) Inc., Agnico-Eagle (USA) Inc., Romarco
Minerals Inc., Golden Aria Corp., the Cortez Joint Venture and the
Buckhorn Joint Venture. Miranda has ongoing partnerships with
Piedmont Mining Company Inc., White Bear Resources Inc., Queensgate
Resources Corporation, Montezuma Mines Inc., NuLegacy Corporation,
Red Eagle Mining Corporation, Ramelius Resources Ltd. and SIN
Holdings Ltd.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
“Kenneth Cunningham”
Kenneth Cunningham President and CEO
For more information visit the Company’s web site at
www.mirandagold.com or contact Fiona Grant, Manager, Investor
Relations 1-877-689-4580.
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Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX
Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release.
This news release may contain information about adjacent
properties on which we have no right to explore or mine. We advise
U.S. investors that the SEC's mining guidelines strictly prohibit
information of this type in documents filed with the SEC. U.S.
investors are cautioned that mineral deposits on adjacent
properties are not indicative of mineral deposits on our
properties. This news release may contain forward-looking
statements including but not limited to comments regarding the
timing and content of upcoming work programs, geological
interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential mineral
recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address future
events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and
uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those
currently anticipated in such statements.
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