Miranda Gold’s Coal Canyon Project Added to the Red Hill Exploration Funding Agreement
January 05 2011 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Miranda Gold Corp. (“Miranda”) (TSX-V: MAD) announces
that NuLegacy Gold Corporation (“NuLegacy”) (TSX-V: NUG) has signed
an amendment to the Red Hill exploration funding agreement (the
“Agreement”). The Agreement now incorporates Miranda’s Coal Canyon
project along with the Red Hill project and increases the earn-in
requirement by US$1.5 million with a drill commitment on Coal
Canyon.
Under the terms of the Agreement, NuLegacy must spend an
additional US$1,500,000 in qualifying exploration expenditures over
a four year period, for a new total of US$5,500,000. NuLegacy has
committed to drill three 1,500 ft (457 m) holes on the Coal Canyon
project by the end of 2013. Miranda will also receive an additional
50,000 shares in NuLegacy upon signing the Agreement.
For further information on the Red Hill exploration funding
agreement visit
http://www.mirandagold.com/s/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=364296&_Type=News-Releases&_Title=Miranda-Gold-Corp.-and-NuLegacy-Gold-Corporation-Sign-Agreement-to-Explore-
Since signing the original Red Hill Agreement with Miranda,
NuLegacy has been active in consolidating a district size
exploration play around Red Hill. On October 21, NuLegacy announced
that they had completed an option on 14 sq mi (36 sq km) of mining
claims contiguous to and to the east of Miranda’s Red Hill
property. NuLegacy had previously optioned a large claim block from
Barrick Gold Exploration Inc. that is contiguous to and west of the
Red Hill such that they now control a district sized project of 45
sq mi (116 sq km). Miranda’s Coal Canyon property is adjacent to
the Barrick ground. Miranda sees this district wide consolidation
as a positive move as it indicates that NuLegacy is committed to
fully exploring the area over a period of years.
Project Details
The Coal Canyon sediment hosted gold project consists of 64
unpatented lode claims in the heart of the Cortez Trend. The
property is 10 mi (16 km) south of Barrick’s Cortez Hills gold
deposit (+13 M oz) and it adjoins the northeast side of US Gold's
Tonkin Springs property. The property occupies 2 sq mi (5.2 sq km)
of the Windmill lower-plate window, a feature that exposes
favorable carbonate rocks that are analogous to carbonate rocks
that host the Cortez Hills and Pipeline gold deposits.
Mapping and sampling has shown a high-priority target in the
northwestern portion of the property where a discrete
west-northwest trending corridor of faulting, lamprophyre dikes,
folding, alteration and elevated surface gold, arsenic and
antimony. The fault-fold corridor is 2,600 ft by 6,500 ft (800 m by
2,000 m) in dimension and approximately half of that area has never
been drilled. West-northwest zones of fault, fold and dikes are
known to be important controls to mineralization elsewhere in the
Cortez Trend
Five drill holes within the corridor show hydrothermal
alteration and dikes in the Roberts Mountains and Hanson Creek
Formations. Of particular interest was drill hole MCC-4 which
intersected 10 ft of 0.011 oz Au/t from 980 to 990 ft (3.0 m of
0.392 g Au/t from 298.8 to 301.8 m) within a larger, lower-grade
gold zone that returned 230 ft of 0.004 oz Au/t from 970 to 1,200
ft (70.1 m of 0.140 g Au/t from 295.7 to 365.8 m). The higher level
gold is associated with an interval of sooty pyrite and silica
cemented breccia and dolomite stockwork.
For more details on the Coal Canyon project visit
http://www.mirandagold.com/s/CoalCanyon.asp.
The data disclosed in this press release have been reviewed and
verified by President & CEO Ken Cunningham, P.Geo, MSc. 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 and 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. Miranda
has ongoing partnerships with Agnico-Eagle USA Limited, Montezuma
Mines Inc., Navaho Gold Pty Ltd., NuLegacy Corporation, Piedmont
Mining Company Inc., Ramelius Resources Ltd. and Red Eagle Mining
Corporation.
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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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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