Miranda Gold Announces Exploration Results from Pavo Real
February 14 2011 - 8:30AM
Business Wire
Miranda Gold Corp. (“Miranda”) (TSX-V: MAD) is pleased to
report on exploration activities conducted by its funding partner,
Red Eagle Mining Corporation (“Red Eagle”), at Pavo Real, Colombia.
The Pavo Real project lies within the department of Tolima,
approximately 20 km south of the city of Ibague and 45 km southeast
of AngloGold Ashanti’s La Colosa discovery.
Since completing the helicopter airborne magnetic and
radiometric surveys, Red Eagle has been actively mapping and
sampling at Pavo Real and acquiring additional concessions,
applications and leases that are now part of the Pavo Real project.
Results of this work have increased the size of the project area
and identified four new areas that show copper-gold skarn
mineralization to the northeast of the main Pavo Real project area
and evidence of disseminated sedimentary-hosted gold targets in the
center of the main Pavo Real project area.
Land Acquisition
Pavo Real project consisted of several mining concessions and
applications that totaled 25.9 sq km. New applications in and
around Pavo Real now total 17.9 sq km and new third-party tenements
between Red Eagle and various land owners, including the El Sapo
mine, total 5.0 sq km. The Pavo Real project concessions, as
defined by a 5-km Area of Interest between Miranda and Red Eagle,
now covers 48.9 sq km.
To view a location map of Pavo Real visit
http://www.mirandagold.com/new/Image.asp?i=maps/PavoReal/Figure7.jpg&id=442034.
Sampling Results
A total of 567 rock chip and channel samples have been collected
by both the Miranda and the Red Eagle exploration teams. This work
has identified four new areas that are strongly anomalous in gold
or gold and copper.
To the northeast, at the El Sapo mine, five rock chip samples
yielded assays between 0.11 g Au/t and 26.6 g Au/t. Silver values
ranged from 0.42 g Ag/t to 4,250 g Ag/t and copper values ranged
from 0.43% to 13%. Bismuth, lead and zinc were also elevated
suggesting mineralization is part of a skarn system. Further to the
northeast, near the Santa Barbara mine area, 29 rock samples
returned gold assays ranging from 0.01 g Au/t to 37.2 g Au/t.
Silver and copper values were also elevated.
The areas to the northeast of the original Pavo Real project,
where intrusive rocks are in contact with limestone, show evidence
of a copper-gold skarn system. The main Pavo Real project area
contains limestone, sandstone, and conglomerate sequences, locally
cut by intrusives and intrusive breccia. Most mapped units appear
to host some amount of disseminated or fracture and vein-controlled
gold mineralization.
On the original Pavo Real concessions, sampling has identified
two new anomalous areas of gold mineralization. The first area is
approximately 600 m south of an area that up until recently was
being mined by illegal miners. The area being mined had been
off-limits to Miranda and Red Eagle while procedures were
implemented to gain access and have the miners removed. The miners
were working an area of anomalous gold in soils that has dimensions
of 700 m long by 100 to 500 m wide. The soils anomaly contains
approximately 30 known adits with significant sampled gold grades,
The new zone, referred to as Quebrada Corosal, defined by 155 rock
samples, is 340 m long and 137 m wide. Assays vary from below
detection levels to a high of 45.7 g Au/t and average 1.29 g Au/t.
The ground between this new anomaly and the area where the illegal
miners were working has not yet been sampled.
The fourth area of anomalous gold is in the Quebrada Virgen
drainage where 38 rock samples range from below detection limits to
9.80 g Au/t. Additional work is needed to see if these three target
areas tie together.
Geologists from Red Eagle continue to map and sample at Pavo
Real and expect to soon be able to access the original target area
that up until recently was occupied by illegal miners. A major
drill program is planned once this work is completed and Red Eagle
completes their Initial Public Offering.
The data disclosed in this press release have been reviewed and
verified by President & CEO Ken Cunningham, PG, 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 Gold 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.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services
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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