Thunder Mountain Gold Updates Progress at theTrout Creek Project, Lander County, Nevada
August 22 2013 - 9:09AM
Business Wire
Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc. (TSX-V:THM)
(OTCQB:THMG) (the Company), is pleased to announce that it
has satisfied the first phase work commitment on its strategic
agreement with Newmont USA Limited on its Trout Creek Project. The
geological and geophysical work completed during the past two years
advanced the Company’s Project in Lander County, Nevada. This first
phase included the expenditure of a required minimum $150,000
directly on exploration of the target area.
Jim Collord, Chief Operating Officer of the Company, said, “We
are very pleased with the results of the geophysical survey, and to
have satisfied the work commitment for the first term with Newmont.
Having Newmont as a partner adds tremendous value to the project,
and substantially enhances our interpretation and understanding of
the target. We continue to believe that Trout Creek is one of the
best remaining pediment plays in Nevada.”
Based on the results of the initial gravity survey, Jim Wright –
Geophysical Consultant - engineered a follow-up CSAMT survey for
the target area. The Company contracted with Zonge International,
Inc. to complete the CSAMT survey. Due to the efficiency of the
access and terrain, Zonge was able to complete three lines of CSAMT
in the area, which complemented an older survey completed by Cyprus
(1995) and Crown Resources (1992). Jim Wright received and analyzed
the CSAMT data.
The work summarized in Jim Wright’s report defined the depth to
bedrock and identified a drill target in the structure beneath the
pediment, as well as a potential target for a follow-up on previous
drilling. Thunder Mountain will further evaluate this data during
the coming months in anticipation of a drilling program. Envirotech
Drilling visited the project with Jim Collord in June in
preparation of conducting reverse circulation drilling later in
2013 or early in 2014.
Qualified Person – Edward D.
Fields is the Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument
43-101 responsible for the technical data reported in this news
release.
About Trout Creek
Trout Creek is a gold target situated on the Eureka-Battle
Mountain trend in the Reese River Valley east of Newmont’s
operating Phoenix Mine and past producing Cove-McCoy Mines. Thunder
Mountain signed a strategic exploration agreement with Newmont USA
Limited in 2011. Newmont included a private mineral package
covering about 9,565 acres added to the original 60 unpatented
mining claims (1,200 acres) staked by Thunder Mountain Gold in
2007, which significantly expanded the project.
Under the terms of the Agreement, the Company was responsible
for conducting the exploration program and expended in excess of
$150,000 over the first two years of the Agreement, with additional
expenditures planned in future years. Conducting drilling on
Newmont lands is part of the work commitment, but the Agreement can
be terminated after the minimum expenditure commitment has been
made. The Agreement outlines the terms of a joint venture in which
Newmont can earn up to 70% of the project by expending 150% of the
Company’s expenditures up to the point that Newmont decides to form
a joint venture. If the Company defines economic mineralization of
500,000 ounces of gold or gold equivalent resources on the property
and Newmont decides not to joint venture, then the Company can
obtain ownership of any or all of the Newmont lands within the Area
of Influence and Newmont would retain three percent (3%) of net
smelter returns (NSR) as royalty interest.
About Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc.
Thunder Mountain Gold, a junior gold exploration company founded
in 1935, owns interests in several U.S. precious metals projects.
The Company’s principal assets are The South Mountain Project –
Owyhee Gold Trust Joint Venture, located on private land in
southern Idaho, just north of the Nevada border, and their Trout
Creek Project – a grass roots gold target in the Eureka-Battle
Mountain trend of central Nevada, currently under Joint Exploration
Agreement with Newmont USA Limited. For more information on Thunder
Mountain, please visit the Company’s website at
www.Thundermountaingold.com.
U.S. Securities Act of 1933
This press release does not constitute an offer of any
securities for sale or a solicitation of an offer to purchase any
securities.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that are
based on the beliefs of management and reflect the Company's
current expectations. The forward-looking statements are based on
certain assumptions, which could change materially in the future.
By their nature, forward-looking information involves known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause
actual results, performance or achievements to be materially
different from any future results, performance or achievements
expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Such
factors include the risk that the Company may not fully advance the
Trout Creek Project contemplated in this press release. There can
be no assurance that forward-looking information will prove to be
accurate, as actual results and future events could differ
materially from those anticipated in such statements. Accordingly,
investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking
information. Forward-looking information is provided as of the date
of this press release, and the Company assumes no obligation to
update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances,
except as required in accordance with applicable laws.
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Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the TSX Venture
Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of
this release. The United States Securities and Exchange Commission
(“SEC”) permits mining companies, in their filings with the SEC, to
disclose only those mineral deposits that a company can
economically and legally extract or produce.
For further information, please contact:
Thunder Mountain Gold Inc.
Eric Jones, President and C.E.O.Email:
eric@thundermountaingold.comPhone: (208) 658-1037Jim Collord, Vice
President and C.O.O.Email: jim@thundermountaingold.com
Thunder Mountain Gold Inc.Eric Jones, (208)
658-1037President and C.E.O.eric@thundermountaingold.comorJim
CollordVice President and C.O.O.jim@thundermountaingold.com
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