TerraX to Acquire UBreccia Property Adjacent to Northbelt, NWT; UBreccia Contains Extensions of Northbelt Mineralized Shears
March 12 2014 - 7:00AM
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TerraX to Acquire UBreccia Property Adjacent to Northbelt, NWT;
UBreccia Contains Extensions of Northbelt Mineralized Shears
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Mar 12, 2014) -
TerraX Minerals Inc. (TSX-VENTURE:TXR)(FRANKFURT:TX0) has entered
into a purchase agreement for the UBreccia property, which is
contiguous with and immediately west-southwest of its Northbelt
property in the Yellowknife City Gold Project, Northwest
Territories, Canada. The Ubreccia property consists of three claims
totaling 1,394 hectares; it is being purchased from Panarc
Resources Ltd for 75,000 common shares, subject to acceptance for
filing by the TSX Venture Exchange. Panarc will retain a 1% NSR, of
which 0.5% can be purchased by TerraX at any time for $1,000,000. A
property location map is available on the TerraX website at
www.terraxminerals.com.
The property is bisected by the major, late, north to
north-northwest trending West Bay and Akaitcho faults, which
intersect on the property. These faults displace the Con and Giant
ore systems approximately 5 km south of the property. The West Bay
Fault also serves as the western boundary for the Yellowknife
Greenstone Belt in this area. Mafic rocks of the greenstone belt
comprise on the order of one third of the property; the remainder
is underlain by felsic plutonic rocks of the Defeat Plutonic
Suite.
Gold occurs in shears, quartz veins and fault breccias
associated with late north-northwest trending structures in the
Defeat Plutonic Suite on the Uptown Property, which adjoins the
UBreccia Property to the south. Grab samples with up to 113.5 g/t
Au have been obtained from these structures (Technical Report,
April 13, 2013; North Sur Resources Inc., www.sedar.com).
Preliminary prospecting on the property by Panarc revealed the
presence of silicified and hematized fault breccias up to 100 m
wide with minor gold anomalism (up to 94 ppb).
TerraX acquired the UBreccia property partly to explore for
structurally controlled gold in late faults in the Default Plutonic
Suite, but mainly to explore for more conventional mesothermal gold
deposits in the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt. At least four
mineralized structures identified by TerraX and previous workers on
the Northbelt property project onto the UBreccia property. The
Island Lake Shear, a possible extension of the Crestaurum Shear,
returned a chip sample of 1 m @ 27.9 g/t Au less than 1 km from the
UBreccia property (TerraX News Release, November 6, 2013). The AES
shear produced a grab sample of 12.85 g/t Au 4.2 km from the
UBreccia property; this structure clearly strikes onto the
property. The Finger Lake and Raven Lake shears have not been
properly explored by TerraX, but have been identified as
gold-bearing by previous workers; both strike onto the UBreccia
property. Each of the structures potentially has between 750 and
1,200 m of prospective strike length on the UBreccia property and
within the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt.
The technical information contained in this news release has
been approved by Tom Setterfield, Vice President Exploration of
TerraX, who is a Qualified Person as defined in "National
Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral
Projects."
About Northbelt and the
Yellowknife City Gold Project
With the addition of the Ubreccia property, TerraX's Yellowknife
City Gold Project now encompasses approximately 8,400 hectares of
contiguous land immediately north of the City of Yellowknife in the
Northwest Territories and includes TerraX's wholly-owned Northbelt
property acquired in February 2013.
The Northbelt gold property encompasses 3,562 hectares on the
prolific Yellowknife belt, all within 15 km of the city of
Yellowknife, and covers 13 km of strike on the northern extension
of the geology that contained the Giant (7.8 Moz) and Con (5.5 Moz)
gold mines. The Northbelt property is host to multiple shears that
are the recognized hosts for gold deposits in the Yellowknife camp
and it contains innumerable gold showings.
TerraX has carried out a strategy of acquiring prospective
ground adjacent to Northbelt and in October 2013 entered into an
option agreement whereby it can acquire a 100% interest in the
Walsh Lake gold property, which is contiguous with and immediately
east of Northbelt. The Walsh Lake property consists of seven leases
and five claims totaling 6,659 acres (2,695 hectares). TerraX has
also staked ground to the west of Northbelt to cover prospective
geology that is on strike from Northbelt structures.
For more information on the Yellowknife City Gold Project,
please visit our web site at www.terraxminerals.com.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Joseph Campbell, President
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the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
This news release contains forward-looking information, which
involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors
that may cause actual events to differ materially from current
expectation. Important factors - including the availability of
funds, the results of financing efforts, the completion of due
diligence and the results of exploration activities - that could
cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's
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time to time on SEDAR (see www.sedar.com). Readers are cautioned
not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements,
which speak only as of the date of this press release. The company
disclaims any intention or obligation, except to the extent
required by law, to update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of new information, future events
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