Grizzly Continues Re-Evaluation of Copper Porphyry Potential at
Greenwood: Sappho Prospect Assays Yielded 0.28% CuEq(i) Over 93.5
Metres Including 0.38% CuEq Over 63.5 Metres
EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Feb 20, 2014) - Grizzly
Discoveries Inc. (TSX-VENTURE:GZD)(OTCQX:GZDIF)(FRANKFURT:G6H)
("Grizzly" or the "Company") is pleased to provide a second update
in advance of the Prospectors & Developers Association of
Canada convention at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on March
2-5, 2014, at which Grizzly will be exhibiting at Booth #3020.
In addition to the potash-prospective Alberta Potash Project in
Eastern Alberta and the diamondiferous-kimberlite hosting Alberta
Diamond Project in North-central Alberta, Grizzly Discoveries'
extensive and diverse portfolio of properties includes the
historically productive Greenwood Property in Southeastern British
Columbia. Grizzly's properties collectively cover an aggregate of
over 700,000 hectares ("ha"), which are mostly underexplored. In
order to ensure that future exploration programs yield favourable
results leading toward near-term resource definition and
development, the Company is continuing to conduct a strategic
review of all of the geological information that it has available
on its Greenwood Property, including historical information
preceding the acquisition by Grizzly, as well as the Company's
results from its exploration programs.
The strategic review revealed the potential for a copper
porphyry deposit at the Dayton Prospect based upon a
reinterpretation of the geology and a determination of
copper-equivalency(i) ("CuEq") values by incorporating coincident
gold and silver values with the copper intersected in the Company's
drillholes at the Prospect (see the Company's news release dated
February 13, 2014). This reinterpretation of core assay results
from the Dayton prospect showed values greater than 0.12% CuEq over
core lengths between 50 to 135 metres ("m"), with a number of
shorter intervals in several of the drillholes yielding up to and
greater than 0.40% CuEq.
The Company has now reinterpreted 2010 drill results from the
Sappho prospect by incorporating coincident gold, silver, and
platinum group elements ("PGE") with copper intersected in our
drillholes. This reinterpretation has returned results which are
favourable to a copper porphyry deposit model at the Sappho
prospect, with assay results yielding a wide anomalous interval of
0.28% CuEq over 93.5 m core length including a higher grade zone of
0.38 % CuEq over 63.5 m core length.
GREENWOOD PROPERTY STRATEGIC REVIEW - SAPPHO PROSPECT
In light of copper porphyry discoveries that have been made in
northwest British Columbia within the last six months, Grizzly is
conducting a strategic review of its mineral claim holdings in the
Greenwood Property in south-central British Columbia. Based upon
the recent NI 43-101 technical report (the "Technical Report")
completed for the Company by APEX Geoscience Ltd. dated September
1, 2013 and filed on SEDAR, portions of Grizzly's Greenwood
Property are considered highly prospective for the presence of
copper porphyries similar to those which have recently been
discovered in northwestern and central British Columbia.
The strategic review has identified a number of prospects that
have geological characteristics and in some cases mineralization
that is indicative of copper porphyry style mineralization.
The Sappho prospect, on which the Company conducted extensive
exploration in 2009 and 2010, has yielded strong evidence of
copper-gold-silver-platinum-palladium ("Cu-Au-Ag-PGE") alkalic
porphyry mineralization. Exploration at the Sappho zone has
resulted in numerous high grade samples from the historic workings.
However, the nature of its origin and the surrounding geology is
not fully understood. The remaining area of the Sappho claim block
is relatively underexplored compared to the extensive work at the
main showings.
Three well documented surface copper occurrences in the
northeastern portion of the complex yielded numerous high grade
selective grab sample results including up to 8.28% copper ("Cu")
298 grams per tonne ("g/t") silver ("Ag"), 2.2 g/t gold ("Au"),
27.1 g/t Platinum ("Pt") and 2.57 g/t palladium ("Pd"). All three
occurrences yielded multi gram Pt and Pd values. The Sappho
prospect is unusual relative to most British Columbia platinum
group elements-bearing alkaline intrusive complexes, in that it
contains Pt concentrations greater than Pd and Au. As reported in
the Technical Report, government geologists have conducted
extensive geochemical and mineralogical work on the Sappho alkaline
complex and associated Cu-Ag-PGE-Au mineralization and, based upon
textural and geochemical evidence, suggest that the mineralization
is late magmatic or magmatic-hydrothermal in origin and bares
mineralogical traits most common in alkaline porphyry style
associated metals.
A drill program conducted by the Company in 2010 targeted two
showings at the Sappho prospect, the Main and Northern showings,
with a drillhole beneath each showing and two additional drillholes
testing two proximal blind magnetic features with no previously
known mineralization. The two holes beneath the Sappho Main and
Sappho North showings intersected weak but anomalous Cu-Ag-PGE-Au.
The best intersection was provided by drillhole 10SP03, which
targeted a blind magnetic anomaly close to the Bodie Mountain fault
and yielded a wide anomalous interval of 0.28% CuEq over 93.5 m
core length including a higher grade zone of 0.38 % CuEq over 63.5
m core length that is comprised of 0.12% Cu, 8.68 g/t Ag, 0.22 g/t
Au, 0.10 g/t Pd and 0.07 g/t Pt. This wide anomalous interval
contains two higher grade intervals, an upper and lower zone, which
yielded 1.43% CuEq over 7 m and 1.04% CuEq over 6.5 m core length,
respectively. The mineralization in drillhole 10SP03 is hosted in a
wide and intensely hornfelsed to skarnified pyroxenite that is
brecciated and silicified in places. Hornfels alteration consists
of biotite-garnet-magnetite and is associated with abundant pyrite
and chalcopyrite. Further drilling will be required to follow up on
the results of 10SP03.
GREENWOOD PROPERTY - GEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
The Company's Greenwood Property is situated within Quesnelia
Terrane, host to the vast majority of British Columbia's major
known copper porphyry deposits from Princeton and Kamloops up to
Dease Lake. Airborne surveys conducted by the Company in 2008 and
2009 over three quarters of the Greenwood Property identified
numerous moderate to small intrusive bodies which are spatially
associated with vast areas of extensive hornfels, some of which is
associated with past producing copper-silver-gold skarn
mineralization, as in the historic Phoenix and Motherlode areas
within the Greenwood Property. The Greenwood area is underlain by
numerous deep seated structures with at least three known large
scale grabens with intrusions and extensive alteration spatially
associated the graben structures. The grabens are young and have
preserved Tertiary sediments and volcanics along with underlying
older Paleozoic to Triassic rocks within the boundaries of the
grabens, likely preserving any potential intrusion-related copper
mineralization.
FUTURE PLANS
The Company has previously identified seven distinct areas of
polymetallic mineralization within its 90,000 ha Greenwood
Property. In addition to undertaking further planned drilling on
the Ket 28 target and Dayton and Sappho prospects, the Company will
be seeking option and joint venture opportunities for development
of the other prospect areas. The mineral claims underlying the
Greenwood project are in good standing for at least four years
without further expenditures, with 40% of the claims being in good
standing until 2023, including all of the high priority targets.
The Company is also concurrently marketing internationally its
Alberta Potash Project, seeking a joint venture partner to fund the
next stage of drilling on its northern block, where historic
drilling yielded 18.6%K2O (or over 28% KCl potash).
Any proposed exploration programs to be conducted on the
Company's properties are subject to financing.
(i) Copper equivalency ("CuEq") values disclosed in this news
release have been calculated utilizing values of $1,250 per ounce
for gold, $1,400 per ounce for platinum, $700 per ounce for
palladium, $20 per ounce for silver and $3.25 per pound for
copper.
ABOUT GRIZZLY DISCOVERIES INC.
Grizzly is a diversified Canadian mineral exploration company
with its primary listing on the TSX Venture Exchange with 48.7
million shares issued, focused on developing significant Potash
assets in Alberta and its precious metals properties in
southeastern British Columbia. The Company holds, or has an
interest in: metallic and industrial mineral permits for potash
totaling more than 900,000 acres along the Alberta-Saskatchewan
border; over 235,000 acres of precious-base metal properties in
British Columbia; and more than 600,000 acres in properties which
host diamondiferous kimberlites in the Buffalo Head Hills and Birch
Mountains of Alberta.
The content of this news release and the Company's technical
disclosure has been reviewed and approved by Michael B. Dufresne,
M. Sc., P. Geol., who is the Qualified Person as defined by
National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral
Projects.
On behalf of the Board, Grizzly Discoveries Inc.
Brian Testo, President, (780) 693-2242
For further information, please visit our website at
www.grizzlydiscoveries.com or contact Investor Relations.
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