Wednesday Jan 11, 2012 by Business Wire
The following table includes highlights from the drill holes reported today from the 147 Zone (all uncut, average gold grades over core length widths):
Hole Number Core Width Gold Assay
(m) (gpt)
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GF11-239 5.35 13.72
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including 1.00 45.53
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5.00 3.15
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GF11-249 3.59 5.14
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including 0.50 13.92
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18.00 11.89
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including 3.00 3.36
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and 6.00 33.57
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and 3.00 63.54
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GF11-253 12.00 5.39
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including 0.55 46.49
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GF11-263 10.00 8.75
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including 1.00 18.10
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and 5.00 13.12
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GF11-266 11.00 3.52
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including 4.00 7.29
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GF11-280 39.40 4.41
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including 1.00 10.22
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and 16.65 6.55
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and 6.00 11.78
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and 8.00 5.73
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"We are very pleased to receive additional high grade drill results over thick intervals," said Howard Bird, Brigus' Vice President of Exploration. "These excellent results expand the 147 Zone and will positively impact the size of the current gold resource."
The independent initial NI 43-101 resource estimate for the 147 and Contact zones, as released in December 2011, added more than 50 percent to the gold resource at the Black Fox Complex. The ongoing drill program continues to successfully increase the size of the gold resource through step-out drilling and is also designed to convert Inferred ounces to Indicated ounces through systematic in-fill drilling. An updated resource estimate will be released mid-year 2012.
The 147 and Contact zones provide Brigus with near term production growth opportunities because of their proximity to the Black Fox mine infrastructure.
Brigus is continuing its exploration program in 2012 through an $8.0 million surface exploration program focused on expanding the 147 and Contact zones as well as other high potential zones on the Black Fox Complex. Currently, there are four drill rigs in operation on the property.
The Black Fox Complex covers an area of approximately 18 square kilometres within the Timmins Mining District, Ontario. The core area of the 147 Zone extends for approximately 250 m in a north-south direction dipping at approximately 80 degrees to the east. Gold mineralization primarily occurs within multiple quartz carbonate brecciated zones within bleached units of variolitic mafic volcanics and other parallel footwall zones.
Details of the most recent 147 Zone drill holes and the 147 Zone drill-hole location map can be found on the Company's website at www.brigusgold.com.
Surface drilling was conducted by Norex Drilling and was supervised by the Brigus exploration team. All sample analyses reported herein were performed by Polymet Labs of Cobalt, Ontario, which is ISO 9001:2000 certified in North America using standard fire assay procedures. Intercepts cited do not necessarily represent true widths, unless otherwise noted. Brigus Gold's quality control checks include insertion of blanks, standards and duplicates to ensure laboratory accuracy. Senior Exploration Project Manager John A. Dixon, P. Geo., reviewed the technical exploration information in this release as the Qualified Person for the Company.
About Brigus
Brigus is a growing gold producer committed to maximizing shareholder value through a strategy of efficient production, targeted exploration and select acquisitions. The Company operates the wholly owned Black Fox Mine and Mill in the Timmins Gold District of Ontario, Canada. The Black Fox Complex encompasses the Black Fox Mine and adjoining properties in the Township of Black River-Matheson, Ontario, Canada. Brigus is also advancing the Goldfields Project located near Uranium City, Saskatchewan, Canada, which hosts the Box and Athona gold deposits. In Mexico, Brigus Gold has completed its transaction to sell a 75% interest in the Ixhuatan Project located in the state of Chiapas to Cangold. In the Dominican Republic, Brigus has signed an agreement to sell its remaining interests in three mineral exploration projects.
Cautionary and Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this news release, which are not historical facts, are forward-looking statements that involve risk, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. All statements regarding the Company's ability to successfully expand the Black Fox Complex gold resource, add to Black Fox resources, advance new discoveries to production, convert resource estimates into near-term production, release of an updated mineral resource estimate in 2012 and the Black Fox underground mine exploration drilling program and continue to obtain positive down dip continuity of significant gold mineralization are forward-looking statements and estimates that involve various risks and uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate and actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these forward-looking statements include environmental risks and other factors disclosed under the heading "Risk Factors" in Brigus Gold's most recent Annual Information Form and Management Discussion and Analysis filed under the company's name at www.sedar.com and annual report on Form 40-F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission at www.sec.gov and elsewhere in Brigus Gold's documents filed from time to time with the Toronto Stock Exchange, the NYSE Amex, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and other regulatory authorities. All forward-looking statements included in this news release are based on information available to the Company on the date hereof. The Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable securities laws.
SOURCE: Brigus Gold Corp.
Brigus Gold Corp. Jennifer Nicholson, CA, 902-422-1421 Executive Vice President jnicholson@brigusgold.com or Katherine Burgess, 902-422-1421 Manager, Stakeholder Relations kburgess@brigusgold.com
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