AuEx Ventures, Inc.: Initial Column Leach Test Results Announced for Long Canyon
11 June 2009 - 9:00PM
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AuEx Ventures, Inc. ("AuEx" or the "Company") (TSX: XAU) is pleased
to announce that gold recoveries averaging as high as 90.1% have
been received from the initial series of column leach tests
performed on four bulk samples of gold mineralization from the
Company's Long Canyon gold deposit in joint venture with Fronteer
Development Group Inc. These results provide continuing support
that gold mineralization at the Long Canyon Venture is readily
amenable to standard heap-leach process technology.
In late 2008, four bulk samples, each weighing approximately 1.5
tons, were obtained from outcrop exposures of gold mineralization
in road-cuts at the Company's Long Canyon gold project and
submitted to McClelland Laboratories, Inc. of Sparks, Nevada for a
series of column leach tests at crush sizes of -25mm (-1 inch) and
-75mm (-3 inch). Gold recovery rates for all of the samples were
rapid and gold extraction was substantially complete within the
first 10 to 15 days of leaching. Gold recoveries for the -75mm feed
size ranged from 84.2% to 96.6% (89.7% average) in approximately 65
days of leaching and rinsing. Column leach gold recoveries for the
-25mm feed size ranged from 85.6% to 96.3% (90.1% average) in
approximately 69 days of leaching and rinsing. Reagent consumption
levels were low and no solution percolation, fines migration,
solution channeling or slumping problems were evident in this
initial phase of column leaching. Cumulative recovery charts for
the column leach tests on the four samples are posted on the
Company's website.
Additional column leach test work is planned during 2009 as part
of the current $14.1 million work program currently underway at
Long Canyon. These new column leach metallurgical tests will be
performed on deeper, sub-surface samples of gold mineralization
obtained from drilling of 17 PQ sized (4.5 inch diameter) core
holes that were completed in May. The results of this work will be
available later in 2009.
Gary Simmons, a Qualified Professional with the Mining and
Metallurgical Society of America and consultant to the Long Canyon
Venture, is the Qualified Person who has overseen the collection
and verification of the data for this release and has reviewed and
approved the content.
AuEx Ventures, Inc. is a precious metals exploration company
that has a current portfolio of twenty one exploration projects in
Nevada, two projects in Argentina and one project in Spain. The
Company controls about 176,000 acres of unpatented claims and fee
land in prospective areas of Nevada. Nine of the projects are in
exploration earn-in or formal joint venture agreements with four
companies who provide exploration funding. The Company applies the
extensive exploration experience and high-end technical skills of
its founders to search for and acquire new precious metal
exploration projects that are then offered for joint venture.
AuEx Ventures, Inc.
Ronald L. Parratt, President & CEO
This release includes certain statements that may be deemed to
be "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the U.S.
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements in
this release, other than statements of historical facts, that
address future production, reserve potential, exploration and
development activities and events or developments that the Company
expects, are forward-looking statements. Although the management of
AuEx believes the expectations expressed in such forward-looking
statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are
not guarantees of future performance, and actual results or
developments may differ materially from those in the
forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results
to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements
include market prices, exploration and development successes,
continued availability of capital and financing, and general
economic, market or business conditions. Please see our public
filings at www.sedar.com for further information.
Contacts: AuEx Ventures, Inc. Ronald L. Parratt 775-337-1545
rparratt@auex.com
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