Gunpoint Plans 6000-Meter Drill Program at Nevada Talapoosa Property
29 January 2011 - 1:30AM
Marketwired
Gunpoint Exploration Ltd. (TSX VENTURE: GUN) plans to commence
exploration drilling on its 100% owned Talapoosa Project (Nevada)
in May 2011 as part of its effort to substantially increase the
existing NI 43-101 compliant resource (Measured+Indicated+Inferred)
of 958,000 ounces of gold at 0.92g/t and 12,483,000 ounces of
silver at 12g/t.
Based on the results of a recently completed geophysical survey,
Gunpoint has identified several untested IP anomalies under thin
post-mineral cover, peripheral to the existing resource at
Talapoosa. Historic drill holes in the vicinity of these targets
show very encouraging intercepts including;
TAL-213 from 52 to 58m (6m) averaging 17g/t Au
TAL-220 from 68.6 to 71.6m (3m) averaging 8 g/t Au
TAL-195 from 68 to 81m (13m) averaging 7.5 g/t Au
TAL-193 from 70 to 90m (20m) averaging 3.2 g/t Au
In addition, field mapping and sampling during the latter half
of 2010 identified the Appaloosa Structure, a 5 km long zone of
intense silicification and hydrothermal brecciation, parallel to
the Talapoosa structure, and located two kilometers to the north.
The numerous breccia bodies, which are generally less than 100 by
50 meters in surface dimensions, contain opal-chalcedony vein and
sinter fragments and crosscutting epithermal veins. Grab samples
from these breccias have assayed as high as 1.6 g/t gold with
anomalous silver, arsenic and mercury. The southeastern kilometer
of the Appaloosa structure is more deeply eroded and the breccia
bodies grade downward into discrete vein, which were mined on a
small scale in the early half of the 19th Century. Channel sampling
across a 3-meter wide vein, which was traced along strike for over
600 meters, averaged 11.7g/t Au. A grab samples from old workings
on the same vein have assayed as high as 64g/t gold.
Several IP targets associated with surface epithermal veining
and underlying IP anomalies, on the eastern end of the Appaloosa
Structure have been targeted in the first round of drilling.
Similar mineralization is expected to underlie the less deeply
eroded breccia bodies along the remaining four kilometers of the
Appaloosa Structure.
Last December Gunpoint purchased five lode claims located
between Talapoosa and Appaloosa Structures. With the purchase of
these claims, Gunpoint now has access to the entire area within the
Talapoosa - Appaloosa epithermal gold district. During November,
the Company also staked 90 additional mining claims to the north
and east of the existing 10,000 hectares comprising the Talapoosa
Project.
Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services
Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX
Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release.
Contacts: Gunpoint Exploration Ltd. Dr. E. Max Baker President
604-408-8829 www.gunpointexploration.com
http://christopherjamesgold.com
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