Strongbow Returns 66.9 g/t Gold at the Shovelnose Property, BC
03 December 2009 - 12:45AM
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Strongbow Exploration Inc. (TSX VENTURE: SBW) is pleased to report
results from a recent exploration program on its wholly owned
Shovelnose gold property in southwestern British Columbia. The
mineral claims are located near the southern end of the Spences
Bridge gold belt, approximately 175 km east of Vancouver and 30 km
south of Merritt along the Coquihalla Highway. Exploration
activities included approximately 350 m of mechanized trenching in
14 trenches intended to further evaluate the Mik and Line 6 gold
showings. Gold mineralization occurs within massive to colloform
banded quartz veins and local vein breccia zones, hosted within
moderately to strongly altered felsic volcanic rocks.
Three of the 2009 trenches tested the Mik area with a best
result of 2.9 m grading 2.7 g/t Au and 18.1 g/t Ag. A separate chip
sample collected from a 12 cm thick quartz vein from within this
2.9 metre interval returned 66.9 g/t Au and 75 g/t Ag. This high
grade vein exhibits a bladed quartz texture, suggestive of a
boiling zone within an epithermal vein system, and is interpreted
to be the continuation of multiple high grade, colloform banded
veins that have now been traced over a strike length of 45 metres.
In 2008, these veins returned gold grades ranging from 1.0 g/t to
46.3 g/t. Overall the Mik showing has been defined over a width of
170 metres based on multiple quartz veins and could have a
north-south strike extent of up to 550 metres based on the location
of a 2008 float sample that returned 119.4 g/t Au and 271 g/t
Ag.
The remaining eleven trenches tested the Line 6 showing as
follow up to trenching completed in 2008 which returned a best
result of 5.1 g/t over 6.0 m. Five of the 2009 trenches have
returned anomalous gold mineralization ( greater than 150 ppb gold)
over widths ranging from 5 to 21 metres, with a best result of 0.8
g/t gold over 21 m, including 4.9 g/t gold over 2.0 m. Similar to
the Mik showing, Line 6 mineralization is focused within narrow,
north-northeast trending quartz veins. Mineralization has now been
identified in bedrock over an east-west extent in excess of 400 m.
In the eastern Line 6 area, a series of recently discovered quartz
veins define a quartz rich corridor ranging up to 40 metres wide
and extending 120 m southwards into two trenches from 2008 which
returned 2.0 m grading 17.0 g/t Au and 4.0 m grading 3.35 g/t Au.
This area of veining remains open along strike to the north and
south, as well to the east and west where more parallel veins could
be discovered.
Overall, mineralization at the Mik and Line 6 showings is hosted
within quartz veins and breccia zones, with very limited gold
mineralization within altered felsic volcanic host rocks. Exposure
is generally very poor and trenching has allowed a better
evaluation of potential host structures. Future work will include
detailed ground geophysical and soil geochemical surveys to better
define potential structures that could represent conduits for gold
bearing fluids and potential drill targets.
Strongbow's 2009 exploration programs are conducted under the
supervision of David Gale, P.Geo.(BC), Vice-President of
Exploration for Strongbow and a qualified person under NI 43-101. A
quality assurance/quality control program is in place, with the
insertion of standard, blank and field duplicate samples into the
sample stream. All samples from the field program were submitted to
Acme Analytical Laboratories of Vancouver, BC for analysis. All
samples are analyzed by 36 element ICP-MS using aqua regia
digestion. All samples that returned gold values greater than 100
ppb were re-analyzed using a standard fire assay technique on a 30
g sample split.
STRONGBOW EXPLORATION INC.
Kenneth A. Armstrong, President and CEO
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed, and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy of this release.
Contacts: Strongbow Exploration Inc. Ken Armstrong President and
CEO 604 668 8355 604 668 8366 (FAX) info@strongbowexploration.com
www.strongbowexploration.com
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