Vancouver, British Columbia / TheNewswire / December 13, 2017 - Gitennes Exploration Inc. ("Gitennes" or the "Company") announces drill results from its first phase, orientation diamond drilling programme on its Snowbird High Grade Gold Project. The programme, completed in November consisted of ten NQ2 sized diamond drill holes totalling 1,212 metres and is the first drilling completed at Snowbird in 28 years. Previous operators drilled 88 core holes totalling approximately 9,300 metres; however, Gitennes did not have the benefit of reviewing the core as it had been destroyed.
The objective of the Company's Phase I orientation drill programme was to determine controls to high grade gold mineralization.
Key Takeaways from Phase I Drilling
- Multi-gram intervals were intersected in seven out of 10 holes, and include:
- Hole SB14-04 - 16.25 g/t gold over 1.0 metre
- Hole SB17-02 - 9.73 g/t gold over 1.0 metre
- Hole SB17-08 - 8.24 g/t gold over 0.52 metres
- Eight of the ten drill holes intersected gold grades greater than one gram/tonne (see table below);
- Highest grade gold intersected at relatively shallow depth, approximately 50 metres below the surface and remains open;
- High-grade gold intercepts occur within and adjacent to the 25 to 150 metre wide Mariposite Alteration Zone ("MAZ") in areas of high deformation (faulting/shearing) and are associated with key pathfinder elements arsenic and antimony;
- MAZ is the main target zone at Snowbird and is within the 4.8 kilometre long Sowchea Fault. Elevated gold, arsenic and antimony have historically been determined to occur at several locations over 2.3 kms of the Sowchea Fault. This target remains to be thoroughly drill tested;
- Approximately 20% of all drill core samples returned anomalous gold (>0.1 g/t);
- Drill core provides better understanding on controls on mineralization, focusses planning for second phase of drilling.
Selected Drill Intersections
** Drill intersections are core length as there is insufficient data to present true widths.
Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC)
Gitennes maintains a rigorous quality assurance/quality control program at the Snowbird Project. Selected core intervals were sawn in half and each sample half was placed in a marked sample bag with a corresponding sample tag, and then sealed. The remaining half core is retained in core boxes that are stored at a secure facility in Smithers, British Columbia. Chain of custody of samples was recorded and maintained for all samples from the drill to the laboratory.
All diamond drilling sample batches included 12% QA/QC samples consisting of certified blanks, standards and field duplicates. Two certified ore assay laboratory standards and one blank standard were used in the process and were supplied by CDN Resource Laboratories Ltd., an independent laboratory located in Langley, British Columbia. Samples were submitted to ALS Global in North Vancouver, British Columbia, an ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and ISO 9001: 2015 certified lab. Samples were prepared by crushing the entire sample to 75% passing 2mm, riffle splitting 250g and pulverizing the split to better than 85% passing 75 microns. Gold was analyzed using a 30 gram fire assay/AAS and the 36 element analysis was done by ICP-AES/ICP-MS
Gitennes is funded for Phase II of diamond drilling at Snowbird and has filed for permitting the next phase of work.
The Snowbird project is accessible year round via paved and dirt roads and sits at a relatively low elevation with moderate relief (not exceeding 190 metres). The ease of access to all parts of the property enables cost effective diamond drilling throughout the entire year.
About Gitennes Exploration Inc.
Gitennes is in the business of exploring for and advancing mineral deposits. The Company currently has two gold exploration properties, Hixon and Snowbird, both in British Columbia and a 1% Net Smelter Returns royalty on the 18 million ounce Urumalqui Silver Project in Peru.
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by D. Fraser (P.Geo.), technical advisor to the Company, who is a "qualified person" within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101.
For further information on the Company, readers are referred to the Company's website at www.gitennes.com and its Canadian regulatory filings on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
