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Re: News Releases - Thursday, June 25, 2009
Troymet Updates Skarn Zone, Golden Eagle Project
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June 25, 2009 - Troymet Exploration Corp. (TSXV:TYE) ("Troymet" or the
"Company") is pleased to provide additional information on the Skarn
zone, one of several gold prospects located in the north block of the
Golden Eagle project in northern British Columbia. The Golden Eagle
project lies at the southern end of the Tintina Gold Belt, which
contains many intrusion-related gold deposits such as Pogo (Alaska),
Fort Knox (Alaska) and Dublin Gulch (Yukon). The data base for the
Skarn zone is being updated and re-compiled in preparation for the
upcoming summer field program.
The 2008 exploration program indicated the presence of a large
intrusion-related gold system spanning the ~12-kilometre strike length
of the northern half of the Golden Eagle property. This gold system is
exposed in the granite/rhyolite of the Tannis zone but capped by
sediments and mafic volcanics of variable thickness to the north, where
multiple zones of gold-silver-arsenic-antimony mineralization occur in
the Plateau, Skarn, West Gully, Cowboy, and West Draw zones. These
zones are developed in the roof of the intrusion over an area of
approximately 5 x 5 kilometres. The Company believes that these zones
may represent leakage mineralization of a potentially larger
mineralized system below and directly related to the underlying
intrusive.
The Skarn zone is a high, NW-trending ridge approximately 700 metres
long and 200 metres wide. The zone is a structurally-controlled,
gold-bearing, amphibole-sulphide skarn located along the Paddy Fault
that tracks the west contact of the Stuhini Group with the Boundary
Ranges Metamorphic Suite. This fault is a western splay off the
terrane-bounding Llewellyn Fault situated approximately 2 kilometres to
the east. The amphibole-sulphide skarn and iron gossans are best
developed in an area of abundant felsic dykes, which are probably
related to the upper parts of a much larger underlying granitic pluton.
The Skarn zones is overlain by a moderate to strong gold-in-soil
anomaly (5 to 1800 ppb), approximately 500 metres long and 120 metres
wide. Chip and channel samples collected from trenches by Lodestar
Exploration in 1990 returned 6.4 to 44.7 g/t over widths of 2.0 to 2.4
metres. Prospecting (grab) samples collected by Noranda in 1993-94 and
Westmin Resources in 1996 returned gold values ranging from 5 to 3350
ppb gold with four samples assaying 411, 134, 105, 36.7 g/t gold.
Silver (0.2 to 240 ppm), antimony (2 to 4440 ppm) and copper (0.9 to
16,500 ppm) are also anomalous over the zone.
Gold mineralization in the Skarn zone occurs as visible gold and
associated with pyrite in narrow (5- 25 mm) quartz-calcite stringer
veins. Visible gold also occurs with quartz-carbonate-sulphide veinlets
(1-10 mm) in host rocks near a feldspar-amphibole porphyry dyke at the
north end of the Skarn zone. Five grab samples reported by Lodestar
from a trench in this area range from 8.9 to 200.5 g/t gold. The trench
lies approximately 90 metres east of the Paddy Fault.
Historically, there has been very limited
Diamond drilling on the Skarn
zone. The drilling has been shallow and significant areas of the zone
remain untested. Drilling in the area of the trench which returned
200.5 g/t gold in a grab sample returned intercepts ranging from 1.28
g/t gold over 6.0 metres to 14.6 g/t gold over 1.0 metre. Four holes
drilled on the Paddy Fault (approximately 90 metres to the west) over a
265 metre strike length returned intercepts ranging from 1.32 g/t gold
over 3.2 metres to 7.64 g/t gold over 3.45 metres.
The Skarn zone is believed to be developed in the cap rocks of a buried
felsic intrusive, with the gold mineralization derived directly from
the intrusive as at the Tannis zone. Skarn-type alteration is noted
around the granite contact at Tannis and in other zones, giving
credence to this model. The Company believes the Skarn zone is open to
the north and south along the Paddy Fault, and westward toward the
Cowboy zone. The drilling to date has not tested the system at depth.
The 2009 program will, in part, focus on the identification of high
impact intrusive-related gold drill targets in the Skarn zone and its
extensions.
Troymet is a junior exploration company with precious and base metal
projects located in British Columbia and Manitoba, Canada. The Company
is actively seeking partners to advance its highly prospective
properties and continues to seek new projects with high-value and
large-tonnage potential to add to its portfolio.
Tracy Hurley, P.Geo., Vice President, Exploration and qualified person
as defined by National Instrument 43-101 is responsible for the
technical information provided in this release. An overview of previous
work conducted on the Skarn and other zones is presented in a technical
report entitled "Report on the 2006 Mineral Exploration Program on the
Golden Eagle Property, Atlin Area, Northwestern British Columbia" dated
October 2, 2007 by independent qualified person, Scott Casselman, P.
Geo. (Reference Troymet Exploration SEDAR filing October 11, 2007). A
location map of the various mineralized zones at Golden Eagle is
available at www.troymet.com/s/GoldenEagle.asp.
TROYMET EXPLORATION CORP.
Kieran Downes, Ph.D., P.Geo.
President, CEO & Director
For further information, contact:
Shiro Rae
Investor Relations
Troymet Exploration Corp.
Tel: 1-888-456-4952 or srae@troymet.com
Website: www.troymet.com
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Message sent on Wed Jun 24, 2009 at 4:31:57 PM Pacific Time
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