SAGUENAY, QUEBEC - (Feb. 12, 2009) -
Arianne Resources Inc (TSX VENTURE:DAR) (FRANKFURT:JE9) (OTCBB:DARUF) ("Arianne " or the "Company") previously announced on August 21, 2008, the filing of a preliminary prospectus in order to list its subsidiary Oroplata Exploration inc. ("Oroplata") on the TSX Venture Exchange. The financial crisis happened shortly after and the Company could not complete the IPO for Oroplata. Arianne wishes to inform its shareholders that it is actively working on Oroplata's financing and confirms that the Oroplata share distribution dividend will take place as soon as market conditions improve. Oroplata owns two mining properties in Mexico including El Rey that contains historical resources in gold and silver.
2008 exploration results from El Rey, Sinaloa, Mexico : Following an IP geophysical survey and recent field works, Oroplata is pleased to announce the presence of a highly anomalous zone located in the North-West sector of the survey grid. The anomalous sector covers an area of 100,000 square metres and shows a magnetic relief generally flat to moderate. It is constituted of many PP anomalies of moderate intensity that could be oriented NW-SE to W.SW-E.NE, that will require more definition. To this day, this zone remains open in the west part of the survey grid (
http://www.arianne-inc.com/fichiers/oroplata_overview.pdf)
On surface, the anomalous area is linked to a highly silicified and clayed zone that has not been drill tested. It's located on strike to the west to the Mina los Copales where previous works outlined the gold and silver artisan mines of La Blanca and Los Copales.
For example, the average grades of 17 rock samples in 1992 from the La Blanca level returned 10.9 g/t Au and 110.8 g/t Ag. The average grades of 15 rock samples from the Los Copales level returned 5.1 g/t Au and 113.5 g/t Ag while an additional 10 samples from the Los Cuates level returned on average 9.3 g/t Au and 74.9 g/t Ag. 12 samples extracted between the Los Copales and El Ebano levels returned on average 9.9 g/t Au and 288 g/t Ag while 5 additional samples located between the La Blanca and Los Perritos levels returned on average grades of 6.8 g/t Au and 64.3 g/t Ag. These results are historical results that are not compliant with NI 43-101.
The additional surface rock sampling that took place in 2007 and 2008, returned similar grades to those historical results near the previous artisan exploitation. Three samples returned average grades of 3.25 g/t Au and 100.66 g/t Ag near the Los Copales level while near the Los Cuates and El Ebano levels, two series of 8 and 5 samples returned average grades of 2.7 g/t Au and 9.5 g/t Ag and 1.72 g/t Au and 50 g/t Ag. Finally, the average grades of 4 samples located near the Los Perritos level returned 4.84 g/t Au and 33.25 g/t Ag. The assays were performed with the fire assay method followed by a gold and silver determination by Atomic Absorption Spectrometry at Mineraleslab of Mazatl�n, Mexico (
http://www.mineraleslab.com).
The samples extracted from the surface from the silicified and clayed zone within the IP anomalies returned only weak anomalous grades below 100 ppb for gold and 10,000 ppb for silver. "According to our projected model for the formation of this deposit (Low-Sulphidation Epithermal System), this zone would correspond to the silica hat that takes form on top of the mineralized zone. This silicified rock does not generally bear gold and silver mineralization. The gold and silver zones are located more in depth under this hat." commented Mr. Bernard Lapointe, Geo. and CEO of the Company. "It is clear that the El Ray property shows a lot of potential. The sector where the IP anomalies are located correspond to this silicified zone. Also, it is oriented in a parallel axis to a fault system that links another silicified zone located 300 metres South. Drill hole ER-17 (Cie Exploraciones Eldorado, Mexico, S.A. de C.V.), located within the alteration envelope of this zone, returned gold grades of 1.0 g/t Au on 18 metres along the hole. This intersection confirms the model that the 2008 exploration campaign outlined. This new target is exciting and we are eager to drill test it."
Finally, cyanidation recovery tests on the ancestral mine between the Los Copales and La Blanca levels returned excellent results with a recovery of 98%. It seems that this type of ore can fit any type of direct cyanidation: Merrill-Crowe, CIP and heap leaching. Easy access to the property as well as the proximity of infrastructures will facilitate this type of particularly economic exploitation. These tests were performed at Laboratoire LTM Inc. of Val d'Or, Quebec, Canada.
Arianne Resource is a Canadian mining exploration company with the primary mission to explore, find and develop gold and phosphorous deposits in Canada and in Mexico. The content of this press release has been prepared by Mr. Bernard Lapointe, geo.., Qualified Person according to NI 43-101.
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Mr. Bernard Lapointe
CEO
418-549-7316
Fax: 418-549-5750
bernard@arianne-inc.com
or
Arianne Resources Inc.
Mr. Norman Forrest
Vice-president - Corporate
450-736-0453
norman@arianne-inc.com