Currie Rose's Mabale exploration to focus on Mwamazengo
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Tuesday February 03 2009 - News Release
Mr. Harold Smith reports
CURRIE ROSE RESOURCES INC.: SIGNIFICANT STRUCTURES IDENTIFIED, MABALE HILLS AND SEKENKE JV GOLD PROJECTS, TANZANIA
Currie Rose Resources Inc. has identified significant structures on two joint venture gold properties in Tanzania. Currie Rose Resources is the managing partner of both of the joint ventures.
LAKE VICTORIA JV
The Mabale Hills project in central Tanzania (see Mabale prospect map at http://www.currierose.com) forms part of the Lake Victoria Joint Venture (LVJV) with ASX-listed Sub-Sahara Resources. Interpretations of geological, aeromagnetic, radiometric and induced polarization (IP) geophysical data have led to a refined interpretation of the geology and structures in the Mabale Hills Project that should allow for the expansion of the Mwamazengo Discovery and other prospects.
The new interpretation indicates that the Mwamazengo Discovery is located on the axial surface trace of a regional upright fold where it is strongly deflected and tightened in proximity to a major shear zone. Shear deformation and brecciation is common in the core of the fold. IP data show that mineralization is associated with rock units that have moderate to high chargeabilities, indicating disseminated sulfides hosted in sheared BIF (banded iron formation) and sheared leucogranite. Previous results of Rotary Air Blast (RAB), Reverse Circulation (RC) and Diamond drilling programs in the now-recognized fold at the Mwamazengo Discovery, include MBNR001: 34m @ 3.60 g/t; MBNR007: 12m @ 9.11 g/t; MBNR015: 63m @ 2.59 g/t; MBND001: 31m @ 5.97 g/t. The new structural interpretation predicts that the drilling sampled the margins of a potential deposit that would be located along strike of the fold. Exploration in 2009 will target that extension of the Mwamazengo Discovery with the goal of defining a large tonnage deposit.
The Mabale Hills project is hosted in a similar part of the Upper Archean stratigraphy to the 14.6 Moz Geita Gold Mine (situated approximately 80 km to the west of Mabale Hills), the 0.5 Moz Kitongo deposit (10 km to the north of Mabale Hills), and the 2.2 Moz Golden Ridge deposit (30 km SSW of Mabale Hills).
SEKENKE JV
The Iramba Plateau project is part of the Sekenke Joint Venture (SJV; see Sekenke prospect map at http://www.currierose.com) with Sekenke Resources Ltd. of Dar es Salaam. The Iramba Plateau is a horst (uplifted block of crust) within the East African rift system. The geology of the Iramba Plateau consists of Late Archean basalts, metasedimentary rocks, schists derived from acid volcanic rocks, BIF and granites. The SJV has identified a 12,000 m X 800 m highly prospective structure of sheared metabasalts that hosts numerous quartz reefs. Assay results from rock chip samples indicate significant Au anomalies in the quartz reefs.
The Kirondatal Mine (1934-1950; average grade 8.9 g/t Au) is situated in a similar structure on the Iramba Plateau. The Sekenke Mine, the oldest and longest producing gold mine in Tanzania (1909-1959; average grade 15.4 g/t Au) is also hosted in sheared metabasites within the down-dropped rocks of the Wembere Depression, a graben (down-dropped block of crust) adjacent to the Iramba Plateau.
In 2009, the LVJV will focus exploration efforts on the newly identified Mwamazengo structure with the goal of defining a large tonnage deposit, mineable using open pit methods. The SJV will focus its exploration efforts on the Iramba Plateau structure with the goal of defining a new high-grade discovery in steeply dipping packages of quartz reefs, with the potential for exploitation by open pit methods.
The Qualified person for the release of this exploration information is Michael Griffiths MAusIMM, Director of Currie Rose Resources Inc. and Managing Director of Sub-Sahara Resources NL.
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