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MONUMENT
REPORTS NI43-101 RESOURCES AT BUFFALLO REEF PROPERTY
20% Increase in Gold
Deposit to Historical Estimates
Vancouver, B.C.,
Monument Mining Limited: Monument Mining Limited (TSX-V:
MMY and FSE: D7Q1) (�Monument� or the �Company�) is pleased to announce
that a National Instrument 43-101 (�NI 43-101�) complaint resources has
been prepared on its 100% owned Buffalo Reef Property, located in Pahang
State, Malaysia. The resource estimate, prepared by independent qualified
persons Jean-Pierre Graindorge, BSc at Snowden Mining Industry Consultants Pty Limited
and Frank Wright, P. Eng. in May 2011, represents a 20% increase in gold
deposit compared to historical estimates.
The NI43-101 report estimates the resources based on the RC drilling drill
through 2008 to November 2010 totaling 11,880 meters from 165 holes. At a
block cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t Au, the currently defined Buffalo Reef
Indicated Mineral Resource is 2.30 million tonnes
grading 2.24 g/t Au for a total of 165,500 ounces of Au. At the same Au
block cut-off grade, the currently defined Inferred Mineral Resource is
1.36 million tonnes grading 1.31 g/t Au for a
total of 57,300 ounces of Au. The Mineral Resource is summarized in Table
1.1.
Table 1.1 Buffalo Reef Mineral Resources report, as at May 2011,
reported above a 0.5 g/t Au cut-off grade:
Classification
|
Oxidation
|
Zone
|
Tonnes
|
Au
|
Au
|
|
State
|
|
Kt
|
g/t
|
Oz
|
Indicated
|
Oxide
|
South
|
272
|
2.35
|
20,500
|
|
|
Central
|
32
|
1.62
|
1,700
|
|
|
North
|
159
|
1.57
|
8,000
|
|
Sulphide
|
South
|
1,298
|
2.66
|
111,300
|
|
|
Central
|
246
|
1.36
|
10,700
|
|
|
North
|
291
|
1.42
|
13,300
|
|
Total (Indicated)
|
2,298
|
2.24
|
165,500
|
Inferred
|
Oxide
|
South
|
125
|
1.23
|
4,900
|
|
|
Central
|
52
|
1.44
|
2,400
|
|
|
North
|
26
|
2.79
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2,400
|
|
Sulphide
|
South
|
411
|
1.36
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17,900
|
|
|
Central
|
548
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1.07
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18,800
|
|
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North
|
201
|
1.69
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10,900
|
|
Total (Inferred)
|
1,363
|
1.31
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57,300
|
An historic estimate undertaken in accordance with the JORC code reported
the Buffalo Reef property contains a Indicated Resource of 1,944,000 tonnes grading 2.49 gpt Au
and an Inferred Resource of 568,000 tonnes
grading 1.62 gpt Au in oxide + transitional and sulphide materials, using a 0.5 gpt
Au cut-off. A NI-43-101 Summary Report on the Buffalo Reef Project written
by Orequest Consultants and filed on SEDAR on
19th June 2007 confirms the merits of the Buffalo Reef Project. Comparing
to the historical estimates, the NI43-101 report represents 6.36% increase
in gold content for Indicated Resource and 93.58% increase for Inferred
Resource. The increase in the Inferred Resource is mostly located
across the boundary into the Felda Block 7 where
no drilling work has been carried out as yet. The Company has since reached
agreement with the owners to be able to access and carry out further
exploration.
Snowden considers that this resource estimate is appropriate for use in a
Scoping Study or a Pre-Feasibility Study or a
Preliminary Assessment.
Robert Baldock, the President and CEO of the
Company said: �Buffalo Reef is an extension of the mineralized trend that
commences at the Selinsing deposit south of
Buffalo Reef and extends for at least 4.2 kilometers along trend.
These results are the first phase of our exploration programs that are
designed to increase our resource base along trend. We have secured
agreement with local farmers to be able to extend our exploration program
to the East. This entire resource area is within economic haulage
distance of the Selinsing treatment plant.
At the same time, the NI43-101 report contains preliminary metallurgical
test work results. Historic test work conducted by Avocet Mining PLC,
the previous owner of Buffalo Reef, indicated that the oxide zone showed
reasonable metallurgical recovery rates for gold by direct cyanidation. However the sulphide
mineralization at Buffalo Reef was classified as refractory to direct cyanidation procedures. This prompted the Company
to commence test work programs in 2010 and preliminary metallurgical
studies completed by Monument in 2011 have shown promising results using
roasting or bioleaching to pre-treat material from Buffalo Reef.
These test work programs are ongoing and the Company is encouraged with
results to date; and oxide ore is expected to be treated with the existing Selinsing processing plant.�
Giving the advanced state of exploration at the Buffalo Reef deposit,
future activities will focus on infill drilling to increase the level of
confidence in the geological interpretation and resource estimation. To
facilitate this, Monument is securing additional land for further resources
definition drilling. Additionally, diamond core drilling will be required
to provide material for bulk density measurement and metallurgical test
work, along with geotechnical data.
Information in this report that relates to in-situ Mineral Resource
estimates is reported under the CIM Standards on Mineral Resources and
Reserves Definitions and Guidelines. The May 2011 estimate was carried out
under the supervision Mr. Michael Andrew who is a full time employee of
Snowden Mining Industry Consultants Pty Ltd. Mr. Andrew is a Member of the
Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (MAusIMM),
and has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration
and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Qualified
Person as defined by the Code. Mr. Andrew consents to the inclusion in the
report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in
which it appears.
About Monument
Mining
Limited
Canadian based Monument Mining Limited has two wholly-owned principal
properties: Selinsing Gold Mine Project (�Selinsing�);
and Damar Buffalo Reef Prospect (�Buffalo Reef�);
which are located in Pahang State in the Central Gold Belt District of
Malaysia. In addition, the Company recently acquired the Famehub properties comprising 32,000 acres of
prospective exploration land.
In conjunction with extensive exploration programs at Selinsing,
Buffalo Reef and the Famehub properties, the Selinsing Gold Mine is on track to produce its
scheduled 40,000 ounces of gold in its first full year of commercial
production at an estimated average operating cash cost of approximately
$317 per ounce with an initial five year mine life in the first pit. The
gold treatment plant has a current capacity of 400,000 tpa
with a proposed capacity expansion through the addition of an additional
milling circuit to the existing plant.
Please visit our website at www.monumentmining.com for more
information.
Robert F. Baldock, President and CEO
Monument Mining Limited
Suite 910- 688 West Hastings Street
Vancouver B.C. Canada V6B 1P1
For further information contact:
Monument Mining
Limited:
Richard Cushing, Investor Relations
T: + 1 604 638 1661 x 102
E: rcushing@monumentmining.com
CHF Investor
Relations:
Robin Cook, Senior Account Manager
T: + 1 416 868 1079 x 228
E: robin@chfir.com
Axino AG �
Europe:
Wolfgang Seybold, President and CEO
T: + 49 711 25 35 92 40
E: wolfgang.seybold@axino.de
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Forward-Looking
Statement
This news release
contains forward-looking information about Monument Mining Limited
(�Monument�), its business and future plans. The use of words such as
"would", "estimate", "expect",
"may", "will", "project", "should",
"believe" and similar expressions are intended to identify
forward-looking information. Forward-looking information in
this news release includes statements with respect to the completion and
the timing of the Summary Report, the financing,, the results of due
diligence and the Summary Report, the entering into of a definitive
agreement and the closing of the proposed acquisition of the Project.
The following are some of the assumptions upon which forward-looking
information is based: that general business and economic conditions
remain stable; continuing demand for, and stable or improving prices of
gold; receipt of regulatory and government approvals in a timely manner;
the availability of financing; Monument's ability to procure equipment and
operating supplies in sufficient quantities and on a timely basis;
Monument's ability to attract and retain skilled personnel; the accuracy of
the company's resources estimates and the accuracy of the historical
estimates in the Study; the estimated cash cost per ounce of gold
production and the estimated cash flows which may be generated from the operations.
Actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in this
forward-looking information as a result of risks and uncertainties,
including: volatility in the price of gold; risk inherent in mineral
exploration and development; uncertainties associated with the estimating
of mineral resources, and in particular the historical estimates in the
Study; competition for capital and skilled personnel; geological technical
and drilling problems; general business, economic, competitive, geopolitical
and social uncertainties; the actual results of current exploration
activities; foreign operations risks; other risks inherent in the mining
industry and other risks described in the annual information form of the
Company, which is available under the profile of the Company on SEDAR at
www.sedar.com.. Although the Company has attempted to identify important
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that
cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be
no assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as actual
results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in
such statements. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on
forward- looking information. The Company does not undertake to update any
forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable
securities laws.
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