June 10, 2015
Sutter Gold Provides Status Report on Amendments to Technical Disclosure Report for Lincoln Mine Property
Vancouver, British Columbia (June 10, 2015) - Sutter Gold Mining Inc. (SGM:TSX-V) (SGMNF:OTCQX) ("Sutter" or the "Company") is pleased to provide the following status report in respect of its proposal to update the resource estimates for the Lincoln Mine gold project in Sutter Creek, California.
As previously disclosed in its April 15, 2015 press release, following a review by the British Columbia Securities Commission (the "BCSC") of certain of the Company's technical disclosures, the Company began discussing the preparation of a new technical report. Subsequent to it news release, the Company engaged Mine Development Associates ("MDA") of Reno, Nevada to carry out the work necessary to prepare the report.
MDA has been instructed to prepare a consolidated NI 43-101 compliant report (the "Consolidated 2015 Report"), which will be comprised of an update of the June 16, 2011 Preliminary Economic Assessment (the "2011 PEA") of the Lincoln Comet deposit and a revised resource estimate, based on drilling, for the Company's Keystone deposit. Work has been ongoing since the engagement, and the Company hopes to be in a position to file the Consolidated 2015 Report by not later than July 3, 2015.
The resources noted in the Company's February 4, 2008 Technical Report (the "2008 Report") are not current and therefore should not be relied upon. With the goal of bringing the Keystone drilling portion of these 2008 resources forward and NI 43-101 compliant, the 2008 Keystone resource will be evaluated under current NI-43 101 guidelines as part of the work required for the Consolidated 2015 Report. The Company will promptly disclose any material changes to the Keystone and other 2008 estimates resulting from the preparation of the Consolidated 2015 Report. It is the Company's opinion that the Inferred B category of resources stated in the 2008 Report may require retraction.
The Company notes that previous disclosures of the Company's 2011 PEA, including news releases dating back to May 4, 2011 and the Company's MD&A filings since that date, should continue to be considered with the following cautionary language: the PEA is based on the evaluation of indicated and inferred mineral resources, is preliminary in nature, that it includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves, and that there is no certainty that the preliminary economic assessment will be realized.
The disclosure in this news release has been reviewed and the scientific and technical content in the news release has been approved by Neil Prenn, a Qualified Person as defined in NI 43-101.
Sutter Gold
Sutter currently holds a number of precious metals properties in California, USA, including the permitted Lincoln underground mine near Sutter Creek, California, as well as a new, permitted processing facility, located near the entrance to the Lincoln Mine. In March 2014, the project was put on care and maintenance while certain mineral processing issues are being evaluated and the Company reduced costs due to capital constraints.
For further information, please contact:
Amanda Miller,
Chief Financial Officer
T:303 238 1438
www.suttergoldmining.com
Forward-Looking Statements
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