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Diamond Drilling Commences on the San Antonio Project, Chihuahua
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GREAT PANTHER RESOURCES LIMITED (TSX: GPR) is pleased to announce that diamond drilling has commenced on the San Antonio project in southern Chihuahua State, Mexico. The program will comprise a minimum of 1,500 metres in 9 holes and will test a district scale epithermal system that has been identified on the 11,946 hectare property. The San Antonio gold-copper project is under option to Altair Ventures Incorporated (TSX-V: AVX) who is funding the program in order to earn a 70% interest. Great Panther is the operator.
Previous exploration and drilling (2004 to 2006) by Great Panther on the San Antonio project led to the recognition of the district scale potential of the mineralization here. Exploration in 2007, funded by Altair Ventures, has provided further details of a vertically-zoned, 12-kilometre long system of mineralization and alteration that appears to be gold-copper rich near the base, grading to silver-gold-lead-zinc in the upper portions.
Mapping and sampling this year have identified five primary areas of alteration / mineralization: 1) the Breccia Gossan Zone (bulk tonnage, high sulphidation epithermal gold-copper system), 2) the San Cayetano Zone (low sulphidation quartz-barite-galena-sphalerite-pyrite, silver-gold vein), 3) the San Cayetano South Zone (low sulphidation quartz-galena-sphalerite-pyrite, silver-gold vein), 4) the La Gringa Zone (low sulphidation quartz-galena-sphalerite-pyrite, silver-gold vein) and 5) the La Gringa North Zone (low sulphidation quartz-galena-sphalerite-pyrite, gold-silver vein).
The Breccia Gossan Zone is a 2,000 by 800 metre area of intense silica and clay alteration interpreted to represent the middle to lower level of the mineralizing system at San Antonio, while the vein style mineralization in the other zones is thought to reflect the upper portions of the system. The focus of the present diamond drilling program is to evaluate these five key areas on the project and determine how they are related.
A review of surface chip channel sampling in these areas from 2004/5 and 2007 includes 1.5 metres @ 7.5g/t gold, 11g/t silver; 0.3 metres @ 300g/t silver, 0.47% lead and 3.62% zinc; and 1.2 metres @ 268g/t silver, 0.29% lead, and 1.22% zinc, all from the San Cayetano South Zone. From the La Gringa North Zone, results from surface include 1.5 metres @ 0.19g/t gold, 289g/t silver, 0.51% lead, and 0.76% zinc; and 3.0 metres @ 0.99g/t gold, 23g/t silver, 0.26% lead, and 0.18% zinc. The San Cayetano Zone returned values of 1.0 metre @ 538g/t silver and 0.24% lead; and 1.2 metres @ 109g/t silver, 0.99% lead, and 0.35% zinc. Further details and a map of the project can be found on the Great Panther website at www.greatpanther.com.
The San Antonio property is located in the Sierra Madre Belt, 80 kilometres NNW of the Guadalupe y Calvo Mining District, which has historically produced more than 2 million ounces of gold, and 80 kilometres SSE of the Batopilas area which hosts Goldcorp's El Sauzal Mine, (2006 proven and probable reserve of 1.7 million ounces gold). Great Panther and Altair Ventures are exploring a previously unrecognized, 3 by 17 kilometre "window" of Tertiary Lower Series volcanic rocks containing epithermal gold-copper-silver-lead-zinc mineralization that has never been explored by modern methods.
The drilling program is being supervised in the field by Resource Geosciences Mexico of Hermosillo, Sonora. All rock samples are sent to SGS Labs in Durango for analyses. Core drilling is being conducted by BDW Drilling of Guadalajara, Mexico. Robert F. Brown, P.Eng. and Vice-President of Exploration for Great Panther and its wholly owned subsidiary, Minera Mexicana El Rosario, S.A. de C.V., is designated as the Qualified Person for the San Antonio Project under the meaning of NI 43-101 and has reviewed this news release.
For further information please contact Brad Aelicks or Don Mosher at telephone 604 685 6465, fax 604 899 4303 or e-mail info@greatpanther.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
"Robert A. Archer"
Robert A. Archer, President & CEO
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and forward-looking information within the meaning of the Securities Act (Ontario) (together, "forward-looking statements"). Such forward-looking statements may include but are not limited to the Company's plans for production at its Guanajuato and Topia Mines in Mexico, exploring its other properties in Mexico, the overall economic potential of its properties, the availability of adequate financing and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements to be materially different. Such factors include, among others, risks and uncertainties relating to potential political risks involving the Company's operations in a foreign jurisdiction, uncertainty of production and cost estimates and the potential for unexpected costs and expenses, physical risks inherent in mining operations, currency fluctuations, fluctuations in the price of silver, gold and base metals, completion of economic evaluations, changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined, the inability or failure to obtain adequate financing on a timely basis, and other risks and uncertainties, including those described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2006 and reports on Form 6-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and available at www.sec.gov and Material Change Reports filed with the Canadian Securities Administrators and available at www.sedar.com.
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