FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
January
29, 2008
LAND HOLDINGS INCREASED AND AIRBORNE
GEOPHYSICAL PROGRAM COMMENCED AT RED LAKE EXTENSION PROJECT, ONTARIO.
Tri Origin Exploration Ltd. (TOE:TSX-V) is pleased to announce that it has staked an additional 11
claims, consisting of 153 claim units totalling 6,049 acres contiguous with the
Company’s Red Lake Extension (RLX) project at Red Lake, Ontario. This
land acquisition brings the Company’s land holdings at RLX to a total
area of approximately 30,000 acres.
Tri Origin is also pleased to announce that a VTEM airborne
electromagnetic and magnetic geophysical program is to commence mid February,
2008 to evaluate the entirety of the property. Geotech Ltd. of Aurora, Ontario
has been contracted to conduct the program.
This program is especially exciting for the Company because
airborne electromagnetic and magnetic geophysical surveying has not been
conducted on the RLX property for approximately 30 years. Recent modern
advances in digital electronics and signal processing in the area of precision
electromagnetic measurements will provide deep penetrating, high resolution
mapping of the property of a quality superior to that which was available in
the past. It is therefore anticipated that the VTEM survey will greatly assist
Tri Origin in its evaluation of new targets on the RLX property.
The RLX property is located approximately 10 kilometres
southeast of Goldcorp’s Red Lake Mine and adjoins the mine property. The
mines at Red Lake
have produced over 20 million ounces of gold making this one of the premier
gold mining districts in Canada.
These new claims, as with the majority of the RLX property,
are covered by overburden and are interpreted by Tri Origin to contain Balmer
volcanic and Bruce Channel sedimentary rocks, which are important host rocks
for the major gold deposits of the nearby Red Lake District. In addition, the “mine-trend”
structural corridor has been defined by Tri Origin to extend from the Red Lake
Mine southeast across Tri Origin’s property.
At approximately 30,000 acres, RLX remains the largest
under-explored portion of the Red
Lake greenstone belt.
Previous work by Tri Origin has included prospecting, geological, geochemical
and geophysical surveying as well as preliminary diamond drilling. To date,
only a small portion of the property has been explored and exciting targets
have been delineated. Management intends to continue to systematically evaluate
new targets across the property.
Results from the airborne survey are expected during
April/May at which time a follow-up diamond drilling program will commence on
high priority targets identified during the current program.
For further information please
contact:
Tri Origin Exploration Ltd.
Dr. Robert Valliant, President
Tel: (905) 294-9942
Web page: www.triorigin.com
E-mail: invest@triorigin.com
Tri Origin
Exploration Ltd. is publicly
listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the trading symbol TOE. Tri Origin has
leveraged exposure to mineral discoveries in Australia through its 51% equity
interest in its subsidiary, Tri Origin Minerals Ltd.; a publicly traded company
listed on the Australian Stock Exchange under the symbol TRO.