TerraX Minerals Inc. (TSX.V: TXR; Frankfurt: TX0) has entered into an option to acquire a 100% interest in the Stewart Gold-Copper Property in the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland, subject to acceptance for filing by the TSX Venture Exchange. The Stewart property consists of two mineral exploration licenses, totaling 173 claims (~43.25 km2), located 30 km north-northeast of the town of Marystown, which is in turn approximately 300 km by road southwest of St. John?s. In keeping with TerraX?s focus in Ontario, where it holds properties proximal to Brett Resources' (TSX-V: BBR) Hammond Reef deposit, the Stewart property is considered prospective for a large tonnage, low grade gold-copper deposit.
TerraX can earn a 100% interest in the Stewart property over a four year period by making option payments totaling $105,000 and issuing 295,000 shares (of which $10,000 and 30,000 shares are to be paid in the first year), and funding $525,000 of exploration and development work ($75,000 in the first year). The vendors will retain a 2% NSR, 1% of which can be purchased by TerraX for $1,000,000.
A primary focus for TerraX on the Stewart property is extensive alteration and gold-copper mineralization that suggests the presence of a shallowly buried porphyry gold-copper deposit. The property contains a 4 km long by up to 700 m wide advanced argillic alteration zone with variable amounts of pyrophyllite, alunite, hematite, sericite, pyrite and fluorite. It has been recognized that the Stewart property?s sheeted and stockwork quartz veins, and its widespread advanced argillic alteration with low grade Au and Cu values, is similar to other large porphyry systems where advanced argillic alteration closely overlies porphyry mineralization, such as at Oyu Tolgoi in Mongolia (1.39 Bt at 0.93% Cu and 0.37% Au). Exploration below the advanced argillic zone in search of this style and size of deposit will be a primary target for TerraX on the Stewart Property. The original showing was discovered in 1985, and several geochemical and geophysical surveys were completed in 1986. Novamin Resources Inc. collected soil samples with values up to 1570 ppb Au (1.57 g/t Au), and basal till samples up to 1030 ppb Au (1.03 g/t Au). Novamin subsequently drilled four holes in 1986, noting long intervals of consistently anomalous gold and, where analyzed, copper (eg. 102 m @ 135 ppb Au and 385 ppm Cu in hole NG1). Soil sampling by Corona Corporation in 1989 produced coincident anomalies of Au (up to 1440 ppb or 1.44 g/t), Cu (up to 250 ppm) and Mo (up to 145 ppm) over a strike length of 1 km. The highest values corresponded with advanced argillic alteration and minor chalcopyrite. Corona drilled three shallow holes totaling 411 m in 1990 and intersected 63 m @ 0.25 g/t Au, including 5 m @ 0.84 g/t Au in hole 7434-90-02. Other elements were not assayed, but chalcopyrite, azurite, cuprite, and molybdenite were noted in the core. Cornerstone Resources Inc. acquired the property in 2007. They excavated two large trenches and exposed a very large mineralized zone, with 219 m @ 92 ppb Au and 193 ppm Cu in the Vinjer trench, and the 70 x 70 m Stewart trench, which produced 12 m @ 555 ppb Au and 826 ppm Cu. An associated target type for the property is high sulphidation style epithermal Au deposits. The Burin Peninsula is part of the Avalon terrane, a geologic structure which can be traced from eastern Newfoundland through Nova Scotia and New Brunswick into New England, the Carolinas and northern Georgia. High-level felsic to intermediate magmas likely provided the heat and fluids responsible for numerous large hydrothermal systems along the length of the Avalon, some of which have produced deposits that have been exploited, such as the Ridgeway deposit of 56 Mt at 1.1 g/t Au and Hope Brook in Newfoundland, with 11.2 Mt at 4.54 g/t Au and 0.30% Cu. Two major belts of epithermal high sulphidation style alteration/mineralization, each greater than 100 km in strike length, occur in the Burin Peninsula. Exploration along the belts has been intermittent, but has produced local significant gold, silver and copper values. TerraX personnel have worked previously in the area and recognized alteration assemblages indicative of the high sulphidation style environment documented on the Stewart property. The technical information contained in this news release has been verified by Dr. Tom Setterfield, PhD, PGeo., Vice President Exploration, who is a Qualified Person as defined in "National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Properties."
About TerraX Minerals TerraX Minerals Inc. is one of the major landholders of prospective ground in the burgeoning Marmion Batholith gold district near Atikokan, Ontario which is host to Brett Resources' (TSX-V: BBR) Hammond Reef gold deposit. TerraX is actively exploring three wholly-owned gold exploration projects, the Sunbeam-Pettigrew, Blackfly and Central Canada properties, all of which are located within 20 km of the town of Atikokan, 180 km west of Thunder Bay, and within 19 km of the Hammond Reef gold deposit. On behalf of the Board of Directors
"JOSEPH CAMPBELL"
Joseph Campbell, P.Geo.
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