Golden Goliath Resources Ltd. (TSX.V:GNG) (US:GGTH-F) is pleased to
provide an update of its
2008 exploration projects in the Uruachic mining district, Chihuahua, Mexico,
where three projects, San Timoteo, La Reforma and Las Bolas are currently
active. These projects include
diamond drilling on all three areas, underground rehabilitation and sampling on
the San Timoteo and Las Bolas areas and geological mapping, Induced Polarization
and Magnetic geophysical surveys in preparation for drilling on the San Timoteo
II claim. The Company is well
financed, with over $4.3 million currently in the treasury, and expects to be
active on these projects throughout the year.
San Timoteo Property
Underground chip sampling in the San Martin tunnel on the San Timoteo
property has returned a 40 metre section grading 1.95 gm gold/tonne and 56.8 gm
silver/tonne, including a 10 metre section grading 6.7 gm gold/tonne and 131.6 gm silver/tonne. This section is located approximately
250 metres from the entrance to the tunnel in an area that contains old cross
cuts, raises and an internal shaft.
The high grade area, which is now undergoing more detailed mapping and
sampling, is an irregular quartz rich, brecciated zone, with locally intense
oxidation.
San Martin Tunnel Chip sample Assays
Sample
# |
Width |
Gold
( gm/tonne) |
Silver
(gm/tonne) |
Pb in % |
Zn
in % |
726178 |
10
metres |
6.72 |
131.6 |
0.452 |
0.786 |
726179 |
10
metres |
0.57 |
32.3 |
0.053 |
0.230 |
726180 |
10
metres |
0.214 |
11.3 |
0.067 |
0.186 |
726181 |
10
metres |
0.304 |
52.3 |
0.262 |
1.00 |
The newly discovered underground zone is approximately 90 metres
northeast and 200 vertical metres below the collar of a drill hole ST-DD-07-8,
which was reported in the Company's January 18, 2008 press release. That hole contained a 21 metre section
grading 89.5 gm silver/tonne, 0.31 gm gold/tonne, 2.5% zinc and 1.6% lead
(including a 16.5 metre section containing 105 gm silver/tonne, 0.35 gm
gold/tonne, 6.1% Zn and 3.2% Pb).
Several of the drill holes referred to in the Company's March 26 press
release, which are designed to further test and extend this near surface
mineralized corridor have been completed, but no assays are yet available. The spatial relationship to the near
surface mineralized corridor and the high grade tunnel zone is very
encouraging.
Shallow
drilling of three holes in this area in 2006 also returned excellent values.
Drill hole ST-D-06-8 returned an intersection of 1.47 gm gold/tonne with 103.66
gm silver/tonne over 5.3 metres as well as 18.4 metres grading 0.27 gm
gold/tonne with 63.18 gm silver/tonne. Drill hole ST-D-06-9 returned 12 metres
grading 0.26 gm gold/tonne with 57.89 gm silver/tonne. The third 2006 shallow drill hole in
this area, ST-D-06-10, returned 30 metres grading 0.51 gm gold/tonne with 51.20
gm silver/tonne (including 4.5 metres grading 1.08 gm gold/tonne with 79.33 gm
silver/tonne).
A
new exploratory drill hole, ST-DD-08-11, collared approximately 90 metres from
the entrance to the San Martin mine was started several days before the tunnel
assays were received, is trending toward the gold zone. This hole will undercut the gold zone at
considerable depth. A new drill
hole, to be collared about 135 metres above and 35 metres horizontally from the
tunnel, is planned to undercut the tunnel about 50 metres below the high grade
zone. Additional holes from this
drill pad will also look for continuity between the high grade tunnel zone and
the near surface mineralized corridor.
In other areas of the San Timoteo property, nine diamond drill holes have
been completed in 2008 and two more are in progress. Of the nine finished holes,
only three have complete assays.
Several of the incomplete assay holes were drilled while the surface
detailed geological mapping, the underground mapping of the San Martin tunnel
and other data compilation regarding the intersections announced in the
Company's January press release was being completed. The compilation of this data has now
been completed and the follow up drilling of the January zone is currently
underway. One deep hole under the front section of the San Martin Tunnel has
been completed and a second one trending towards the back of the tunnel is in
progress.
Following are the detail descriptions of the holes drilled and completely
assayed to date:
ST-08-01 was drilled under a vegetation kill zone, with a coincident
chargeability high at 150m depth and historic workings; there are no mineable
widths to be reported.
ST-08-02 was drilled under a chargeability high at 150m depth and to test
along strike for a southwestern extension of a substantially wide weakly
mineralized gold-silver zone. Preliminary exploration drilling in the area of
this zone returned 4.55 metres of 1.09 gm gold/tonne and 132.37 gm silver/tonne
in hole ST-DD-01-2; plus 11.7 metres of 0.39 gm gold/tonne and 16.8 gm
silver/tonne and 8.6 metres of 0.37 gm gold/tonne and 23.75 gm silver/tonne in
hole ST-DD-01-8 and 56.2 metres of 0.14 gm gold/tonne gold and 1.75 gm
silver/tonne in hole ST-DD-01-7.
ST-08-3 was drilled to test under ST-07-10a, at lower elevation level,
which stopped in silver-zinc rich zone, but due to the drill rig sliding as a
result of slope instability, this hole had to be abandoned and was recollared as
ST-08-4.
The
geophysics crew has also arrived and is currently conducting the Induced
Polarization survey of the San Timoteo II claim. This 2.25 by 1.75 kilometre
claim lies adjacent to the north of San Timoteo, with Reforma on its western
edge and Nueva Union on the eastern side. The claim is intensely altered and is
one of the few areas of the Uruachic camp that has not been previously covered
by geophysics. At least three
important structures with associated old mine workings cross San Timoteo II,
which has never been drilled before.
Geologic mapping has already been done and the IP data will be used in
conjunction with it to select and confirm drill
targets.
La
Reforma Property
Four diamond drill holes totalling 1484.4 metres have been completed to
date during 2008. Two of these holes still do not have complete assays. One
hole, RF-DD-07-23, which was started in late December and finished in January,
was drilled to test under a chargeability high at 150m depth on the east side of
the property. The other three holes were drilled under a brecciated-siliceous
structure with highly anomalous gold grades at surface in the southwestern part
of the property, referred to as the Red Ridge. Please refer to the table for the
details of each drill hole.
Significant Reforma Assays
Drill
hole Number |
From_m |
Interval_m |
Au
gram/tonne |
Ag
gram/tonne |
RF
DD 07 23 |
442.2 |
1.9 |
-- |
31.6 |
RF-DD-08-01 |
47.4 |
1.2 |
0.146 |
-- |
RF-DD-08-01 |
136.2 |
2 |
0.12 |
-- |
RF-DD-08-01 |
185.54 |
1.96 |
2.754 |
-- |
Las
Bolas Property
Two
preliminary diamond drill holes totaling 197.5m were drilled as of March18,
2008. Both of the drill holes have been logged and sent for assays, but no
results have been received to date.
Assays are now done Inspectorate Labs using fire assay preparation and AA
finish and ICP methods. The QP for
the Uruachic project is J. Paul Sorbara M.Sc.,
P.Geo.
About Golden Goliath
Golden Goliath Resources Ltd. is a junior exploration company listed on
the TSX Venture Exchange (symbol GNG). The Company is focused on exploring and
developing the gold and silver potential of an historic mining camp located in
the world famous Sierra Madre Occidental Mountains of northwestern Mexico.
Unlike most juniors, which have an option to earn an interest in a single
property or a few scattered properties in various areas or countries, Golden
Goliath controls an entire old mining camp, or district, that covers an area of
15 by 25 kilometres, with numerous past producing gold and silver mines dating
back to the time of the Spaniards. Golden Goliath's Uruachic claims are owned
100% by the Company and are fully paid for with no property option or purchase
payments to make. To find out more about Golden Goliath visit www.goldengoliath.com.
ON BEHALF OF GOLDEN GOLIATH RESOURCES LTD.
J. Paul Sorbara, M.Sc.,
P.Geo.
President
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