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Initial Drilling Completed
on Titan Copper/Molybdenum Project
Management of Eagle Plains Resources
Ltd. (TSX-V:EPL) and Kobex Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:KBX)
announce that diamond drilling has been completed on
Eagle Plains’ Titan molybdenum project located
50km west of Atlin in northwestern British Columbia.
The property is controlled 100% by EPL (subject to
a 1.5% NSR), and consists of 107 claim units covering
approximately 6,500 acres. Kobex may earn a 60% interest
in the project from EPL by completing $3,000,000 in
exploration expenditures, making cash payments of $167,000
and issuing a total of 600,000 voting-class common
shares to EPL by the fifth anniversary of signing.
EPL was operator of the project in 2004, with operatorship
determined on a year-to year basis.
A total of three holes from two sites
were completed for a total of 413.6m (1357 feet). The
drilling tested
Induced Polarization (IP) anomalies defined by 2003 – 2004
surveys completed by Aurora Geosciences Ltd. of Whitehorse,
Yukon. The geophysical survey data collection was constrained
by poor electrode contacts, particularly in the areas
of high grade boulders. Consequently, the geophysical
targets tested by drilling are located peripheral to
the best observed mineralization. Also, drill collar
location is somewhat limited by rockfall hazard associated
with steep terrain and retreating ice, which did not
allow drill testing in areas of high grade boulders
and the Titan showing area.
The results from the drilling indicate
that the property is underlain by a mineralized copper – molybdenum
porphyry system which also contains disseminated pyrite.
DDH T04001 tested a coincident chargeability/resistivity
anomaly located approximately 350m west of the Titan
showing area. The hole was completed to a depth of
535 feet (163.1m) and intersected granite with local
pyrite, chalcopyrite and molybdenite disseminations.
The best intercepts were from 89.8 – 90.0m which
returned 677ppm molybdenum, and from 151.1 – 152.0m
which returned 843ppm copper. Holes T04002 and T04003
were drilled from the same site, approximately 300m
north of the Titan showing area. T04002 (380 feet/115.8m)
was drilled to the east to test a high chargeability
anomaly defined by the IP survey. Drilling intersected
a mafic gneiss unit with trace to 0.5% finely disseminated
pyrite throughout the hole. The best intersection was
a quartz – pyrite shear zone which returned 294ppm
Mo, 162ppm Cu, 273ppm Pb, 11.8ppm Ag, 35.5 ppb Au and
1892ppm Bi from 38.9-39.2 meters. Hole T04003 was drilled
to the west for 442 feet (134.7m) to test a strong
resistivity low defined by the IP survey. The hole
collared in mafic gneiss and ended in a granitic unit
believed to be equivalent to that intersected in T04001.
The best result was from 42.9-43.9 m, where a quartz
calcite vein / shear zone returned 1015ppm Mo over
a 1 meter interval. Trace disseminated molybdenum and
chalcopyrite was noted at the gneiss / granite contact
zone from 83.05 – 93.6m, with the best geochemical
results associated with a quartz calcite vein at 88.75 – 89.0
m which returned 1551ppm Mo over 0.25 m. Disseminated
pyrite and local pyritic veining were noted over the
entire hole length.
It is believed that the chargeability
anomalies tested in T04001 and T04002 are likely related
to disseminated
pyrite. The resistivity feature tested by T04003
is likely the contact between the mafic gneiss and
the
underlying granite. The low grade molybdenum mineralization
that was intersected in the drilling does not appear
to be the same as that seen at the Titan showing
and in the high grade boulder field. Future work will
target
mineralization exposed in sub-crop near the Titan
showing area, interpreted to be the source of the boulders.
Overall project supervision was the
responsibility of Charles C. Downie, P.Geo., Exploration
Manager of
Eagle Plains and identified as a Qualified Person
under National Instrument 43-101. Analyses were performed
by Acme Analytical Laboratories in Vancouver, BC.
The Titan claim block covers a high-grade
molybdenum-copper porphyry occurrence that has been
recently exposed
by the retreat of glacial ice. 2003 fieldwork by
Eagle Plains resulted in the discovery of high-grade
molybdenum
mineralization in float boulders grading up to 1.877%
molybdenum. Outcrop material returned a value of
0.966 % molybdenum in grab samples. Eight of ten rock
samples
collected returned greater than 0.1% molybdenum.
Some samples are also associated with elevated copper
(up
to 2873 ppm), tungsten (up to 93.1 ppm), and bismuth
(up to 60.7 ppm).
Eagle Plains Resources continues
to conduct research, acquisition and exploration projects
in western Canada.
The Company controls over 30 gold and base-metal
projects, many of which are currently optioned to or
joint-ventured
with third parties including NovaGold Inc., Kobex
Resources Ltd., Northern Continental Resources Inc.,
Shoshone
Silver Mining Co., and Golden Cariboo Resources Inc.
These agreements expose Eagle Plains to over $18
million in exploration expenditures over the next five
years.
In recent years, Eagle Plains has completed option
agreements with Billiton Metals, Rio Algom Exploration,
Kennecott Exploration, Viceroy Resource Corp. and
numerous other junior exploration companies, resulting
in over
18,000m (60,000 ft) of drilling and over $6,000,000
in exploration spending on its projects since 1998.
On
behalf of the Board of Directors
Signed
Tim J. Termuende, P.Geo.
President and CEO
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