Northern Tiger Resources Inc. confirms that a number of high-priority targets have been identified by a deep-penetrating geophysical survey done by Quantec Geosciences Ltd. (the Titan 24 survey) at Sonora Gulch in the Dawson Range, Yukon. Two holes have been completed in a planned 3,000-metre diamond drilling program that commenced on June 29.
“This is a large and attractive target based on the results of the Titan 24 Survey combined with the Cu-Mo-Au-Ag geochemical signature and similar age of intrusive host rocks to the nearby Casino copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry deposit,” says Greg Hayes, President of Northern Tiger. “An intense IP response mantling around a non-chargeable core in our target area is very encouraging and further supports our porphyry exploration model.”
As disclosed in a previous news release (February 25, 2010), many common indicators of a porphyry system have been identified on the project, including a large potassic alteration zone, a copper-molybdenum soil anomaly, and flanking gold and base metal mineralization.
Based on analysis of the Titan 24 Survey and in consultation with Northern Tiger’s geologists, Quantec has recommended 14 drill holes to test 9 separate but spatially related high priority chargeability anomalies. These anomalies cover a 2 by 1-kilometre area, surrounding and draping over a less chargeable core. Chargeable zones are also associated with more conductive areas within the resistivity data. Many of the chargeability anomalies are related to a zone of intersecting structures that may be important for ground preparation. In addition, an airborne magnetic survey defined an arcuate magnetic anomaly at the contact between Cretaceous intrusions and the surrounding country rock.
The Titan 24 Survey consists of 6 lines (each 2.4 kilometres long) spaced 400 metres apart, covering an area of approximately 4.8 square kilometres. Direct current resistivity and induced polarization data are mapped to depths of approximately 750 metres. A presentation of the Titan 24 results will be posted on Northern Tiger’s website.

The Mariposa property, covering an area of approximately 40 square kilometres and held under option from the Tintina syndicate, is located 25 kilometres southeast of Underworld Resource’s White Gold property and about 35 kilometres northeast of Kaminak Gold’s Coffee Creek property. Pacific Ridge’s 2009 exploration program included prospecting, historic data compilation, geologic mapping and initial soil geochemical surveys. Results from this first year of exploration indicated similar geological and aeromagnetic signatures to the nearby White Gold and Coffee Creek discoveries. In addition to which, Mariposa has seen a 100-year history of placer gold mining that has produced hackly gold nuggets suggesting proximity to potential lode gold sources. Mariposa contains a 7-kilometre-long open-ended zone of favourable rocks for hosting gold mineralization where selected grab sample assays have assayed to three grams per tonne gold. Yet to be fully defined gold geochemical anomalies in soils range from 20 parts per billion to 1300 parts per billion gold.

Pacific Ridge’s 2010 exploration program includes expanding geochemical sampling grids to further delineate the ultimate dimensions of already established gold anomalies. Backhoe trenching will then follow in order to facilitate sampling of near-surface bedrock. Contingent on the results of which work drilling of selected gold targets would then be proposed.

With a priority being placed on exploration at Mariposa, exploration plans for Pacific Ridge’s Gold Cap, Polar/Stewart and Eureka Dome will be deferred until later in the season.

Pacific Ridge’s disclosure of a technical or scientific nature has been reviewed by George Norman, PGeo, exploration manger for Pacific Ridge and a qualified person under the definition of National Instrument 43-101

Under the supervision of Equity Exploration Consultants Ltd., the drill program is intended to test the depth extension of mineralization discovered in 2008 as well as other recently defined targets. Mineralization occurs along a 2.5-kilometre-long gold-arsenic-antimony-barium soil geochemical anomaly as well as in trenches located within the anomalous area. The drill program will include approximately 2,500 metres of diamond drilling in 13 drill holes.

David Pawliuk, PGeo, is the qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and supervised the preparation of the technical information in this release.

Exploration trenching on the property will also be conducted concurrently, lasting approximately 20 days, followed by electromagnetic surveying where necessary. Stina plans to drill on the former Teck target, as well as other indicated targets on the Dime property, in August, 2010, and has signed a contract with Kluane Drilling Ltd. of Whitehorse. The budget for the Dime property is approximately $600,000.

In the fall of 2009 a smaller 191-soil sample program was conducted, collected on a grid covering about 37 hectares on the Dime property. The gold values in the survey reached as high as 6,082 parts per billion, or six parts per million with a trend on the bottom claims of the property.

Exploration on the Kodiak property, approximately 75 kilometres to the south of Dime, will also be initiated early next week, with news forthcoming, and will also include soil grid sampling and trenching.

The Kodiak property lies directly south of Underworld’s (recently acquired by Kinross) White Gold property and directly to the north of Kaminak’s Kirkman and Coffee properties.

Key Results:

• Kona trend grab samples yield up to 3.9 g/t Au within newly recognized host rock (Cretaceous-aged Coffee Creek granite)

• New staking adds 284 claims (5,500 hectares) covering high-priority targets. Coffee property now totals 993 claims (19,900 hectares)

• Espresso trend extended and remains open: soil values up to 1.04 g/t Au

“Our 2009 exploration program successfully defined four significant gold trends on the Coffee property over a total length of 11km,” stated Rob Carpenter, President and CEO of Kaminak. “We have only covered approximately 20% of the property with soil sampling and anticipate completing a significant soil sampling and trenching program next year in addition to diamond drilling “.

Kona Trend

The Kona Trend, 5km west of the high-grade Supremo Zone, comprises a northeast trending >50 ppb Au soil anomaly traceable for over 1,500m along strike and up to 500m wide. Updated maps are now available on the Company website at www.kaminak.com. A series of anomalous grab samples were obtained along the southern margin of the target, ranging from 0.19 g/t Au to 3.92 g/t Au. The area has not been trenched since results were received subsequent to the field season.

Geological mapping has confirmed that the mineralization is hosted by the Coffee Creek granite, which is inferred to be Cretaceous in age, representing a new host to gold mineralization in the White Gold District. Kaminak has staked an additional 284 claims covering the known extent of the Coffee Creek granite.

Espresso Trend

The Espresso target, 1km west of the Kona trend, was identified late in the summer of 2009 and constitutes a broadly northeast trending > 25 ppb Au soil anomaly traceable for 1200 meters by 750 meters that is open to the west. The 2010 program will target the western portion of the soil anomaly, not trenched in 2009, containing two soil values of 1.04 g/t Au and 0.72 g/t Au.

Anomalous gold values on the Coffee property are associated with heavily bleached and weathered rock comprised primarily of sericite and quartz. The host rock is heavily altered; however, a progression from fresh rock can be observed within the trenches. There also seems to be a correlation between high gold values and several pathfinder elements, including arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb). Overall, gold values for 100 total rock samples reported here ranged from below detection level to a high of 3.9 g/t Au. Trench sampling consisted of continuous chip samples over 5m intervals of oxidized and weathered rubble sub-crop that is interpreted as being near in-place.

QA / QC

Kaminak’s disclosure of a technical or scientific nature in this press release has been reviewed and approved by Dr. Rob Carpenter, Ph.D., P.Geo., Kaminak’s President and CEO, who serves as a Qualified Person under the definition of National Instrument 43-101. Rock samples were shipped to Acme Laboratories of Vancouver, B.C. for analyses. Certified reference materials are inserted into the batch and results were verified by a British Columbia Certified Assayer. The Coffee property represents an early stage exploration property and does not contain any mineral resources as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

Key Results:

• Latte trend yields 0.59 g/t Au over 35m (open to the south); 1.01 g/t Au over 10m and grab samples up to 2.35 g/t Au

• Mineralization encountered over 300m strike length and remains open along trend and is hosted within a larger and untested gold-in-soil trend (Latte) known to extend for at least 1,000m long by up to 200m wide

• Gold is co-incident with a major structural trend and is associated with typical “White District” pathfinder elements arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb)

• 2009 soil sampling identifies new 700m long untested gold-in-soil anomaly uncovered between Supremo and Latte Zones

“The Latte Zone represents the second significant surface gold discovery identified on the Coffee property this year,” stated Rob Carpenter, President and CEO of Kaminak. “These results illustrate the potential of the property to host multiple drill targets for 2010.”

Latte Trend

The Latte gold-in-soil anomaly is located approximately 1,500m south of the main Supremo Zone and is defined by an east-west trending >50 ppb Au soil anomaly that has a 1,000m long strike extent and is 200m wide.  Three evenly spaced trenches were cut across a 250m long portion of the anomaly and significant gold results were encountered in each trench (visit Company’s website at www.kaminak.com for maps).  The most westerly trench yielded 1.01 g/t Au over 10m and a separate zone of 0.56 g/t Au over 15m while the central trench yielded 0.59 g/t Au over 35m. The easterly trench yielded 0.60 g/t Au over 10m. Additionally, a grab sample located 90m further east assayed 2.35 g/t Au. These assays confirm the potential for broad zones of mineralization at the Latte target and exploration in 2010 is expected to include additional trenching and drilling.

New Soil Trend Identified

Soil sampling has identified a previously unknown gold-in-soil anomaly located midway between the Supremo and Latte trends. This new anomaly measures at least 700m long (open to the west) and is defined by gold-in-soil values ranging from 33 ppb Au to a high of 84 ppb Au. No trenching has been completed on this target as of yet; however it appears to spatially separate from both the Supremo and Latte Zones. Evaluating the gold potential of this new trend will be a priority during the 2010 exploration program.

Anomalous gold values on the Coffee property are associated with heavily bleached and weathered rock comprised primarily of sericite and quartz. This host rock is heavily altered; however, a progression from fresh rock can be observed within the trenches. There also seems to be a correlation between high gold values and several pathfinder elements, including arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb). Overall, gold values for 34 total samples reported here ranged from below detection level to a high of 2.35 g/t Au. Trench sampling consisted of continuous chip samples over 5m intervals of oxidized and weathered rubble sub-crop that is interpreted as being near in-place.

A high-sensitivity magnetometer system will assist in interpreting bedrock units, structure and alteration. The radiometric system will consist of a multichannel spectrometer with state-of-the-art design to map rock units and alteration patterns.

The companies are also awaiting results from the lab on approximately 2,000 samples taken from various locations on the companies’ more than 300 claim blocks in the White Gold area.

Supremo trench results

Results are presented here from follow-up crosscut trenching that was completed near trench No. 3 where a previous result of 2.3 grams per tonne gold over 21 metres was obtained. This earlier result was from an east-west-trending shallow trench. Two new north-south-trending trenches six metres apart from one another were dug directly on top of the original east-west trench in hopes of expanding the known extent of the mineralization. Results include 11.72 grams per tonne gold over 10 metres from one trench and 8.56 grams per tonne gold over 15 metres from the other trench. Both of these high-grade results begin right next to the original trench and extend northerly.

The significance of these results is simplified on a sketch map available on the company website. The true width or extent of this zone is not fully known partially due to the oxidized and rubbly nature of the trench material, but it appears to have a roughly east-to-northeast trend. These new data have identified high-grade gold in rock as well as successfully extending the known area of mineralization in the trench No. 3 area.

A separate interval of 1.76 grams per tonne gold over 25 metres was uncovered from trench No. 2, approximately 100 metres from trench No. 3. The relationship between these occurrences is being investigated; however, initial observations suggest they are separate geological targets possibly hosted by a series of stacked structurally controlled zones.

These represent the final assays from the 2009 trenching program at the Supremo target. This program successfully identified several drill targets in addition to the results discussed in this release from trenches No. 2 and No. 3. Other notable targets include trench No. 6 (11.45 grams per tonne gold over five metres), trench No. 8 (1.37 grams per tonne gold over 30 metres) and trench No. 4 (0.53 gram per tonne gold over 45 metres). Additional trench results are pending from the Latte, Espresso and Kona targets and will be released in the coming weeks. Phase one drilling in 2010 will focus on evaluating priority targets from across the property and will be designed to test shallow, near-surface targets.

Anomalous gold values in the Supremo region are associated with heavily bleached and weathered rock comprising primarily sericite and quartz. This host rock is heavily altered; however, a progression from fresh felsic gneiss can be observed within the trenches. There also seems to be a correlation between high gold values and several pathfinder elements, including arsenic (As) and antimony (Sb). Over all, gold values for 25 total samples reported here ranged from below detection level to a high of 13.79 grams per tonne gold. Sampling consisted of continuous chip samples over five-metre intervals of oxidized and weathered rubble subcrop that is interpreted as being near in place.

Jason Gigliotti, president of Habanero Resources, stated: “This is the first work program that Habanero has been involved with in more than two years. It is exciting to get under way on this gold prospect at a time of near all-time-high gold prices. Not only is a work program on our Yukon gold prospect now under way, but we have also been very actively acquiring approximately 650,000 contiguous acres of land prospective for lithium.”

Reconnaissance soil lines were surveyed across the Valley project area with samples collected every 50 metres on lines spaced 300 metres apart. The lines roughly paralleled the dominant trend of the geography while crosscutting the dominant trend of the geology. Multiple gold soil anomalies, apparently paralleling the mapped geology, were detected on three adjacent soil lines with analyses ranging up to 90 parts per billion gold.

A second phase of soil sampling has been initiated at the Valley prospect to triple the sampling density to 50-metre centres on lines spaced 100 metres apart in the areas of the anomalies. Samples will be collected from eight new lines with the intention of better delineating and hopefully expanding on the 600 metres plus of apparent strike already identified by the anomalous samples.

Pending results of the follow-up soil sampling, a trenching program followed by a drill program are anticipated for next spring.

Work on the Ashburton ground is being directed by Dr. David Hedderly-Smith, PhD, PG. Dr. Hedderly-Smith has done work in similarly aged rocks in east-central Alaska, 100 kilometres to the northwest, off and on since the 1970s, and is a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. He has approved the information in this press release.