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NORTHERN TIGER RESOURCES YUKON EXPLORATION UPDATE

Posted by Admin in Field Work, News Releases on June 22, 2011

Northern Tiger Resources Inc. has provided an update on its planned $7.2-million Yukon exploration programs. The 2011 exploration programs are designed to follow up high-grade gold drill discoveries made in 2010 at both the 3Ace and Sonora Gulch projects.

Drilling at Sonora Gulch commenced last week. The primary focus of this 2,500 metre diamond drill program will be on the Gold Vein Zone – a 1.4 kilometre long geochemical anomaly averaging 161 ppb gold-in-soils. A single drill hole testing the anomaly in 2010 returned a discovery intercept of 7.6 g/t gold and 155.5 g/t silver over 6.0 metres.

Construction of the new camp at 3Ace is now advanced and the drill crew is mobilizing to the property this week. The 10,000 metre drill program will focus on the Main Zone, where two diamond drill holes have already intersected significant gold mineralization (including 4.3 g/t gold over 30.3 metres and 14.8 g/t gold over 10.9 metres – see news release dated November 4, 2010), and on Green Zone West (a 1,000 metre by 500 metre anomaly averaging 115 ppb gold-in-soils). Up to five additional targets on 3Ace and the adjoining Sprogge Property will also see preliminary drill testing this year.

“Our Yukon exploration program is well underway, although the late spring melt has caused some delays,” says Greg Hayes, President of Northern Tiger. “We were able to compensate by getting the drill turning early at Sonora Gulch and completing some additional regional exploration work earlier in the season. With the drill crew mobilizing to 3Ace, we will soon have drills turning on two Yukon properties with significant gold discovery potential.”

This News Release has been reviewed and approved by Dennis Ouellette, B.Sc., P.Geol., a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

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ASHBURTON TO START WORK IN THE YUKON

Posted by Admin in Field Work, News Releases on June 22, 2011

Ashburton Ventures Inc. has disclosed that the 2011 work program has been established and mobilization to the site will begin prior to July 1, 2011. The White Gold property is situated north of and immediately contiguous with the Golden Saddle claim groups where Underworld Resources had their new gold discoveries in 2009. This property area was then acquired by Kinross Gold Corp. in early 2010.

The area of the White Gold property was soil sampled in 2009 and the results from this sampling campaign have highlighted a significant gold, copper, zinc and arsenic northwest-southeast trend that extends across the Ashburton claims to the boundary of the Kinross White Gold claims. The 2011 White Gold property exploration includes trenching with detailed mapping and sampling followed by a selective drill program.

UTM Exploration Services Ltd. of Smithers, B.C., has been contracted to provide exploration support and geological services for White Gold.

The technical contents of this release were approved by Dr. Tom McCandless, PGeo, vice-president, exploration, for Ashburton and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

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PACIFIC RIDGE DRILLING AT MARIPOSA STARTS IN WHITE GOLD DISTRICT

Posted by Admin in Field Work, News Releases on June 21, 2011

Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd.’s diamond drilling is now under way on the Pacific Ridge Mariposa gold property located in the Yukon’s White gold district. This 4,000-metre diamond drilling program comprises a significant part of Pacific Ridge’s $3-million phase 1 exploration budget. There is no history of previous drilling at Mariposa.

Diamond drilling will test the Skookum Jim and Hackly zones, two of five gold-in-soils geochemical anomalies defined in 2010 within the 262-square-kilometre Mariposa property. It is currently estimated that the initial drill program will comprise 20 to 25 drill holes.

Initial drilling will be directed to the 3,500-metre-by-600-metre Skookum Jim target containing gold-in-soil anomalies ranging from 100 to 1,570 parts per billion (ppb) gold that are coincident with magnetic and electromagnetic geophysical anomalies interpreted to represent underlying structures. The Skookum Jim target is in a favourable geological setting that hosts coincident geochemical and geophysical signatures that are also associated with gold mineralization recently discovered elsewhere within the White gold district. Trenching conducted by Pacific Ridge in 2010 within the anomaly further confirmed the presence of gold with composite rock sample results of up to 1.25 grams per tonne (g/t) gold over 30 metres of strongly fractured, brecciated and oxidized rock. A strongly oxidized hematitic rock sample in the trenching area also returned 8.1 g/t gold.

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STINA ANNOUNCES 2011 YUKON EXPLORATION PLANS AND BUDGET

Posted by Admin in Field Work, News Releases on June 1, 2011

Stina Resources Ltd. has released further 2011 exploration details and an exploration budget on its wholly owned Dime and Kodiak properties in the highly active White Gold and South Klondike districts, Yukon. The Dime property is 67 kilometres southwest of Dawson City within the Ten Mile placer gold area. The Kodiak property is located 15 km south of the White gold deposit held by Kinross.

The total exploration budget for the Yukon in 2011 has been set at $1.55-million.

Dime Property

Work on Dime in 2009-2010 included 3,200-soil samples, outlining three distinct gold anomalies over an area measuring 4,500m by 1800m. All three soil anomalies appear to be structurally controlled. 5 Core holes were drilled (657 m), with all holes showing gold mineralization. 1,235m of trenching was conducted on two of the anomalies, and the property was expanded from 128 to 308 claim blocks. $470,000 was spent on the Dime in 2010.

This year the Company has budgeted the following expenditures for Dime: $80,000 on Geology; $150,000 on Soil Sampling; $76,000 on Trenching; $67,500 on Assaying; $165,000 on Transportation; $53,000 on an Aeromagnetic Survey; $86,500 on Base Camp Overhead; $497,000 on Drilling; $122,300 on Contingency funds.

The total budget for the Dime Property in 2011 is set at $1.35 million, with 37% of the budget allocated to drilling.

Exploration for the Dime is expected to start in early June with an aeromagnetic survey, as well as an extensive trenching program designed to refine last year’s drill targets and establish new ones. Trenching is expected to last into July and include 4,000 to 5,000m. Deep Auger Soil Sampling of up to 3,000 samples to expand the Dime system will start in early June and last between 2 and 3 weeks. Core Drilling will start in the middle of July and last 2 to 3 weeks, with 15 to 20 holes and up to 3,000 metres planned. Further Soil sampling and Trenching will follow in August and September to follow up on Drilling and prepare future targets. Pending exploration results, further follow up Drilling may be done in September.

Kodiak Property

Work on the Kodiak in 2009-2010 included 1,886 soil samples with values as high as 856.8 ppb gold, and 383m of trenching, extending the Main Northwest trend to a strike length of 4,000m. An anomalous gold soil zone at the junction of the northerly Zipper Trend and the Main Northwest trend was also identified, as well as elevated nickel values in soil which occur either with or in the proximity of anomalous gold zones indicating underlying mafic or ultramafic rocks. In 2010 the Company spent $192,775 on Kodiak exploration.

The Company has budgeted $219,263 for 2011 Kodiak exploration as follows: $10,000 in Geological consulting; $75,000 in Soil Sampling; $20,000 in Trenching; $37,500 in Assaying; $30,000 in Transportation; $26,830 in Geophysics; $19,993 in Contingency. The budget may be revised, particularly if the Company decides to drill the Kodiak late in the season.

Exploration on Kodiak is expected to start in early June with an aeromagnetic survey. Soil Sampling (up to 1,500 soils) and Trenching (up to 1,500m) is expected to start in July and last several weeks.
Kluane Drilling of Whitehorse has been contracted to conduct drilling, with Ground Truth Exploration and Ryanwood Exploration contracted to conduct soil sampling and trenching, consistent with last year. Precision Geosurvey of Vancouver has been contracted for aero-magnetic surveys, with ACME Laboratories of Vancouver conducting all assaying. Company Director and VP of Exploration, Al Doherty – P. Geo, will direct the exploration program in the Yukon, with additional consultation being provided by Jean Pautler – P. Geo, and Shawn Ryan of Ryanwood Exploration.

Al Doherty of Whitehorse, YT is a designated Qualified Persons acting for the Company and assisted in the preparation of this news release.

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PACIFIC RIDGE MARIPOSA PROGRAM STARTS IN WHITE GOLD DISTRICT

Posted by Admin in Field Work, News Releases on May 25, 2011

Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd. has commenced exploration activities for 2011 on the Pacific Ridge Mariposa gold property in the Yukon’s White Gold district. A Phase 1 program, budgeted at $3 million, will include 4,000 metres of diamond drilling to test several significant gold-in-soil anomalies and gold values in trenches identified in 2010. Field crews have mobilized to the site and diamond drilling will commence in mid-June.

During the month of April a detailed airborne magnetometer survey was flown over the 2010 Mariposa soil grid area, to identify geologic structures with potential to host lode gold mineralization. A preliminary interpretation of results suggests that the Mariposa grid area lies within a major, 3 kilometre wide structural corridor of converging arrays of more discrete northeast, northwest and north-south trending structures.

The 3500 metre long x 600 metre wide Skookum Jim gold-in-soil anomaly is to date, the most prominent gold trend on the Mariposa property. A compilation of airborne magnetic, soil and trenching results indicate that in the trenched area of this geochemical anomaly, there is a strong spatial correlation of converging linear magnetic lows with elevated soil results ranging from 100 to 1,570 ppb gold. These geophysical and geochemical trends correspond with trench exposures of strongly fractured, brecciated and oxidized rock which returned results of up to 1.25 g/t gold over 30 metres. A strongly oxidized hematitic rock sample in the trenching area also returned 8.1 g/t gold.

In light of these encouraging results, the company has scheduled a detailed ground magnetic and electromagnetic survey in advance of diamond drilling. This geophysical survey will be conducted over priority areas of geochemical anomalism on the Mariposa grid, including the Skookum Jim, Hackly Gold and Maisy May targets, as well as selected airborne geophysical trends. Simultaneous with the geophysics,in-fill soil samples will be collected in these areas and analyzed on-site with an XRF analyzer, in advance of analysis with a commercial laboratory. This instrument can provide daily qualitative results which may detect pathfinder elements highlighting areas of interest for immediate follow-up.

In summary, the 2011 exploration program is designed to quickly evaluate and drill test exploration targets defined last season within the Mariposa soil grid area, as well as to continue exploration of the overall 190 square kilometer property through reconnaissance soil sampling that should lead to grid controlled sampling of newly defined areas of prospectivity.

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ARCUS DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC.: DAWSON GOLD AIRBORNE SURVEY COMPLETED

Posted by Admin in Field Work, News Releases on May 4, 2011

A high-resolution airborne magnetometer survey over Arcus Development Group Inc.’s Dawson gold project area has been completed. The aeromagnetic survey consisted of approximately 7,800 flight-line kilometres at 100-metre line spacing and was flown by Precision GeoSurveys Inc. of Vancouver, B.C. Data interpretation will be completed by Condor Consulting Inc. of Lakewood, Colo.

Arcus expects to receive the final data interpretation in mid-May to late May and will commence its 2011 field program in early June. The 2011 exploration program will consist of diamond drilling, detailed ground geophysics and auger soil sampling, with a focus on the Dan Man and Touleary claim blocks. The 2011 exploration program and the results from the airborne magnetometer survey will be available on the Arcus website once both have been finalized.

Arcus also announces that the board of directors has established a technical committee to plan and supervise all of the company’s exploration activities. The technical committee will consist of Eric Tweedie, William Wengzynowski, Marc Blythe and Ian Talbot, all current directors of Arcus. For personal reasons, Mr. Tweedie has resigned as vice-president of exploration, but will continue his association with Arcus as both a director and a member of the technical committee.

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NORTHERN TIGER RESOURCES ANNOUNCES $7 MILLION YUKON EXPLORATION PROGRAM

Posted by Admin in Field Work, News Releases on May 3, 2011

Northern Tiger Resources Inc. has provided information about a planned $7.2-million exploration program, including 12,500 metres of diamond drilling, on its Yukon properties in 2011. The exploration programs are designed to follow up high-grade gold drill discoveries made in 2010 at both the 3Ace and Sonora Gulch projects. Drilling is expected to begin in late May at the company’s 3Ace and Sprogge projects in the southeast Yukon (10,000 metres planned) and in early August at Sonora Gulch in the central Yukon (2,500 metres planned).

“We are planning an aggressive program to follow up on 3Aces’s exceptional 2010 exploration results,” says Greg Hayes, president of Northern Tiger. “With 3Ace already hosting multiple high-grade gold targets, the addition of Sprogge’s significant gold-in-soil anomaly, and a Sonora Gulch program focused on our new drill discovery — a large geochemical and geophysical target tested with only a single hole so far — we believe the potential for multiple discoveries in 2011 to be high.”

3Ace and Sprogge

Northern Tiger has budgeted $6-million for exploration at 3Ace and the adjacent Sprogge property, as the company focuses on the southeast Yukon where it had exceptional early exploration results at 3Ace. The short 2010 program produced drill intercepts including 4.3 grams per tonne (g/t) gold over 30.3 metres and 14.8 g/t gold over 10.9 metres in the Main zone (see news release dated Nov. 4, 2010) and also outlined a number of compelling high-grade gold targets over an area in excess of four square kilometres. The recently optioned Sprogge property is adjacent to 3Ace and also hosts a significant gold geochemical anomaly in a similar geological setting (see news release dated April 12, 2011).

The company is planning 10,000 metres of diamond drilling and will focus on the Main zone, where two diamond drill holes have already intersected significant gold mineralization, and on Green zone west (a 1,000-metre-by-500-metre anomaly averaging 115 parts per billion gold in soils). Up to five additional targets on 3Ace and Sprogge will also see preliminary drill testing this year. In addition to the drilling, an extensive surface exploration program is planned for the properties, including: soil, silt and rock sampling, airborne and ground geophysical surveys, trenching, prospecting, and mapping. It is anticipated that some of the new targets generated from this work will be drill tested as part of the 2011 program. The program is expected to commence in late May, after the construction of a new 45-man camp to accommodate the significantly increased activity level.

Sonora Gulch

Northern Tiger has budgeted $1-million for exploration drilling at Sonora Gulch. The primary focus of this 2,500-metre diamond drill program will be on the Gold Vein zone — a 1.4-kilometre-long geochemical anomaly averaging 161 parts per billion gold in soils. A single drill hole testing the anomaly in 2010 returned a discovery intercept of 7.6 g/t gold and 155.5 g/t silver over six metres (see news release dated Oct. 28, 2010). It is anticipated that the Sonora Gulch drill program will commence in early August.

DEL and BOND

Northern Tiger has also budgeted $200,000 for programs at the DEL and BOND properties. The programs will involve additional prospecting, sampling and ground geophysical surveys to follow up on anomalous copper samples. DEL and BOND were acquired from Capstone Mining Corp.’s wholly owned subsidiary, Minto Explorations Ltd., in June, 2008, and encompass exploration targets where previous prospecting encountered copper mineralization similar to that hosting Capstone’s Minto mine.

This news release has been reviewed and approved by Dennis Ouellette, BSc, PGeol, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

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KAMINAK COMMENCES DRILLING AT COFFEE GOLD PROJECT

Posted by Admin in Field Work, News Releases on April 20, 2011

Kaminak Gold Corp. has commenced the 2011 drill program on the company’s 100 per cent owned Coffee gold project, located in the White Gold district, Yukon Territory. This program marks the start of just the second year of drilling, which aims to significantly build upon the highly successful 2010 program, where eight gold discoveries were drilled over a 15 kilometre by 5 kilometre area of the Coffee Gold project.

Reverse circulation drilling is underway at the Supremo zone testing the T3 trend, where gold mineralization was established over a 1.7km strike length from widely spaced diamond drilling undertaken during 2010.

2010 drill highlights from the T3 Trend include:
17.1 g/t Au over 16m (CFD-1)
12.4 g/t Au over 14m (CFD-16)
3.3 g/t Au over 17m (CFD-3)
1.2 g/t Au over 51m (CFD-23)

All mineralization at Coffee commences from surface and is open along strike and at depth.

The RC drill is a track mounted unit designed to rapidly test along strike of existing gold drill intercepts and beneath previously un-drilled soil and trench anomalies. The mobility of the RC drill will enable Kaminak to quickly and effectively test the extensive mineralized trends at Coffee to a down-hole depth of 200m.

In addition to the RC Drill which has commenced drilling, two diamond core drills are scheduled to begin drilling in approximately two weeks at the Latte and Double Double Zones. A third diamond drill will be mobilized to Coffee by mid-May.

The Coffee Gold Project Phase One exploration program is budgeted at $15 million and includes 40,000 metres of drilling from four drills (three diamond drills and one RC drill), geophysics and the collection of 10,000 new soil samples in previous unexplored regions of the property. The key objectives for the 2011 drill program are to:
1. Expand and define geometry on the 8 gold zones discovered in 2010
2. Work towards National Instrument 43-101 compliant inferred resources on priority zones
3. Continue to discover new gold zones across the Coffee property by drill testing high-quality soil anomalies

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. The Coffee property represents an early stage exploration property and does not contain any mineral resources as defined by National Instrument 43-101.

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PACIFIC RIDGE COMPLETES AIRBORNE MAGNETIC SURVEY AT MARIPOSA

Posted by Admin in Field Work, News Releases on April 13, 2011

An airborne magnetometer survey has been completed over a portion of Pacific Ridge Exploration Ltd.’s Mariposa gold property in the Yukon’s White gold district. The survey covered the area of six gold-in-soil targets detected during the 2010 exploration program, including the 3,500-metre-long by 600 m wide Skookum Jim gold anomaly.

The high-resolution aeromagnetic survey was conducted by Precision GeoSurveys Inc. of Vancouver, B.C., using a helicopter-mounted cesium vapour magnetometer. A total of 900 line kilometres were flown along 100-metre-spaced lines and 1,000-metre-spaced tie lines. Results are currently being processed and will be subsequently interpreted together with geochemical datasets.

Recent work by Pacific Ridge, and also by some companies within the White gold district, has shown that structural discontinuities are favourable hosts for gold mineralization. Both airborne and ground magnetic surveys have been successfully used as mapping tools for delineation of these structures, as well as alteration patterns and underlying rock types. The integration of geophysical results with gold-in-soil geochemical trends is therefore considered an effective method for identification of drill targets.

Follow-up ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveying will also be conducted in advance of this year’s drill program at Mariposa. This survey will be conducted at greater detail than the aeromagnetic coverage and will provide optimum definition of targets for initial drill holes. Commencement of drilling is planned for mid-June.

During the period to April 7, 2011, exercise of 15-cent share purchase warrants has resulted in the issuance of 1,205,643 common shares with funds received in the amount of $180,846.

The technical information in this release has been reviewed by Janice Fingler, PGeo, who acts as the company’s qualified person for the purposes of NI 43-101.

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KAMINAK DEFINES ADDITIONAL GOLD-IN-SOIL TRENDS ON THE COFFEE PROPERTY

Posted by Admin in Field Work, News Releases on December 2, 2010

Significant new gold-in-soil trends have been identified by soil sampling conducted during the 2010 field season, all occurring on Kaminak Gold Corp.’s 100-per-cent-owned Coffee property, located in the White gold district, Yukon territory. All zones remain open along trend and are untested by drilling.

Key point summary:

 

  • The Americano gold-in-soil trend extended an additional 2.5 kilometres along strike, including a new gold trend named Americano West, which represents a new drill target and remains open along trend to the west and south.
  • A significant new gold-in-soil geochemical trend identified 20 km southeast of the Supremo zone, named the Sugar trend, comprising a consistent eight km by four km zone of elevated gold in soil.
  • A new gold-in-soil geochemical anomaly located on the Apollo property, 25 km northwest of Coffee.

 

“Systematic soil sampling of the Coffee property continues to uncover numerous high-priority drill targets over a distance of at least 30 km,” stated Dr. Rob Carpenter, Kaminak’s president and chief executive officer. “Drill testing of soil targets in 2010 resulted in several high-grade gold discoveries and as a result will remain an effective exploration tool.”

Americano soil sampling

During the 2010 summer field season Kaminak collected almost 10,000 soil samples across the Coffee property, including an extension of the existing grid pattern sampling. The company previously announced a major extension of the previously identified gold trends at Coffee, Kaminak identifies three new kilometre-scale gold soil trends on the Coffee property: priority targets to be drilled in current field season), including discovery of the major new Americano trend.

A further extension of the Coffee soil grid in the latter part of the field season has resulted in an additional one km extension to the Americano North gold soil trend and the identification of the new Americano West gold-in-soil trend located one km west of Americano, and covering an area of approximately 1.5 km by one km with values up to 484 parts per billion (ppb) Au. Kaminak considers these results to be highly significant as drilling of soil targets to date has resulted in several bedrock gold discoveries. The company therefore plans to drill test the Americano West area in 2011 and also undertake further grid soil sampling extensions to the Americano West gold trend which remains open along trend to the west and south.

Sugar soil sampling

In addition to the grid sampling over Americano, the company undertook a major program of first-pass ridge and spur soil sampling over its 100-per-cent-owned Coffee property, which resulted in numerous zones of elevated gold in soil being identified. In particular, a significant new gold trend was identified, named the Sugar trend, comprising a consistent eight km by four km zone of elevated gold in soil peaking at 248 ppb Au, located in the headwaters of Excelsior Creek approximately 20 km east-southeast of the Supremo zone at Coffee. The gold-in-soil anomaly is underlain by a zone of intermediate to mafic dikes which intrude granite.

The company considers the Sugar trend to be extremely significant as the scale and tenor of gold-in-soil geochemistry is similar to early sampling over the Coffee gold deposit area. The company plans to undertake grid pattern soil geochemical sampling over the Sugar trend in 2011 in addition to further step-out ridge and spur sampling over the remainder of the Coffee property, 30 per cent of which is unexplored by first-pass prospecting.

In addition to soil sampling on the Coffee property, Kaminak also undertook first-pass ridge and spur soil sampling on selected regional targets on its 100-per-cent-owned landholdings throughout the Dawson Range district. Encouraging results were returned from the Apollo project located 25 km northwest of Coffee, with elevated gold-in-soil values up to 73 ppb Au. The company plans to conduct further systematic work at Apollo in 2011.

A detailed plan map showing the location of the new gold in soil trends is available on the Kaminak website.

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