Increases Gold Resource at Cameron LakeNuinsco Increases Gold Resource at Cameron Lake Project
6/12/2008 2:40:14 PM - Market Wire
Purchase of mill creates potential for Kenora area gold play
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jun 12, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) --
Nuinsco Resources Limited (TSX: NWI) (www.nuinsco.ca) today announced that an updated resource estimate of the gold mineralization at its Cameron Lake deposit near Kenora, Ont., has resulted in a 29% increase in measured and indicated ounces and a 72% increase in inferred ounces over the previous April, 2004 resource estimate. In addition, the Company has acquired a 700 tonne per day gold mill that could be utilized at the Cameron Lake gold project in northwestern Ontario. Following mill clean up and refurbishing, the Company may move the mill to the Cameron Lake site with the objective of ultimately processing feed from Cameron Lake as well as from the numerous deposits in the Kenora region.
"Cameron Lake is a very attractive and interesting project with additional resource increase potential at depth that we intend to evaluate further," said President Paul Jones. "The addition of a mill would enhance not only the economic potential of Nuinsco's deposit, but that of other deposits in the region as well. Discussions with local First Nations have recommenced, as has the permitting process to de-water the existing underground workings. We are also determining the appropriate corporate structure that will allow us to advance Cameron Lake as quickly as possible in order to maximize the value of the deposit for Nuinsco shareholders."
In addition to acquiring the conventional gold flotation mill, flotation cells, crusher, mill buildings and ancillary equipment, a firm has been engaged to complete the clean up of the mill to recover any gold remaining in the circuit, and a group has been identified to refurbish and possibly transport the mill to the Cameron Lake site.
Previous project operators spent in excess of $24 million to develop the Cameron Lake mine with a production-scale ramp to the 260 metre level including considerable development on three levels. This prior development expenditure would significantly reduce capital costs and required time to commence production at Cameron Lake.
The revised underground gold resource estimate is as follows:
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Change Versus 2004
Category Tonnes Au (g/t) Au (oz) Resource Estimate
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Measured 100,000 6.17 19,800 (51.5%)
Indicated 648,000 6.51 135,700 70.5%
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Measured
& Indicated 748,000 6.47 155,500 29.2%
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Inferred 1,819,000 4.99 292,000 72.1%
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(1) Mineral resources which are not mineral reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. The estimate of mineral resources may be materially affected by environmental, permitting, legal, title, taxation, sociopolitical, marketing, or other relevant issues.
(2) The quantity and grade of reported inferred resources in this estimation are uncertain in nature and there has been insufficient exploration to define these inferred resources as an indicated or measured mineral resource and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in upgrading them to an indicated or measured mineral resource category.
(3) The Cameron Lake underground gold resource was estimated by Eugene Puritch, P.Eng. and Antoine Yassa, P.Geo. of P&E Mining Consultants Inc., of Brampton, Ont., and David Melling, P.Geo. all Qualified Persons (QP) and independent consultants as per National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Puritch and Mr. Melling have read and approved the contents of this press release. A gold price of $US710/oz, mining costs of $C50/tonne, process costs of $C20/tonne, G&A costs of C$5/tonne, process recovery of 97% and a US exchange rate of C$0.93 combined to develop a cut-off grade of 3.0 g/t Au. Grade capping of 25g/t to 50 g/t was utilized in the nine defined geological domains of the deposit. The database used for the resource estimate contained 662 surface and underground drillholes on a 7.62 metre (25 ft) spacing and was updated with an additional 777 underground channel samples that were located since the last resource estimate on Cameron Lake was undertaken in April 2004. Grade interpolation utilized the inverse distance cubed estimation method.
(4) The mineral resources in this press release were estimated using the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), CIM Standards on Mineral Resources and Reserves, Definitions and Guidelines prepared by the CIM Standing Committee on Reserve Definitions and adopted by CIM Council December 11, 2005.
(5) The Cameron Lake gold project is being supervised by Paul Jones, P.Geo., President of Nuinsco, who acts as QP under National Instrument 43-101 who has read and approved the contents of this press release.
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