NSGold’s Promising Gold Findings

Drilling at Mooseland

Drill set up on Hole 10 - 4 West on the West Zone of the Mooseland Gold Project.

NSGold Corporation (NSX – C$0.30) announced the first results from its Phase 1 drilling program at its Mooseland Gold property. To date, assays have been received for two complete holes (NSG 1-10 and NSG 2-10) and selected partial sections of other holes. These results show significant potential.

The Phase 1 exploration program commenced on September 7th, 2010 with surface drilling on the West Zone of Mooseland. In the meantime, thirteen drill holes have been completed on the West Zone for a total of 3,596 meters and drilling on the East Zone is proceeding as planned.

Samples for the first 7 holes from the West Zone have been shipped to Laboratoire Expert to conduct an analysis on them.

Hole
Number
From
(m)
To
(m)
Au Grade
(g/t)
Au Grade
(Troy oz/ton)
NSG 1-10 98.4 99.3 15.61 0.50
NSG 1-10 228.7 229.2 20.92 0.67
NSG 2-10 73.5 74.0 11.62 0.37
NSG 2-10 95.1 95.6 33.21 1.07
NSG 2-10 112.8 113.2 9.99 0.32
NSG 3-10 59.85 60.4 39.49 1.27
First assays received from Mooseland drill holes.

Note that all the above gold intercepts occurred in veins of a dark grey smoky quartz known to be the primary host for gold in the Meguma formations. Drilling at Mooseland has consistently intercepted such veins, many of which do not show visible gold at the point of intersection, but do contain anomalous gold values. Consequently, they are considered to be potential ore zones.

This is especially good news since three other drill holes on the West Zone intersected substantial quartz saddle structures; NSG 4-10 with 12.6 meters and 6.4 m, NSG 6-10 with 10.5 meters and NSG 7-10 with 22 meters of 50% quartz veining. Such thickness represents a potential large tonnage target.

Previous Reserve Estimates

To date, two historical reserve estimates (an essential first step to determine if mining can be done economically) were made for Mooseland.

A first reserve estimate was prepared by MPH Consulting Ltd. and covered the West Zone of Mooseland. It was first released in 1987 and was based on 65 drill holes.

The 1987 estimate defined a “geological reserve” of 600,000 tonnes at 8.36 g/t of “possible and probable material” hosted in seven separate zones, along a strike length of 600 metres. In 1989, the estimate was updated to include 20 additional drill holes in the West Zone, for a total of 85 drill holes. It found “total probable indicated reserves”, to a depth of 400 metres, of 433,000 tonnes with an uncut grade of 18.00 g/t Au or a cut grade of 5.15 g/t Au. So the actual grade of the resource may be somewhere in between the uncut estimate of 17.7 g/tonne and the cut estimate of 5.1 g/tonne.

A second historical reserve estimate was prepared by Kopp for Hecla Mining in 1988 and is based on gold-bearing drill intersections diluted to minimum mining widths of five feet (1.51 meters). The drilling and associated work identified historical reserves of 640,000 tons grading 0.47 ounces per ton (un-cut) or 16 grams per metric tonne in two separate zones (East Zone and West Zone).

The Kopp estimates give a better overview of Mooseland’s potential as they contain data from more drill holes and include information from the East Zone of Mooseland.

Zone Tons Grade (Troy oz/ton)
East 330,000 0.58
West 310,000 0.37
Total 640,000 0.47
Reserve estimate by Kopp for Hecla mining.

Note that the above gold resource estimates by MPH Consulting and Kopp are historic in nature and were compiled before National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects came into effect. The resource estimates have not been verified by an independent “Qualified Person” and are presented for information purposes only.

Conclusion

Because it was impossible to determine an exact reserve estimate of the Mooseland property based on the two historical resource estimates, NSGold initiated a two phase exploration program intended to verify past work and to identify and target untested areas within the Mooseland deposit.

The first results from those drillings have now been received, and they are consistent with the high-grade gold findings found in earlier programs.

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  • Those are skinny veins. I wouldn’t get too excited on grade alone.

    • Hey Alden,

      You’re right, grade isn’t everything. The actual amount of gold in the ground also has to be large enough in order to have a economically minable property.

      And although the first results look promising, much more drilling is being done at the moment to confirm if that’s the case at Mooseland.

      I also learned from the Company that they’re receiving new assays practically on a constant basis from Laboratoire Expert. So we should hear more about that in the next few days or weeks.

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