| Fri 23 Mar 2007, 12:34 | | GBG - Great Basin Announces Discovery Of More High |
|
GBG
GBG
GBG - Great Basin Announces Discovery Of More High Grade Gold And Silver Veins
At Hollister Development Block
Great Basin Gold Limited
(Incorporated in Canada and registered as an External Company in South Africa)
(Registration No. 2006/021304/10)
Share Code: GBG & ISIN Number: CA3901241057
("Great Basin" or "the Company")
GREAT BASIN ANNOUNCES DISCOVERY OF MORE HIGH GRADE GOLD AND SILVER
VEINS AT HOLLISTER DEVELOPMENT BLOCK
March 22 2007, Vancouver, BC - Great Basin Gold Ltd. (TSX: GBG; AMEX: GBN; JSE:
GB Gold) ("Great Basin Gold" or the "Company") announces further results from
underground drilling at the Hollister Development Block ("HDB") Project on the
Carlin Trend in Nevada, USA. Drilling has taken place at 100 ft (30 m) spacing
to fill in gaps from surface drilling within the Clementine and Gwenivere vein
systems.
One hundred percent of the planned 55,000 ft (16,750 m) of underground drilling
has been completed. Analytical results for the final holes are being released
as they are received. The following results are for 19 holes, shown in the
attached Table of Assay Results - Underground Drilling, are mainly from drill
holes in and nearby to the Clementine vein system. As indicated in the Table,
several new veins have been discovered during the drilling within this system.
These veins are being more fully explored in another phase of work that has now
been initiated at site. This continued phase of drilling includes plans for an
additional 53,000 ft of drilling designed to address gaps in the drilling
completed to date as well as targeting new areas. A number of drill holes are
designed to test areas where infrastructure might be developed.
Great Basin Gold recently announced that it will purchase Hecla Mining Company`s
50% earn-in rights to the HDB. The 55,000 foot drilling program was carried
out by Hecla over the past twelve months as part of an earn-in program that
would have included a feasibility study and other work directed toward
development of the HDB project. Progress has been made toward the completion of
the feasibility study and it now expected to be completed by the end of June
2007.
Highlights include:
Hole HDB-098 intersected 1.5 ft (0.5 m) grading 1.30 oz/t (44.67 g/t) Au and
12.27 oz/t (420.69 g/t) Ag from 211.4-213.7 ft (64.4-65.1 m).
Hole HDB-107 intersected 4.1 ft (1.2 m) grading 0.39 oz/t (13.37 g/t) Au and
0.19 oz/t (6.5 g/t) Ag from 202.1-206.6 ft (61.6-63.0 m).
Hole HDB-113 intersected 2.2 ft (0.8 m) grading 9.09 oz/t (311.66 g/t) Au and
29.53 oz/t (1012.5 g/t) Ag from 205.2-207.5 ft (62.5-63.2 m) and 7.5 ft (2.3 m)
grading 0.351 oz/t (12.03 g/t) Au and 1.23 oz/t (42.2 g/t) Ag from 300.0 -308.0
ft (91.4-93.0 m).
Hole HDB-114 intersected 3.5 ft (1.1 m) grading 1.18 oz/t (40.46 g/t) Au and
10.5 oz/t (360.0 g/t) Ag from 223.8-227.5 ft (85.1-86.5 m).
Hole HDB-121 intersected 2.5 ft (0.8 m) grading 1.05 oz/t (36.0 g/t) Au and 4.24
oz/t (145.37 g/t) Ag from 221.9-224.4 ft (84.4-85.4 m).
Hole HDB-122 intersected 4.4 ft (1.3 m) grading 0.408 oz/t (14.0 g/t) Au and
2.18 oz/t (74.4 g/t) Ag from 291.2-297.4 ft (88.8-90.6 m).
Hole HDB-126 intersected 2.8 ft (0.9 m) grading 1.56 oz/t (53.66 g/t) Au and
22.14 oz/t (759.1 g/t) Ag from 276.5-279.3 ft (84.1-85.1 m).
After a delay of several months due to the lack of available drills, the surface
drilling program undertaken by GBG has also be initiated this month at
Hollister. Twenty-eight drill holes, totaling 48,850 ft (14,890 m) are planned
on the Hollister property. Of these, 11 holes, totaling 14,450 ft (4,400 m) are
planned to test five targets within the HDB and 17 holes, totaling 31,400 ft
(9,570 m) are planned in four target areas outside the HDB area.
-2-
Gernot Wober, P.Geo., a qualified person and Exploration Manager of Great Basin
Gold, is monitoring the program on behalf of Great Basin and has reviewed this
news release.
Great Basin Gold has two advanced stage gold projects in two of the world`s best
gold environments: the Hollister property on the Carlin Trend of Nevada, USA,
and the Burnstone Gold Project in the Witwatersrand Goldfield of South Africa.
For more information on Great Basin and its projects, please visit the Company`s
website at www.greatbasingold.com or call Investor Services at 604-684-6365 or
within North America at 1-800-667-2114.
Ferdi Dippenaar
President and CEO
Samples collected from the Hollister Development Block Project are stored in
Hecla`s secure facility until picked up by Inspectorate America Corporation
(Inspectorate) of Sparks, Nevada. Vein samples are analyzed by either metallic
screen or standard fire assay procedures. For metallic screen analyses, vein
sample preparation consists of drying and jaw-crushing the entire sample to 90%
passing 10-mesh, taking a 500 g sub-sample using a rotary splitter, and then
pulverizing the 500 g sub-sample to 90% passing 150-mesh using a large capacity
ring and puck pulverizer. Gold and silver determinations are by metallic screen
analysis, with two 1 assay-ton (30 g) fire assays completed on the fine
fraction; the coarse fraction is fire assayed in its entirety. For standard
fire assay, vein sample preparation consists of drying and jaw-crushing the
entire sample to 90% passing 10-mesh, taking a 300 g sub-sample using a Jones
splitter, and then pulverizing the 300 g sub-sample to 90% passing 150-mesh
using a large capacity ring and puck pulverizer. A 30 g charge is fire assayed.
All metal determinations are by gravimetric finish. Vein samples analyzed by
standard fire assay will be re-assayed using metallic screen procedures.
Laboratory Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) is monitored using coarse
reject blanks and assay standards submitted by Hecla, duplicate fire assays, and
Inspectorate`s internal standards and blanks. Coarse blanks (barren rhyolite or
landscape marble) and assay standards are inserted by Hecla into the sample
sequence as blind samples prior to submitting the samples to the laboratory.
Inspectorate also inserts assay standards and blanks into the sample stream.
QA/QC results are within acceptable limits.
No regulatory authority has approved or disapproved the information contained in
this news release.
This release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking
statements". All statements in this release, other than statements of historical
facts, that address possible future commercial production, reserve potential,
exploration drilling results, development, feasibility or exploitation
activities and events or developments that Great Basin Gold expects to occur are
forward-looking statements. Although the Company believes the expectations
expressed in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable
assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual
results or developments may differ materially from those in the forward-looking
statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
those in forward-looking statements include market prices, exploitation and
exploration successes, delay in the completion of the feasibility study,
continuity of mineralization, and continued availability of capital and
financing, and general economic, market or business conditions. Investors are
cautioned that any such statements are not guarantees of future performance and
those actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected
in the forward-looking statements. For more information on the Company,
Investors should review the Company`s annual Form 20-F filing with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission and its home jurisdiction filings that
are available at www.sedar.com.
HOLLISTER DEVELOPMENT BLOCK UNDERGROUND DRILLING ASSAYS RESULTS
Drill From To Drilled Est. Au (opt) Ag
Hole ID Vein Thickness True (opt)
(ft) Width
(ft)
HDB-097 Clementine 69.4 70.3 0.9 0.8 0.054 0.78
130.5 131.3 0.8 0.5 0.496 0.95
217.5 219.2 1.7 1.3 0.013 0.62
HDB-098 Clementine 61.3 62.5 1.2 1.2 0.285 3.02
120.5 121.6 1.1 0.7 0.118 0.12
211.4 213.7 2.3 1.5 1.304 12.27
264.9 272.7 7.8 5.0 0.003 0.01
HDB-104 Clementine 246.5 248.0 1.5 1.1 0.077 2.99
248.0 255.7 7.7 5.7 0.019 1.10
255.7 259.3 3.6 2.8 0.187 1.68
HDB-106 191.0 191.5 0.5 0.5 0.005 0.01
303.0 308.0 5.0 4.3 0.020 0.40
HDB-107 109.5 110.6 1.1 0.8 0.435 0.33
202.1 206.6 4.5 4.1 0.393 0.19
298.0 299.3 1.3 1.3 0.388 1.02
HDB-108 63.0 68.4 5.4 4.1 0.008 0.11
107.4 108.0 0.6 0.5 0.644 1.86
112.4 113.0 0.6 0.5 1.312 4.16
226.2 229.5 3.3 3.2 0.102 1.83
HDB-109 240.5 241.3 0.8 0.7 0.061 0.19
263.7 264.8 1.1 1.0 1.475 0.76
264.8 275.0 10.2 8.4 0.143 0.15
361.7 363.0 1.3 1.2 0.117 0.52
HDB-110 280.3 281.3 1.0 0.8 0.996 0.31
320.8 321.6 0.8 0.7 0.280 0.15
HDB-111 233.5 234.8 1.3 1.2 0.285 6.07
186.2 187.8 1.6 1.5 pending pending
HDB-112 75.8 76.6 0.8 0.7 0.297 pending
87.5 88.5 1.0 0.7 0.013 0.16
222.5 223.2 0.7 0.6 1.366 2.84
229.3 230.3 1.0 1.0 0.880 3.46
260.8 261.8 1.0 0.6 0.023 0.19
327.6 328.8 1.2 0.8 0.330 pending
HDB-113 133.9 134.9 1.0 0.9 0.370 0.60
205.2 207.5 2.3 2.2 9.088 29.53
267.0 267.4 0.4 0.4 0.051 0.99
300.0 308.0 8.0 7.5 0.351 1.23
HDB-114 63.0 63.8 0.8 0.7 0.518 0.67
223.8 227.5 3.7 3.5 1.180 10.50
285.3 286.5 1.2 1.2 0.200 2.39
Drill From To Drilled Est. Au (opt) Ag
Hole ID Vein Thickness True (opt)
(ft) Width
(ft)
HDB-116 320.0 322.0 2.0 1.3 0.289 6.63
HDB-121 98.0 98.3 0.3 0.3 0.102 1.12
221.9 224.4 2.5 2.5 1.050 4.24
HDB-122 Clementine 291.2 297.4 6.2 4.4 0.408 2.35
291.2 292.0 0.8 0.6 1.803 0.34
292.0 293.3 1.3 0.9 0.011 0.07
293.3 294.4 1.1 0.8 0.030 3.52
294.4 295.4 1.0 0.7 0.002 0.04
295.4 297.4 2.0 1.4 0.520 5.16
HDB-124 12.8 14.0 1.2 1.2 0.282 0.62
55.9 57.9 2.0 1.0 0.152 0.51
57.9 59.0 1.1 1.1 0.591 0.89
67.4 68.5 1.1 1.1 0.296 0.89
189.2 190.2 1.0 1.0 0.235 0.06
211.7 212.9 1.2 1.0 0.107 0.26
230.5 231.9 1.4 1.3 1.117 26.55
HDB-126 276.5 279.3 2.8 2.8 1.565 22.14
HDB-130 217.4 219.1 1.7 1.5 0.803 2.180
329.2 332.0 2.8 2.1 0.230 0.716
417.7 420.0 2.3 1.6 0.223 0.930
422.7 422.9 0.2 0.2 0.278 0.627
23 March 2007
Date: 23/03/2007 12:34:50 Produced by the JSE SENS Department.
