Eagle Plains/Excelsior Execute Option Agreement on Wildhorse Gold/Copper Property, South-eastern British Columbia
11 3월 2010 - 11:30PM
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Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. (EPL:TSX-V) and Excelsior
Mining Corp. (TSX-V:MIN.P) have entered into an option
agreement on Eagle Plains' 100% owned Wildhorse project
located 40km north of Cranbrook, B.C. Under the terms of the
Agreement, Excelsior may earn a 70% interest in the property by
completing $3,000,000 in exploration expenditures, making $250,000
in cash payments and issuing 1,000,000 shares to EPL over 4 years.
Upon Excelsior exercising its option, a 60/40 joint venture between
Excelsior and Eagle Plains will be formed.
The Option Agreement
Under the terms of the Option Agreement, Excelsior has an option
(the “Option”) to earn a 60% interest in the Property which
may be exercised by:
- Making cash payments to Eagle
Plains totaling $250,000 over four years;
- Issuing a total of 1,000,000
Excelsior common shares to Eagle Plains over a period of four
years; and
- Incurring exploration
expenditures totaling $3,000,000 over four years.
Excelsior has an option to earn an additional 10% interest (the
“Additional Option”), thereby increasing its total interest
in the Property to 70%, which may be exercised by:
- Exercising the Option;
- Issuing a total of 300,000
Excelsior common shares to Eagle Plains; and
- Incurring exploration
expenditures totaling $1,000,000.
Excelsior has been appointed as the operator of the Property and
has the exclusive and sole responsibility of administering and
carrying out the exploration programs on the Property. The Option
Agreement includes standard representations and warranties,
termination provisions and a three kilometre area of interest.
Additionally, the parties have agreed that upon Excelsior
exercising the Option to earn a 60% interest, a joint venture will
be deemed to have automatically formed and the parties will
negotiate in good faith to enter into a formal joint venture
agreement.
The property consists of 355 ha located along the Wildhorse
River in southeastern British Columbia, the site of BC's
third-largest gold rush in the latter part of the 1800's. Placer
gravels yielded more than 1,000,000 ounces of gold, with active
placer operations in place today along the river.
A number of high-grade mineral occurrences are present on the
property:
Dardenelles (gold):
Historically this area was known as the Dardenelles and
Motherlode Crown grants which were surveyed by the Crown in 1898.
An arrastra (mill) was built on nearby Victoria Creek to process
gold-bearing massive quartz from two adits drifted on the
Dardenelles claim at the end of the nineteenth century. A 95t
bulk-sample of vein material was completed in 1975, returning 14.4
g/t (0.463 oz/t) average grade.
Eagle Plains in 2008 completed a 9-hole, 731m diamond drilling
program designed to expand the known dimensions of the vein system.
Drilling extended the known vein system both laterally and to
depth.
Tit for Tat (gold):
Located approximately 800m south of the Dardenelles occurrence,
high grade vein mineralization has been reported, with gold values
ranging from trace to a high of 41.5g/t (1.334 oz/t) over widths up
to 0.5m reported by past operators.
Copper Creek (sedimentary copper-silver)
Quartzite-hosted sedimentary copper-silver mineralization has
been reported in rocks age-equivalent to those which host the Spar
Lake and Montanore deposits located near Troy, Montana. During the
1970s, the Spar Lake mine produced 44 million tons of ore grading
.74% copper and 53 g/t silver. Sampling of disseminated
copper-silver mineralization in the Copper Creek area returned
5185ppm Cu and 40 g/t Ag (widths unknown).
About Eagle Plains Resources
Eagle Plains continues to conduct research, acquire and explore
metal projects in western Canada. In addition to holding mining
royalties on various projects, the Company controls over 35 gold,
base-metal and uranium projects, several with third parties
including Swift Resources Inc. (TSX-V:SWR), Prize Mining Corp.
(TSX-V:PRZ), Waterloo Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:WAT.P),
Touchdown Capital Inc. (TSX-V: TDW) and 99 Capital Corp.
(TSX-V:WDG). In recent years, Eagle Plains has completed option
agreements with Teck Limited (TSX:TCK.B), Alexco Resource
Corp. (TSX-V:AXR), Billiton Metals, Rio Algom Exploration, NovaGold
Resources, Kennecott Exploration and numerous other junior
exploration companies, resulting in over 53,600m (163,370') of
drilling and over $28.3 million in exploration spending on its
projects since 1998.
Expenditures during 2008 and 2009 on Eagle Plains' projects were
approximately $7,300,000, funded by Eagle Plains and third party
partners. This work resulted in approximately 6,900m of drilling
and extensive ground-based exploration work and facilitated the
advancement of numerous projects at various stages of
development.
This news release has been reviewed and approved by Tim J.
Termuende, P.Geo., hereby designated as a qualified person under
National Instrument 43-101.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
Signed,
“Tim J. Termuende”President and CEO
For further information, please
contact Mike Labach at 1 866 HUNT ORE (486
8673)Email: mgl@eagleplains.com or visit our website at
http://www.eagleplains.com
Cautionary Note Regarding
Forward-Looking Statements
The TSX Venture Exchange has not
reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or
accuracy of this release. This news release may contain
forward-looking statements including but not limited to comments
regarding the timing and content of upcoming work programs,
geological interpretations, receipt of property titles, potential
mineral recovery processes, etc. Forward-looking statements address
future events and conditions and therefore, involve inherent risks
and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those
currently anticipated in such statements.
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