Alexandria
Provides Summary of Recently Acquired Assets and Update
of Activities
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 19, 2015) - Alexandria
Minerals Corporation (TSX VENTURE:AZX)(FRANKFURT:A9D)
("Alexandria") is pleased to provide a summary of its
recently acquired assets from the Murgor acquisition and
an update of its activities for the coming months.
Significant highlights of the recent
acquisition of Murgor Resources, which was successfully
completed on March 10, 2015, include:
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A substantial increase in
Alexandria's mineral resources
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A low cost of
resource acquisition, at $3.50 per ounce of gold and
gold equivalent, where the value of other metals
have been converted to an equivalent value of gold
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A coming, near
term, increase in resources
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Strengthening
Alexandria's presence in strategic mining districts
such as Red Lake and Matachewan, Ontario, Flin-Flon
and Snow Lake, Manitoba, and Chibougamau, Quebec
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Maintaining a
Made-in-Canada approach, one of the world's safest
and most reliable mining jurisdictions
The Manitoba Properties: Solid resources in a prolific
mining camp
The WIM and Hudvam projects, located in
northern Manitoba near the mining communities of Snow
Lake and Flin-Flon, respectively, are Alexandria's
newest projects with Current Resources. The Flin-Flon -
Snow Lake district is a prolific mining district, having
produced more than 183 million tonnes of
copper-gold-silver-zinc sulfide ore from 27 past and
present mines, including 3 active mines operated by
Hudbay Minerals Inc.
The following table shows previously
reported Current Resources at both the WIM and Hudvam
projects:
Both projects have along-strike and down
dip potential for new discovery and growth of the
resources. In addition, both have untested geophysical
anomalies on the broader properties. Alexandria
geologists are reviewing the technical data on both
projects, and activities being considered for summer
include geologic mapping and prospecting, trenching, and
geophysics, with a possible first round drill program as
follow-up of this work.
In the coming months, Alexandria intends
to provide resource updates, compliant with NI 43-101,
for both the WIM and Hudvam projects, as the Current
Resources for the two projects were calculated in 2008
when metals prices were considerably lower than today.
Those results were based on a cut-off grade of 2%
copper, which is a higher cut-off grade and therefore
lower tonnage, than anticipated at current prices. The
Company expects the studies to increase the resources on
both projects and result in a lower cut-off grade, as
well as providing a basis for planning follow-up work
and targeting future drill holes.
New Ontario Properties: Exploration assets close to gold
deposits
Four new exploration property assets in
well-known mining districts were acquired by Alexandria
as a result of the Murgor transaction: theGullrock property
in the Red
Lake district; the Golden
Arrow property
in the Timmins district; the Wydee property
in the Matachewan
district; and the Mishbishu property
in the Wawa
district.
The Gullrock property
is adjacent to Goldcorp's Campbell-Red Lake mining
property, which has produced more than 14 million ounces
of gold, and is currently producing gold at a rate of
about 500,000 ounces of gold per year. Gullrock is
located east along the favorable gold-bearing structure,
the Cochenour-Campbell-Red Lake gold trend, and has
numerous soil geochemical and geophysical anomalies
which have yet to be drill tested.
The Wydee property
adds to Alexandria's existing presence in the Matachewan
district. Wydee is located NW of the Young Davidson Gold
Mine (5.2 million ounces of gold: Aurico Gold Inc.), and
doubles the size of Alexandria's presence there, adding
to Alexandria's Matachewanproperty,
which is located adjacent to the Young Davidson Mine on
the east. Together the two projects host important
syenite-related gold targets, in proximity with the
important Cadillac-Larder Lake Break, a very similar
geologic environment to the ore host rock at the
Young-Davidson mine.
The Mishibishu property
is a gold exploration property in the Wawa area of
northwestern Ontario, some 80 km southeast of Hemlo,
Ontario. The property lies 6 km north of the Eagle River
Mine (2.9 million tonnes grading 8.84 g/t gold) and 12
km south of the Mishi open pit gold mine (1.2 million
tonnes grading 4.8 g/t gold), both of Wesdome Gold Mines
Ltd. The project is underlain by significant shear zone
corridors favorable to gold mineralization, with notable
past assay results such as 5 g/t gold over 7.4 m in a
drill hole, and numerous surface samples ranging in gold
from 2.6 g/t to 11.4 g/t gold.
Alexandria picks up a 40% interest in the Golden
Arrow property
east of Timmins, Ontario. The Golden Arrow property
hosts the past producing Golden Arrow Mine, which
produced 303,449 tonnes grading 2.15 g/t gold from an
open pit in 1981-1982. Gold is hosted along an altered
shear zone in syenite, and drilling has identified a
broader zone of gold mineralization below and along
strike with the open pit.
Envisioned work on these properties
during 2015 will consist variously of surface mapping
and prospecting, geophysics and trenching. Alexandria's
evaluation will be conducted in light of seeking
possible partners for some of these projects.
New Quebec Properties: Gold projects within sight of
headframes
Adding to Alexandria's already
considerable presence in Quebec, the Fancamp and Embry properties
are gold exploration properties located in the
Chibougamau area, in the northeastern extremity of the
Abitibi Belt, where Alexandria's Gwillim property
is located.
The Fancamp project
is centered on the Fancamp Deformation Zone, a 20 km
long shear zone that hosts 15 gold deposits and
occurrences along its length. The portion of the shear
zone underlying the Fancamp property has yielded high
grade gold assays in drill holes and trenches, including
4.5 g/t gold over 3.0 m, 9.3 g/t gold over 8.2 m, and
5.1 g/t gold over 3.4 m. The Embry property
is an early stage exploration property covering a 15 km
stretch of the Kapunapotagen Fault, a crustal scale
shear zone with similarities to the prolific
Cadillac-Larder Lake Break in the southern Abitibi Belt.
Current and Near-term Activities
The Company is currently underway with a
winter time, 2,500 m drill program on its Cadillac Break
properties in Val d'Or, Quebec, with a goal, weather
permitting, of completing this program before spring
thaw. Drill targets are focused on porphyry gold and
copper targets in and around to the East Sullivan
granitic stock, where historical exploration has
identified numerous drill and surface gold and copper
anomalies, and where the past producing East Sullivan
copper-gold-silver-zinc and Mid-Canada gold-copper Mines
have occurred.
As part of this overall program,
Alexandria will be completing a Resource update on its
Orenada project in the coming months. The prior resource
estimate was completed in 2009 at lower gold prices;
Alexandria expects a robust estimate to come out of this
resource update.
Alexandria's team is also planning
certain electromagnetic geophysical surveys on its Val
d'Or projects, and has recently completed a statistical
review of its regional data through the use of the CARDS
program by Consulting of Montreal. Preliminary review of
this data shows several higher priority drill targets on
the property package which will be reviewed and
prioritized....
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