Precipitate to Acquire Dominican Republic Concession Bordering GoldQuest
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TSXV Symbol: PRG
News Release: PRG 2012 - 02
August 16, 2012
Precipitate to Acquire Dominican Republic Concession Bordering GoldQuest
Vancouver, B.C., August 16, 2012 -‐ Precipitate Gold Corp (TSXV: PRG) announces that it has entered into a Letter Agreement dated August 16, 2012 with the shareholders of a private BC registered company (“BC Corp”) to purchase the company. BC Corp holds a 100% interest in the rights to acquire two mineral Concessions in the Dominican Republic that are currently under application. The larger concession, Juan de Herrera (“JDH”), totals 15,020 hectares in area and directly adjoins the Tireo belt holdings of GoldQuest Mining Corp on their southwest and south sides. The second concession, Higos Blancos is 3,231 hectares and covers part of a large exposure of Tireo formation rocks to the east of the GoldQuest trend. A concession map is available on Precipitate’s website.
Commenting on the news Michael Moore VP, Exploration states “It’s very impressive how many new discoveries have come out of the Tireo belt in such a short time. The area was clearly subject to a significant regional scale mineralizing event that has left the Trend with a gold endowment that is impressive in terms of both broad areal extent and intensity. There is very little high quality land available in the Tireo belt and we’re pleased and excited to be able to acquire over 18,000 hectares of highly prospective concessions.”
The “Tireo Trend”
The Tireo formation is an Upper Cretaceous aged package of volcanic and sedimentary rocks that occurs in the western portion of the Dominican Republic, trending northwesterly and ending north of the Dominican-‐Haitian border. These rocks were largely unexplored until GoldQuest Mining Corp in joint venture with Goldfields Ltd carried out regional silt and prospecting programs ten years ago that highlighted several new areas of gold mineralization hosted in Upper Tireo volcanic rocks. Subsequent work by GoldQuest led to the discovery of several distinct areas of mineralization through the company’s 35 km long group of concessions, notably (from north to south) Los Comios, Romero, La Escandalosa, Loma Viejo Pedro and Jenjibre. Drilling at Escandalosa Sur has defined a 43-‐101 complaint Inferred Resource of 4.88 million tonnes grading 2.6 g/t gold in a flat lying near surface zone (after GoldQuest website August 15, 2012).
The Romero Discovery The Tireo Trend recently gained major prominence when GoldQuest announced its latest discovery, Romero, north of Escandalosa on the las Tres Palmas concession. Three holes have been reported so far from Romero including the following notable intercepts (after GoldQuest website August 15, 2012):
Hole 90: 231 metres grading 2.41 g/t Gold and 0.44% Copper Hole 92: 159 metres grading 4.45 g/t Gold and 0.95% Copper Hole 93: 258 metres grading 4.50 g/t Gold and 1.30% Copper Mineralization at Romero, like Escandalosa, is hosted by Upper Tireo dacites. GoldQuest is continuing its drill program with two rigs and plans to add a third rig shortly. The Romero discovery remains open in all directions.
Other Discoveries within GoldQuest’s Tireo holdings (After GoldQuest website August 15, 2012)
GoldQuest has made several other discoveries within its Tireo belt holdings that are at an earlier stage of exploration. At Loma Viejo Pedro, GoldQuest discovered a three kilometre long gold in soil and rock anomaly covering areas of pyritically and argillically altered Tireo formation rocks. Grab samples from the area have returned up to 13.8 g/t gold and several anomalous samples including at least one 5+ g/t gold sample were taken on ground now covered by Precipitate’s Juan de Herrera concession application. This concession surrounds the Loma Viejo Pedro occurrence on its west, east and south sides. At Jenjibre at the southern end of GoldQuest’s Tireo belt holdings several areas of argillic altered andesitic tuffs with coarse disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite and barite were discovered. Channel sampling at the principal Jenjibre showing returned 59.5 metres grading 1.58 g/t gold and 55.75 g/t silver. The Juan de Herrera concession application borders the Jenjibre area to the west and partially to the south. Precipitate is in discussions with GoldQuest for access to their exploration data for areas covered by the Juan de Hererra concession application.
Regional Tireo Trend Discoveries In addition to the GoldQuest discoveries recent work by Unigold Inc (UGD-‐V) has led to several discoveries on its Neita project located to the northwest of GoldQuest within similar geology. Unigold is drilling at Neita in advance of preparation of a maiden 43-‐101 compliant resource calculation for the Candelones zone. Further to the northwest on the Haitian side of the border JV partners Eurasian Minerals (EMX-‐V) and Newmont (NEM-‐T) are drilling at the Savane La Place prospect on their La Miel project. La Miel is described as epithermal mineralization occurring in the same Tireo rock sequence where previous trenching has returned up to 243 metres grading 1.71 g/t gold (After Eurasian Minerals website August 15, 2012). However, it should be noted that there is no certainty that future exploration will result in discovery of mineral deposits similar to the foregoing descriptions, or in any mineral deposits.
BC Corp Agreement Precipitate can earn a 100% interest in BC Corp by meeting the agreement terms which include cash payments totaling $450,000, issuance of an aggregate of 3 million common shares and the completion of $1.0 million in aggregate exploration expenditures. A $60,000 cash payment, as part of the total payments, is due upon execution of a formal agreement and with all other obligations due up to three years after the anniversary date of the final concession being fully granted by the Dominican Republic authorities. A 3% NSR is payable to the BC Corp shareholders, 1.5% of which can be purchased by Precipitate for $2.0 million. Precipitate’s management continues to review multiple acquisition opportunities in the Dominican Republic and elsewhere seeking out other projects that can enhance shareholder value.
Michael Moore, VP Exploration of the Company and Qualified Person for purposes of National Instrument 43-‐101 has reviewed the technical information in this news release.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors For further information contact:
“Darcy Krohman” Investor Relations President & CEO Tel: 604-558-0338 Precipitate Gold Corp. Toll Free: 1-855-558-0335 www.precipitategold.com [email protected]
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This press release may contain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included herein are forward looking information. Generally, forward-looking information may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as "plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "proposed", "is expected", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "does not anticipate", or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases, or by the use of words or phrases which state that certain actions, events or results may, could, would, or might occur or be achieved. This forward-looking information reflects Precipitate Gold Corp.’s (“Precipitate” or the “Company”) current beliefs and is based on information currently available to Company and on assumptions it believes are reasonable. Forward-looking information is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity, performance or achievements of Precipitate to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such risks and other factors may include, but are not limited to: the exploration concessions may not be granted on terms acceptable to the Company, or at all; general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties; the concessions acquired by the Company may not have attributes similar to those of surrounding properties; delay or failure to receive governmental or regulatory approvals; changes in legislation, including environmental legislation affecting mining; timing and availability of external financing on acceptable terms; conclusions of economic evaluations; and lack of qualified, skilled labor or loss of key individuals. Although Precipitate has attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in forward-looking information, there may be other factors that cause results not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information. Precipitate does not undertake to update any forward-looking information, except in accordance with applicable securities laws.
Unigold
UGD option
Neita TSX.V: PRG
La Miel GoldQuest Eurasian-Newmont Mining Corp.
Los Comios Las Animas Las Tres Palmas (Romero)
LTP-90: 231m @ 2.4 gpt gold (incl. 42m @ 1.0% copper) GoldQuest LTP-93: 258m @ 4.5 gpt gold and 1.3% copper Mining Corp.*
Precipitate Loma Viejo Pedro Gold Corp.
Higos Blancos Jengibre (3,231 ha) +5 gram Au rock samples
(after GoldQuest)
Juan de Herrera
Atlantic Ocean
(15,020 ha)
Santiago
Santo Domingo
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Caribbean Sea
Date: August 2012
- Goldquest concession border after company website August 2012