Altair Mobilizes Crew FOR Gravity Survey Prior to Drilling the Kosovo Zinc-Lead-Silver Project
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ALTAIR MOBILIZES CREW FOR GRAVITY SURVEY PRIOR TO DRILLING THE
KOSOVO ZINC-LEAD-SILVER PROJECT
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – FEBRUARY 14th, 2017: ALTAIR RESOURCES INC. (“Altair” or the
“Company”) (TSX-V: AVX; Germany FRA: 90A; ISIN: CA02137W1014; WKN: WKN A2ALMP) Mr. Harold
(Roy) Shipes, President and CEO, announces that Altair has retained SJ Geophysics of Vancouver, BC,
Canada to immediately begin a gravity survey to precede drilling under the 2017 exploration program
scheduled to begin in March on its Invictus project, Mitrovica district, Kosovo.
The Canadian technical team , under the direction of Jordan Perk, will be assisted and supported in the
field by Altair’s current Kosovo technical team including Prof. Dr. Alaudin Kodra – Eng. Geologist and
Selim Berisha, Geologist , Masters Technical Sciences (Geology) with additional support staff including
Mustafa Havolli and Munir Havolli.
SJ Geophysics is now mobilizing its field crew to initiate this gravity survey. Drilling will commence
immediately upon completion and interpretation of the gravity survey.
As discussed in an earlier release, numerous high -grade zinc and lead occurrences lie within a target
zone measuring 500 metres by 300 m. In this area several surface trenches exhibit high grade zinc -lead
mineralization zones running between 17 to 35 per cent zinc plus lead over 2 to 4 m widths within
broader mineralized zones. These zones lie within a pronounced zinc and le ad geochemical anomaly
defined by earlier work. Also from earlier work, two zones of induced polarization response and one
zone of self-potential response also lie within the target area generally coincident with the geochemical
anomalies.
Gravity surveying is scheduled to test not only the above described target area in detail, but will also
investigate, on a broader scale, the possibility of a large target within this belt of limestones and schists
that hosts numerous rich surface showings and some hist orical underground workings. The overall
target zone on the property extends over five kilometres in length and 200 to 300 m in width.
Gravity surveying using a gravity meter can measure variations in the gravitational attraction and thus
define areas of greater mass within a target area. Dense metal- rich orebodies show up as positive
gravity anomalies because of the high density of ore minerals sphalerite, smithsonite and galena in
contrast with the surrounding host lithologies of carbonate and schist.
The gravity technique allows us to detect large masses of zinc ore such as smithsonite and sphalerite
even though they are non -conductive in nature and not responsive to induced polarization or
electromagnetic surveys.
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One of the most notable successes of gravity surveying in mineral exploration is the Polaris discovery in
the 1960s in carbonate rocks on Little Cornwallis Island in the Canadian Arctic as described by William C.
Wonders (2003, pg. 233, in “Canada’s Changing North”): “Cominco undertook a gra vity survey over the
surface showing and discovered one of the biggest gravity anomalies recorded in the history of Canadian
mineral exploration. A several milligal anomaly was delineated, which upon drilling, turned out to be a
massive body of high grade galena-sphalerite ore.”
Altair’s Invictus exploration project lies within the Crepulje property in the Mitrovica district of Kosovo,
17 kilometres due west of the city of Mitrovica. Altair holds a 9.82-square-kilometre exploration license
within this historical zinc-, lead- and silver-producing region where metals have been produced since the
Middle Ages.
It should be noted that there are no reserves or resources on the Altair property holding, nor can there
be any assurance that any such resource or res erve will be established, and if established whether such
resource or reserve will be economically recoverable.
The contents of this press release have been reviewed and approved by Dr. Stewart A Jackson, P.Geo, a
technical adviser to the Company, a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.
To learn more about Altair, please visit http://altairresources.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD,
“Harold Shipes”
Harold Shipes, President & CEO
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