Altair Plans Gravity Survey Prior to Drilling the Kosovo Zinc-Lead-Silver Project
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ALTAIR PLANS GRAVITY SURVEY PRIOR TO DRILLING THE
KOSOVO ZINC-LEAD-SILVER PROJECT
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – JANUARY 24, 201 7: ALTAIR RESOURCES INC. (“Altair” or the
“Company”) (TSX-V: AVX; Germany FRA: 90A; ISIN: CA02137W1014; WKN: WKN A2ALMP ) Mr. John
Huguet, Chairman of the Board and CEO, wishes to announce the scheduling and planning of a gravity
survey to precede drilling, under the 2017 exploration program scheduled to begi n in March on its
Invictus Project, Mitrovica District, Kosovo.
As discussed in an earlier release, numerous high grade zinc and lead occurrences lie within a target
zone measuring 500 meters by 300 meters. In this area several surface trenches exhibit high grade zinc -
lead mineralization zones running between 17 -35% zinc plus lead over 2 -4 meter widths within broader
mineralized zones. These zones lie within a pronounced zinc and lead 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 will be undertaken to check not only the above described target area but also on a
broader scale for the possibility of a large target within this belt of limestones and schists that host
numerous rich surface showings and some historical underground workings. The surface target zone on
the property extends over 5km in length and 200-300m 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.
One of the most notable suc cesses of gravity surveying in mineral exploration is the Polaris discovery in
the 1960’s in carbonate rocks on Little Cornwallis Island in the Canadian Arctic as described by William C
Wonders (2003, p.233, in “Canada’s Changing North”): “Cominco undertoo k a gravity 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,
seventeen kilometers due west of the city of Mitrovica. Altair holds a 9.82 sq km exploration license
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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 reserve 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, PGeo. , a
Technical Advisor to the Company, and a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.
To learn more about Altair, please visit http://altairresources.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD,
“John Huguet”
John Huguet, FCPA, FCMA
Chairman and CEO
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