NV Gold Completes Acquisition of Swiss Exploration Permit and Appoints Paul Zyla as a Director and David Bell as Technical Advisor
Vancouver, British Columbia – NV Gold Corporation (TSX-V: NVX) (the “Company”) announced today that it has completed the acquisition of an exploration permit for gold and precious metals (the “Medel Permit”) covering a total area of approximately 136 square kilometers in the Commune of Medel/Lucmagn in the Canton of Graubunden in eastern Switzerland from Paul Zyla originally announced on September 6, 2011. The property is located in the Alps in a sparsely populated area.
In conjunction with the acquisition of the Medel Permit, the Company has appointed Paul Zyla to its Board of Directors and appointed David Bell as a technical advisor to the Company. Paul Zyla B.Sc., University of Toronto, presently serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Xtra-Gold Resources Corp. (Symbol XTG-T). Mr. Zyla has more than 25 years’ experience as CEO and/or President of resource-based public companies.. David Bell, B.Sc. has over 40 years’ experience in the gold mining industry and has worked for numerous companies, including Franco-Nevada Corporation Ltd. (which merged into Newmont Mining Corp.) and Chariot Resources Ltd., and received the PDAC “Prospector of the Year” award in 1982 for his work on the discovery of the Hemlo Gold camp in Ontario, Canada.
The Medel Permit encompasses a large portion of the Gotthard Massif, made up of pre-Variscan basement rocks of the Central Swiss Alps. Gold mineralization on the property is associated with a unit of quartz-sericite-pyrite schist occurring along an east-west-trending belt over six kilometers long. Thicknesses of this schist horizon ranges from a few meters to approximately 200 meters thick.
The area has been explored by previous owners. Records of drilling undertaken by International Micham Resources Inc. in 1991 include intercepts of 75 meters averaging 1.13 grams per tonne gold and 94 meters averaging 0.96 grams per tonne gold in two holes drilled from the same pad. Recent spot outcrop and float samples of this gold-bearing unit taken by the Company returned grades ranging from 0.15-1.57 grams per tonne gold. The Company is currently conducting more extensive sampling of this gold-bearing horizon to further evaluate its grade and continuity. Gold assays for the sample results were completed by ALS Scandinavia AB in Pitea, Sweden using a 30 gram charge, fire assay, with an ICP finish. The drilling results have not been verified at this time since the Company has not had access to the drill core and QA/QC procedures are unknown. Accordingly, the Company cautions that they may not be reliable. The Company expects to be able to access the drill core and it will undertake verification procedures after it secures access.
The Company acquire the Medel Property for 250,000 units (the “Units”) of the Company. Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company and one-half of one common share purchase warrant. Each whole warrant will entitle the holder to purchase one additional common share of the Company at $1.00 for a period of three years. The expiry of the warrants is subject to acceleration such that, should the volume weighted average price of the common shares in the capital of the Company exceed CDN $2.00 for twenty consecutive trading days, the Company may notify the holder that the Warrants will expire 30 trading days from receipt of such notice unless exercised before such date. The Units and any shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants are subject to a hold period expiring on February 22, 2012.
The Company has agreed to pay a finder’s fee of 35,000 common shares in respect of the acquisition of the Medel Permit and to acquire information and data in respect of the area of the Medel Permit for SFR 40,000 (40,000 Swiss Francs) and 265,000 common shares of the Company.
The exploration information in this news release was prepared by Dr. Quinton Hennigh, P. Geo., a director of the Company and a Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
(sgd.) “John E. Watson”
President and CEO
For further information, visit the Company’s website at www.nvgoldcorp.com or contact:
John E. Watson,
Phone: 303.674.9400
Email: jewats@aol.com
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Forward Looking Statements
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