Grizzly Re-Evaluates Copper Porphyry Potential at Dayton Prospect
With Assays Yielding 0.19% CuEq Over 117 Metres and 0.39% CuEq Over
51 Metres
EDMONTON, ALBERTA--(Marketwired - Feb 13, 2014) - Grizzly
Discoveries Inc. (TSX-VENTURE:GZD)(OTCQX:GZDIF)(FRANKFURT:G6H)
("Grizzly" or the "Company") is pleased to provide an update in
advance of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada
convention at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on March 2-5,
2014, at which Grizzly will be exhibiting.
Grizzly Discoveries' extensive and diverse portfolio of
properties, including the potash-prospective Alberta Potash Project
in Eastern Alberta, the diamondiferous-kimberlite hosting Alberta
Diamond Project in North-central Alberta and the historically
productive Greenwood Property in Southeastern British Columbia,
cover an aggregate of over 700,000 hectares ("ha"), and is mostly
underexplored. The Company is conducting a strategic review of all
of the geological information that it has available on its
properties, including historical information preceding their
acquisition by Grizzly, as well as the Company's results from its
exploration programs, to ensure that future exploration programs
yield favourable results with near-term resource definition and
development.
In particular, the Company has been focussed on target selection
at its approximately 90,000 ha Greenwood Property, with a goal of
discovering deposits with near-term resource-definition potential.
In addition to the selection of the Ket 28 as a high priority high
grade gold target, as previously announced (see the Company's news
releases dated October 10, 2013 and November 26, 2013), the Company
has re-evaluated results from exploration conducted in 2009 through
2011 at the Greenwood Property's Dayton prospect. The Company has
concluded, based upon a reinterpretation of the geology and a
determination of copper-equivalency* ("CuEq") values by
incorporating coincident gold and silver values with the copper
intersected in previous drill holes, that the Dayton prospect is a
high priority copper-gold porphyry target. Drilling conducted at
the Dayton Prospect in 2010 and 2011 indicated values greater than
0.12% CuEq over core lengths between 50 to 135 metres ("m"), with a
number of shorter intervals in several of the drill holes yielding
up to and greater than 0.40% CuEq.
Brian Testo, Grizzly's President and Chief Executive Officer,
commented that "this re-examination of the Company's previous
results has shed a new light on the Dayton prospect, and we at
Grizzly are very optimistic that future drilling there will
continue to yield favourable results and may lead to a significant
discovery."
GREENWOOD PROPERTY STRATEGIC REVIEW
In light of copper porphyry discoveries that have been made in
northwest British Columbia within the last six months, Grizzly is
conducting a strategic review of its mineral claim holdings in the
Greenwood Property in south-central British Columbia. Based upon
the recent NI 43-101 technical report completed for the Company by
APEX Geoscience Ltd. dated September 1, 2013 and filed on SEDAR,
portions of Grizzly's Greenwood Property are considered highly
prospective for the presence of copper porphyries similar to those
which have recently been discovered in northwestern and central
British Columbia.
The strategic review has identified a number of prospects that
have geological characteristics and, in some cases, mineralization
that is indicative of copper porphyry style mineralization. The
Dayton prospect, on which exploration was conducted by the Company
between 2009 and 2011, included drilling which yielded strong
evidence of copper-gold porphyry style mineralization.
A total of 1,021 soil samples indicated a strong
northwest-trending copper-gold anomaly approximately 450 m by 200 m
with more than 100 of the samples containing from 100 parts per
million ("ppm") copper ("Cu") up to 1,225 ppm Cu, along with 40
samples containing greater than 50 parts per billion gold ("Au").
Surface mapping in the area identified a number of occurrences of
pyrite and chalcopyrite, locally associated with high copper and
gold grades, in association with strongly hornfelsed volcanics,
sediments and alkaline intrusions, along with local skarn. An
Induced Polarization ("IP") survey identified a number of high
quality positive IP chargeability anomalies, one of which is
associated with the soil anomaly.
A drilling program conducted in 2010 intersected up to 0.03% Cu
and 0.18 g/t Au, or 0.12% CuEq, over 96 m of core length, including
a higher grade zone of 0.35% CuEq over 8.1 m. In subsequent
drilling conducted in 2011, a second eastern IP anomaly with a weak
associated copper-gold soil anomaly was drill tested and yielded
0.19% CuEq over 117 m of core length, with a high grade zone of
0.39% CuEq (0.15% Cu, 0.43 g/t Au and 0.81 g/t Ag) over 51 m near
the top of the hole. These drill holes intersected the
copper-gold-silver mineralization in large alteration and breccia
zones with grades that compare favourably to the recently reported
grades for the newly discovered copper porphyries in northwest
British Columbia.
GREENWOOD PROPERTY - GEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
The Company's Greenwood Property is situated within Quesnelia
Terrane, host to the vast majority of British Columbia's major
known copper porphyry deposits from Princeton and Kamloops up to
Dease Lake. Airborne surveys conducted by the Company in 2008 and
2009 over three quarters of the Greenwood Property identified
numerous moderate to small intrusive bodies which are spatially
associated with vast areas of extensive hornfels, some of which is
associated with past producing copper-silver-gold skarn
mineralization, as in the historic Phoenix and Motherlode areas
within the Greenwood Property. The Greenwood area is underlain by
numerous deep seated structures with at least three known large
scale grabens with intrusions and extensive alteration spatially
associated the graben structures. The grabens are young and have
preserved Tertiary sediments and volcanics along with underlying
older Paleozoic to Triassic rocks within the boundaries of the
grabens, likely preserving any potential intrusion-related copper
mineralization.
FUTURE PLANS
The Company has previously identified seven distinct areas of
polymetallic mineralization within its 90,000 ha Greenwood
Property. In addition to undertaking further planned drilling on
the Ket 28 target and Dayton prospect, the Company will be seeking
option and joint venture opportunities for development of the other
prospect areas. The Company is also concurrently marketing
internationally its Alberta Potash Project, seeking a joint venture
partner to fund the next stage of drilling on its northern block,
where historic drilling yielded 18.6%K2O (or over 28% KCl
potash).
Any proposed exploration programs to be conducted on the
Company's properties are subject to financing.
* Copper equivalency ("CuEq") values disclosed in this news
release have been calculated utilizing values of $1,250 per ounce
for gold, $20 per ounce for silver and $3.25 per pound for
copper.
ABOUT GRIZZLY DISCOVERIES INC.
Grizzly is a diversified Canadian mineral exploration company
with its primary listing on the TSX Venture Exchange with 48.7
million shares issued, focused on developing significant Potash
assets in Alberta and its precious metals properties in
southeastern British Columbia. The Company holds, or has an
interest in: metallic and industrial mineral permits for potash
totaling more than 900,000 acres along the Alberta-Saskatchewan
border; over 235,000 acres of precious-base metal properties in
British Columbia; and more than 600,000 acres in properties which
host diamondiferous kimberlites in the Buffalo Head Hills and Birch
Mountains of Alberta.
The content of this news release and the Company's technical
disclosure has been reviewed and approved by Michael B. Dufresne,
M. Sc., P. Geol., who is the Qualified Person as defined by
National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral
Projects.
On behalf of the Board, Grizzly Discoveries Inc.
Brian Testo, President, (780) 693-2242
For further information, please visit our website at
www.grizzlydiscoveries.com.
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