Harvest Gold Corporation. (HVG - TSX.V)
November
29, 2006 (the "Company") is pleased to announce it has signed a formal
option
agreement with Grandview Gold (TSX: GVX) relating to the acquisition of a
70%
interest in the Company’s Rocky Ridge gold property in mining-friendly
Manitoba’s historic Lac du Bonnet Mining District.
Under the terms of the
agreement, Grandview has an option to earn
an undivided 70 per-cent interest in the Rocky Ridge property by
incurring
$600,000 (CAD) in resource exploration and development expenditures,
$85,000
(CAD) in payments, and issuing 225,000 Grandview shares, over a two-year
period.
The issue of the 225,000 shares is subject to receipt of all required
regulatory
approvals.
The Rocky Ridge gold property is located
170 km
by all-weather-access road from Manitoba’s capital city of Winnipeg, and
covers
an 11.2 square km area over a seven km strike length of the East
Peterson Creek
Deformation Zone (“EPCDZ”).
Harvest Gold President John
Roozendaal states “this partnership is
consistent with our commitment to finding strong Joint Venture partners
to
assist us in exploring and developing our properties in Manitoba and
Nevada. We
are pleased that Grandview’s management team shares our belief that
Southeast
Manitoba is an excellent place to find Canada’s next significant gold
deposit.”
Grandview will initiate
diamond
drilling shortly. Field crews have already been mobilized. “The Rocky
Ridge
project is a good example of how Grandview can apply the most advanced
geology,
geophysical and geochemical science to advantage on a property that has
significant historic high-grade gold mineralization, but is vastly
under-explored,” says Grandview President and CEO Paul Sarjeant.
Gold mineralization was
first discovered on the property in 1993.
Initial prospecting and sampling returned gold values up to 140.6
g/tonne gold
(4.1 oz/ton) from grab samples and two consecutive 1 meter chip samples
that
assayed 53.1 g/tonne and 53.1 g/tonne respectively (1.55 oz/ton and 1.56
oz/ton). The exploration program continued with magnetic-VLF
geophysical
surveying and mapping, and concluded with a moderate drill program
involving
615.49 feet over four holes testing the “A” showing. Two diamond drill
hole
intercepts into one deformation zone reported 0.7m of 11 g/tonne gold
(2.3 feet
of 0.325 oz/ton) and 1.2 m of 8.91 g/tonne (4 feet of 0.26 oz/ton) gold
in
archived assessment file reports. All of this work was completed
prior to
implementation of National Instrument 43-101 reporting standards and has
not
been verified by a qualified person and should not be relied upon.
Geological mapping has identified 3 distinct northeast and southeast
trending
gold bearing structures that intersect at the “A” showing. The
structures vary
from 25 to 100 meters in width and are intensely sheared and
silicified. All
historic data was gathered from a 1997 assessment report titled “A
Summary
Report on the Rock Ridge Property, Cat Lake – Bernic Lake Area, Lac Du
Bonnet
Mining Division, Manitoba on behalf of Cordal Resources Ltd by R.A.
Bernatchez,
P.Eng., October 5th, 1997”.
“Work on Rocky Ridge to
date shows potential for both high-grade
narrow vein and low-grade larger tonnage mineralization and ultimately,
in
Grandview management’s opinion, the potential for development of an
entirely new
major gold camp. There are high-grade surface showings and decent
grades over
narrow widths in drill core which has not been comprehensively sampled.
We hope
to apply current thinking and geological expertise to upgrade and
explore this
under-explored property” added Paul Sarjeant.
During a visit to the Rock
Ridge property in 2006, Dr. George Gale,
Vice President Exploration of Harvest Gold Corp, and former head of the
Mineral
Deposits Section at the Manitoba Geological Survey (1977-2005)
recognized some
previously unrecognized and potentially key attributes for understanding
gold
mineralization on the property. These features include structural
controls
mentioned in earlier reports and an association between the higher grade
mineralization and large areas of hematite altered intrusion. The
hematite
altered intrusion presents the possibility of a previously unrecognized
large
tonnage gold system (porphyry-type) though further field work is
required before
confirming this potential.
Grandview hopes to explore
and
develop the Rocky Ridge gold property sufficiently to demonstrate a
large
tonnage gold system of sufficient caliber to attract a mid to senior
resource
company. It is widely understood that Manitoba and Ontario, while
divided by
provincial boundary, share gold belts of common geology, rock type and
crustal
fault.
The 2006/2007 exploration
and drill program for the Rocky Ridge
gold property will comprise the compilation of historic and recent
exploration
data, diamond drilling to a depth of 100-200 metres to test the extent
of known
gold zones and wall rock mineralization that was not sampled in the
earlier
drill program, and undertaking geochemical and geophysical surveys to
identify
additional drill targets.
Upon signing, Grandview
will make a payment of $20,000 (CAD)
and will, subject to receipt of all required regulatory approval, issue
50,000
shares to Harvest Gold. At the end of year one, the Company will have
incurred
$250,000 (CAD) in exploration expenditures, make a payment of $30,000,
and issue
75,000 shares to Harvest Gold. At the end of year two, the Company will
have
completed a further $350,000 (CAD) in exploration expenditures, make a
final
$35,000 (CAD) payment, and issue the outstanding 100,000 Grandview
shares.
Harvest Gold has an option
to buy-out up to 2% of a 3% underlying
NSR (Net Smelter Royalty) assigned to the original property owner, at a
cost of
$250,000 (CAD) per each 1%, for a potential total of $500,000 (CAD).
The 1% -
2% NSR buy-out would occur on a pro-rata basis, with Grandview acquiring
70% and
Harvest Gold acquiring 30%.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Richard Mark
CEO
For more information about Harvest Gold Corporation, please review the
company’s
web site www.Harvestgoldcorp.com
or speak with a Company representative at
1-866-816-0118 or 604-986-2020
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