Harvest Gold Corporation
(HVG – TSX.V) March 13, 2007 (the “Company”) is pleased
to announce that it has submitted a planned drill program for its Garcia
Flats
project to an environmental consultant in Reno, Nevada. It is expected
that the
application for the proposed drill program will be submitted to the
Bureau of
Land Management before the end of the month. Drilling of the Garcia
Flats
project is anticipated for spring or summer 2007 depending on drill rig
availability.
The Garcia Flats project comprises 250 unpatented mining claims covering
approximately 20 square kilometers (approximately 5,000 acres) in two
claim
blocks within a covered pediment setting. The property occurs at the
southern
extension of the Carlin trend in Elko County, Nevada.
Three anomalous gold-in-soils zones have been defined by approximately
1,220
soil samples taken on a 100 m by 100 m grid pattern. This enzyme leach
soil
survey was conducted in 2006. High resolution magnetic data and gravity
data
support the geochemical data and indicate the presence of individual
faults and
fault intersections associated with the soil anomalies. Drill sites are
being
permitted for 10 target areas throughout the property.
The Eastern anomaly measures approximately 1,000 m wide and at least
3,500 m
long. The Central anomaly is 600 m wide and at least 1,800 m long. A
third
anomalous zone, the Western anomaly, is approximately 100 m wide and at
least
800 m long. These anomalous zones are adjacent to an interpreted buried
intrusion in the southern portion of the claim block.
Mr. Greg Hill, President of Harvest Gold Corp (US), states “At Garcia
Flats the
Company is looking for an entirely buried Carlin-type district.
Carlin-type
alteration and anomalous gold and pathfinder elements are present on
several
adjacent properties within 2-5 kilometers of Garcia Flats. Initial drill
testing
of the Garcia Flats property will focus on locating hydrothermal
alteration, and
gold mineralization beneath alluvial cover.”
At the Company’s Rosebud Mine project, sampling on a property-wide soil
survey
with a sample spacing of 100 m by 100 m has begun. Approximately 400
soil
samples are planned. This survey will cover the existing mine workings
as well
as surrounding areas. The enzyme leach method will be employed. These
results
will be compared and contrasted to existing conventional gold and
pathfinder
element responses from pre-existing soil surveys completed by previous
operators. Soil sampling above the underground Rosebud workings will
allow for
orientation of the geochemical method in the Rosebud district and is
expected to
show extensions of the known mined ore bodies. The orientation portion
of the
survey will also allow for the data to be used more effectively
elsewhere on the
property in the search for new targets.
It is anticipated that samples will be collected and analyzed within 90
days.
The final results from the compilation and soil survey will be used to
plan a
drill program at Rosebud.
In addition, the Company has retained the services of Ms. Holly
McLachlan for
compilation of Rosebud mine data. Ms. McLachlan spent two years as a
geologist
at the Hecla / Newmont Gold Corp. Rosebud JV while the deposit was being
mined.
Her exploration and development efforts there included mapping and
managing
surface core and RC rigs and an underground development core drilling
program in
order to delineate potential deposit extensions and new deposits. Ms.
McLachlan
received a B.A. from Wellesley College in 1983, and an M.S. in Applied
Earth
Sciences from Stanford University in 1993.
Harvest Gold’s Rosebud Mine Project covers the Rosebud Mine property and
54
claims covering approximately 1,115 acres. The property package is in
northwest
Nevada approximately five miles to the south of the Hycroft mine which
produced
more than 1,000,000 oz of gold and 2,000,000 oz of silver.
The Company’s plan is to focus on 3 areas: (1) Evaluation of historic
gold
mineralization that may remain on the property; (2) Exploration for near
surface, high-grade gold mineralization similar to that which has been
discovered on the property in the past; and (3) Exploration for large
bodies of
gold-silver mineralization at depth.
Harvest Gold Corporation is a gold focused exploration company working
in
Nevada, USA and Manitoba, Canada. In Nevada, the Company is exploring a
large
generative gold property at Garcia Flats in the South Carlin Trend, an
advanced
property with a gold-silver resource at the Longstreet Mine, in Northern
Nye
County, and the Rosebud Mine Project, a past producing mine in northwest
Nevada.
Harvest is also exploring claims in Manitoba, Canada at the Rice Lake
Gold Belt,
the Rocky Ridge Gold property in the Lac du Bonnet mining district, and
is Joint
Ventured with Canadian Gold Hunter Corp (CGH.TSX) at the Assean Lake
Gold
Project.
For further information contact Keith
Patey, Director of Communications of
Harvest Gold Corp. at 1-866-816-0118 or 604-986-2020
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Rick Mark
CEO & Chairman
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