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Aben Resources Expands Known Mineralization With New Gold-bearing Vein System at the Justin Gold Project, Yukon Territory
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aben Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:ABN) (OTCBB:ABNAF) (Frankfurt:E2L2) (the “Company”) is pleased to prov
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[{"type":"text","content":"VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Dec. 13, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aben Resources Ltd. (TSX-V:ABN) (OTCBB:ABNAF) (Frankfurt:E2L2) (the “Company”) is pleased to provide a summary of exploration results from field work carried out in August 2017 on the 100% owned 18,314 acre Justin Gold Project in southeast Yukon. Highlights include the discovery of a new gold-bearing vein system (Lost Ace) that returned 4.77 g/T (grams/tonne) Au over 1.0 metre. The new Lost Ace zone is located 2 kilometres along strike from the POW Zone, an area that has previously returned drilled intercepts of 1.19 g/T Au over 60 m (including 2.47 g/T Au over 21 m) and 1.49 g/T Au over 46.4 m. Work completed during the 2017 exploration program included the collection of 21 channel and 3 chip samples from 4 trenches in addition to 13 rock samples, 2 silt samples, 1 bulk soil sample for gold grain analysis and 380 soil samples with coverage totaling 16.8 line-km. The program was focused on two areas, the Lost Ace Zone and the Confluence Zone, where previous exploration by the Company has revealed the potential for intrusion-related and/or orogenic gold mineralization at surface. In addition to the newly discovered areas there are several high-priority exploration targets defined by geochemical and geophysical anomalies that remain untested by drilling. Justin Gold Project, Yukon location map: Four trenches were completed in a newly discovered area of stockwork quartz veining that is proximal to a 2014 soil sample which returned 2.4 g/T Au. Assays from the 2017 trenching program returned encouraging results from a zone of quartz-carbonate stockwork veining hosted within coarse-grained clastic metasedimentary rocks of the Hyland Group. TR17-004 returned 1.44 g/T Au over 5.00 m true thickness, including 2.11 g/T Au over 3.85 m true thickness and 4.77 g/T Au over 1.0 m. The gold-bearing vein system occurs in the hanging wall of a contact zone between a coarse grained gritty sandstone and phyllite, a geologic setting that is very similar to mineralization present on Golden Predators 3 Ace Project located immediately NW of the Justin claim group. A bulk soil sample was collected and sent for gold grain count analysis and classification from a location 115 meters upslope from the Lost Ace Zone. The 3.8 kg sample returned a total of 1135 visible gold grains...