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Angkor Gold Identifies Stacked Quartz Veins at Blue Lizard Prospect
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 5, 2013) - ANGKOR GOLD CORP. (TSXV: A...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Angkor Gold Identifies Stacked Quartz Veins at Blue Lizard ProspectVancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - November 5, 2013) - ANGKOR GOLD CORP. (TSXV: ANK) (\"ANGKOR\") has completed preliminary exploration on the Blue Lizard Prospect, South Oyadao Exploration Lease, Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia. The prospect was first encountered as artisanal workings by termite sampling crews on the far eastern portion of the Otray grid (PR dated May 29, 2013), where over 11,000 termite mound samples were collected and analyzed in a 15km2 area on lines with 200m spacings. The 2013 exploration program had aggressively targeted the Phum Syarung-Dokyong fault corridor identified from the aeromagnetic data in the central portion of the Oyadao South tenement.The majority of the area consists of unaltered to weakly propylitic granite which extends north as far as the Phum Syarung prospect. The granite is cut by quartz veins, andesite porphyry dykes, and andesite dykes, and shows increased chlorite alteration and silicification on the margin of some quartz veins. Andesite/volcaniclastic contacts in the south of the prospect area were also mapped. The interpreted lithology, structural measurements, and quartz veins are shown in the map below. Scott Donahue, ANGKOR's COO stated, \"This is yet another distal Au-Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag vein system, similar in many respects to Phum Syarung deposit, about 4km to the north. These vein systems reinforce the attractiveness of the Otray prospect as an epithermal volcanic centre, and add credence to the potential for a porphyry system beneath Otray.\" To view an enhanced version of this image, please visit:http://orders.newsfilecorp.com/files/1494/7302_angkorenhanced.jpg The Blue Lizard prospect consists of stacked quartz veins with mineralization of disseminated chalcopyrite, covellite, chalcocite, and pyrite. Sampling of the surface workings and trenching in the area showed interesting results. In addition to what was found at Blue Lizard, a few other quartz veins were discovered from the semi-regional mapping. Rocks sampled from the spoil heaps at the workings produced significant gold and copper results with minor silver values. The mine area was further explored with several trenches which showed dominantly southeast dipping quartz veins with a similar geochemical signature to the spoil heap samples. Sig...