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Emgold Identifies High-Grade Exploration Targets at the Idaho-Maryland Mine
Emgold Identifies High-Grade Exploration Targets at the Idaho-Maryland Mine.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\n\nTSX Venture Exchange: EMR\nOTC Bulletin Board: EGMCF.PK \nU.S. 20-F Registration: 000-51411\nFrankfurt Stock Exchange: EML\n\n VANCOUVER, Feb. 13 /CNW/ - Emgold Mining Corporation (EMR-TSX-V) (the\n\"Company\") is pleased to report that new high-grade gold exploration targets\nhave been identified from historic mine maps and other geologic data at the\nCompany's Idaho-Maryland Mine underground gold project located in Grass\nValley, California.\nCompany geologists are constructing a three-dimensional computer model\nfrom the historic data collected during the time the Idaho-Maryland Mine was\nan active mining operation from 1851 to 1956. When completed, this\ncomprehensive model will include geologic units, faults, veins, underground\nworkings, assays and gold resources developed from historic data, and geologic\ninformation from Emgold's two surface drilling programs. The data, which\nincludes 220,000 feet of historic core drilling, 24,800 feet of Emgold core\ndrilling, 36,000 assays, and 4,000 mine maps, is being digitized and entered\ninto the MineSight(R) three-dimensional modeling software program.\nAs part of this modeling Company's geologists have input historical assay\ndata into the MineSight(R) modeling package. The geologists are now able to\nevaluate the historical information using an assay model built from the\nhistoric mine data. The information for this model comes from fire assays from\nsampling of underground workings and core drilling, which was a routine part\nof mine development during the historic operations. It is anticipated that\nadditional near surface and deeper underground exploration targets may be\nidentified as this work process continues. All work is under the supervision\nof Mr. Robert Pease, Professional Geologist (California), Chief Geologist for\nthe Idaho-Maryland Project and a Qualified Person in accordance with National\nInstrument 43-101.\nThe assay modeling using the historic data from the northeast portion of\nthe Idaho-Maryland Mine property has revealed new high grade gold intercepts\nin the vicinity of existing gold resource blocks in workings just 600 to\n850 feet below the ground surface. The resource blocks and high-grade\nintercepts are in a geologically favourable area in the Idaho Deformation Zone\ncomprised of faults and veins surrounding diabase rock slabs. The interc...