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Field Program Announced For Eden Rare-Earth Project CEO Bill Bird Participates In Pinnacle Digest Radio Show
Field Program Announced For Eden Rare-Earth Project CEO Bill Bird Participates In Pinnacle Digest...
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[{"type":"text","content":"\nField Program Announced For Eden Rare-Earth Project CEO Bill Bird Participates In Pinnacle Digest Radio Show\n\n\n May 20, 2010 (TheNewswire.ca) -- Vancouver, BC - Medallion Resources Ltd (TSXV:MDL) (TSX.V: MDL) announces that the first-phase exploration program at the Eden Rare-Earth Project has been finalized and the crew is preparing to mobilize. The goals for the first phase are to sample for mineralogical studies and to define previously outlined targets to establish drill sites for a second-phase program, which could be completed before the end of 2010. The crew plans to be in the field before June 1st and the first-phase program is expected to be complete by August.The program will be overseen by Hamid Mumin, PhD, PGeo, PEng. Dr Mumin, Medallion's consultant and a recognized expert on the Eden rare-earth-element (REE) occurrences, has written and published numerous studies of the Eden Lake REE-bearing carbonatite intrusions since he discovered them in 2002. Dr Mumin teaches geology at Brandon University in Manitoba, where he is an Associate Professor and Director of the Laboratory of Applied Resource Geology.\"I am especially pleased to have Hamid Mumin as our leader for the Eden REE field work. His expertise is an important addition to our team. We anticipate rapid progress this summer with our first Eden field studies,\" reports Dr Bill Bird, Medallion President & CEO. \"We will concentrate on defining the REE mineralogy and chemistry, which is the first and most important step in any REE exploration. For these critical studies, Dr Tony Mariano, the pre-eminent REE mineralogist, and Dr Jim Clark, one of our Advisors and also an REE expert, will join us in the field and with follow-up laboratory work.\"Medallion's first-phase work also will re-examine previously outlined targets to locate drill sites for expanding the volume of the REE mineralization. Drill sites will be selected to expand known outcrops of REE mineralization and to locate additional bodies of carbonatite, which is a key host rock for the REE mineralization. There is evidence that such carbonatite bodies exist in low-lying areas beneath shallow deposits of glacial moraine. Dr Mumin will use a series of geophysical, geochemical and geobotanical surveys, which he has specifically designed to locate these buried carbonatite bodies.\"Medallion would also l...