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GREAT WESTERN MINERALS GROUP DISCOVERS NEW SHOWING AT DOUGLAS RIVER: 2010 EXPLORATION RESULTS
GREAT WESTERN MINERALS GROUP DISCOVERS NEW SHOWING AT DOUGLAS RIVER: 2010 EXPLORATION RESULTS.
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[{"type":"text","content":"GREAT WESTERN MINERALS GROUP LTD. NEWS RELEASE TSX Venture Symbol: GWG CUSIP: 39141Y 10 3OTCQX: GWMGF GREAT WESTERN MINERALS GROUP DISCOVERS NEW SHOWING AT DOUGLAS RIVER: 2010 EXPLORATION RESULTS June 16, 2011 - Saskatoon, Canada: Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (“GWMG” or the “Company”) is pleased to report the results of the 2010 exploration program at the Douglas River Rare Earth Project, located in the western Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan. The work program included geological mapping, till, soil and biogeochemical surveys, trenching and core drilling. The project area includes two claims – the Beatty River claim and the Douglas River claim. The initial program in 2009 included refurbishing and sampling the historic Beatty River trenches discovered by Marline Oil during uranium exploration in 1977. These trenches encountered high grade Heavy Rare Earth Oxide (“HREO”) mineralization (See GWMG News Release, October 9, 2009). This program confirmed the results of the historic work. The historic mineralization identified in the Douglas River area could not be relocated. During the 2010 exploration program, geological mapping on the Beatty claim discovered a new showing named the Helipad showing. Like the historic showing, the mineralization is concentrated in porous sandstone channels within the Athabasca Sandstone in a parallel, north-south structure 50 m to the west of the original discovery (termed the Marline Showing). Two trenches tested this showing. Sampling of the trenches gave grades of up to 2.31% Total Rare Earth Oxides (“TREO”) over 1.0 m in width and 3.0 m in depth, of which 99% are HREO. Three trenches tested the extensions of the Marline showing mineralization to the north and south. No mineralization was identified to the north but REE (“Rare Earth Elements”) mi...