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GREAT WESTERN MINERALS GROUP PROVIDES UPDATE ON BENJAMIN RIVER EXPLORATION PROJECT
GREAT WESTERN MINERALS GROUP PROVIDES UPDATE ON BENJAMIN RIVER EXPLORATION PROJECT.
About this update from Great Western Minerals Group Ltd
[{"type":"text","content":"September 10, 2010 - Saskatoon, Canada.– Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. (“GWMG” or the “Company”, TSX:V - GWG) announces that during November and December, 2009, GWMG carried out an 11-hole, 2,382-meter drilling program to evaluate Rare Earth Element (REE)/phosphate mineral showings at the Company’s Benjamin River exploration project located in New Brunswick. This component of the exploration program did not intersect significant REE/phosphate mineralization although there are other targets with similar magnetic signature and strong stream sediment geochem anomalies that are currently being evaluated. This drilling delineated a complex suite of closely spaced, narrow, south dipping, east-west trending magnetite-apatite-pyroxene dykes which together define a north – south trending magnetite alteration zone along the margin of a gabbro body. The results are posted in the table below: Drill Hole NumberFrom (m)To (m)Core Length (m)TREO %P2O5 %BR09-01108.3112.13.90.2214.72BR09-01117.7119.31.40.5398.15BR09-02No Significant MineralizationBR09-0396.899.42.60.1310.49 260.7262.82.10.1985.56 266.0268.92.90.2294.99BR09-04No Significant MineralizationBR09-0517.226.99.70.3635.54Including24.526.92.40.6698.68BR09-06121.5135.113.60.1313.03BR09-0730.431.10.70.2624.54BR09-088.014.66.60.0941.40BR09-09No Significant MineralizationBR09-10No Significant MineralizationBR09-119.617.57.90.1613.25 The airborne magnetic/radiometric survey delineated three other similar targets on the property (see October 29, 2009 News Release: “Great Western Minerals Group Continues Work at Benjamin River”). A stream sediment sampling program carried out in October and November 2009 (489 samples) delineated anomalous REE and/or phosphate values proximal to these magnetic anomalies. These features are currently being evaluated by geological mapping, soil geochemistry and backhoe trenching in order to define the presence of in situ REE mineralization. John Pearson, MSc, PGeo, Vice-President Exploration for GWMG, is the qualified person responsible for reviewing the contents of this news release. Jim EngdahlPresident and CEO Great Western Minerals Group Ltd. is an integrated Rare Earths processor. Its specialty alloys are used in the battery,...