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Irving Resources Identifies Strong Soil Anomalies at its Omui Mining Right, Omu Au-Ag Project, Hokkaido, Japan
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Irving Resources Inc. (CSE:IRV) (“Irving” or the “Company”) is pleased announce it has received f
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[{"type":"text","content":" VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 22, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Irving Resources Inc. (CSE:IRV) (“Irving” or the “Company”) is pleased announce it has received final soil geochemical analyses from its Omui Mining Right, part of the Company’s 100% controlled Omu high-grade gold-silver project, Hokkaido, Japan. Between June and October, 2017, Mitsui Mineral Development Engineering Co., Ltd. (MINDECO) collected 1,722 soil samples on a 50 m staggered grid across the Omui Mining Right and surrounding exploration applications (Figure 1). This program was part of Irving’s 2017 field program and was geared toward target generation in preparation for more advanced work including trenching and drilling in 2018. Contoured plots of gold, silver and pathfinder elements in soil show a complex, highly evolved mineralizing system at Omui (Figures 2-7). Precious metal anomalism, defined by +30 ppb Au and +0.35 ppm Ag, is widespread across the Omui Mining Right and is clearly open onto Irving controlled exploration applications to the east. Discussion of Au and Ag Soil Anomalies As expected, gold anomalism is strongly pronounced in the vicinity of the historic Honpi mine where several high-grade veins are exposed in trenches and old mine workings and samples collected by Irving have returned high Au and Ag grades (please refer to Irving’s news releases dated December 13, 2016 and September 21, 2017 for further details). Silver anomalism, though somewhat subdued, is also evident in the immediate vicinity of Honpi. Discrete gold and silver anomalism is also present in the vicinity of the Nanko prospect approximately 800 m southeast of Honpi. High grade veins have been exposed by early prospectors at Nanko and samples collected by Irving have returned high Au and Ag grades (please refer to Irving’s news releases dated December 13, 2016 and September 21, 2017 for further details). In addition to Honpi and Nanko, many new precious metal anomalies have emerged from soil data including: Sakinyama, a broad area of strong Au and Ag anomalism centered on the western slope of Sakinyama Mountain in an are approximately 700 m southwest of Honpi. This area appears to be underlain in part by a rhyolite dome. Irving has yet to conduct systematic prospecting in this area, but believes this could represent a significant new target at Omui. SW Honpi, a small...