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Garfield Copper-Gold Project - Update
Garfield Copper-Gold Project - Update.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 2333F Sunrise Resources Plc 26 July 2016 \n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n26 July 2016\n \n \nGarfield Copper-Gold Project - Update\n \nSunrise Resources plc (ticker symbol 'SRES'), the AIM-traded diversified mineral exploration and development company (\"the Company\"), is pleased to announce the identification of significant bedrock copper-gold mineralisation in trenching at its Garfield Project in Nevada.\n \nHIGHLIGHTS:\n \n· Two trenches excavated in June 2016 tested beneath mineralised surface samples.\n \n· Trench 1 (26m long) sampling results: \n \n22m grading 0.33% copper, including: \n \nØ 2 metres grading 2.18% copper and 0.48 g/t gold from 16m-18m.\n \nØ 2 metres grading 1.2 g/t gold and 0.07% copper from 8m-10m. \n \n· Trench 2 did not reach bedrock and was not sampled.\n \n \nCommenting today, Executive Chairman Patrick Cheetham said: \"This is a very encouraging start to exploration at Garfield. We have a permit to undertake further trenching and this will be scheduled to fit in with other work programmes in Nevada this summer.\n \nFurther information:\n \n\n\n\n\nSunrise Resources plc\nPatrick Cheetham, Executive Chairman \n\n\nTel:\n\n\n+44 (0)1625 838 884\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNorthland Capital Partners Limited\nNominated Adviser & Broker\nEdward Hutton/David Hignell\nJohn Howes/Rob Rees\n \n\n\nTel:\n\n\n+44 (0)20 3861 6625\n \n\n\n\n\nBeaufort Securities Limited\nJoint Broker\nJon Belliss\n\n\nTel:\n\n\n+44 (0)20 7382 8300\n\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nDetailed Information\n \nThe Garfield Project is located approximately 10km east of Hawthorne, in Mineral County, Nevada. \n \nIt is within the large Walker Lane Mineral Belt, a major fault zone running parallel to the Nevada-California border. This mineral belt has been a prolific producer of gold and silver from epithermal deposits such as the famous deposits at Comstock and Tonopah and over 50 million ounces of gold have been discovered so far in the Walker Lane belt.\n \nThe Walker Lane belt also hosts a number of major porphyry and skarn-type copper and molybdenum deposi...