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TriStar Gold: 35% Increase in Resources at Castelo de Sonhos as Preliminary Economic Assessment Begins
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On behalf of TriStar Gold Inc. (TSG-TSX.V) (the “Company” or “TriStar”), GE21 Consultoria Mineral Ltda (“G
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[{"type":"text","content":"SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Sept. 17, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- On behalf of TriStar Gold Inc. (TSG-TSX.V) (the “Company” or “TriStar”), GE21 Consultoria Mineral Ltda (“GE21”) of Belo Horizonte, Brazil, has begun the Preliminary Economic Assessment (“PEA”) for the Castelo de Sonhos gold project in southern Pará State, Brazil. The first phase of this work, updating the mineral resources, is complete. With the increase in resources being materially significant, Bernardo Horta de C Viana of GE21 is the independent Qualified Person (“QP”) for this new resource estimate. Key highlights include: Mineral Resources (above a 0.3 g/t cut-off) of: Indicated: 17.7 million tonnes at 1.2 g/t, containing0.7 million ounces (“Moz”) of gold Inferred: 39.8 million tonnes at 1.0 g/t, containing1.3 Moz of gold Esperança East, where drilling has confirmed strong similarities to Esperança South, contributes Inferred Resources of 11.8 Mt @ 0.9 g/t with 0.4 Moz of gold, making it already larger than Esperança Center despite having only 28 initial drill holes. Most of Esperança East remains to be tested by future drilling, as do promising targets with surficial mineralization at Esperança West, the New Discovery Zone and the Upper Conglomerate Zone. “This year’s strong drilling results in Esperança East have been very encouraging,” says Nick Appleyard, TriStar’s President and CEO, “especially in that they clearly show the existence of the same two high-grade reefs seen earlier in Esperança South. We have now seen over 600% growth in mineral resources over the last 2 years. This new, larger mineral resource will be used in the PEA now underway to give us the first look at the project’s potential economic viability before the end of the year.” Table 1. Mineral resource estimate1 for the Castelo de Sonhos gold project (with an effective date of September 17, 2018) above a reporting cutoff 2 of 0.3 g/t Au. Region Classification Tonnage (Mt) Grade (g/t Au) Metal Content3 (Moz Au) Esperança South Indicated 11.8 1.4 0.5 Inferred 21.7 1.2 0.8 Esperança East Indicated -- -- -- Inferred 11.8 0.9 0.4 Esperança Center Indicated 5.9 0.9 0.2 Inferred 6.3 0.7 0.1 Project Total Indicated 17.7 1.2 0.7 Inferred 39.8 1.0 1.3 1Numbers have been rounded to reflect the precision of Inferred and Indicated mineral resource estimates. 2The reporting cutoff corresponds to the ma...