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RICHMOND, BC, Dec. 17 /CNW Telbec/ - Tagish Lake Gold Corp. (TSX.V - TLG) is pleased to report on additional results of sampling from the drift excavation on the Rainbow Two zone. These chip samples were taken across the entire face of the working. The adjusted width shows the average of the results over the width of the zone, adjusted to a minimum width of 1.50 m.
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ADJ.
LOCATION FROM TO WIDTH Au Ag WIDTH Au Ag
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(m) (m) (m) (g/t) (g/t) (m) (g/t) (g/t)
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Rainbow Two
Start (equal sign) 0
0 + 83.6 m 0.00 0.60 0.60 3.10 274.0
0.60 1.60 1.00 4.10 262.0
1.60 2.50 0.90 3.70 0.0 2.50 3.72 170.6
0 + 86.9 m 0.80 1.40 0.60 2.00 231.0
1.40 2.40 1.00 2.80 183.0 1.60 2.51 86.7
0 + 89.9 m 1.30 2.30 1.00 7.00 151.0 1.50 4.60 100.9
0 + 93.4 m nsv
0 + 94.5 m nsv
0 + 98.1 m 2.30 3.70 1.40 2.90 57.3 1.50 2.71 53.5
0 + 100.2 m 2.40 3.90 1.50 2.10 61.3 1.50 2.13 61.3
0 + 126.2 m nsv
0 + 128.9 m nsv
0 + 132.1 m 0.00 0.40 0.40 108.00 368.0
0.40 1.70 1.30 1.70 0.0 1.70 26.68 86.6
0 + 134.2 m nsv
0 + 137.4 m nsv
0 + 138.4 m nsv
0 + 141.4 m nsv
0 + 142.9 m nsv
0 + 182.6 m 0.50 1.20 0.70 84.00 407.0
1.20 2.20 1.00 0.02 0.0 1.70 34.60 167.6
0 + 207.5 m 1.30 2.00 0.70 0.25 64.2
2.00 2.60 0.60 45.00 146.0 1.50 18.12 88.4
0 + 219.0 m 0.60 1.10 0.50 5.33 74.5
1.10 2.00 0.90 2.60 0.0
2.00 2.90 0.90 11.30 144.0 2.30 6.60 72.5
0 + 221.4 m 0.80 1.65 0.85 15.90 126.0
1.65 2.95 1.30 8.91 335.0 2.15 11.67 70.1
0 + 222.6 m 1.00 2.30 1.30 4.81 294.0
2.30 3.20 0.90 40.20 1220.0 2.20 19.28 672.8
0 + 223.8 m 0.00 1.00 1.00 6.42 84.2
1.00 2.10 1.10 6.59 0.0
2.10 2.80 0.70 3.10 0.0 2.80 5.66 30.1
0 + 226.0 m nsv
0 + 228.5 m nsv
Rainbow Three
Start (equal sign) 0
0 + 50.3 m 2.20 3.30 1.10 6.86 0.0 1.50 4.57 0.0
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Robert Rodger, P.Eng., President of the Company, stated: "The Rainbow Two zone appears to weaken after 228.5 metres of strike length. On the other hand, the Rainbow Three zone starts up in this area on the opposite side of a narrow rhyolite dyke."
The underground exploration program is under the supervision of Robert Rodger, P.Eng., the President of the Company, a qualified person under NI 43-101. Sampling and assaying procedures are subject to a rigorous QA/QC program, which includes insertion of standards and blanks for each batch of samples. All samples were delivered in sealed packages to Eco-Tech Laboratories in Whitehorse, YT for preparation and shipped by Eco-Tech to their laboratory in Kamloops, BC for analyses. Samples that return values greater than 900 ppb Gold (Au) by ICP were fire assayed for gold.
About Tagish Lake Gold Corp.
Tagish Lake Gold Corp. explores for and develops high grade gold-silver mineral deposits in the Yukon Territory of Canada. The Company is currently focused on its wholly owned, 178 km2 Skukum Mineral District located 80 km by road south of Whitehorse. The Skukum Mineral District hosts the Skukum Creek gold-silver deposit and the Goddell Gully gold deposit, and has a currently defined measured plus indicated resource of 1,420,000 tonnes grading 6.8 g/t Au and 131 g/t Ag (MineTech International Ltd. 2007 Update), and the Mt. Skukum gold deposit.
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