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TORONTO, June 11 /CNW/ - Unigold Inc. ("Unigold" or the "Company") (TSX-V: UGD) is pleased to announce the discovery of a new gold zone on the eastern flank of the Montazo-Guano large alteration zone, nine kilometres northeast of the Los Candelones high-sulfidation epithermal gold deposit. This new zone, named Juan del Bosque after the geologist who discovered it, has been traced over a 900 metre strike length. Grab samples taken randomly over half a kilometre in length from outcropping barite-bearing advanced argillic altered rocks graded locally above 10 grams per tonne (g/t) gold (see results below). Furthermore, several angular barite-bearing silicified and argillized blocks have been discovered up to 300 metres east from the outcropping zone northeast termination, thus extending the gold-zone possible strike length. A broad gold in soil anomaly overlaps the whole Juan del Bosque zone. Soil samples grading up to 0.6 g/t gold have been encountered.
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Sample number Gold g/t
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93319 (greater than)10
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93320 0.05
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93318 0.01
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5072 1.17
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93321 2.63
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93030 2.39
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93315 .159
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93322 1.31
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93031 .392
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93323 2.26
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93313 1.81
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93314 3.87
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93316 (greater than)10
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93029 11
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Discovery of the Juan del Bosque zone by Unigold geologists results from follow-up of an exploration model recently published for the giant Pueblo-Viejo deposit (Sillitoe et al., 2007, Economic Geology, vol. 101, pp. 1427-1435). Pueblo Viejo is a Dominican Republic high-sulfidation epithermal gold (19 million ounces)-silver-zinc deposit occurring in volcano-sedimentary breccia and conglomerate as well as lacustrine carbonaceous siltstone and sandstone. Sillitoe et al. (2007)'s model suggests that Pueblo Viejo kind of blind high-sulfidation gold deposit may occur beneath barren limestone cover, which is what the Juan del Bosque zone seems to be.
Trenching on the Juan del Bosque zone will proceed immediately, followed by diamond drilling and induced polarization survey to trace the gold-bearing zone under the southeast-dipping limestone sequence.
The Juan del Bosque zone occurs at the base of a shallow-water sedimentary sequence which conformably overlies a dacitic tuff sequence. Alteration grades from slightly propylitic to advance argillic in the dacitic tuffs. Gold mineralization occurs on the fringe of a low-magnetic pyrite-bearing advanced argillic zone which is bordered by propylitized magnetite-bearing dacitic tuffs exhibiting positive aeromagnetic features. The overlying sedimentary sequence includes limestones, and non-calcareous sandstone and siltstone. A thin, black, thinly-laminated cherty carbonaceous mudstone has also been observed in this sedimentary pile. Silicified bedded green limestones have been observed resting directly on the southern Juan del Bosque gold-barite showings.
The foregoing scientific and technical information has been prepared or reviewed by Daniel Danis, M.Sc., the Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer of Unigold. Mr. Danis is a "qualified person" within the meaning of National Instrument 43-101.
About Unigold Inc.
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Unigold Inc. is exploring to find and develop gold deposits on its 100-per-cent-owned 226 km(2) Neita property located in the Dominican Republic. Having the largest land package in the Dominican Republic, the goal is to target bulk tonnage, open pittable, oxide gold deposits within a similar setting to the world class Pueblo Viejo gold project which occurs within a broad northwest trending Cretaceous age volcanic greenstone belt that transects the Dominican Republic. The economics of any discovery will be significantly improved by the fact that Unigold is benefiting from an 18-year holiday on all corporate taxes, sales taxes and import duties in the Dominican Republic.
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