Apollo Gold Corporation (“Apollo” or the “Company”) (TSX: APG) (NYSE Amex: AGT) is pleased to provide the drilling results of the Company’s initial diamond drilling program on its Grey Fox property. This program encountered several high grade gold intercepts, including hole 10 which contained 3.5 meters (11 feet) grading 455 grams per tonne of gold (13.25 ounces per ton). The full results of the drilling are found in the table below.
The Grey Fox property is located about 3.5 kilometers southeast of Apollo’s Black Fox mine and sits along the Destor Porcupine Fault Zone in the Timmins Mining District of Ontario. Apollo’s Black Fox mine commenced gold production in May 2009.
The exploration drilling program was conducted by Norex Drilling Ltd., of South Porcupine, Ontario, and the program was designed to test two targets on the Grey Fox property, (1) the “Contact Zone” and (2) the Destor Porcupine Fault Zone (“DPFZ”). Sixteen holes (3,715 meters) were drilled targeting mineralization less than 300 meters deep. Fourteen of the sixteen holes intercepted mineralization with grades higher than one gram per tonne. The other two holes, drill holes number five and thirteen, also intercepted mineralization but with assays less than one gram per tonne.
The result of the drilling is shown in the tables below:
Grey Fox assays higher than 1 grm per tonne | |||||||||||||
Hole | From | To | Core Width | True Width | Assay grams | Assay ounce | |||||||
ID | (m) | (m) | (m) | (m) | Au/tonne | Au/ton | |||||||
1 | 65.0 | 72.0 | 7.00 | 6.18 | 1.74 | 0.051 | |||||||
96.7 | 100.7 | 4.00 | 3.53 | 1.15 | 0.034 | ||||||||
104.1 | 113.5 | 9.40 | 8.30 | 5.26 | 0.153 | ||||||||
2 | 86.0 | 87.5 | 1.50 | 1.04 | 1.02 | 0.030 | |||||||
90.3 | 91.3 | 1.00 | 0.69 | 2.17 | 0.063 | ||||||||
104.0 | 105.5 | 1.50 | 1.04 | 4.63 | 0.135 | ||||||||
108.5 | 110.0 | 1.50 | 1.04 | 4.90 | 0.143 | ||||||||
139.7 | 142.7 | 3.00 | 2.08 | 1.62 | 0.047 | ||||||||
205.6 | 235.0 | 29.40 | 20.42 | 2.40 | 0.070 | ||||||||
247.0 | 254.5 | 7.50 | 5.21 | 2.66 | 0.078 | ||||||||
3 | 201.0 | 203.0 | 2.00 | 1.46 | 2.45 | 0.071 | |||||||
222.8 | 227.0 | 4.20 | 3.07 | 1.50 | 0.044 | ||||||||
239.0 | 240.0 | 1.00 | 0.73 | 1.39 | 0.041 | ||||||||
268.5 | 270.0 | 1.50 | 1.10 | 2.87 | 0.084 | ||||||||
4 | 224.2 | 225.4 | 1.20 | 1.06 | 5.62 | 0.164 | |||||||
256.7 | 258.9 | 2.20 | 1.94 | 1.10 | 0.032 | ||||||||
6 | 56.0 | 59.0 | 3.00 | 2.98 | 1.79 | 0.052 | |||||||
87.5 | 90.0 | 2.50 | 2.49 | 10.56 | 0.308 | ||||||||
143.0 | 146.0 | 3.00 | 2.98 | 1.87 | 0.055 | ||||||||
180.5 | 182.0 | 1.50 | 1.49 | 1.03 | 0.030 | ||||||||
183.5 | 185.0 | 1.50 | 1.49 | 1.04 | 0.030 | ||||||||
219.5 | 224.0 | 4.50 | 4.48 | 1.09 | 0.032 | ||||||||
233.0 | 236.0 | 3.00 | 2.98 | 2.24 | 0.065 | ||||||||
7 | 40.5 | 52.3 | 11.80 | 11.09 | 15.49 | 0.452 | |||||||
113.0 | 119.0 | 6.00 | 5.64 | 4.05 | 0.118 | ||||||||
158.0 | 161.0 | 3.00 | 2.82 | 9.88 | 0.288 | ||||||||
257.0 | 260.0 | 3.00 | 2.82 | 2.89 | 0.084 | ||||||||
8 | 26.5 | 30.5 | 4.00 | 4.00 | 1.37 | 0.040 | |||||||
9 | 29.0 | 32.2 | 3.20 | 2.73 | 4.79 | 0.140 | |||||||
10 | 49.0 | 50.0 | 1.00 | 0.83 | 4.13 | 0.120 | |||||||
51.5 | 55.0 | 3.50 | 2.90 | 455.18 | 13.276 | ||||||||
60.1 | 61.9 | 1.80 | 1.49 | 1.28 | 0.037 | ||||||||
11 | 74.0 | 75.4 | 1.40 | 1.19 | 2.07 | 0.060 | |||||||
106.1 | 107.6 | 1.50 | 1.27 | 1.01 | 0.029 | ||||||||
12 | 50.0 | 53.0 | 3.00 | 2.57 | 1.37 | 0.040 | |||||||
14 | 82.0 | 93.5 | 11.50 | 11.44 | 4.07 | 0.119 | |||||||
203.0 | 204.0 | 1.00 | 0.99 | 3.02 | 0.088 | ||||||||
15 | 20.9 | 24.8 | 3.95 | 3.93 | 9.04 | 0.264 | |||||||
16 | 24.6 | 25.6 | 1.00 | 0.99 | 1.04 | 0.030 | |||||||
Assays were performed by Swastika Laboratory. | |||||||||||||
Universal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hole ID | True | Northing | Easting | Elevation | Azimuth | Inc. | ||||||||||||||||||||
1 | 221.00 | 5372924.59 | 551127.14 | 291.12 | 270.00 | -48.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
2 | 300.00 | 5372924.53 | 551129.29 | 290.86 | 270.00 | -66.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 296.00 | 5372918.64 | 551186.89 | 290.98 | 270.00 | -63.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 326.00 | 5372839.51 | 551229.94 | 291.09 | 270.00 | -48.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 269.00 | 5373000.70 | 551189.01 | 290.99 | 270.00 | -56.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
7 | 362.00 | 5373000.81 | 551188.29 | 291.09 | 270.00 | -70.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
8 | 137.00 | 5373000.03 | 551040.07 | 291.01 | 270.00 | -45.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
9 | 101.00 | 5372950.22 | 551049.85 | 291.83 | 270.00 | -51.50 | ||||||||||||||||||||
10 | 122.00 | 5372899.83 | 551069.56 | 291.89 | 270.00 | -54.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
11 | 109.00 | 5372747.75 | 551100.33 | 291.85 | 270.00 | -52.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
12 | 101.00 | 5372655.84 | 551088.23 | 293.13 | 270.00 | -51.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | 300.00 | 5372646.98 | 551219.89 | 291.99 | 270.00 | -54.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
15 | 452.00 | 5372837.23 | 551932.43 | 290.08 | 40.00 | -54.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 200.00 | 5372768.18 | 551919.81 | 290.09 | 40.00 | -53.00 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Richard F. Nanna, Senior Vice President-Exploration, said, “The above drilling results are some of the highest grade intercepts drilled in the area and show the potential of Grey Fox. I believe that it is an area with at least two strongly mineralized systems. At the Contact Zone, gold occurs at the fault contact between pyritic, altered hydrothermal breccias and pyritic silicified and altered Pre-Cambrian sediments. Drilling on the DPFZ hit green carbonate rocks and gold mineralization similar to the host rocks of the Black Fox deposit. The above initial drilling campaign was a success and we will now commence with a 2009 drilling program to enhance these results with the objective of converting this data into a resource.”
This press release has been reviewed and approved for release by Richard F. Nanna, Professional Geologist, Apollo’s Senior Vice President-Exploration and designated “Qualified Person” under National Instrument 43-101.
Apollo Gold Corporation
Apollo is a gold mining and exploration company which operates the Black Fox mine in Ontario, Canada, and the Huizopa project, an early stage exploration project in the Sierra Madres in Chihuahua, Mexico. Apollo also owns the Montana Tunnels mine, which is a 50% joint venture with Elkhorn Tunnels, LLC, in Montana, which was placed on care and maintenance on April 30, 2009.
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