Electrum Lake Property Results
North Vancouver, BC – Cabo Mining Enterprises Corp. (“Cabo” or the “Company”) (TSX-V: CBE) announces completion of an eight hole drilling program on its Electrum Lake gold property west of Kenora on the Ontario-Manitoba border. The 957.85 metre program followed up a two hole program in 2004 and tested four known gold targets on the 8 km long claim group. The best intersection was from a silicified shear zone with associated sulphides where core returned 8.95 g/t Au over 0.9 m. The program was carried out under the supervision of Seymour M. Sears, PGeo, Vice-President of Exploration, a qualified person under national policy 43-101 and is the subject of a technical report by James G. Burns, BSc PEng filed today with SEDAR (the “Electrum Lake Report”). A total of 256 core samples (including standards and blanks used for quality control) were assayed.
A summary of results is presented in Table 1 below.
Table 1 - Summary of Results from 2005 Drill Program on the Electrum Lake Gold |
Property of Cabo Mining Enterprises Corp. |
Hole# | Bearing | Inclination | Sample # | From | To | Width | Au (g/t) |
CEL - 3 | 220 | -45 | 6004 6010 6018 6031 6039 | 60.20 76.75 90.15 99.00 106.5 | 60.30 77.00 90.50 100.0 107.0 | 0.1 0.25 0.35 1.00 0.5 | 1.459 0.589 0.502 0.355 0.510 |
CEL - 4 | 220 | -45 | 6053 6072 | 103.00 170.00 | 103.4 171.0 | 0.4 1.00 | 0.137 0.208 |
CEL -5 | 350 | -45 | 12305 12328 | 9.90 83.70 | 10.80 84.60 | 0.9 0.9 | 0.547 8.975 |
CEL -6 | 360 | -45 | 12343 | 34.30 | 34.80 | 0.5 | 0.341 |
CEL - 7 | 77 | -45 | 12376 12377 | 26.80 27.20 | 27.20 27.50 | 0.40 0.30 | 0.751 0.336 |
CEL - 8 | 360 | -45 | 12431 | 17.00 | 17.50 | 0.50 | 0.204 |
CEL – 9 | 360 | -70 | no significant assays |
CEL – 10 | 320 | -45 | no significant assays |
Prospecting and drilling programs during 2004 and 2005 have confirmed the presence of four of the numerous prospects previously reported on the Electrum Lake and identified one other area that warrants further exploration. The best mineralization from two 2004 holes designed to test a quartz vein zone located in the eastern part of the claim group (the Arsenic Zone) was a 16.8 metre wide zone in Hole CEL-01 that assayed 1.02 g/t Au. This included two encouraging narrower intersections - 6.26 g/t Au over 0.7 m and 5.59 g/t Au over 0.9 m. Another intersection, lower in the hole, returned 6.75 g/t Au over 0.7 m.
The Electrum Lake Report recommends: a systematic exploration program on selected target areas and a two phased work program including: linecutting, geological mapping, soil sampling, ground magnetometer and IP surveys. Further diamond drilling is also proposed.
Hope Lake Property Results
The Company also announces completion of the 2005 exploration program at its Hope Lake property, located 65 km southeast of Kenora, Ontario in the Lobstick Bay Map Area. A nine hole drill program followed up on stripping and geological mapping work done in the spring of 2005 on the 109 unit, 1,744 hectare property. The 1,050 metre program was designed as an initial test of several known gold occurrences in the northern part of the claim group.
Field spotting of drill holes, core logging and drill supervision were completed by personnel under the direction of Seymour Sears, P.Geo. The program is the subject of a technical report by James G. Burns, BSc PEng also filed today with SEDAR (the “Hope Lake Report”). Samples were selected based on the abundance of sulphides or unusual mineralogy. Intervals that did not contain readily apparent, or only sparse, mineralization, but that were otherwise extensively altered (sericitized, silicified); fractured or sheared, were also sampled. A summary of results is presented in Table 2 below.
Table 2 - Summary of Results from 2005 Drill Program on the Hope Lake Gold |
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Hole# | Bearing | Inclination | Sample # | From | To | Width | Au (g/t) |
CHL-1 | 350 | -45 | 6105 6106 6107 | 5.00 5.20 5.60 | 5.20 5.60 6.00 | 0.2 0.4 0.4 | 0.289 0.132 0.358 |
CHL-2 | 350 | -60 | 6132 6133 | 5.00 5.60 | 5.60 6.30 | 0.6 0.7 | 0.120 2.298 |
CHL-3 | 350 | -45 including | 6174 6172 | 9.10 21.00 | 23.40 21.80 | 14.3 0.8 | 0.302 1.182 |
CHL-4 | 350 | -65 | 6181 6185 6193 6194 6195 | 8.50 11.30 22.50 24.40 27.40 | 9.10 12.30 23.00 25.10 27.70 | 0.6 1 0.5 0.7 0.3 | 0.195 0.179 0.168 0.156 0.148 |
CHL-5 | 300 | -45 | no Significant values |
CHL-6 | 320 | -45 | 6206 6207 6208 6209 6210 | 7.40 8.00 8.40 8.85 9.35 | 8.00 8.40 8.85 9.35 9.85 | 0.6 0.4 0.45 0.5 0.5 | 1.231 N.A. 0.925 0.515 0.410 |
CHL-7 | 320 | -65 | 6237 6238 | 6.90 7.60 | 7.60 8.40 | 0.7 0.8 | 0.287 0.197 |
CHL-8 | 320 | -45 | 6250 6091 6092 6093 | 5.60 66.70 67.30 68.20 | 6.50 67.30 68.20 68.60 | 0.9 0.6 0.9 0.4 | 0.441 0.357 0.476 0.244 |
CHL-9 | 320 | -65 | 12264 12265 | 25.40 31.70 | 25.80 32.20 | 0.4 0.5 | 1.811 0.429 |
Numerous carbonate altered zones with associated quartz-carbonate veining, silification, sulphides and gold mineralization have been identified on the Hope Lake property. None have been adequately drill tested. The property is underlain by a sequence of pillowed and massive mafic volcanics locally cut by felsic to ultramafic intrusive rocks. The general trend of the geological units is 045° due to faulting and folding, and on the southeast side due to the intrusion of the Hope Lake Granitic Pluton. Both the historical data and the Cabo exploration programs suggest that gold mineralization on the Hope Lake property is associated with quartz veining, silicified zones and sericitized shear zones, and that these zones may be related to intersecting structural and lithologic units. These zones may have complex geometry and require careful geological understanding and detailed exploration.
The Hope Lake Report recommends a two phase work program designed to evaluate the entire Hope Lake property. Phase I would include: a grid controlled geological mapping and rock sampling program across the entire property; a magnetometer / VLFem survey over the property; and in areas identified as prospective for gold mineralization, a soil geochemical survey, as well as stripping of outcrop to further define drill targets.
Phase II, core drilling is recommended to properly investigate the orientation and continuity of the known gold prospects, and to test targets identified by the Phase I program. As such, Phase II is only partially dependent upon the results for Phase I. Zones tested will need detailed drilling with close spaced holes. At least 3000 m of drilling should provide a reasonable initial testing of the highest priority targets. The assays reported in this press release were completed by Accurassay Laboratories in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The qualified person responsible for the technical content of this press release is Seymour Sears, P.Geo., V.P. Exploration of Cabo Mining Enterprises Corp.
As discussed in the Company’s Annual Report, Cabo intends to sell all of its Ontario resource properties. The shareholders will be asked to consider, and if thought advisable, pass with or without variation a special resolution authorizing the sale of the properties, for common shares of a public company at the Company’s annual general and special meeting to be held on December 15, 2005. Pursuant to the transaction, shareholders will receive no less than 75% of the common shares issued as consideration from the purchasing company’s treasury. The transaction is subject to a number of conditions including but not limited to: shareholder approval, approval from the Company’s Board of Directors, approval from the purchasing company’s Board of Directors, and all regulatory approvals. Further details relating to this transaction can be found in the Company’s Information Circular which is available on the Company’s website: www.cabo.ca or on SEDAR www.sedar.com.
Cabo Mining Enterprises Corp. is a drilling services company headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Company provides services through its subsidiaries Advanced Drilling Ltd. of Surrey, British Columbia; Forages Cabo Inc. of Montréal, Quebec; Heath & Sherwood Drilling (1986) Inc., of Kirkland Lake, Ontario; and Petro Drilling Company Limited of Springdale, Newfoundland. Cabo also holds interests in mineral exploration properties located near Cobalt, Kenora, and Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. The Company’s common shares trade on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol: CBE.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
(signed “John Versfelt”)
John A. Versfelt
Chairman, President and CEO
Further information about the Company can be found on the Cabo website (http://www.cabo.ca) and SEDAR (ww.sedar.com) or by contacting Investor Relations Ms. Sheri Barton at 403-217-5830 or Mr. John A. Versfelt, Chairman, President & CEO of the Company.
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