Original News Release
Western Star talks Western Star/Discovery property
Mr. Blake Morgan reports
WESTERN STAR RESOURCES GIVES COMPANY UPDATE REGRADING ITS FULLY DRILL 100% OWNED PERMITTED WESTERN STAR PROPERTY
Western Star Resources Inc. has provided a company update on its newly combined 100-per-cent-owned Western Star and Discovery property.
Western Star property/Discovery property:
Revelstoke mining district, British Columbia;
4,740 hectares (46.4 square kilometres) -- district scale;
100 per cent owned and permitted;
CRD (carbonate replacement deposit); precious metals rich;
Over-6.2-kilometre mineralized strike length;
Limited results to date, by surficial prospecting in well-exposed areas;
246.76 grams per tonne silver, 1 to 50.1 per cent lead, 8.22 grams per tonne gold and 3.68 per cent copper -- high-grade samples.
Blake Morgan, president and chief executive officer of Western Star, stated: "With the recent acquisition of the Discovery property, we have now secured the full package of the Western Star property. The property is fully permitted for a multipad drill program, with government bond paid. The company plans to move towards its maiden drill program on its 100-per-cent Western Star property while also looking to expand its presence in Nevada with the recent MOU [memorandum of understanding] with The Real American Corp."
The Western Star property hosts 12 Minfile showings: Black Bear, Lardeau-Goldsmith, Hunter, Wide West, Goodenough, Kitsap, Banner, Daffodil, Royal, Morning Star, Lexington and Alma.
The Alma showing consists of intermittent occurrences of massive bands, streaks and lenses of galena-sphalerite in crosscutting quartz-carbonate veins within siderite alteration zones.
The Kitsap showing is along the northwest-trending ridge. Early prospectors/miners have pitted and drifted on the Kitsap showing. Limestone hosting galena-sphalerite mineralization is encountered. Sericite alteration zone of phyllite is approximately four metres to the west of contact with limestone and nearly 30 metres wide on the eastern contact with limestone.
The Lardeau-Goldsmith showing is reported to have high silver values; a 15-metre adit was driven in 1899. It is inferred that mineralization is similar to nearby showings consisting of pyrite, galena and sphalerite.
At the Lexington showing, a 3.6-metre-wide quartz vein contains 1.5 metres of massive galena in the footwall, which assayed high silver values. Mineralization in a series of occurrences along strike to the southeast consists of intermittent lenses of galena-sphalerite in crosscutting fractures and quartz-carbonate veins within siderite or ankerite alteration zones
The Morning Star showing contains numerous quartz and calcite stringers and is a vein measuring 2.1 metres wide, striking 310 to 320 degrees and dipping 62 to 75 degrees east. The vein has been traced by numerous open cuts and trenches. A crosscut adit was begun in 1914 to cut the vein at a vertical depth of nine metres and reached 21 metres length.
The Banner showing is a 32-metre adit in 1900 with the objective of cutting the vein at depth. Mineralization consists of intermittent lenses of galena-sphalerite in crosscutting fractures and quartz-carbonate veins within siderite or ankerite alteration zones.
The Black Bear showing consists of massive pyrite with minor galena-sphalerite in quartz gangue. Float in a boulder train is of siliceous pyritic dolomite with disseminated magnetite and traces of galena and sphalerite. In 1896, a shaft was sunk three metres deep.
The mineralization at the Royal showing consists of galena in two parallel quartz veins. Mineralization in a series of occurrences along strike to the southeast consists of intermittent lenses of galena-sphalerite in crosscutting fractures and quartz-carbonate veins within siderite or ankerite alteration zones.
The mineralization at the Daffodil showing is similar to the Royal showing, where galena is in two parallel quartz veins. Mineralization in a series of occurrences along strike to the southeast intermittent lenses of galena-sphalerite in crosscutting fractures and quartz-carbonate veins within siderite or ankerite alteration zones.
At the Goodenough showing, mineralization consists of galena-sphalerite-(chalcopyrite) in concordant to irregular quartz-chlorite veins in shears at the limestone-phyllite contact and in fractured and/or brecciated ankeritic limestone over a strike length of 160 metres.
The Hunter-Trapper showing consists of intermittent disseminated to massive galena-sphalerite in a brecciated quartz-siderite-chlorite vein at the limestone contact with phyllite. A chip sample across a one-metre-wide quartz-siderite pod with massive to scattered sphalerite-galena analyzed greater than 102.8 grams per tonne silver, 3.08 per cent lead and 4.38 per cent zinc.
The Wide West showing consists of massive to disseminated bands and stringers of galena, sphalerite and pyrite with minor chalcopyrite forming pods in a series of 0.5-metre-to-three-metres-wide stratabound lenses within limestone beds, typically forming at contacts with sericite altered phyllite.
The Discovery property consists of three known showings, completing the full Western Star package.
The Glenside showing is of three quartz and galena veins can be traced from Lardeau Creek to a point about 300 metres distant, where they unite in one large vein that can be traced for kilometres. At a point about 150 metres below where the three veins unite, a tunnel is in a distance of 24 metres, on the centre small vein.
The Muskateer showing is on the east side of Ferguson Creek, a southerly flowing tributary of Lardeau Creek. The Muskateer showing has disseminations and large pockets of massive pyrite and pyrrhotite in phyllite. The Muskateer showing is underlain by folded, deformed and schistose rocks of the middle member of the Jowett formation. The unit contains deformed argillite and limestone, and brown, grey and greenish tuff and volcanic breccia -- some of which contains fragments of limestone.
The Copper Mountain showing was discovered in the early 1900s, traces of copper were located in debris below a cliff of chlorite schist, above an alpine glacier near the head of Surprise Creek. By 1912, a 6.7-metre-long adit had been driven into the schist at 1,844 metres elevation. The Copper Mountain showing is underlain by folded, deformed and schistose rocks of the Index formation.
The property is underlain by the Badshot formation, which is composed of a thick Cambrian limestone that is a distinctive marker horizon in the Trout Lake area. It is underlain by Hamill group quartzite, and it is overlain by a younger assemblage of limestone, calcareous, graphitic and siliceous argillite and siltstone, sandstone, quartzite and conglomerate, and also mafic volcanic flows, tuffs and breccias, all of which belong to the Lardeau group.
In 2012, Mineral Mountain Resources Ltd. undertook a 1,662-line-kilometre AeroTEM airborne geophysical survey, which appears to cover the part of the Discovery property. The 2012 geophysics appears to illustrate natural extension from the Western Star property to the Discovery property.
With over six kilometres of strike and drill permits in place, the Western Star team is eager to press ahead toward its maiden drill program.
Western Star Resources will have further updates regarding the drill program and exploration across its 100-per-cent-owned Western Star property.
Additional information
Additional information about the company and the transaction is available on SEDAR+ under the company's profile. The summary of the transaction set out above is qualified in its entirety by reference to the description of the transaction in the company's filing statement posted on SEDAR+.
Derrick Strickland, a non-independent qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects, has reviewed and approved the scientific and technical information contained in this news release.
About Western Star Resources Inc.
Western Star Resources is a mineral exploration and development company. The company's objective is to increase shareholder value through the development of exploration properties using cost-effective exploration practices, acquiring further exploration properties, and seeking partnerships by either joint venture or sale with industry leaders. The company currently owns nine non-surveyed contiguous mineral claims totalling 4,740 hectares, which are located within the Revelstoke mining division of British Columbia. The Western Star property group is located approximately 50 kilometres southeast of Revelstoke, B.C., and roughly 10 kilometres north of the abandoned community of Camborne.
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