Metanor drilling extends West zone to above 180 m

2009-02-12 09:08 ET - News Release

Mr. Serge Roy reports

METANOR: NEW DISCOVERY CONFIRMED-EXTENSIONS OF THE WEST ZONE CONFIRMED BY DRILLING ON THE HEWFRAN PROPERTY

Metanor Resources Inc.'s drilling campaign carried out on the Hewfran property has extended the West zone between surface and a vertical depth of 180 metres, where prior work had indicated the beginning of this gold-bearing zone below 180 m.

The Hewfran property is located in the Lesueur Township, Desmaraisville area (province of Quebec). It comprises 38 claims covering an area of 683 hectares, and is immediately located to the west of the Bachelor Mine (approximately 1300 feet or 400 meters away). The Hewfran property was explored during the Eighties by two underground galleries starting from the Bachelor Mine (levels 6 and 8) and had many diamond drilling holes (on the surface and underground). The geological units and the extensions of the mineralized zones of the Bachelor Mine are present on this block of claims.

A stripping campaign carried out during autumn 2008 allowed to locate the extension on surface of the West Zone of Hewfran and to expose this strongly hematized and mineralized zone on a horizontal distance of approximately 40 meters with thickness reaching 6 meters. This zone was originally defined in drilling over a horizontal distance of approximately 300m and between the depths of 180m and 330m. The two gold bearing zones oriented East-West and the North-East and which compose the West zone correspond to those of the A zone and the Main zone of the Bachelor mine. Grab and chips samples taken along the East-West mineralized zone returned gold values reaching 7.21 g/t Au and grab and chips samples taken along the north-east sheared zone returned values reaching 17.5 g/t Au. A channel sample taken across these 2 mineralized structures returned an intersection of 2.62 g/t Au over 6.0m including 5.20 g/t Au over 2.5m. Chips samples taken to the south of the strongly hematized zone returned gold values varying between 10.30 g/t Au and 24.30 g/t Au.