Appleton Exploration Inc. Commences Trenching on Gold-In-Soil Anomalies on its Spences Bridge Gold Project
September 12, 2007 – Vancouver, British Columbia. Appleton Exploration Inc. (TSX-V: AEX) has commenced a follow up excavator trenching program on the six substantial linear cross-cutting gold anomalies identified earlier this summer on its wholly owned Dora property. Appleton is exploring the Dora property in the Spences Bridge Gold Belt for low-sulphidation epithermal precious metal mineralization. The Dora property is contiguous to the west to Consolidated Spire Ventures Ltd.’ s Pro spect Valley project, where Spire announced in July the discovery of a large low grade bulk tonnage target.
As disclosed in a news release dated July 19th, the Company’s 2007 detailed grid soil geochemical sampling identified a large area (1000m x 2000m) of multiple linear east-west and north-south trending gold-in-soil anomalies. The linear anomalies are both long and wide, and cross-cut each other, which may suggest a new mineralized system. The anomalies are described in the table below.
Breccia/Fault Grid Summary of Gold-In-Soil Anomalies | ||||
Anomaly | Trend | Width (m) | Length (m) | Range (ppb Au) |
A | E-W | 50-100 | 1500 | 3 to 1050 |
B | E-W | 50-150 | 1400 | 2 to 112 |
C | E-W | 50-200 | 1900 | 2 to 800 |
D | E-W | 50-150 | 500 | 2 to 875 |
E | N-S | 50-100 | 1000 | 3 to 286 |
F | N-S | 50-100 | 1300 | 3 to 297 |
The Company has now completed initial follow up prospecting as well as a series of cross-cutting soil hand trenches over several of the anomalies. Assay results are pending. each of the six linear anomalies will be tested by a series of cross cutting excavator trenches at regular intervals along strike. A success contingent diamond drilling program will follow.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors,
“R. Tim Henneberry”
R.Tim Henneberry, P.Geo.
President and CEO
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