Northern Vertex Reports Significant NI 43-101 Resource of 590,400 Ounces of Gold Equivalent Resources at the Moss Gold-Silver Project
Vancouver, B.C. - Northern Vertex Capital Inc. (TSX.V:NEE) (“Northern Vertex”) is pleased to announce that it has obtained an independent resource estimate from the engineering firm Scott E. Wilson Consulting, Inc. (“SEWC”) with respect to its Moss Gold-Silver Project situated in the historic Oatman Mining district in Mohave County, Northwestern Arizona. The resource estimate was based on 288 exploration drill holes, 8 trenches and 53 channel samples of which 58 of the drill holes were part of a Northern Vertex Phase I drilling program recently conducted on the Moss Project.
Scott E. Wilson Consulting - October 2011 - Independent Resource Calculation
At a 0.3 gram per ton gold cutoff the current resource at Moss is reported as:
INDICATED RESOURCE at 0.3 g/t Au Cutoff |
Tonnes | Grades (Grams/Tonne)1 | Contained Metal (Ounces)2 |
x 1,000 | Au | Ag | Au | Ag | Au Equivalent3 |
13,377 | 0.89 | 9.4 | 383,248 | 4,021,740 | 483,7924 |
INFERRED RESOURCE at 0.3 g/t Au Cutoff |
Tonnes | Grades (Grams/Tonne)1 | Contained Metal (Ounces)2 |
x 1,000 | Au | Ag | Au | Ag | Au Equivalent3 |
4,731 | 0.55 | 6.2 | 83,124 | 940,164 | 106,6284 |
1 Grams/Tonne = grams / metric tonne;
2 ounces = troy ounces / short ton
3 AuEq (ozs) = Au (ozs) + 1/40th Ag (ozs)
4 Assumes 100% metallurgical recovery