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TerraX can earn a 100% interest in the Blackfly property over a four year period by making option payments totaling $100,000, issuing 280,000 shares and funding $179,200 of exploration and development work. The vendors will retain a 2.5% NSR, 1% of which can be purchased by TerraX for $1,000,000. An annual pre-production royalty of $10,000 will also be in effect, commencing on July 2, 2013.
As does the Hammond Reef deposit, the Blackfly property occurs on the western edge of the Marmion Batholith, which contains a number of phases, varying from tonalite to quartz diorite. Gold mineralization is associated with northeast trending lineaments traceable for up to 80 km within and along the margin of the batholith. The lineaments are thought to represent faults or shear zones. Mineralization occurs in and adjacent to quartz vein systems within the shear zone, and is associated with pyrite and alteration consisting of sericitization, saussuritization, carbonatization and chloritization.
Gold-bearing quartz and quartz-carbonate veins were discovered on the Blackfly property around 1897, but the majority of previous exploration took place between 1938 and 1949. This includes the sinking of a 14 m shaft in 1938. According to the Ontario Geological Survey, mineralization consists of pyrite, galena, and possible arsenopyrite with accessory chlorite, sericite, ankerite and epidote. Sampling by the Ontario Geological Survey produced values of 8.75 g/t Au over 0.35 m in a quartz vein and 3.44 g/t Au in wallrock. TerraX visited the property briefly in May of 2009, taking two sulphidebearing quartz vein samples which ran 2.24 g/t and 167 g/t Au respectively. Although the over-riding target for TerraX is a large, low grade gold deposit similar to Hammond Reef, the grades obtained to date from the quartz veins suggests that the property may also have potential for a smaller, higher grade deposit.
TerraX's initial plans for the property include following up known mineralization and mapping/prospecting of structural targets. Results from a government-sponsored airborne magnetic survey, justified in part by the results of Brett Resources' exploration, were released on July 7, 2009. This data should help TerraX develop additional targets on the property.
The technical information contained in this news release has been verified by Dr. Tom Setterfield, PhD, PGeo., Vice President Exploration, who is a Qualified Person as defined in "National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Properties." Closing of the proposed transaction is subject to acceptance for filing by the TSX Venture Exchange.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
"JOSEPH CAMPBELL"
Joseph Campbell, P.Geo.
President
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