TSX-V Symbol: GOT
Frankfurt: 0GT
VANCOUVER,
March 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -
Golden Touch Resources Corp. ("Golden Touch" or the
"Company") (TSX-V Symbol: GOT) is pleased to announce that the
schemes of arrangement (the "Schemes") involving JAB Resources
Limited ("JAB") and its securityholders have been implemented and
that the Company has acquired all of the outstanding securities of
JAB. Certificates representing the Company shares and warrants
issued in consideration will be sent to former JAB
securityholders. The Company now has 23,712,616 shares issued
and outstanding upon the closing. In addition, the Company has paid
JAB $200,000 in cash to cover
administrative costs.
Further information regarding the Schemes can be
found in the JAB Scheme Booklet which will be posted under the
Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com following dissemination
of this news release.
The Company is also pleased to announce the
appointment of Robert Murdoch to the
Company's board of directors and as non-executive Chairman of the
Board. Mr. Murdoch will remain on the board of directors of
JAB and will also be appointed as director and secretary of Golden
Touch Resources Australia Pty Ltd.
Mr. Aly B. Mawji,
President of Golden Touch stated:
"We are thrilled to complete the acquisition of JAB Resources
Limited and welcome the existing JAB shareholders as new
shareholders of Golden Touch.
For more information shareholders can visit the Company's website
and sign up for news alerts at www.goldentouchresources.com.
I would also like to personally welcome Mr. Robert Murdoch as our Non-executive Chairman of
the Board. We intend to immediately implement an aggressive
exploration and development program that marks the start of a new
and exciting chapter in the history of Golden Touch, and together with Rob and our new
shareholders, we look forward to rapidly growing the Company."
Mr. Murdoch is a Geologist with over 40 years of
extensive international experience in the resources industry
including; exploration & BFS Management, mining operations,
corporate management and finance.
Mr. Ghassan (Sam)
Kassem has stepped down from the board of directors due to
time constraints. Golden Touch
would like to thank Mr. Kassem for his services and wish him
success in his future endeavors.
JAB's principal asset (held through its wholly
owned subsidiary JAB Resources SH PK, an Albanian registered
company) is a portfolio of exploration concessions ("ECs")
totalling approximately 140 sq. km, located in Northern
Albania. JAB has already spent in excess of US$5 million on exploration within the permit
areas, which has resulted in the outlining of significant gold,
platinum group elements (PGE) and chromite mineralization.
Golden Touch has
filed an updated National Instrument 43-101 ("NI 43-101") compliant
technical report dated effective February
18, 2011 and revised effective March
13, 2011 (the "1124 Report") on the Livadheza Gold Project
(EC 1124) prepared by Ian Mathinson,
Bsc (Hons Geol), MAusIMM, with the TSX-V which will be
posted under the Company's profile on SEDAR at www.sedar.com
following dissemination of this news release. Golden Touch is presently completing NI 43-101
compliant reports on the three other ECs and expects to file the
reports on SEDAR within a month.
The following is a summary of information contained
in the NI 43-101 - EC1124 Report:
Exploration for gold has located near surface gold
mineralization within a major regional structural breccia zone that
can be defined over a strike length of 20 km. Along this
strike interval geochemical surface soil sampling has defined a
number of gold in soil anomalies over approximately ten kilometers
of the strike. One anomaly coincides with an area previously
drill tested in the 1980's for "sulphide bearing silica" (silica).
The silica was used as a flux material for a copper smelter. The
other nine kilometers remains untested.
The sulphide bearing silica (silica) occurs as pods
within the breccias which dips northwards at around 30 degrees. The
silica located in each hole was selectively sampled and assayed for
a range of elements, of which only gold was found to be present in
significant quantities.
The results of 157 diamond holes, ranging in
diameter 74-146 mm, have been verified and compiled into a data
base of historical information. Most of the holes were drilled on a
40 m x 40 m grid (some areas 20m x 20m) over a length of 700 meters
along the strike of the breccia, with scattered holes out to a
length of 1,300 meters.
From these holes 246 separate assays
(average down hole interval one meter),
have been compiled by Jab Albania into
a data base and evaluated. The best gold
bearing down hole intervals being: Hole |
Intercept
downhole (M) |
Intercept
thickness (m) |
Grade ( g/t Au) |
415 |
59-65.9 |
6.9 |
9.5 |
64 |
26.5 - 34.5 |
8.0 |
7.2 |
224 |
48-53.5 |
5.5 |
10.4 |
26a |
41.5 - 43.5 |
2 |
21.8 |
62 |
55-59.6 |
4.6 |
6.4 |
224 |
44-44.8 |
0.8 |
29.4 |
540 |
45-46.8 |
1.8 |
10.25 |
274 |
56-56.6 |
0.6 |
23.7 |
The gold mineralization is open in both directions
along strike, as well as to depth. The prospective breccia zone
dips at about 30 degrees to the north beneath a thin layer of
colluvium.
High grade gold mineralization occurs in at least
four areas, each of which could reflect a mineralized pipe,
originally fed from depth, that have been developed within major
structural dilation zones within the breccia.
Surface sampling by Jab Albania has indicated that
gold occurs not only in the silica pods but elsewhere in the
breccias. The geological logs suggest that the breccias may average
10 meters in width. Jab Albania
has completed a trench over the previously only known outcrop on
the property, which has defined mineralization in excess of 6
meters in width with an average gold grade of 6.3 g/t Au.
More recently, a new outcrop was discovered during
drill rig access cutting where silica is limited to narrow veinlets
and the alteration is mainly "chloride" alteration a channel sample
was completed and defined mineralization in excess of 9 meters with
an average gold grade of 3.3 g/t Au.
Golden Touch is of
the view that the evaluation of the prospective breccia zone within
any drill hole is incomplete and hence there is potential for
verification drilling to locate additional gold mineralization even
within the section drilled.
Mr. Robert M.
Murdoch, P. Geo, is a qualified person as defined by NI
43-101, and has reviewed and approved the information contained in
this news release.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Golden Touch Resources Corp.
"Aly B. Mawji",
President
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SOURCE Golden Touch Resources Corp.