WMR-TSX.V
WMRSF-OTCQX
VANCOUVER, Nov. 20,
2014 /CNW/ - During the summer, 2014, WMR ("the Company")
conducted a follow-up program of exploration at the 100% owned
Sierra Breccia target discovered in 2013 (See WMR Press Release
13-05 of October 18, 2013 for
details, including analytical methods). The breccia zone has
been traced for a length of approximately 200 meters in a series of
four equally spaced historic (1950's?) mined-out pits and
trenches. The steeply-dipping breccia zone has a vertical
extent of 70 meters over the known strike length, and is hosted in
a rhyolite sequence of Tertiary volcanic rocks. The Sierra
target lies 700 meters above the Company's porphyry intrusion El
Cobre exploration target.
The Sierra hydrothermal breccia contains high
grades of copper, silver and gold where seventeen grab samples
averaged 4.8% Cu, 101 g/t Ag and 4.4 g/t Au (see Press Release WMR
13-05, October 18, 2013) as well as
high sulphidation system geochemical signatures anomalous in the
elements iron, barium, bismuth and mercury.
Sierra Trench One
is located at the lowest elevation of the four hand mined workings
where due to the contour of the land the exposed high grade breccia
material was peeled from the upslope footwall cliff face contact at
all four trenches. The exposed footwall zone shows hematitic
fractures and minor quartz stockwork development in
argillic-hematitic altered rhyolite crystal-ash tuff adjacent to
the mined out one to two meters wide breccia zone. The poorly
exposed downslope hanging wall shows argillic and sericitic
alteration of the crystal-ash tuff adjacent to the breccia
zone. In Trench One the only exposure of remaining in situ
breccia material assayed 147.9 g/t silver, 2.38 g/t gold and 1.4%
copper and 15.5% iron across 0.4 meters. The only observed
continuous exposure of footwall mineralization adjacent to the
breccia was chip sampled in Trench One for an into the footwall (
width) upslope distance of 7.9 meters from the high grade breccia
contact. This continuous zone sampling averaged 61.8 g/t
silver, 0.895 g/t gold and 0.17% copper over the 7.9 meters.
Also in Trench One the only in situ exposure of the hanging wall
available to chip sample was a 1.2 meter width of
sericitic-argillic altered rhyolite assaying 29.5 g/t silver, 0.09
g/t gold and 0.8% copper. At the other 3 higher elevation trenches,
cliff face footwall chip sampling of altered hematitic fractured
rhyolite returned copper, gold and silver contents comparable to
those sampled in intervals at Trench One over its 7.9 meter width.
However at Trenches 2, 3 and 4 ,width extent sampling of
footwall mineralization is limited due to the near vertical cliff
face footwall contour.
The highest grade grab sample of Sierra hydrothermal breccia was
collected from the Trench Two area. Its contents of 6.0%
copper, 87.2 g/t silver and 2.74 g/t gold compares well with
results from the seventeen breccia grab samples as reported
in 2013.
The results from the recent outcrop sampling along the mapped
exposure of the Sierra breccia target confirm the high grades found
in previously collected breccia grab samples. In
addition, the new 2014 sampling of in situ hanging wall and
footwall altered volcanics adjacent to the mapped breccia zone
demonstrated that Sierra system mineralization contains copper,
silver and gold and extends for at least 9.5 meters in width
at Trench One.
A campaign of exploration along strike and to depth is warranted
as the Sierra target hydrothermal breccias with diatreme
characteristics and high-sulphidation system affinities make the
potential at the Sierra system attractive.
This news release has been reviewed and approved by Glen Macdonald, P.Geo (a qualified person for
the purpose of National Instrument 43-101, Standards of Disclosure
for Mineral Projects).
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
WESTMINSTER RESOURCES LTD.
"Glen Macdonald"
Director
About Westminster:
Managed by an experienced exploration team, Westminster is focused on exploring and
developing prospects on a land package of approximately 53,613
hectares of contiguous mineral concessions in Sonora, Mexico. These concessions
constitute a mineral district scale property serviced by roads,
power and water.
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SOURCE Westminster Resources Ltd.