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Freegold Ventures Limited
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TSX: ITF OTCBB: FGOVF FRANKFURT: FR4 www.freegoldventures.com
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News Release
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October 29, 2007
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Freegold Drilling Intersects
28.5 g/t Over 9 feet
On Golden Summit
Tolovana Vein
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October
29, 2007 (Vancouver, BC) -- Freegold
Ventures Limited (TSX: ITF, OTCBB: FGOVF, Frankfurt: FR4) is pleased to
announce results from 54 holes drilled at the Company's Golden Summit
project outside Fairbanks,
Alaska. Located on the
western end of the known gold mineralization in the Cleary Hill mine
area, drilling has extended the strike length of the high-grade Tolovana Vein to over 825 feet. The Tolovana vein and its accompanying hanging and
footwall gold mineralization remain open in all directions, with the vein
striking towards the central part of the much wider Cleary Hill vein
swarm on the eastern side of Bedrock Creek. Further RAB drilling will be
undertaken in early January to extend the short drill fences in the Tolovana area further to the north and south to
determine whether the Tolovana vein is also
part of a larger swarm of veins and shear zones that have to date been
hidden under the permafrost overburden.
The 54 holes in fences 15 to 18 are part of the 672-hole (40,093 foot)
exploratory drill program that has been systematically testing the swarm
of veins and shear zones along the known 5,000 foot strike
of gold mineralization in the Cleary Hill mine area. Similar to
previously released holes, these shallow, closed spaced holes are continuing
to encounter high-grade structures near surface within much broader zones
of lower grade, bulk tonnage mineralization. As seen in the accompanying
map (available on the Company's website), fences 15 to 18 are testing the
north-east striking Tolovana vein with vertical
holes averaging 72
feet in depth, spaced roughly 20 feet apart, that
are oriented in a north-north west direction.
The Tolovana vein and its associated hanging
and footwall mineralization was originally intersected in Fence 6, which returned
intersections of 23.0 g/t (0.67 oz/ton), 17.8 g/t (0.52 oz/ton) and 18.1
g/t (0.53 oz/ton) all over 3-foot widths within wider zones of
lower-grade mineralization (see June 11, 2007 release). Fences 7 and 8
traced the vein a further 350 feet to the east with intersections
comparable to those seen in Fence 6 (see Oct. 4, 2007 release). Fences 15
(24 holes) 16 (9 holes) 17 (9 holes) and 18 (12 holes) traced the Tolovana vein another 525 feet to the east
for a total confirmed strike length of 825 feet.
Significant intervals from these fences include:
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At the present time, it is believed that the Tolovana
vein and the Wackwitz vein, which is hosted
within the much wider swarm of veins and shear zones on the eastern side
of Bedrock Creek, are the same vein. Both veins exhibit a distinctive
mottled grey appearance not known to occur in any other veins within the
swarm, and the strike projection of the Tolovana
vein runs close to the Wackwitz portal, located
only 1,100 feet
east of the Tolovana vein intersected in fence
18. Cross sections of the Tolovana vein RAB
drill holes exhibit mineralized structures in both the hanging and foot
walls of the vein that are similar to those found in the Beistline area RAB drilling/bulk sampling on the far
western end of the known mineralization, as well at that seen in RAB
fences 1, 3, 4 and 5, suggesting that the Tolovana
vein is simply part of a larger vein swarm. To test this concept, the
Company will resume its RAB drilling program in the New Year and will
initially drill holes north and south of the Tolovana
vein, as well as drill longer fences of holes in between fence 18 and
fence 5 to continue to extend the strike of the wider, Cleary Hill south
vein swarm further to the west.
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True widths of the
veins reported in this release are variable, as the orientation of the
various mineralized structures encountered throughout the drilling is
variable. Drilling is currently being conducted with an Ingersol-Rand conventional percussion drill.
Cuttings are returned up the drill hole with the use of an OEM vacuum
drill cuttings collector, and are dropped from a cyclone directly into
a sample bag. Samples are collected every three feet, with the
drill bit being pulled off the bottom and the hole cleaned at the
completion of each sample interval. Freegold
maintains a geologist and sampler at the drill rig for all drilling to
take and log all samples to insure that quality assurance and control
procedures are in accordance with 43-101 requirements. One duplicate
assay is being conducted in every drill hole and either a blank or a
standard is inserted in the sample stream every 10 samples. Alaska
Assay Laboratories in Fairbanks,
Alaska is being used to
analyze the drill cuttings for gold via fire assay analysis plus multi
element ICP-AES and ICP-MS analysis using 4 acid digestion.
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About Freegold Ventures Limited
Freegold Ventures Limited is a North American
exploration and development company with a new management team
experienced in mine development and production that is actively exploring
advanced-stage gold projects in Idaho
and Alaska.
Freegold holds a 100% lease interest in the Almaden gold project in Idaho. This large tonnage epithermal
gold deposit was the subject of a feasibility study in 1997 calling for
the development of a 95,000 oz/year open pit, heap leach mine. Freegold is currently finalizing a 41,000-foot
drilling program aimed at further expanding the size of the resource
prior to undertaking new economic evaluations in 2007. Drilling at depth
and to the north and south of the known mineralization is continuing to
identify new extensions to the deposit. Freegold
is also continuing to discover new high-grade veins and bulk tonnage
shear zones in its 40,000-foot drill program at its Golden Summit project
outside Fairbanks, Alaska. Gold production from the
processing of bulk sampled material has commenced, and in addition to
on-going bulk sampling of additional areas found to contain high grade
surface mineralization, the Company continues to define additional areas
of larger, lower grade mineralization through on-going drilling and
stripping. Exploration has also commenced on the Vinasale
property in Alaska, where geophysical and surface sampling programs have
recently been competed, and on the Rob property in Alaska, where recent
drilling has interested high-grade gold (29.0 g/t over 13 feet and 20.1 g/t
over 13.5 feet)
in Pogo-style, near surface quartz veins.
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On
behalf of the Board of Directors
"Steve
Manz"
Steve Manz
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President
and C.E.O.
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The Toronto Stock Exchange
has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release.
CUSIP: 45953B107
DISCLAIMER
This news release contains
certain "Forward-Looking Statements" within the meaning of Section
21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
All statements, other than statements of historical fact, included
herein are forward-looking statements that involve various risks and
uncertainties. There can be no assurance that such statements will
prove to be accurate, and actual results and future events could differ
materially from those anticipated in such statements. Important factors
that could cause actual results to differ materially from the Company's
expectations are disclosed in the Company's documents filed from time
to time with the Toronto Stock Exchange, British Columbia Securities
Commission and the United States Securities & Exchange
Commission. This email should not be construed as an offer to buy
or sell securities of Freegold Ventures
Limited.
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