Re: News Release - Monday, November 26, 2007
Title: Record High Gold Values Reported by
Tanzanian Royalty From RC Drill Program at Kigosi Project in Tanzania
Tanzanian Royalty is pleased to announce that a Phase 4
Reverse Circulation (RC) drill program has returned record high gold values at
the Company's Kigosi Project in Tanzania. In addition, the Company has
discovered a seventh gold bearing shoot containing encouraging values within
one of two previously established shear zones on the Kigosi property which is
located in the prolific Lake Victoria Greenstone Belt.
According to Tanzanian Royalty President, John Deane, the Phase 4 drill program
"has produced the highest gold grades yet discovered at Kigosi with a peak
value of 101.25 g/t gold (3.0 oz/t) returned over 1.0 metre in Hole
KG20RC271 within the Bateleur gold shoot."
Deane also noted that this particular sample had excellent
"repeatability" during the umpire assay verification process at the
Humac laboratory in Mwanza, Tanzania with values recorded of 177.0 g/t ( 5.1
oz/t) ; 143.77g/t (4.2 oz/t) and 153.75g/t (4.5 oz./t). The averaged value
from the Humac laboratory for this particular sample is 158.17g/t (4.4 oz/t),
he added.
Hole KG20RC-270 returned 4.0 metres (13.1 ft) averaging 11.32 g/t (0.33
oz/t) including 2.0 metres (6.56 ft.) grading 18.03 g/t (0.526 oz/t) within
the Main Zone. While KG20RC-271 returned 9.0 metres (29.5 ft.) grading 11.93
g/t (0.35 oz/t) including the value mentioned above of 1.0 metre (3.28
ft.) averaging 101.25 g/t (3.0 oz/t) which was also in the Main Zone. The
Company elected to utilize the more conservative 101.25 g/t value for these
intercepts rather than the average of the check assays which was substantially
higher.
The new Goshawk shoot, which is contained within the Luhwaika Main Shear zone
immediately above the Bateleur shoot, produced gold values ranging between
7.15g/t
(0.21 oz/t) and 35.70g/t (1.0 oz/t).
In less than one year, Tanzanian Royalty has confirmed the presence of seven
high grade gold shoots at Kigosi including the recent Goshawk discovery which
remains open to further expansion.
"Given the high frequency of favourable results from Kigosi, we are developing
specific exploration milestones for this project which at the present time we
intend to pursue in�house rather than through our standard royalty agreements
which has largely been the case in the past," said the Company's Chairman
and CEO, Jim Sinclair.
"In our view, Kigosi has the potential to become a world class gold
discovery and we intend to make it the most aggressively explored precious
metals project in Africa over the next few years," he said.
"With that objective in mind, a number of financing options are open to us
to exploit the potential at Kigosi -- both internally and externally -- and we
are currently evaluating which option(s) will be best for shareholders,"
he said.
The Phase 4 drill program consisted of 62 holes aggregating 3,284 metres,
bringing the total drilled at Kigosi to 13,299 metres in 311 holes. Drilling
was conducted along five control lines with a central baseline having a strike
length of 2.8 kilometres.
The primary objective of this fourth phase of drilling was to test the strike
continuity of the Luhwaika reef system to the northwest on two 200 metres
spaced lines, and to drill infill holes down-dip and along strike of
mineralization identified in previous drilling in the northwest area. Drill
hole spacing was 30 metres.
The two shear zones hosting these gold shoots have now been traced along a
strike length of 1.6 kilometres with the current drilling and they are still
open towards the northwest. The shoots within these shear zones now have
lengths ranging from 100 to 1,300 metres.
Deane also pointed out that "the Luhwaika Main Shear Zone definitely has
the thicker and higher grade shoots, namely the Falcon, Bateleur and
Goshawk."
Below is a summary of the shoot statistics.
Shear System
|
Shoot Name
|
No. of RC holes
|
Length (m)
|
Width (m)
|
Thickness (m)
|
Grade (g/t)
|
Comments
|
Luhwaika Main
|
Falcon
|
7
|
�850
|
10-20
|
1-2
|
2.59-8.83
|
Closed ?
|
Luhwaika Main
|
Bateleur
|
16
|
�1300
|
10-20
|
1-3
|
1.99-101.25
|
Closed ?
|
Luhwaika Main
|
Eagle
|
7
|
450
|
10-20
|
1-2
|
2.10-6.65
|
Closed
|
Luhwaika Main
|
Goshawk
|
4
|
650
|
10
|
1-2
|
7.14-35.70
|
Open to west
|
Luhwaika
|
Flamingo
|
3
|
300
|
10
|
1
|
3.96-4.46
|
Closed?
|
Shear System
|
Shoot Name
|
No. of RC holes
|
Length (m)
|
Width (m)
|
Thickness (m)
|
Grade (g/t)
|
Comments
|
West
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Luhwaika West
|
Pelican
|
7
|
1000?
|
10-30
|
1-2
|
2.77-16.46
|
Open to west
|
Luhwaika West
|
Albatross
|
1
|
>100
|
?
|
1
|
20.30
|
Open to west
|
The shoots are separated by lower grade (<2g/t) envelopes that are between
10 and 30 metres wide along the plane of the shear zones. A summary of the
Phase 4 drill highlights is given below:
Hole No
|
From
|
To
|
*Intercept
|
Gold
|
Including
|
Comments
|
|
(m)
|
(m)
|
(m)
|
g/t
|
|
|
Line 2150N
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
KG20RC-250
|
9
|
12
|
3
|
1.89
|
1m@4.66
|
West Zone in shoot
|
KG20RC-252
|
36
|
37
|
1
|
3.96
|
|
West Zone in shoot
|
KG20RC-256
|
69
|
72
|
3
|
0.74
|
|
West Zone
|
Line 2250N
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
KG20RC-262
|
2
|
4
|
2
|
3.09
|
|
gravels
|
KG20RC-263
|
2
|
5
|
3
|
1.24
|
|
gravels
|
KG20RC-264
|
77
|
78
|
1
|
0.51
|
|
Main Zone
|
KG20RC-265
|
13
|
16
|
3
|
1.81
|
|
Main Zone
|
KG20RC-266
|
25
|
30
|
5
|
0.75
|
|
Main Zone
|
KG20RC-267
|
38
|
39
|
1
|
1.86
|
|
Main Zone
|
KG20RC-268
|
48
|
50
|
2
|
7.14
|
|
Main Zone in
|
KG20RC-270
|
2
|
5
|
3
|
0.44
|
|
gravels
|
|
72
|
76
|
4
|
11.32
|
2m@18.03
|
Main Zone in shoot
|
KG20RC-271
|
84
|
93
|
9
|
11.93
|
1m@101.25
|
Main Zone in shoot
|
KG20RC-272
|
96
|
98
|
2
|
1.82
|
|
Main Zone
|
KG20RC-273
|
5
|
6
|
1
|
2.90
|
|
gravel
|
KG20RC-276
|
4
|
7
|
3
|
6.82
|
|
gravel
|
Line 2450N
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
KG20RC-280
|
84
|
86
|
2
|
18.16
|
1m@35.70
|
Main Zone in shoot
|
KG20RC-283
|
38
|
40
|
2
|
1.27
|
|
West Zone
|
KG20RC-284
|
58
|
60
|
2
|
14.11
|
1m@27.75
|
West Zone in shoot
|
Line 2650N
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
KG20RC-296
|
20
|
21
|
1
|
6.12
|
|
Main Zone in shoot
|
KG20RC-297
|
27
|
28
|
1
|
5.43
|
|
Main Zone in shoot
|
KG20RC-298
|
37
|
39
|
2
|
5.00
|
|
Main Zone in shoot
|
KG20RC-310
|
68
|
69
|
1
|
8.16
|
|
Main Zone in shoot
|
KG20RC-311
|
79
|
81
|
2
|
1.21
|
|
Main Zone
|
Line 2850N
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
KG20RC-303
|
10
|
13
|
3
|
0.99
|
|
gravels
|
KG20RC-306
|
48
|
50
|
2
|
0.88
|
|
Main Zone
|
KG20RC-308
|
67
|
68
|
1
|
1.78
|
|
Main Zone
|
*The above
intersections are estimated to be very close to true thicknesses with all the
drill inclinations being -60 degrees and the dip of the reef being -22 degrees.
All holes are drilled perpendicular to the assumed strike of the reef(s).
The fifth phase of drilling has commenced at Kigosi with the Company continuing
to drill out the two main reefs to the northwest and southeast. In anticipation
of the rainy season, the Company is currently drilling areas that will likely
not be accessible for much longer.
In addition, the road network into Kigosi has been upgraded to facilitate
access into areas that are scheduled to be drilled during the rainy season. Critical
supplies for this Phase 5 program are on site and the Company intends to bring
in a track-mounted diamond drill to augment the aggressive drill program at
Kigosi which is entering a critical phase.
The next phase of drilling will therefore concentrate on the Luhwaika Main and
West Shears to the northwest. Two lines will also be drilled in the southeast
of the system where IP and previous drilling suggest that the two shear systems
are merging to form one system. A further 2,500 metres of drilling is planned
during this next phase, all of which should be completed in the 2007 drill
season.
Analysis
Fire assay with flame AAS finish was conducted by SGS Laboratories in Mwanza. Duplicates
and Standards were inserted in the sample stream approximately every 20
samples. The duplicates have a correlation coefficient of 66.7%, which is
accounted for by the large nugget effect within the sampling. 15% of the
standards from SGS fall outside the acceptable 3rd standard deviation. Because
of this, 95% of the high gold samples were sent to Humac as a check. The Humac
fire assay results gave a 94.5% correlation with the SGS results, and this is
considered acceptable. The figures used in this press release are the average
grades taken for between one and three duplicates run by the labs on each
analysis.
Qualified Person
The technical information contained in this document has been reviewed and
approved by John Deane, President, Tanzanian Royalty Exploration Corporation
Limited, a qualified person as defined by NI 43-101. He has an M.Sc. from the
University of Cape Town (1993) and is a registered scientist with SACNASP (Reg.
No.400005/05).
Respectfully Submitted,
"James E. Sinclair"
James E. Sinclair Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
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