Golden Hope reports Quebec Gold Assays as high as 1.23 g/t over 11.74m

by Ted Niles - Resource Clips on Thursday, April 12th, 2012 at 2:00 pm

Golden Hope Mines Limited TSXV:GNH announced assays from its Champagne deposit in the Appalachian Fold Belt of southeastern Quebec. Results include

1.23 g/t gold, 11.71 g/t silver and 1.6% zinc over 11.7 metres
(including 1.79 g/t gold, 27.52 g/t silver and 2.77% zinc over 3.8 metres)
1.15 g/t gold, 17.24 g/t silver and 2.2% zinc over 8.2 metres
(including 2.02 g/t gold, 30.14 g/t silver and 3.56% zinc over 4.7 metres)
1.28 g/t gold, 14.33 g/t silver and 1.73% zinc over 1.7 metres

President Frank Candido tells ResourceClips.com, �Bellechase-Timmins is a diorite quartz veining-hosted gold ore body, so it�s completely distinct from Champagne, which is a volcanic sulphide deposit. There was a report published by a gentleman by Bergman in 1954, which was then updated in 1995 by the Centre Geoscientifique de Quebec, which stated there was approximately a (non-NI 43-101) 300,000-tonne deposit�very shallow due to the shallow depth of the holes�[grading] 2.4 g/t gold and approximately 19.7 g/t silver, 0.40% copper, 0.45% lead and 2.7% zinc.

"I certainly am bullish on gold still. There are a lot of mixed signals coming out of the Fed, but ultimately I still think that the macroeconomic situation bodes well for gold. Certainly, I don�t think the juniors can stay at these lows forever"�Frank Candido

�Although Champagne is within the same belt, it is completely distinct from Bellechasse-Timmins. When we decided that we were going to prioritize Champagne as the next target, the first thing we wanted to do was make sure it that the historical numbers were accurate. There are no cores available from the time it was drilled, nor did we have collar locations. We only knew which lot that the drill holes were drilled. When we finally did drill Champagne, we found that we had intersected the furthest southwest part of the deposit. We confirmed that the deposit is there, and we�re getting similar values. It�s provided us with a lot of encouragement obviously.�

�We�re about to publish the results from a VTEM survey [on Champagne],� Candido continues, �and I think it may show that there is not only lots of room for expansion of the Champagne zone itself but also much potential to repeat the Champagne zone on the rest of the property. That information should come out in the very near future. We�re also expecting to publish our first  resource estimate on Bellechase-Timmins very soon. This provides  us with basically two distinct projects that we can develop simulataneously on the same belt. That�s exciting for us.�

Regarding the resource estimate from Bellechase-Timmins, Candido says, �Holes 181 through 194 are still outstanding, so that�s 13 holes from our campaign which we stopped about three weeks ago. We�re expecting many of these holes back within the next two weeks or so.

�The drilling at Champagne will be dependent on the VTEM, but as I said we�re expecting to publish that shortly. We�re putting the plan together for the Spring 2012 drill campaign now. The 43-101 will be published very shortly after most of those outstanding holes are in�not all the holes but some of those holes which have been deemed very important. In the not too distant future, we�ll put a plan out to the market on how we will expand the resource that we have at Bellechase-Timmins and [which will] define the Champagne target. We expect to be drilling again certainly by the month of May.�

Infrastructure, Candido notes, �is excellent if you�re talking about access, hydro, workers and so forth. What there isn�t in southeastern Quebec are gold mines, and so there is no mining infrastructure. There are no mills and that sort of thing in the area.

�We have about $1.8 million in the bank, so we�re okay for now. It all depends on the market. Is this going to be the market for the rest of the year? I don�t know. Both [majors and juniors] are lagging the price of gold, and I don�t know when that will end. I certainly am bullish on gold still. There are a lot of mixed signals coming out of the Fed, but ultimately I still think that the macroeconomic situation bodes well for gold. Certainly, I don�t think the juniors can stay at these low levels forever. At some point, the market will rebound. All we can do is focus on the work we�ve got and hope the rest takes care of itself.

�I�m falling more in love with the project every day,� Candido says. �We hired SGS Geostat as independents to model a resource for us, and I�ve been feeding off their enthusiasm. They came in and were as reticent as many people given that we were in southeastern Quebec, but when they saw the drill core we were getting, they started to see the possibilities for expansion as well. Certainly having intersected those massive sulphides at Champagne bodes well for us as well. GWR Resources TSXV:GWQ is about to put out their results along the same horizon of Champagne, and I think they�re about two kilometres away. And Bowmore TSXV:BOW, which is essentially funded by Osisko TSX:OSK, put out a press release today talking about further drilling in the area and they referenced our Champagne deposit in their [April 11] press release.�

He concludes, �I think things are starting to heat up again in southeastern Quebec, and I think you�ll hear a lot more about it this year.�

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