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Updated NI43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate Reports Significant Increase in Conta
ined Ounces of Gold for the Destiny Gold Project near Val-dOr, Québec
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Re: News Releases - Monday, January 24, 2011
Updated NI43-101 Mineral Resource Estimate Reports Significant
Increase in Contained Ounces of Gold for the Destiny Gold Project
near Val-dOr, Qubec
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- Indicated Resource contains approximately 364,000 ounces gold
- Inferred Resource contains approximately 247,000 ounces gold
- DAC Deposit occurs at surface and is open in both strike and dip
- Awaiting assay results from the Phase 3 drilling program
Pacific North West Capital Corp.
("PFN") TSX: PFN; OTCBB: PAWEF;
Frankfurt: P7J and Alto Ventures Ltd.
("ATV") TSX-V: ATV (together "the
Companies") are pleased to announce receipt of a draft of an NI43-101
Technical Report (the Report) including a new Mineral Resource Estimate
for the DAC Gold Deposit on the Destiny Project located near Val dOr,
Quebec.
The Report was prepared by Wardrop, a Tetra Tech Company
(Wardrop) and incorporates over 7,600 m of additional drilling that was
completed on the deposit subsequent to an earlier NI43-101 compliant
resource estimate calculated by W.
A.
Hubacheck Consultants Ltd and
filed on SEDAR in 2007.
Indicated and Inferred resources have been determined for the DAC
Deposit.
The deposit is made up of narrow high grade gold-bearing
quartz veins occurring within five parallel alteration zones (Figures 1
and 2).
These alteration zones carry gold at lower grades than the
quartz veins but are significantly wider.
The Wardrop report indicates
that the additional drilling has expanded the DAC Deposit and
significantly increased the contained ounces of gold.
"We have far
exceeded our objectives for this project over the past year.
Our
initial goal was to double the previous resource on the DAC deposit and
now we see the potential for something much bigger." Harry Barr,
President and CEO of PFN.
At a cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t gold and using the Inverse Distance
Squared (ID2) estimation method, the five gold zones contain an
Indicated Resource of about 10.8 million tonnes with an average grade
of 1.05 g/t gold (364,000 contained ounces).
In addition, the Inferred
Resource totals 8.3 million tonnes with an average grade of 0.92 g/t
gold (247,000 contained ounces).
Table 1 summarises the Resource
Estimate at the 0.5 g/t cut-off.
A cut off grade of 0.5 g/t gold was selected to tabulate the total
resources based on the results of similar gold projects located in
Ontario and Quebec.
In addition, the following parameters were
considered; 4:1 stripping ratio, operating costs of $14.30/tonne at
10,000 tonnes per day, long term gold price of $US973/troy ounce, $US
to $Cdn conversion of 1.02 and gold recovery of 94%.
The resources
block considers the mineralization to start at approximately 15 m below
surface down to a depth of 400m for the deepest zone (Zone 5).
Mineral Resources are not Mineral Reserves and by definition do not
demonstrate economic viability.
Resource Classification and Description Block Model
Several factors were considered in the definition of a resource
classification including: National Instrument 43-101 requirements,
Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum guidelines, the
report authors experience with Archean and Proterozoic gold deposits,
and spatial continuity based on variography of the assays within the
drill holes.
Individual block models were established in Datamine for all five zones
using one parent model as the origin.
Drill hole spacing varies, with
the majority of the drilling tightly spaced at 25 m.
A block size of 5
x 2x 5 m was selected in order to accommodate the more closely spaced
drilling and the narrow nature of the mineralization.
Sub-celling of
the block model was used to allow the parent block to be split once in
each direction to more accurately fill the volume of the wireframes,
thus more accurately estimate the tonnes in the resource.
The interpolations of the five zones were completed using the Inverse
Distance Squared (ID2) estimation method.
The global block model
statistics for the ID2 model were compared to the Nearest Neighbour
(NM) model and the Ordinary Kriging (OK) model.
In general there is
agreement between the three models and larger discrepancies were
reflected as a result of lower drill density in some portions of the
model.
A copy of the final Report will be filed on SEDAR within 45 days of the
date of this news release.
Figure 1 & 2, Table 1 & 2 can be viewed at the following hyperlink:
http://www.pfncapital.com/s/NewsReleases.asp?ReportID=439125
Table 1- DAC Resource Estimation Summary (using ID2 method)
Table 2- Cut-off Sensitivities for the DAC Deposit Resource Estimate
Figure 1- Cross Section comparison of block model grades with composite
grades for the five gold zones making up the DAC Deposit
Figure 2 - Plan View comparison of block model grades with composite
grades for the five gold zones making up the DAC Deposit.
Qualified Person Statement
Todd McCracken, P.Geo, is a Qualified Person ("QP") for purposes of NI
43-101.
He is responsible for preparing the Report and the Resource
Estimate disclosed in the Report.
Mr McCracken is an employee of
Wardrop, and independent from the Companies as described in section 1.4
of NI 43-101.
He has read and approved the technical disclosure in this
press release.
About the Destiny Gold Project
The Destiny Project is under option from Alto Ventures Ltd.
Under the
terms of the option agreement, PFN can earn a 60% interest in the
property over a four year period by completing $3.5 million in
exploration expenditures, paying $200,000 and providing a total of
250,000 PFN shares to Alto.
The property consists of 177 claims
totalling 7,421 ha and is located approximately 100 km by road north of
the city of Val-dOr.
The property is accessible by provincial highway
397 which passes through the property.
Pacific North West Capital has fulfilled its obligations for the first
two years of the option term as outlined in the agreement.
About Alto Ventures Ltd
Alto Ventures Ltd.
is an exploration and development company with a
portfolio of highly prospective Canadian gold properties.
The Company
is active in Quebec in the Abitibi greenstone belt where it has a
number of projects including the Alcudia and Destiny gold properties.
In Ontario, the Company is exploring in the Beardmore-Geraldton gold
belt and the Coldstream project in the Shebandowan gold district.
In
the Chilcoten Plateau of British Columbia, the Company is exploring the
Chilko project nearby the Newton gold deposit.
For more details
regarding the Companys projects, please visit
http://www.altoventures.com.
About Pacific North West Capital Corp:
Pacific North West Capital Corp.
is a mineral exploration company
focused on Platinum Group Metals (PGM), precious and base metals.
Managements corporate philosophy is to be a project generator,
explorer and project operator with the objective of option/joint
venturing projects with major and junior mining companies through to
production.
To that end, Pacific North West Capitals current
option/joint ventures agreements are with Anglo Platinum, First Nickel,
Alto Ventures.
In addition, Pacific North West Capital is a major
shareholder of Fire River Gold Corp.
http://www.firerivergold.com
Pacific North West Capital is a member of the International Metals
Group of Companies.
http://www.internationalmetalsgroup.com.
On behalf of the Board of Directors,
"Harry Barr"
Harry Barr, President & CEO
For further information, please contact our Investor Relations
Department at Toll Free 1-800-667-1870
The Toronto Stock Exchange have not reviewed and does not accept
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Disclaimer: This news release may contain 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 Companys expectations are
disclosed in the Companys documents filed from time to time with The
Toronto Stock Exchange, British Columbia Securities Commission and the
United States Securities & Exchange Commission.
Not to be construed as
an offer to buy or sell securities of this company.
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