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Vancouver, BC - January 18TH, 2012
Pro Minerals Inc.
(TSX.V - PRM) and its Board of Directors are pleased to report
that the Company has received positive assay results from the channel sampling
portion of its recent stripping, channel sampling, and diamond drilling program
carried out on its 100% owned Lac Laura Gold Project; situated near the mining town
of Chapais, Quebec.
Results from the channel sampling are discussed and detailed
below and the results from the drilling portion of the program are yet to be received.
The mineralized showings, where the stripping and drilling programs were being carried
out, are located approximately 800m north of the Chapais-Senneterre Highway.
They
were discovered in 2009 and had not been drilled previously.
In 2009, one of the
grab samples collected by Dr.
Christian Derosier, P.Geo, QP for the project, returned
128.5 g/t Au (4.1 oz Au), 113 g/t Ag and 2.61% Cu.
The most recent stripping and
sampling program covered and area of approximately half a hectare around that high-grade
2009 showing; which was discovered on the south face of a small cliff of a rounded
hill.
The recent stripping was made utilizing a hydraulic shovel and powerful high
pressure washing equipment.
The work uncovered favourable meta andesite units cut
by faults and narrow shear zones.
Pro Minerals channel sampling was made across a number of mineralized veins, mostly
following a N-S direction, in order to intersect, at a good angle, the three sets
of shear zones.
The channel samples were each 1 m long, 5 cm in width and 7 cm deep.
They were cut utilizing a gas powered diamond grit saw.
Each sample was removed
using a chisel and a hammer and placed in a plastic sample bag which was then tagged
and sealed by the project QP.
The sample bags were then sent to Techni-Lab S.G.B.
Abitibi Inc., a member of the ACTLABS Group.
Samples were assayed for base and precious
metals by fire assay method (Au, Co, Pt, and Pd) with the AA and gravimetric finish
(Au); and the base metals were assayed by the ICP method.
A total of 62 channel
samples were been taken and assayed.
Patrick D.
OBrien, ICD.D, Pro Minerals Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, comments:
"Pros team was delighted to receive sample results of this nature in a gold-driven
economic climate.
Pro Minerals placed considerable faith in the merits of the Lac
Laura Gold-Copper Project to provide results encouraging enough to justify an aggressive
follow-up diamond drill program.
The desired outcome has been achieved and Pro Minerals
plans to move the Lac Laura Gold-Copper Project forward as expediently as possible.
"
It preparation for review of the following sampling results it should be noted that
two major ENE-WSW trending vertical faults divide the stripping target area into
three distinctive zones.
For ease of reference they are referred to as he Northern,
Central and Southern zones.
The Southern zone is represented by a unit of silicified meta-andesite having a
schistosity oriented ENE and dissected by a network of NE-SW, E-W, WNW-ESE and NW-SE
faults and joints.
The meta-andesite shows elongated and highly foliated pillow
lavas in the western part passing to a more massive and granular meta-andesite in
the Eastern zone.
Some of the NE oriented faults have been filled by quartz- sulfide veins and veinlets,
displaying a rusty alteration on surface.
A WNW-ESE trending shear zone (SZ#1),
varying in thickness from 10 cm to 2.2 m has been evaluated by two channels cut
16 metres apart.
Results obtained are as follows:
East section:
Sample #
Length in m
Au g/t
Ag g/t
Cu %
43879
0.75m
4.32 g/t
12.90 g/t
0.10%
West section:
Sample #
Length in m
Au g/t
Ag g/t
Cu %
43881
0.80 m
11.30 g/t
5.50 g/t
0.07 %
43882
0.80 m
1.65 g/t
3.60 g/t
0.22 %
Immediately North, of the ENE-WNW faults, the "Discovery" mineralized zone was found
to correspond to a narrow NW oriented shear zone.
Along this shear zone, the mineralization
appears lenticular.
Boudinage (geological term for often-favourable structures formed
by extension, where a rigid tabular body such is stretched and deformed amidst less
competent surroundings) is well visible along this shear zone.
Because the Discovery
showing was found on the south mirror of the fault, it was very difficult to cut
a horizontal channel right on the gossan itself.
A representative channel sample
taken a few metres above the showing, on top of the cliff, gave the following results:
Discovery North:
Sample #
Length in m
Au g/t
Ag g/t
Cu %
43859
1.15m
1.13 g/t
Trace
Trace
The Central zone of the "Discovery" area is divided into two sectors by a NW trending
shear zone.
The Western sector is covering a highly schistozed pillowed meta-andesite
with considerable small elongated pillows.
In this part, the schistosity is oriented
NW and dipping vertically.
Tops of the pillows have been interpreted to be trending
towards west.
East of the NW shear zone, the meta-andesite is aphanitic to porphyritic,
highly schistozed and cut by considerable stringers and veinlets of quartz and numerous
joints.
In the center of this Central zone, a favourable WNW-ESE strongly sheared
and faulted zone (SZ #2), about 8 m wide; accompanied by metric quartz-sulfide veins
can be followed for more than 30 m and appears to be still open in both directions.
The quartz-carbonate sulfide veins visible are boudinaged, and range in thickness,
from 0.30 m to 2.50 m.
Shear Zone #2 - North (SZ #2), the North Shear: was sampled with four channel samples
cut at approximately 5 m intervals.
Starting from the east end, results are as follows:
Sample #
Area of Shear Zone
Length in m
Au g/t
Ag g/t
Cu %
43853
NSE
0.70 m
1.41 g/t
1.60 g/t
Trace
43849
NSE2
0.80 m
4.99 g/t
8.70 g/t
0.21 %
43897
NSC
1.00 m
2.11 g/t
7.20 g/t
0.52 %
43838
NSC
1.10 m
3.84 g/t
6.90 g/t
0.07 %
43841
NSW
1.00 m
21.86 g/t
10.80 g/t
0.21 %
43840
NSW
1.20 m
4.68 g/t
5.50 g/t
0.19 %
43829
NSW2
0.90 m
2.61 g/t
2.80 g/t
0.14 %
Shear Zone #2 - South
Sample #
Area of Shear Zone
Length in m
Au g/t
Ag g/t
Cu %
43837
South Shear
1.50 m
9.43 g/t
8.60 g/t
0.36 %
43836
South Shear
1.00 m
10.35 g/t
6.10 g/t
0.36 %
43833
South Shear 2
0.50 m
3.74 g/t
0.90 g/t
Trace
The Northern Zone area has the same lithologies as the Central Zone area.
Despite
the presence of evident gossan and rusty zones, the NW trending shear zone separating
the pillowed meta-andesite from the aphanitic and porphyric meta-andesite returned
very low gold and silver grades, but showed anomalous copper values ranging from
243 ppm to 1863 ppm (0.18% Cu) over 1 m.
The channel sampling program confirmed the presence of very encouraging gold, silver
and copper mineralization in the Northern part of the Lac Laura property.
The results
show that the precious metals are mostly associated to WNW-ESE and NW-SE shear zones
which affect both the aphanitic and the pillowed meta-andesite.
The vertical quartz-
sulfides veins are boudinaged and seem to plunge to the SE.
While working on the stripping, Pro Minerals technicians discovered a mineralized
gossan on an outcrop.
This meta-andesite outcrop forms the south bank of the Otter
River and is located at about 125 m NW of the stripping.
This gossan was channel
sampled and the sample assayed as well.
Results obtained are as follows:
Sample #
Sample Area
Length in m
Au g/t
Ag g/t
Cu %
43902
Otter River Copper Fault
1.0 m
51.26 g/t
38.80 g/t
1.07 %
It has been noted that the Otter River follows the Chiboug Copper Fault which is
known in the surrounding Chapais area for its potential to host economic "Cooke
Mine type" gold-copper mineralized orebodies.
This Chiboug Copper Fault crosses
over and through the well-known "Cooke Mine" which was successfully operated from
1977 to 1989 by Inmet Mining Corporation.
The Cooke Mine produced 2 Mt grading 5.00
g/t Au, 10 g/t Ag and 0.66% Cu; from mesothermal quartz-sulfide veins, deeply embanked
in narrow E-W to WNW-ESE oriented shear zones which cut the south part of the Blondeau
Formation.
All numbers re the Cooke Mine are for reference purposes only and are
non NI 43-101 compliant.
Pro Minerals Lac Laura diamond drill program which commenced on December 7, 2011
was designed to test at depth the extensions of the main shear zones with their
quartz-sulfide veins.
Four holes were bored for a total length of 477 metres (1,565
feet) and the drill samples have now been submitted for assaying, with the results
pending.
Pro Minerals will now analyze the data it has received to date in more
detail, and will be utilizing its findings in planning its next phase of diamond
drilling for the Lac Laura Gold Copper Project.
This press release has been reviewed by Dr.
Christian Derosier, P.Geo., Consulting
Geologist.
Dr.
Derosier is the Qualified Person (QP) for the Lac Laura Gold Project
under the National Instrument 43-101.
Additional information regarding the Lac Laura
Gold Copper Project is contained on the Companys website at www.promineralsinc.com.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF PRO MINERALS INC.
"Patrick D.
OBrien "
Patrick D.
OBrien, ICD.D, Director
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Adrian Bakker
Vice President Corporate Communications
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