Drill Tracker Weekly: Golden Arrow Drills Long Interval on Southern Edge of Chinchillas Deposit

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Golden Arrow Resources (TSXV:GRG)

Price: $0.34

Market cap: $17 million

Cash estimate: $1 million

Project: Chinchillas

Country: Argentina

Ownership: 100 percent

Resources: 24 Mt @ 91 g/t Ag, 0.65% Pb, 0.31% Zn indicated; 22 MT @ 57 g/t Ag, 0.61% Pb, 0.68% Zn inferred

Project status: resource expansion

• Golden Arrow announced results from its ongoing drill program on its 100% owned Chinchillas silver-lead-zinc project in Jujuy Province, Argentina. Golden Arrow acquired on option to acquire 100% of the property in 2012 by making a series of cash payments totalling US $1.8 ($1.355 ongoing and pending by July 2015). There is an addition US$ 1.2 million payment on commencement of commercial production.

• Drilling on the south-eastern edge of the current drill plan includes hole CGA-166 which returned two significant intervals of mineralization within the diatreme breccia hosted mineralization. Highlights included a 6 metre interval grading 189 g/t Ag, 1.5% Pb and 0.6% Zn starting at 164 metres depth as well as a deeper interval starting at 210 metres of 107 metres of continuous mineralization averaging 41 g/t Ag, 0.5% Pb and 1.1% Zn. The Company reports that additional holes in the new zone have been completed in the area and with results expected in May 2015.

• The current resource estimate on the Silver Mantos area and Mantos Basement used a $22 per ounce silver price, $1.00 lead and zinc prices and a 40 g/t silver equivalent cut-off. The 43-101 compliant resource outlined an indicated resource of 24.6 million tonnes grading 91 g/t Ag, 0.65% Pb and 0.31% Zn, as well as an inferred resource of 22 million tonnes of 57 g/t Ag, 0.61% Pb and 0.68% Zn.

• The February 2015 PEA estimates an after-tax NPV (8%) of $226 million, with an IRR of 24.3%, using a $22 Ag price. The project outlined in the PEA is currently projected to have a low strip ratio of 2.4:1 and total cash operating cost of $9.22 per ounce Ag (before base metal credits) and a payback period of 3.4 years. Total capital is projected at $237 million.

• Preliminary metallurgical results indicate recoveries of 93-95% Pb recoveries and 93-95% Ag recoveries to the lead concentrate and 75-85 % Zn recoveries in the zinc concentrate.

Discovery history: First drilling in 1994 (Aranlee Resources). Apex Silver drilled the project in 2007 prior to dropping the project after they declared bankruptcy. Golden Arrow optioned the property in 2012.

Current drilling: 6 metres @ 189 g/t Ag, 1.5% Pb, 0.60% Zn starting at a depth of 164 metres; 107 metres @ 41 g/t Ag, 0.4% Pb, 1.1% Zn from 210 metres

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