Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. (TSX-V:CGP) (Frankfurt:GWN) (Berlin:GWN) (OTC:CTNXF) is pleased to announce that Cornerstone and its subsidiary Cañabrava Mining S.A. have signed an option and farm-in Heads of Agreement with Newcrest International Pty Limited, a subsidiary of Newcrest Mining Limited (ASX: NCM) for Cornerstone’s Caña Brava and Tioloma properties in Ecuado, targeting epithermal gold-silver and porphyry gold-copper deposits in south central Ecuador.
HIGHLIGHTS (all $ are US$):
President and CEO Brooke Macdonald said: “Newcrest is one of the largest gold mining companies in the world, operating mines in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia, and we are pleased to have entered into this Heads of Agreement with them. Newcrest is also partnering with us on the Miocene project in Chile (see news release dated December 10, 2018). Cornerstone looks forward to seeing the Ecuadorian government providing regulatory certainty in the near term on the pathway for drilling.”
Figures referred to in this news release can be seen in PDF format by accessing the version of this release on the Company’s website (www.cornerstoneresources.com) or by clicking on the link below:
http://www.cornerstoneresources.com/i/pdf/NR19-05Figures.pdf.
About Caña Brava and Tioloma
Caña Brava – Gold/Copper – (Cornerstone has the right to earn 100%)
On February 26, 2015, the Company announced results from prospecting and geological mapping surveys carried out during 2014 on the Caña Brava property located in south-central Ecuador. The surveys identified (1) two significant porphyry Cu-Au targets well defined by coincident geological, geochemical and ground magnetic anomalies, (2) an intermediate sulphidation, higher grade, epithermal Au-Ag-Cu veins-breccia system mapped on the northern margin of the porphyry targets, and (3) a high sulphidation epithermal Au-Ag system recognized in the northeast corner of the property. Subsequently, a trenching program was completed (20 trenches, 599 metres, 301 channel samples), spectrometry (Terraspec) work carried out on soil samples (552), rock chips and channel samples (706) and a Phase 1 drill program has been prepared.
An EIA was begun in July 2018, including an environmental base line study and consultation process. Base line study field work has been completed. The EIA will be submitted to the Ministry of Environment in the coming weeks.
The Company has the right to earn a 100% interest in the Caña Brava project from the original owner in return for cash option payments of $40,000 each 6 months until the Company decides to exercise the option by making a final payment of $350,000. The $350,000 payment may be made early, and the option exercised at any time.
Tioloma – Gold (100% Cornerstone)
Cornerstone acquired the Tioloma property in March 2017 for strategic purposes; the property wraps around three sides of the Caña Brava property, thereby enlarging, and effectively creating a protective area of interest around, the Caña Brava property and on strike with a well-defined regional mineralized trend.
About Cornerstone:
Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. is a mineral exploration company with a diversified portfolio of projects in Ecuador and Chile, including the Cascabel gold-enriched copper porphyry joint venture in north west Ecuador, in which the Company has a 15% interest1 financed through to completion of a feasibility study and repayable out of Cornerstone’s share of project earnings or dividends, plus 9.22% of the shares of joint venture partner and project operator SolGold Plc, for a total direct and indirect interest in Cascabel of approximately 23%.
Qualified Person:
Yvan Crepeau, MBA, P.Geo., Cornerstone’s Vice President, Exploration and a qualified person in accordance with National Instrument 43-101, is responsible for supervising the exploration program at the Miocene project for Cornerstone and has reviewed and approved the information contained in this news release.
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