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Re: checkmate28 post# 29319

Tuesday, 11/20/2012 9:50:15 AM

Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:50:15 AM

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GOWEST Gold Still Table pounder Todays news Huge in the scope of things with the MOI that is signed. I added just now. This outlines near 1 million ounces INDICATED near surface, only down to 400 meters and open on strike. This is 4.88 grams per tonne with a 3 gram cutoff all indicated and near surface. Im still digesting this but the writing is on the wall here.
The economics from the release

The Frankfield East deposit modeling utilizes assay data from 292 diamond drill holes, including 60 holes for 20,319 metres that had not been included in the previous estimate. In line with the Company's recently announced plans to accelerate the timetable for putting the Frankfield East deposit into production, (see Gowest news dated Nov. 12, 2012), a more detailed method was used for this latest resource estimate resulting in a block model more suitable for mine planning. The lower overall average resource grades are the result of the use of the 3D block modelling techniques. However, consistent with the previous resource estimates, the majority of the resource ounces in the project are contained in blocks greater than a 4 g/t Au cut-off with an average grade in excess of 6 g/t Au (see Table 2).

Noted Kevin Montgomery, Gowest Exploration Manager, "We have now delineated the mineralized structures to below 1000m and demonstrated good continuity of mineralisation within each structure. This is especially true for the upper 400m of the deposit, which is key to allowing us to advance our mine design. Immediate drilling will focus on tighter infill drilling for underground mine development."

The Frankfield East mineralization is contained within a series of parallel zones that extend into the host rock away from the main zone located adjacent to the geological contact structure. Approximately half of the indicated resource ounces of gold are presently contained within the main zone area ("MZ1-2"). The remaining indicated ounces are located in the other three parallel structures ("HWZ1-3").

The presence of multiple mineralized structures is significant in that it dramatically increases the density of gold ounces per vertical meter, which allows for lower overall mining costs as more gold can be mined for the same mine development costs (e.g. mine shaft, ramp, etc.). While the focus during the last drill campaign was to increase confidence in the resources above 400m of depth, the Company believes future drilling below 400m has the potential to convert more of the deep mineral potential for the deposit into additional gold resource ounces.

Greg Romain, President and CEO of Gowest commented, "We are pleased to be able to report this sharp increase in the indicated resource ounces as we focus our efforts on accelerating the project towards production. The next stage of development will utilize this information to complete detailed mine planning studies as part of our ongoing engineering work. We are confident that accelerating our plans to bring the Frankfield East deposit into production in about 30 months is the best course for us and for our investors. We look forward to providing further updates as we move into 2013."

Table 2 below shows the variations in tonnes, gold grade and contained ounces in the mineral resource estimate summarized at various cut off grades between 3.00 g/t Au and 4.50 g/t Au. The figures in the table demonstrate the robust nature of the Frankfield East deposit and the potential to respond to fluctuations in gold prices by adjusting the cut-off grade to change the average gold grade of the deposit with relatively limited impact on the overall deposit resources. The base case resource estimate (3 g/t Au cut-off) was selected as a conservative starting point based on mining techniques for similar deposits in the Timmins camp and engineering information contained in the Company's previously released Preliminary Economic Assessment.

http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/gowest-increases-indicated-gold-resources-170-945600-oz-frankfield-east-north-timmins-tsx-venture-gwa-1728403.htm

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