Gold Exploration in West Africa

[Ed Monton]

Great Quest releases Niaragui sample results

Great Quest Metals Ltd GQ
Shares issued 10,519,147 May 2 close $0.44
Mon 5 May 2003 News Release
Mr. Willis Osborne reports
GREAT QUEST ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF A PRELIMINARY EXPLORATION PROGRAM ON THE
NIARAGUI CONCESSION
Great Quest Metals has released the results of a geological mapping, soil
sampling and pitting program on the Niaragui concession, which is the
northern concession in the Bourdala group of concessions. The initial goal
of the program was to learn as much as possible about the area where a gold
sample of 57.04 grams per tonne gold had previously been taken. All samples
were taken at the bottom of 1.0-metre diameter pits. The area represents a
fifth drill target to be tested this fall.
All of the pits were dug to a depth of four to seven metres with the
exception of pits C, D and H, which are 1.0 to 1.5 metres deep. These three
pits were shallow because of the fact that the hand miners were unable to
break through the layer of laterite, and the samples from these pits are
not necessarily good indicators of what occurs below. Pit J is in alluvium
or stream transported material. Results of the sampling in the pits as well
as the location of the pits in relation to pit A occur in the table below:

 
 Pit        Distance   Direction    Au 
              from       from      (g/t) 
            pit A (m)    pit A 
  
 A              -         -         0.18 
 Previous pit   3         S        57.08 
 B             13         N         2.81 
 C             50         N         0.08 
 D             50         N         0.22 
 F             18         S        23.23 
 G             27         S         0.88 
 H             37         S         0.27 
 I              6         E        77.20 
 J            100        SW         0.02 
  
 

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Previous sampling from two pits 275 metres south-southwest and 330 metres
east of pit A gave results of 2.32 and 0.04 g/t gold, respectively. Two
samples from one pit, 500 metres south-southeast of pit A, assayed 0.05 and
23.54 g/t gold. At the present time it is not known how these relate to the
above mineralization.
A strip 400 metres wide and 2,200 metres long was soil sampled. The long
axis was oriented north-south, and the grid is just east of the pitting.
Lines are east-west with samples every 100 metres. There is a 500-metre gap
where a large area of orpaillage, or hand dug pits, occurs. The samples
define a 1,500-metre-long area anomalous in gold with soil samples ranging
from 22 to 490 parts per billion gold.