Calibre Drilling Expands High Grade Blag Gold-Silver System, Eastern Borosi Project, Nicaragua including 9.92 Metres Grading 5.36 g/t Gold and 194.6 g/t Silver

Apr 27, 2015
Vancouver, British Columbia: Calibre Mining Corp. (TSX-V: CXB) (the "Company" or "Calibre") is pleased to announce the second set of results from the 2015 drilling program on the Eastern Borosi gold-silver project (the "Project") which is being financed under an option agreement with IAMGOLD Corporation ("IAMGOLD"). 

Highlights
  • Diamond drilling on the Blag gold-silver vein system continues to intersect high grade gold and silver mineralization including: 9.92 metres grading 5.36 g/t Gold and 194.6 g/t Silver, 5.85 metres grading 5.97 g/t Gold and 56.1 g/t Silver, 4.04 metres grading 1.79 g/t Gold and 77.2 g/t Silver, and 1.91 metres grading 5.36 g/t Gold and 127.8 g/t Silver 
     
  • To date the 2015 drilling program has completed; 16 holes for 1622.6 metres at La Sorpresa (see Calibre News Release dated April 4, 2014), seven holes totaling 1,037.9 metres at Blag (results included here for the first four of seven drill holes), and one hole at Guapinol for 355.1 metres (results pending). 
     
  • The Blag gold-silver vein system is located three kilometres east of the Guapinol - La Sorpresa Trend and drilling of five holes in 2014 was successful in outlining high grade gold-silver mineralization including; 6.73 metres @ 4.11 g/t Gold and 235.9 g/t Silver.
President and CEO, Greg Smith stated: "We are very pleased that drilling on the Blag gold-silver vein system has returned the longest, highest grade gold-silver intercept returned to date from Blag in the 2014/2015 drilling programs. The 2015 drilling program has discovered additional high grade gold and silver mineralization and has now identified multiple veins within the Blag System. Drill hole BL15-009 (9.92 metres grading 5.36 g/t gold and 194.6 g/t silver) was a 100 metre step out down dip and we are encouraged with the continued high grades for both gold and silver encountered within the main structure."
 
Blag Zone Drill Results from 2015 - Eastern Borosi Gold-Silver Project
 
Hole_ID From m To m Length (m) Au g/t Ag g/t
BL15-006 138.30 140.21 1.91 5.36 127.8
and 149.83 155.68 5.85 5.97 56.1
including 153.00 154.67 1.67 18.23 128.8
BL15-007 131.60 135.64 4.04 1.79 77.2
and 141.00 143.81 2.81 1.49 41.7
and 146.11 146.75 0.64 0.79 74.0
BL15-008 141.42 142.65 1.23 0.15 18.0
and 175.98 179.11 3.13 0.03 16.5
BL15-009 131.06 132.59 1.53 0.09 393.0
and 135.33 145.25 9.92 5.36 194.6
including 137.87 140.86 2.99 11.50 309.7
Notes:   - Intervals are core lengths / true width are estimated to be 70-80% of lengths 
- Length weighted averages from uncut assays. 
- Results for drill holes BL15-010 to -012 are pending

Drilling to date on the Blag gold-silver vein system has tested approximately 300 metres of strike length and 100 metres at depth in the vicinity of the historic small scale underground workings. The zone remains open along strike and down dip. 

The 2015 drilling identified additional gold-silver mineralization outside of the main Blag structure. Each of the four holes (BL15-001 to BL15-004) intersected multiple veins with additional veins occurring in both the hanging wall and footwall to the main Blag structure. 

The 2015 program approved by partner IAMGOLD began on February 4th and is expected to consist of a minimum 5,500 metres of drilling with an approved budget of $1.5 million. Drilling continues on the Eastern Borosi Project and is currently testing the Guapinol gold-silver zone.

Low sulphidation epithermal gold-silver mineralization intersected at the Eastern Borosi Project gold-silver vein systems are hosted within porphyritic andesite and consists of structurally controlled, high energy quartz-carbonate vein breccias, vein-stockworks and discrete smokey quartz veins containing fine grained sulphide minerals.

Calibre and IAMGOLD entered into an option agreement dated May 26, 2014 whereby IAMGOLD can earn a 51% interest in the Eastern Borosi Gold-Silver Project consisting of 176 km2 within the Borosi Concessions, Northeast Nicaragua, by incurring US$5 million in exploration expenditures and making US$450,000 in payments to Calibre by May 26, 2017. The total potential investment by IAMGOLD to earn a 70% interest in the Eastern Borosi Project is US$10.9 million. The Eastern Borosi Project hosts gold-silver resources in two deposits and a series of well-defined low sulphidation epithermal gold-silver targets.

Calibre is committed to best practice standards for all exploration, sampling and drilling activities. Drilling was completed by independent firm Kluane Drilling Ltd. Analytical quality assurance and quality control procedures include the systematic insertion of blanks, standards and duplicates into the sample strings. Samples are placed in sealed bags and shipped directly to Acme Labs (a Bureau Veritas Group Company) in Managua, Nicaragua for sample preparation and then to Acme Labs in Vancouver, Canada for 50 gram gold fire assay and ICP-MS multi element analyses. 

The technical content in this news release was read and approved by Gregory Smith, P.Geo, President and CEO of the Company who is the Qualified Person as defined by NI 43-101. 

About Calibre Mining Corp.www.calibremining.com

Calibre controls a 100% interest in 253 km2 of mineral concessions in the Mining Triangle of Northeast Nicaragua. Additionally the Company has an option agreement with IAMGOLD covering 176 km2 of concessions, joint venture exploration programs underway with B2Gold Corp. on 322.3 km2 of concessions which includes the Primavera gold-copper porphyry discovery and the Minnesota Gold Zone, and has optioned the 33.6 km2 Rosita gold-copper-silver project to Alder Resources Ltd. Major shareholders of Calibre include gold producer B2Gold Corp., Pierre Lassonde and Management. 

Calibre Mining Corp.

"Greg Smith"

Greg Smith, P.Geo.
President and CEO


For further information contact:
Ryan King
604 628-1012
www.calibremining.com
 
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