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Entrée Gold Prepares for Drilling Sol Dos Copper Property in Arizona
February 6, 2007
Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, February 06, 2007 - Entrée Gold Inc. (TSX: ETG; AMEX: EGI; Frankfurt: EKA – “Entrée” or the “Company”) reports that results from the geophysical survey completed on its Sol Dos Property, Arizona have been received and evaluated. Drill targets have been identified and documentation has been submitted to the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) for permitting of the proposed follow-up exploration program. A drilling contract has been signed with Boart Longyear for 6,550 feet (2,000 m) of diamond drilling. The drilling program will commence shortly after receipt of permit approval from the BLM, which is estimated to take 2 – 4 weeks.
- (TSX: ETG; AMEX: EGI; Frankfurt: EKA – “Entrée” or the “Company”) reports that results from the geophysical survey completed on its Sol Dos Property, Arizona have been received and evaluated. Drill targets have been identified and documentation has been submitted to the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) for permitting of the proposed follow-up exploration program. A drilling contract has been signed with Boart Longyear for 6,550 feet (2,000 m) of diamond drilling. The drilling program will commence shortly after receipt of permit approval from the BLM, which is estimated to take 2 – 4 weeks.In late 2006, Entrée completed a 12 line mile (20 line km) program of deep probing induced polarization (“IP”) and magnetic surveys on the property. Drilling will test a 1.2 by 0.9 mile (2 by 1.5 km) IP chargeability anomaly, which is coincidental with historic drilling that encountered lowgrade copper values associated with altered intrusives. The prospect is modeled as a large porphyry copper target, similar to the San Juan and Dos Pobres deposits being developed by Phelps Dodge, approximately 8 miles (14 km) to the northwest, and to the deep, high-grade Resolution porphyry copper deposit, being evaluated by Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, approximately 60 miles (100 km) to the west-northwest.
Phelps Dodge’s proposed Safford (San Juan and Dos Pobres deposits) open-pit copper mine was permitted for development in 2006 and is expected to commence production in late 2008. Entrée’s Sol Dos property lies along the main southeast trending structural system that hosts several porphyry copper deposits (including the San Juan and Dos Pobres) estimated to contain in excess of 7 billion pounds of copper.
QUALITY CONTROL AND QUALITY ASSURANCE
Entrée’s exploration programs are under the supervision of Robert Cann, P.Geo., Entrée’s Vice-President, Exploration and a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101. Mr. Cann is responsible for the preparation of technical information in the Company’s news releases.
ABOUT ENTRÉE GOLD INC.
Entrée Gold Inc. (www.entreegold.com) is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on gold and copper prospects. The Company is a large landholder in Mongolia and has acquired an early stage copper porphyry project in Arizona, USA.
Entrée holds a 100% interest in mineral concessions that comprise the 179,590 hectare Lookout Hill (Shivee Tolgoi) property, which completely surrounds the 8,500 hectare, Turquoise Hill (Oyu Tolgoi) project of Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (“Ivanhoe”).
Lookout Hill Earn-in Agreement
Under an “Earn-In Agreement” announced in October 2004, Ivanhoe has the right to earn an interest in approximately 40,000 hectares of Entrée’s Lookout Hill property. Details of the Earn-In Agreement are available on Entrée’s website at www.entreegold.com and on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Drilling conducted by Ivanhoe as part of the Earn-In Agreement has confirmed the extension of the Hugo Dummett Deposit onto Lookout Hill. An initial inferred resource was estimated at 190,160,000 tonnes (calculated using a 0.6% copper equivalent cut-off), averaging 1.91% copper equivalent, containing over 6.5 billion pounds of copper and 3.2 million ounces of gold (see Entrée’s news release of February 1, 2006).
Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe Investment in Entrée
Significant investments by Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP; LSX: RIO; ASX: RIO – “Rio Tinto”) and Ivanhoe have contributed to Entrée’s treasury, which currently exceeds CDN$16 million. Entrée plans to use these funds to explore its wholly-owned projects in Mongolia and Arizona, and to acquire and explore new projects, globally. Ivanhoe and Rio Tinto are the largest shareholders of Entrée, holding approximately 15% and 9% of Entrée’s issued shares, respectively. They have the option to increase their positions to approximately 16% each, by exercising warrants at C$2.75 per share and C$3.00 per share.
Rio Tinto Investment in Ivanhoe
On October 18, 2006, Rio Tinto announced its plans to invest up to US$1.5 billion to acquire a 33.35% equity interest in Ivanhoe, for the purpose of funding the joint development of the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold project in Mongolia. This is a major vote of confidence by one of the world’s pre-eminent mining companies in both the Oyu Tolgoi project and in Mongolia. Ivanhoe now has a strategic partner with sufficient capital resources to take the world’s richest porphyry copper-gold project to production.
Rio Tinto has also announced that it intends to join Ivanhoe in negotiations with the Mongolian government for a long-term investment agreement. Such an agreement would provide the basis for the financing and development of Oyu Tolgoi. The Mongolian Government appointed a “working group” in September to work with Ivanhoe for the preparation of an agreement for submission to the Mongolian government’s cabinet.
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Entrée common shares trade on the TSX under the symbol “ETG”, on the AMEX under the symbol “EGI”, and on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange under the symbol “EKA”.
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