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Hugo North Deposit Extended to Entrée's Copper Flats
April 14, 2005
Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, April 14, 2005 - Entrée Gold Inc. (TSX-V: ETG – “Entrée” or the “Company”) reports that Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (NYSE: IVN; TSX: IVN; ASX: IVN – “Ivanhoe”) has confirmed the extension of Hugo North Deposit high-grade copper mineralization to Entrée’s Copper Flats (Ivanhoe News Release of April 13, 2005), immediately north of the Ivanhoe-Entrée property boundary.
Diamond drill-hole EGD006 was collared on Copper Flats, approximately five metres north of the northern boundary of Ivanhoe’s Oyu Tolgoi Property. The hole is being drilled from east to west, roughly parallel to, and just north of, the property boundary, and was designed as a 150m step-out from Ivanhoe’s drill hole OT976. The hole was originally thought to have been collared approximately 50 metres onto Copper Flats (see News Release of March 23, 2005), but has since been precisely surveyed.
Beginning at a down-hole depth of 992 metres (true depth of approximately 960 metres) hole EGD006 has to date encountered over 115 metres of strong chalcopyrite and bornite (copper sulphide) mineralization within pervasive quartz, sericite and advanced argillic alteration. As of the morning of Thursday, April 14, 2005 in Mongolia, the drill hole was still in this zone of visibly strong copper mineralization at a down-hole depth of 1,098 metres. Completion of this hole and assaying of the drill core is expected to take approximately one month.
EGD006 has visibly extended the length of the Hugo North high-grade copper-gold zone to greater than 1.8 kilometres. Hugo North is part of the 3.0-kilometre-long Hugo Dummett Deposit, which in turn is part of the now 6.1-kilometre-long chain of copper and gold deposits discovered to date by Ivanhoe at Oyu Tolgoi.
Greg Crowe, Entrée’s President and CEO, commented: “The intersection of visibly strong copper mineralization at Copper Flats, north of the original location of a structure that had been previously referred to as the “Boundary Fault”, has significant implications as to the nature of that structure and strongly suggests the extension of the richly mineralized Hugo North Deposit further onto Entrée’s Lookout Hill property”.
Mr. Crowe is currently on site in Mongolia at the Lookout Hill project and met today with the Ivanhoe drilling and geological team. Three other deep drill holes are in progress, testing the potential northwards continuation of the Hugo North Deposit. These holes are collared approximately 300 metres (EGD008), 750 metres (EGD007) and 3 kilometres (EGD005) north of the Entrée/Ivanhoe property boundary.
Mr. Crowe also noted that, while Ivanhoe rapidly advances the northward extension of the Hugo North Deposit, which has major ramifications for Entrée, a large part of Entrée’s upside exploration potential lies outside the Copper Flats area.
Entrée continues to explore its 140,000 hectares of the Lookout Hill property to the west of the Entrée/Ivanhoe Project. Deep probing induced polarization (IP) and magnetotelluric (MT) surveys are nearing completion in Zones I, II and III and are underway on the Bayan Ovoo showing, 50 kilometres west of Zone III. The results of these geophysical surveys will aid in the selection of drill targets, with drilling expected to begin in late April. In addition, reconnaissance geological and geochemical surveys are in progress in the northwestern part of Lookout Hill.
Separately, a new camp is under construction on the Ulziit Uul property, located approximately 120 kilometres north of Lookout Hill, with deep probing geophysical surveys to begin in May.
Exploration in Mongolia is under the supervision of Robert Cann, P.Geo., Entrée’s Exploration Manager 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. All rock samples are prepared and analyzed by SGS Mongolia LLC of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Randomly selected pulps and all soil samples are submitted to Acme Analytical Laboratories Ltd. of Vancouver, British Columbia for check assaying and analytical work.
ABOUT ENTRÉE GOLD INC.
Entrée Gold Inc. (www.entreegold.com) is an exploration stage junior resource company engaged in the exploration of gold and copper prospects. The Company is a large landholder in Mongolia’s south Gobi Desert, near the Chinese border. Entrée maintains 100% royalty-free interest in the 179,590 hectare Lookout Hill (Shivee Tolgoi) property which completely surrounds Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.’s (Ivanhoe’s) 8,500 hectare Turquoise Hill (Oyu Tolgoi) holdings. Ivanhoe has an earn-in agreement with Entrée whereby Ivanhoe can earn up to an 80% interest in a project area covering approximately 22% (approximately 40,000 hectares) of Entrée’s Lookout Hill property by spending US$35 million on the project and financing Entrée’s subsequent share of project expenditures. The Company is a Tier 1 listed company with its shares trading on the TSX Venture Exchange under the symbol “ETG”.
FURTHER INFORMATION
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Tel: 604-687-4777
Website: www.entreegold.com
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