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| February 18, 2010 --- Vol. 04, No. 07 | February 2010
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Yukon Territory
COPPER/GOLD – BCGold Corp. Feb. 16 said recent exploration work on its Apex East property, situated immediately north of Capstone Mining Corp.’s Minto mine in central Yukon Territory has defined what the company believes to be the north extension of the high-grade copper-gold Minto trend. Three parallel copper-gold trends, individually measuring up to 800 meters in length and width, have been defined by recent soil geochemical and geophysical surveys. A 6-hole, 1,500-meter diamond drill program has been recommended to test these trends for “Minto-type,” high-grade copper and gold mineralization at depth. In 2009 BCGold Corp. followed up a previous airborne geophysical survey, prospecting and mobile metal ion survey on the Apex East property with additional MMI™ sampling, geological mapping, line cutting and a 15-line-kilometer pole-dipole induced polarization survey. The I.P. survey targeted four discrete copper-gold MMI™ anomalies and defined three proximal and continuous north and northwest trending zones of high chargeability and resistivity, coincidental with magnetic high features. The three Apex coincidental geophysical and geochemical anomalies are similar in size and magnitude to targets routinely drilled, and in some cases mined for high grade copper and gold-bearing sulphide mineralization at the nearby Minto mine, 4.5 kilometers along trend to the south. IP anomaly centers range from near surface to 150 meters deep, and all anomaly trends remain open along strike. BCGOld said it intends to drill-test the Apex copper-gold targets in 2010, subject to financing. This drill program qualifies for a Yukon Mining Incentives Program grant and BCGold Corp. is applying for the maximum allowable amount of C$50,000 to perform this work in 2010.
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