GOLD – Miranda Gold Corp. Oct. 15 said a recently completed 234 sample soil grid, along with rock samples of quartz vein rubble, suggest that the vein system mined on Bullion Mountain in the Willow Creek District extends beyond a fault that bounded historical production. The sampling identified an 800-meter-long gold-in-soil anomaly and identified three quartz vein sub-crops that assayed 1.48 ounces per ton, 0.50 oz/t and 0.53 oz /t gold. Miranda says the adjoining Gold Bullion Mine had historical production of 77,000 ounces at 1.4 oz/t gold. Miranda is encouraged by these exploration results as they indicate new vein segments can be quickly identified and advanced to drill targets in the Willow Creek District. Historical mines within Miranda’s holdings in the district include the Lucky Shot, War Baby, Coleman, Nippon and Gold Bullion. The first three of these mines lie along Lucky Shot Ridge while the Nippon and Gold Bullion mines are located about 1.9 miles (three kilometers) to the east on Bullion Mountain. The soil grid, which satisfied 2014 assessment requirements, was designed to test the Bullion Mountain area for new vein segments. Miranda thinks that the Lucky Shot Ridge and Bullion Mountain veins are fault offsets of the same zone of high-grade gold quartz veins and that the area where the soil grid is located offers exploration potential for a new discovery. For perspective, the new soil anomaly compares favorably to the Lucky Shot vein that produced more than 350,000 ounces of gold at greater than 1.2 oz/t in 1200 meters of vein. Miranda says veins in the Willow Creek District rarely outcrop but can be detected by close-spaced soil sampling. The new soil results compare well with orientation soil sampling above the upper Coleman segment of the Lucky Shot vein, where Miranda recently reported a NI 43-101 compliant measured and indicated resource of 62,100 oz of gold contained in 78,700 metric tons at an average grade of 24.6 grams per metric ton gold; with another 4,100 troy oz gold contained in 5,300 metric tons at an average grade of 24.2 g/t gold reported as inferred. Gold Torrent Inc. has completed its due diligence on the Willow Creek Project and is working with Miranda to finalize a joint venture agreement. Once the joint venture agreement is signed Miranda anticipates that Gold Torrent will begin permitting, underground drilling, and other work needed to expand the resource base and fast-track the Coleman into production. Based on the terms of the joint venture, Gold Torrent will fund the first US$10 million in capital costs.