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Garrison final drill hole results for Tovshiir

Garrison final drill hole results for Tovshiir

Garrison International Ltd. announces full drill results from the drilling program recently completed at its Tovshiir project site in Suhkbaatar District, Mongolia. A Chinese-Mongolian joint venture previously operated a mine at this site for 2 1/2 years until Asia Intercept Mongolia LLC, a joint venture partner of Garrison, purchased the license in September 2006. In addition, this site has been mined by local, small-scale operators and by Mongolia Zheng Yuan Company Ltd.

In summary, a total of 1612m of diamond drilling in 73 diamond drill holes has been completed over three mineralized areas at the Tovshiir project site.

In addition, a total of 296 rock chip channel samples have been collected. To date, Garrison has received results for the first 63 samples. Sampling was completed between August and November, 2007. Sampling was conducted to obtain an initial evaluation of the pre-existing mining operations. It is anticipated that there will be root feeder zones to these flat zones and this assumption will be verified in a later phase of drilling. Garrison’s view is that these shallow bodies, which were previously mined by the previous license holder and currently are being mined by local operators, will provide Garrison with an opportunity to generate income from mining operations.

Each of these zones have outcropping quartz veins that, currently, are being actively dug using hand tools by local operators who have historically operated small scale mining in the area. The average recovered grade recorded by these operators from hand selected quartz extracted from these three zones is between 8 g/t and 9 g/t of gold. Chilean Mills are used to crush the rock and mercury to recover the gold as an amalgam.

A bulk sample from 300kg of quartz material collected at the old mine site from the stockpiles of ore extracted from the small Chinese pit zone recorded a value of 14.5 g/t of gold. Gold recovery using bottle roll cyanidation of this sample showed that 13.5 g/t of gold was extracted and the tails recorded 0.86 g/t of gold in residue.

Since Tovshiir has locally recorded significant coarse gold in prior sampling, the protocol followed by Garrison requires all samples with preliminary results above 0.1 g/t of gold to be re-assayed using the fire screen analytical technique. Actlabs Asia LLC, which is based in Ulaanbaatar and is part of the Activation Laboratories Ltd. group of companies, maintain an accredited independent laboratory facility in Mongolia that was used to conduct the sampling assay work. Actlabs operate laboratories in Asia and Canada, among other locations.

Garrison is optimistic that the Tovshiir project and surrounding zones of mineralization will hold sufficient gold in the near surface environment to be extracted by small scale mining methods using open cut techniques. Garrison plans to continue with the previously successful mining operation conducted at this project, but to upgrade both plant and other physical operations as well as management activities and oversight so as to achieve greater production levels and efficiencies.

 

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