Vancouver, B.C. - May 31st, 2016 - Westhaven Ventures Inc. (TSX-V:WHN) is pleased to announce drilling has begun on its 19,012 hectare Shovelnose gold property, located within the prospective Spences Bridge Gold Belt (SBGB), approximately 30 km south of Merritt, British Columbia.
The drill program will consist of approximately 1,500 metres of diamond drilling with the goal to further expand and outline the extent of the newly recognized epithermal gold system present on the property. Drilling to date has expanded a highly anomalous silicified zone or cap where a sub horizontal near surface zone grading 0.54 g/t Au and 4.77 g/t Ag over 50.4 metres, which includes 13.7 metres grading 0.91 g/t Au and6.65 g/t Ag, was intersected.
Previous drilling at the Tower Zone identified a 50 meter thick near surface horizontal low-grading gold zone situated high in the epithermal system. This drill program will attempt to identify a higher grading feeder zone and test it to depth. The Alpine Zone, delineated as a 1,200 m long northerly trending chargeability anomaly was discovered in 2015 by a geophysical IP survey. The anomaly was tested by one drill hole in 2015 identifying a near surface horizontal gold zone similar to the Tower Zone; grading 0.23 g/t Au over 44 metres. The 2016 drill program will test this anomaly along strike and to depth.
Shovelnose Gold Property Overview
To date, 31 drill holes (2 were abandoned in overburden) have been diamond drilled for a cumulative total of 4,498 metres, in four separate target areas. Gold and silver mineralization, associated with quartz veining and silicification, has been encountered in all 29 holes. In addition, there is evidence of a significant mineralized alteration system within the property where float samples grading 119 g/t Au (Gold) and 273 g/t Ag (Silver), veins in trenching grading 66 g/t Au and wide low grade alteration zones typical of epithermal gold deposits have been discovered.
Please refer to the Shovelnose Project page on our website for further information and drill hole locations. www.westhavenventures.com/projects/shovelnose_gold_property/
On behalf of the Board of Directors
WESTHAVEN VENTURES INC.
"Gareth Thomas"
Gareth Thomas, Director
About Westhaven Ventures Inc.
Westhaven Ventures Inc. is a Canadian based exploration company focused on the acquisition and exploration of prospective resource properties. Westhaven is focused on advancing its Shovelnose gold, Prospect Valley gold, and Ben South nickel projects in British Columbia. Westhaven trades on the TSX Venture Exchange under the ticker symbol WHN. For further information, please call 604-681-5558 or visit Westhaven’s website at www.westhavenventures.com
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