Amarc Reports On Exploration At Silver Vista

VANCOUVER - Amarc Resources Ltd. reported on the ongoing exploration programs at its 100% owned Silver Vista property located in west central British Columbia (BC). The approximately 750 square kilometre claim package at Silver Vista is considered by management to hold significant potential for the discovery of important bulk tonnage-style silver-copper deposits.

"Results received from Amarc's comprehensive geophysical and geochemical surveys at Silver Vista are very encouraging," said Amarc Chairman Bob Dickinson . "With a drill permit already in hand we are scheduling a drill program for the new year to delineate the full extent and geometry of the MR zone where limited historical drilling has intersected broad intervals of silver-copper mineralization."

In addition to the MR area, Amarc has staked approximately 720 square kilometres of mineral claims to cover the regions prospective host rocks and geochemical anomalies. In the past few months Amarc has completed approximately 2,700 line kilometres of helicopter-borne magnetic geophysical surveys, collected some 700 silt geochemical silt samples, 175 rock samples and approximately 6,700 grid soil geochemical samples, and has also relogged and completed sampling of the historical drill core from the MR zone. As final results are received and compiled, additional drill targets will also be prioritized for follow up.

Historical exploration at the MR zone within the Silver Vista tenure, defined a strong and continuous northwest-southeast trending, 1.2 kilometres long by 150 to 500 metres wide silver-in-soils anomaly, with associated copper values. Fourteen shallow core holes have been drilled across a distance of some 600 metres. Nine of the 14 historical drill holes intercepted significant intervals of disseminated silver and copper mineralization hosted by sedimentary rocks, including: 36.6 metres at 32.3 g/t silver and 0.50% copper including 3.5 metres at 163.9 g/t silver and 3.03% copper, and 45.5 metres at 45.4 g/t silver and 0.06% copper. Six of these holes either bottomed in good mineralization or sampling terminated in mineralization, for example, hole MR91-03 intercepted 63.1 metres grading 40.1 g/t silver and 0.11% copper from 4.0 metres to the end of the hole.