VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/13/13 -- Falco Pacific Resource Group (TSX VENTURE: FPC) ("Falco" or the "Company") is pleased to provide the following update regarding its on-going review and compilation of exploration targets on its wholly owned Rouyn-Noranda Project in Quebec. The initial focus for the Company has been on evaluating a number of historic and remnant resources in the area surrounding the Horne and several other nearby formerly producing mines - the Horne Mine Complex.
Principal amongst the targets under review is the Horne #5 Zone - a large, vertically extensive polymetallic body containing a historic resource(i), determined by Noranda Inc. in 1976 prior to the implementation of National Instrument 43-101, of 167.83 million tonnes grading 1.25 g/t gold, 17.14 g/t silver, 0.10% copper and 0.57% zinc (see Table 1 and related disclosures concerning historic resource estimates below).
Table 1: Historic Resource Zone #5
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Data Historic Resource Estimates(i)---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Metric Tons Gold Silver Copper Zinc---------------------------------------- Reference Source Levels Mt g/t g/t Ag % %---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published Noranda 19th toHorne #5 Eggert Internal 65thZone 1976 Rpt levels 167.83 1.25 17.14 0.10% 0.57%============================================================================Subsection of Horne # 5 Zone---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published Subsection Noranda 19th toUpper Price Internal 43rdReserve 1980 Rpt levels 75.56 1.30 17.14 0.15% 0.83%---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published Subsection Noranda 19th toHorne #5 Bancroft Internal 57thGold 1980 Rpt levels 1.79 6.14 16.80 0.49% 0.37%-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Data Contained Metal---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gold Silver Copper Zinc---------------------------------------- Reference Source Levels Moz Moz Mlbs Mlbs---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published Noranda 19th toHorne #5 Eggert Internal 65thZone 1976 Rpt levels 6.75 92.50 356 2109============================================================================Subsection of Horne # 5 Zone---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published Subsection Noranda 19th toUpper Price Internal 43rdReserve 1980 Rpt levels 3.17 41.65 250 1382---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Published Subsection Noranda 19th toHorne #5 Bancroft Internal 57thGold 1980 Rpt levels 0.35 0.96 19.30 14.37----------------------------------------------------------------------------
