GobiMin Inc announces updated resource estimates for the Sawayaerdun Gold Project in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Total measured and indicated resources are 26.84 million tonnes @ 1.79 grams/tonne gold for 1.545 million ounces, and total inferred resources are 59.38 million tonnes @ 1.38 grams/tonne for 2.626 million ounces.

The mineral resources contained within the project have been independently estimated by Mining One and are based on data collected by GobiMin as at October 13, 2014. The 2014 resources have been estimated using results from 313 surface diamond drill holes for a total of 97,204 metres plus adits and trenches. 

The resource 2014 infill drilling results have further increased the confidence and understanding of the mineralization particularly within the measured and indicated areas of the resources and thus provide more reliable data for the mining plan. 

The estimates include the Zone IV and Zone 1 areas. In Zone IV there are measured and indicated resources of 26.84 million tonnes @ 1.79 grams/tonne for 1.545 million ounces and inferred resources of 49.71 million tonnes @ 1.39 grams/tonne for 2.222 million ounces. In Zone 1 there are 9.67 million tonnes in the inferred category @ 1.30 grams/tonne for 404,000 ounces.

The Sawayaerdun gold deposit is within a mining licence that is surrounded by an exploration licence. The licences are held by Xinjiang Tonyuan Minerals Ltd which is 70% owned indirectly by GobiMin.

The mining licence is valid until February 25, 2018 and the exploration licence is valid until February 2, 2018. The project is classified as an advanced exploration project. The deposit consists of a series of repeating gold-bearing veins developed within regional shear structures.

Exploration activities have been carried out in the project area since 1952. Stream sediment sampling in the 1980s led to the discovery of the deposit in 1985.

The deposit has been subject to multiple phases of exploration including surface mapping, diamond drilling, trenching and underground development via adits, cross cuts and strike drives. During 2014, a further 41 diamond holes were drilled primarily into zone IV to further define the continuity of mineralization and to upgrade inferred material to indicated and measured.