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News Release 06-26
Nevada Pacific Gold Ltd. (TSX Venture Exchange - Symbol NPG) is pleased to announce the receipt from Pincock, Allen and Holt (PAH) of an Updated Technical Report on the Company's 100% owned Magistral Gold Mine located in Sinaloa state, Mexico. PAH was retained by Nevada Pacific to update the resource and reserve estimate for Magistral, compliant with the requirements of National Instrument 43-101 (NI43-101). In preparing the report, PAH has reviewed new drilling data, actual production results, production reconciliation, and cost data for the mining operation and believes this information to be credible and reliable for reserve reporting purposes.
"We are pleased with the results of the Updated Technical Report, which indicates that at $450.00 gold Magistral is technically feasible and can be re-commissioned. This is due primarily to the fact that we understand the leach recovery curve much better and will be moving less tonnes at a higher gold grade. It should be noted that at $600 gold the Project economics are quite robust with an IRR of 118 percent and Net Cash Flow of US$42.3 million over six years," said David Hottman, Chairman, CEO.
Resources
The updated measured and indicated mineral resource for the Magistral Project stands at 9.30 million tonnes averaging 1.81 grams per tonne gold for a total of 541,000 ounces at 0.40 g/t Gold cut-off.
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Resource Area Tonnes Gold (g/t) Contained Ounces
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Samaniego
Measured 4,699,000 2.09 315,665
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Indicated 1,378,000 1.79 79,290
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Subtotal 6,077,000 2.02 394,955
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Sagrado Corazon
Measured 862,000 1.28 35,528
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Indicated 170,000 0.94 5,144
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Subtotal 1,032,000 1.22 40,672
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Lupita/Central
Measured 1,245,000 1.55 61,937
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Indicated 832,000 1.36 36,305
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Subtotal 2,077,000 1.47 98,242
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Mill Tailings
Measured 118,000 1.89 7,147
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Indicated N/A N/A N/A
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Subtotal 118,000 1.89 7,147
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Totals
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Measured 6,924,000 1.89 420,277
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Indicated 2,380,000 1.58 120,739
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All Categories 9,304,000 1.81 541,016
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Reserves
Proven and probable reserves are estimated to be 3.02 million ore tonnes at an average grade of 2.97 grams of gold per tonne resulting in total contained gold of 289,000 ounces at a waste to ore ratio of 8.1:1. It should be noted that a significant amount of lower grade material below the reserve cutoff used will be economic when mining resumes and will be placed on the leach pads, but for reserve reporting purposes this material has been excluded. This material is classified as sub grade material and cannot be reported as reserves, but much of this material is economic in the near term due to the large discrepancy between the $450 statutory gold price (a 3-year rolling average) used for the study and the current average gold price of $600-$650 per ounce.
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Cutoff Strip
Mine Grade Ore Gold Contained Waste Total Ratio
Area (g/t) (Tonnes) (g/t) Ounces Tonnes Tonnes W:O
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Samaniego
Hill 0.96
Proven 1,065,000 3.99 137,000
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Probable 272,000 3.79 33,000
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Subtotal 1,337,000 3.95 170,000 17,420,000 18,757,000 13.0
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Samaniego
Hill-
Tailings 0.80
Proven 88,000 1.99 6,000
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Probable N/A N/A N/A
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Subtotal 88,000 1.99 6,000 2,338 90,338 0.03
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Sagrado
Corazon 0.82
Proven 385,000 2.06 25,000
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Probable 59,000 1.47 3,000
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Subtotal 444,000 1.98 28,000 1,039,000 1,483,000 2.3
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Lupita 0.80
Proven 700,000 2.39 54,000
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Probable 454,000 2.15 31,000
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Subtotal 1,154,000 2.29 85,000 6,031,000 7,185,000 5.2
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Total
Proven 2,238,000 3.08 222,000
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Total
Probable 785,000 2.67 67,000
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All
Categories 3,023,000 2.97 289,000 24,492,338 27,515,338 8.1
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Financial and Sensitivity Analysis
The Base Case project produces 185,000 gold ounces at a cash cost of $323 and total cost of $447 per gold ounce. Over the project life this generates a net cash flow of $17.4 million. This results in a Pre-tax Net Present Value of $12.7 million and $9.3 million at 5 percent and 10 percent discount rates respectively, resulting in a 49 percent Internal Rate of Return (IRR).
Over the project life at $600 a net cash flow of $42.3 million is generated. This results in a Pre-tax Net Present Value of $32.8 million and $25.7 million at 5 percent and 10 percent discount rates respectively, resulting in a 118 percent Internal Rate of Return (IRR).
Sensitivities to the major economic factors were analyzed to demonstrate the project's value to the major variants (metal prices, metal recoveries, gold grade, capital costs, and operating costs). In all cases analyzed the project has a positive net present value and produces Internal Rates of Return (IRR) of greater than 19 percent.
In the report PAH states "PAH is of the opinion that the estimate of mineral resources and reserves has been prepared according to accepted industry standards using accepted industry practices and that the work completed has been as thorough and accurate as possible given the available database. PAH is also of the opinion that the mineral resources and reserves are compliant with the Canadian National Instrument 43-101 (NI 43-101) requirements for resource and reserve reporting and is consistent with the Standards for Disclosure for Mineral Projects, Form 43-101F1 and Companion Policy 43-101CP, dated December 23, 2005."
Nevada Pacific Gold Ltd. was founded in March 1997. The Company owns an exploration property portfolio covering approximately 890 square miles of mineral rights in Mexico including the Magistral Gold Mine and an exploration property portfolio covering approximately 85 square miles of mineral rights in the State of Nevada. A description of these projects, including maps and photographs, can be viewed on the Company's website at http://www.nevadapacificgold.com.
ON BEHALF OF NEVADA PACIFIC GOLD LTD.
"David Hottman"
Chairman