China Minerals Mining Corporation announced results from the first 15 diamond drill holes from the Taurus Property of the Cassiar Gold Project, British Columbia. The 2012 drilling program tested areas peripheral to, as well as internal gaps in, the Taurus Gold Deposit. The drilling program, which was completed in the first week of September, comprised 6,857 meters of drilling in 43 drill holes at Taurus and 10 drill holes totaling 1,340 meters at the Sky Vein prospect on the adjacent Table Mountain Property.

Sulphide bearing quartz veins 10-20 meters wide were encountered in several holes at Sky Vein. The Taurus and Table Mountain properties, which collectively comprise Cassiar Gold Project, are 100% owned by the company. The Cassiar Gold Project is a large, 600 square kilometer property located in northwest B.C. access to the project is excellent since paved Highway 37 bisects the project between Taurus and Table Mountain.

The Table Mountain Property contains a fully permitted gold mill and tailings management facility which are available for potential future ore processing. The first 15 drill holes (numbered TA12-01 through TA12-15) of the drilling program targeted areas proximal to higher-grade historical drilling intercepts within the central Taurus deposit area known as 88 Hill as well as an area of sparse prior drilling known as the 88 Hill /Sable Gap which previously formed a gap in the resource of the Taurus Gold Deposit. The 88 Hill /Sable Gap holes intersected several mineralized structures within this 200 by 100 m target region indicating that mineralization is continuous across the gap.

The 88 Hill holes tested deeper parts of the deposit down-dip of shallow, high-grade intercepts and met with mixed success. The analyses for the 88 Hill /Sable Gap drilling include 27.20 m of 1.46 g/t Au (TA12-11), 4.70 m of 12.32 g/t Au (TA12-14) and 4.71 m of 7.91 g/t Au (TA 12-15). Mineralized intervals are centred on ankerite altered zones surrounding quartz-ankerite veins hosted by basalt.

Higher-grade gold mineralization is associated with halos of disseminated pyrite and less common arsenopyrite surrounding the veins, and also with vein-hosted native gold that typically occurs with trace tetrahedrite, sphalerite or chalcopyrite. Two types of contemporaneous veins are recognized: laterally continuous shear veins and discontinuous extensional veins, the latter which occur as splays emanating from shear veins. Together they form a complex structural network; re-examination of drill core from the historic Taurus core archive, in conjunction with the 2012 drilling program has shown that shear vein structures can be linked between adjacent drill holes.

This new interpretation is guiding current and future exploration drilling at Taurus.