Ximen Mining Corp. announced that it has conducted an interpretation of a new airborne magnetic survey completed over part of the Brett Property, located near Vernon in southern British Columbia. The Brett epithermal gold property, located west of Vernon in southern B.C., is one of Ximen's prime exploration assets.

Exploration to date has identified a low-sulphidation epithermal gold (+ silver) deposit with vein-hosted and disseminated mineralization. Ximen believes the Brett project is on the brink of discovery of an economic gold deposit due to the fact that bonanza-grade vein-hosted and low-grade, bulk-mineable disseminated epithermal styles of gold mineralization are present in multiple zones over a 2 kilometer square area. The sensor was set to 35 m above the ground level.

The UAV aeromagnetic survey generally results in high-quality, high-resolution data. The increased flight line density and lower flight elevation possible with the use of a UAV platform results in superior resolution data products when compared to conventional airborne magnetic data. For the interpretation, the airborne survey results were combined with results from a 2014 ground magnetic survey.

Airborne Magnetic Survey - Total Magnetic Intensity map: Magnetic high and low anomalies were identified using the Total Magnetic Intensity (TMI) - reduced to pole product. The NNW to N trending lineaments west of the Main zone are targets for further exploration work such as geochemical soil or biochemical bark surveys and IP geophysical surveys. Airborne Magnetic Survey - Analytic Signal map.

The Brett Gold Project: A total of 160 surface diamond drill holes (20,945 meters) and several reverse circulation holes have been completed since the initial discovery in 1983. This work has defined a total of 13 mineralized zones, including the TR-21, Bonanza Zone, RW vein, Tuff Zone and North Extension Zone along the Main Fault Zone, with parallel zones including the TR-1, Stockwork, 490 and Border zones. East of these are the New Discovery and East Zones, and bordering the vein zones on the east and west are large areas of altered rocks with gold geochemical anomalies named Gossan and West Zones.

In the 1990's a 291 tonne surface bulk sample was shipped to the smelter at Trail, BC that averaged 27.74 grams per tonne gold and 63.7 grams per tonne silver (Brett 2017 NI 43-101 report). In the mid-1990's, a Mine Adit and underground drift and raise development was done to access bonanza grades intersected in surface drill holes. In 1995, metallurgical test work was done on a 4 kg sample with a head grade of 20.3 grams per tonne gold and 50.3 grams per tonne silver.

Flotation of gravity concentration tails resulted in overall gold and silver recoveries of 91.3% and 72.8%, respectively (BC Assessment Report 25351). Since acquiring the property, Ximen conducted surface drilling programs in 2014 and 2016 that resulted in discovery of new gold-bearing vein zones. Highlights included 34.18 g/t Au over 0.9 m, 16.7 g/t Au over 1.5 m, 18.95 g/t Au over and 1m, and 13.35 g/t Au over0.58 m. Large intervals of disseminated mineralization were also intercepted, including 1.77 g/t Au over 31m, 1.88 g/t Au over 16.55m and 0.82 g/t Au over 33m.