Guinness Pulls Multiple High-Grade Cores in 6 Drill Holes at Its Charlotte Project, Yukon

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Oct. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Guinness Exploration ("Guinness" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: GNXP) is pleased to report that it has completed its 2010 drill program at its Charlotte Project near Mt. Nansen in the Yukon Territory, Canada.  Core drilling was conducted to confirm prior drill intercepts and to expand on known gold and silver mineralization along strike and down dip. The Company completed a total of 1,451.68 metres in fourteen diamond drill holes in the Flex zone, one of five known mineralized zones on the property.

The drill holes were chosen specifically to test a 450m strike length of the Flex Zone at various depths. The holes tested gold and silver grades and thicknesses to confirm previously drilled holes (to view a map of the property, drill hole locations and other information, visit www.guinnessexploration.com).  

New holes confirmed and previous holes as set out below:

Results are tabulated below.  The 2010 confirmation holes are shown in regular font, with increased widths shown in bold font.  Results of the previous holes are shown in an italics font for comparison on a hole by hole basis.

The Flex Zone occurs as two sub-parallel anastamosing quartz-sulfide vein systems, known historically as the "Hanging Wall" and "Footwall" veins. Veins host strong gold and silver mineralization associated primarily with pyrite and lesser arsenopyrite, stibnite, galena and sphalerite. Veins often exhibit propylitic, phyillic, argillic and silicic alteration in broad alteration envelopes.  

The Flex Zone is hosted in an assemblage of metamorphic rocks comprised dominantly of quartz-feldspar+/-chlorite gneiss which grades locally into quartzite. Dark green amphbolite gneiss, comprised of equal parts plagioclase and actinolite, is commonly intercalated with the quartz-feldspar gneiss. These older rocks are cut by narrow quartz-feldspar dykes and sills. The north end of the Flex Zone, in the vicinity of 10-240 and 241, is underlain by a quartz-feldspar porphyry stock at depth.

Guinness management is extremely pleased with these initial results. Consulting geologist John Hiner commented, "We are well pleased with the level of gold and silver values, and the values match well with previous results.  Although these intersections are not true widths, we have confirmed the mineralized zones in all five holes, and have increased mineralized thicknesses in three of the five holes reported to date. These zones are substantially wider than has been reported previously, and we believe we have now demonstrated that there is an excellent opportunity to define a bulk-mineable deposit at this project."

Results are pending for the remainder of the drill holes. When received and collated, these will be reported.

Further to the drill results, and as part of the confirmation and step out drill program, the Company conducted extensive excavator trenching on two new mineral targets.  Results are arriving from the laboratory, and are in compilation. Once reviewed and confirmed, these will be reported as well.

About Guinness Exploration

Guinness Exploration Inc. trades on the OTC-BB under the symbol GNXP. The Company was incorporated in Nevada in 2005 and incorporated its subsidiary Nantawa Resources Inc. in Yukon, Canada in 2009. In November 2009, Guinness acquired the right to purchase 128 full or fractional claims in the Mount Nansen area of the Yukon Territory, Canada (now renamed the 'Charlotte Project') from Eagle Trail Properties Inc. ('Eagle Trail'). On October 12, 2010 Guinness acquired full ownership of a 49% interest in the Charlotte Project under a modification agreement with Eagle Trail, which provided for full vesting of a 49% interest without the requirement for further property payments to Eagle Trail and included settlement for loss of a group of claims named the Tawa properties. Additionally on October 12, 2010, the Company entered into a Letter of Intent ("LOI") with Ansell Capital Corp. ("Ansell"), TSX: ACP, and Eagle Trail wherein Ansell will provide funding for development of the Charlotte Project in return for the right to acquire up to an 85% undivided interest in the Charlotte project in staged increments. The Charlotte Project is situated in the prolific Tintina Gold Belt, a 1,200 km long area extending from northern British Columbia, through the Yukon Territory and into southwest Alaska. The Tintina Gold Belt includes such world-class, multi-million ounce gold deposits as Pogo, Fort Knox, True North, and Donlin Creek. The 128 claims in the Charlotte Project comprise a total area of 2,336.14 square hectares and are located in the South Central part of the Yukon, 180 km Northwest of Whitehorse and 60 km west of the Village of Carmacks. A complete independent geological report received by Guinness, dated November 27, 2009, can be viewed on Guinness' website: www.guinnessexploration.com and maps relative to the 2010 program are available for inspection as well.

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