Willow Creek Signs LOI for New Mining Claims in Nevada
LAS VEGAS, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Willow Creek Enterprises Inc. (OTCBB: WLOC) (the "Company" or "Willow Creek") announced today that it has signed a Letter Of Intent ("LOI") to acquire two mineral claims that are contiguous to the Company's existing Hercules Property. The two new claims totaling 40 acres, will potentially increase the Hercules Property to 88 mining claims and 1760 acres.
"We believe that adding these strategic claims will have an immediate and positive effect to the development of our Hercules Project. Based on our initial assessment of the property, we will be looking at the possibility of immediately increasing the inferred resource at Hercules." Stated Terry Fields, President, Willow Creek. "We will conduct our due diligence and complete the mineral claim acquisitions as soon as possible."
About Hercules Gold & Silver Property:
The Hercules project currently consists of 86 mining claims for a total of 1720 acres, which is located in the prestigious Walker Lane Mineral Belt in southern Lyon County, Nevada, USA. The Property hosts an inferred resource of approximately 417,000 gold-equivalent ounces (News Release March 30, 2011). Hercules is located approximately 25 miles southwest of Reno, 11 kilometers outside of Dayton, 10 miles from the Comstock Lode Deposit and 15 miles from the Talapoosa Mine.
The historic Walker Lane Mineral Belt in western Nevada is a highly mineralized trend that contains several world-class epithermal precious metals deposits such as:
*the Comstock Lode (estimated production of 8.6 million ounces of gold and 192 million ounces of silver);
*Round Mountain (Barrick / Kinross) (over 10 million ounces of gold produced since 1906); and
*Rawhide, Aurora, Goldfield mines.
Additional porphyry copper deposits are at Yerington (1.75 billion pounds of copper produced from 1953-1978 by Anaconda Copper Company.)
About Willow Creek Enterprises Inc.
Willow Creek is a gold, silver and base metal exploration company with the purpose of evaluating, developing and acquiring gold projects of merit with a focus on the United States, Canada and Mexico. At present, Willow Creek is focused on the exploration and development of its projects in Nevada, USA. Willow Creek has also compiled a management team that has the knowledge, experience and motivation to find quality properties at different stages of development in order to fulfill their corporate mission.
Terry Fields, President
Please visit the Willow Creek website www.willowcreekenterprisesinc.com for any further information
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SOURCE Willow Creek Enterprises Inc.
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