Walker River hires Evans for Nevada exploration

Sep 23, 2013

NEW PROPERTY ACQUISITION IN NEVADA

Walker River Resources Corp. has retained the services of Thomas Evans, geologist, to supervise and carry out exploration programs on its Nevada projects.

Mr. Evans is registered California geologist No. 3,128 with over 45 years of exploration and mining experience in the Western United States, Canada and Mexico. Mr. Evans obtained his MSc, geology, from University of Alberta in 1965.

For the past 30 years, Mr. Evans has been a consulting geologist with his firm, Western Geosciences. Clients have included Homestake, Golder Associates, Colony Pacific, Coronada Resources, and numerous other American and Canadian companies.

From 2001 to 2009, Mr. Evans conducted considerable work on silica and precious metal deposits in Mexico.

Mr. Evans will begin work immediately on the permitting of drilling at Lapon Canyon.

The Sleeper-Lapon Canyon gold project consists of 36 claims (720 acres/292 hectares), situated about 60 kilometres south of Yerington, Nev., and is easily accessible by secondary roads from the main highway (25 kilometres). A power transmission line passes within three kilometres of the property. The Sleeper-Lapon Canyon project is located within the Walker Lane shear zone, a 100-kilometre-wide structural corridor extending in a southeast direction from Reno. The past-producing historic Comstock Lode silver/gold mine is located within this trend, as is the past-producing Esmeralda/Aurora gold mine, with reported production of about one million ounces, which is located 30 kilometres southwest of the project.

Previous work began in 1907 with the discovery of vein-type gold mineralization on the Sleeper claims. Approximately 600 metres of underground drifts and adits were used to explore and access a series of vein-type structures. From 1914 to 1924, a two-stamp mill was erected, and limited production was reported. Further limited underground exploration was carried out, returning numerous assay values in the range of one ounce per ton, with a sample at the end of an adit returning 20.6 ounces per ton gold (Gruenwald, 1994, National Instrument 43-101 report dated Feb. 15, 2004, by Dr. J.H. Montgomery, PE eng, and N. Barr, BSc).

The company is very pleased with the start-up of the exploration in Nevada.

Further news will be released as available.

E. Gauthier, geol, Eng (OIQ), acts as the qualified person to the company, and has reviewed and approved the contents of this release.

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