VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwired – Jan. 14, 2014) – Falco Pacific Resource Group Inc. (“Falco Pacific” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:FPC) advises its shareholders that Vancouver-based Goldcorp Inc. yesterday announced an unsolicited takeover offer for Osisko Mining Corporation, a major shareholder of the Company. Osisko controls 11.4% of the issued and outstanding shares of Falco Pacific, operates the Canadian Malartic Gold Mine located 80 kilometres east of Falco Pacific’s Rouyn-Noranda Project and is also the owner of the pre-production Upper Beaver gold-copper deposit located 60 kilometres west of Falco’s Rouyn-Noranda Project.
In a press release announcing the acquisition, Goldcorp President and CEO Chuck Jeannes emphasizes the attractiveness of Quebec based mining assets. “We are particularly pleased to be making a further substantial investment in the Province of Quebec, one of the best mining jurisdictions in the world. Goldcorp will be the largest gold producer in the province with the resources to continue building collaborative, long-term relationships while leveraging corporate and regional synergies”.
Falco Pacific is currently in the final stages of preparation of the maiden NI43-101 resource for the Horne 5 Deposit, which represents the largest, partially developed gold deposit in the southern portion of the Abitibi greenstone belt. Horne 5 is one of a number of known zones of gold and gold-base metal mineralization which forms the Horne Mine Complex, centered around the former producing Horne copper-gold deposit. The initial NI43-101 resource estimate for the Horne 5 Deposit is anticipated to be delivered first quarter of 2014 and the Company has already begun the process of compiling the data to allow the incorporation of a number of other nearby zones/deposits into the resource model for the Horne Mine Complex. Falco has currently inputted in excess of 10,000 historical drill holes into the new resource model.
About Falco Pacific Resource Group
Founded in 2012 with the acquisition of the 728 square kilometre Rouyn-Noranda Project in Quebec, Falco Pacific is led by a veteran exploration team and is focussed on the evaluation of precious and base metal targets in one of the world’s great mining camps.
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On behalf of the Board of Directors of FALCO PACIFIC RESOURCE GROUP
Kelly Klatik, President and CEO
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Falco Pacific Resource Group
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