Mine Site Preparation & Exploration Work Begins At Ima Mine

VANCOUVER – American Tungsten Corp. reported that it has commenced construction and building work to support exploration and mine planning at its Idaho-based tungsten project, the Ima Mine. The rehabilitation and exploratory review work will enable definition drilling and bulk sampling to aid in the Company’s formation of its mine plan.

The Ima Mine is a past producing underground tungsten mine situated on 22 patented claims located in East Central Idaho. Between 1945 and 1957, the property produced approximately 199,449 MTUs of WO3 and was subsequently explored for molybdenum and tungsten by various operators between 1960-2008(1).

“With warmer summer months approaching, the team is excited to have come back from a successful site visit that paves the way to rehabilitation, environmental sampling and stakeholder relations in order to begin plans to bring Ima back to production,” said Ali Haji, CEO.

“Review and compilation of the historical drilling, sampling and metallurgical testing completed by historical operators has identified multiple drill targets across the property and demonstrated viability of gravity separation of tungsten and sulfide flotation processes.” said Austin Zinsser, V.P. Exploration. “Last week we developed a plan to initiate work where the prior operator left off, with delineation drilling and continued flowsheet development for the vein system on the upper level.”