VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 16, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Entourage Mining Ltd. (the "Company" or "Entourage") (OTCBB:ENMGF) announces that the Company has earned a 40% interest in the Pires Gold Project located in Goias State Brazil. The expenditure of $300,000 completes the "First Milestone" of the June 2009 option agreement wherein the Company has a four-year option to acquire 100% of the project.
The Company's exploration program has returned numerous gold-rich rock and soil samples, including 15 with gold contents between 0.83 troy ounces gold/ton (28.30 grams/tonne) and 11.81 troy ounces gold/ton (404.95 g/t) (see News Release dated February 18, 2010). (The samples referred to in this news release are surface grab samples that are selective by nature, and thus unlikely to represent average grades on the property.)
As well, the exploration program has identified several target areas across the property over a nearly 9.6 mile (15-kilometre) trend length where quartz veins carrying gold have been traced into bedrock. Furthermore, several multi-element mineralization style areas have been encountered on the Pires property. This mineralization style is enriched in cobalt (Co), manganese (Mn), copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), lead (Pb) and occasionally vanadium (V). A $350,000 exploration budget has been drawn to explore for these minerals.
The Pires property is located 55 miles west of Kinross' Paracatu gold mine and is easily accessed by paved highways and is serviced by a hydroelectric grid. The Pires property hosts gold-rich rock samples occurring as float and quartz veins in schists. The high-grade float samples occur in a well-defined linear north-northeast trend extending more than 13 km at the surface. In total the property consists of more than 12,000 hectares (approx: 30,000 acres). The Company is awaiting the results of four drill holes from the preliminary exploration program from April 2010.
Further information on the Pires property is available in the Company's news releases on the Company website at www.entouragemining.com, and a Technical Report on the project is also available on the website.
Harrison Cookenboo, Ph D, P. Geo and a qualified person has reviewed the technical aspects of this news release.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Gregory Kennedy
President
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