Anaconda Mining Initiates Infill Drill Program at the Argyle Discovery

TORONTO, Sept. 21, 2017 /CNW/ - Anaconda Mining Inc. ("Anaconda" or the "Company") – (TSX:ANX) is pleased to announce the commencement of a percussion drill program at its Argyle discovery ("Argyle"), located approximately 4.5 kilometres from the Company's Pine Cove Mill and tailings facility at the Point Rousse Project, Newfoundland and Labrador. Since initial trenching and diamond drilling in 2016 at Argyle, Anaconda has discovered a shallow-dipping, near-surface, mineralized gold system with a strike length of over 600 metres and a down-dip extension to at least 225 metres.

The Company plans to drill approximately 500 metres in 25 holes to demonstrate continuity of near surface (less than 25 metres vertical depth at an average drill spacing of 25 metres) mineralization encountered in previous trenching and diamond drill programs. The percussion drilling will augment existing exploration data in preparation of an NI 43-101 compliant resource calculation on the Argyle discovery, which is expected to be published by the end of 2017. 

"Anaconda's mining activities are moving eastward along a mineralized trend that is in close proximity to the Pine Cove Mill. We're still mining the Pine Cove pit and have targeted Stog'er Tight as the next development. The infill drill program at Argyle will provide important data to create an NI 43-101 compliant resource and bring us closer to including Argyle in the production pipeline at Point Rousse. With the Pine Cove Mill and the recently permitted in-pit tailings storage facility, Argyle and any other discoveries around Point Rousse will benefit from the existing infrastructure."

~Dustin Angelo, President & CEO

The discovery trenching program from 2015 outlined a mineralized system exposed at surface along 250 metres of strike and included the following highlights from separate trenches (See January 21, 2016 press release):

• 3.75 grams per tonne ("g/t") gold over 16 metres; including 8.27 g/t over 4 metres;
• 1.89 g/t Au over 10 metres;
• 1.31 g/t gold over 11 metres;
• 6.58 g/t gold over 2 metres; and
• 1.49 g/t gold over 3.5 meters.

Subsequent diamond drilling in 2016 expanded the near surface strike of mineralization to the currently established 600 metres. Highlights from the near surface diamond drilling, coincident with the area within the current drill plan, include (See January 18, 2017 and October 12, 2016 press releases):

• 2.09 g/t over 14.0 metres (18.0 to 32.0 metres) in hole AE-16-20;
• 4.50 g/t over 6.3 metres (3.7 to 10.0 metres) in hole AE-16-06; and
• 1.32 g/t over 12.0 metres (4.5 to 16.5 metres) in hole AE-16-03.

The results of the infill drill program, as well as the final four holes from the previous diamond drill (see news release dated July 13, 2017) program are anticipated by mid-October.

This news release has been reviewed and approved by Paul McNeill, P. Geo., VP Exploration with Anaconda Mining Inc., a "Qualified Person", under National Instrument 43-101 Standard for Disclosure for Mineral Projects.

ABOUT ANACONDA

Anaconda Mining is a TSX-listed gold mining, exploration and development company, focused in the prospective Atlantic Canadian jurisdictions of Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. The Company operates the Point Rousse Project located in the Baie Verte Mining District in Newfoundland, comprised of the Pine Cove open pit mine, the fully-permitted Pine Cove Mill and tailings facility, the Stog'er Tight deposit, a new discovery called Argyle, and approximately 5,800 hectares of prospective gold-bearing property. Anaconda is also developing the recently acquired Goldboro Project in Nova Scotia, a high-grade Mineral Resource, with the potential to leverage existing infrastructure at the Company's Point Rousse Project.

The Company also has a pipeline of organic growth opportunities, including the Viking and Great Northern Projects on the Northern Peninsula and the Tilt Cove Property on the Baie Verte Peninsula.

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

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SOURCE Anaconda Mining Inc.