CMQ announces commencement of drilling at Red Canyon

CALGARY, July 14, 2013 /CNW/ - CMQ Resources Inc. (TSXV: NV) ("CMQ") announces that CMQ's wholly owned subsidiary, Montezuma Mines Inc. ("Montezuma") has resumed drilling at Red Canyon.  Montezuma plans to drill four to five reverse circulation (RC) holes in the Wall target area for a total of approximately 3,800 ft (1,160 m).  The project is being explored under an "Exploration Agreement with Option to Form Joint Venture" with Miranda U.S.A., Inc. ("Miranda") (TSX-V: MAD). Montezuma forecasts that on completion of the drill program, Montezuma will have completed the $4M in qualifying exploration expenditures and Montezuma and Miranda will enter into a joint venture agreement on a 60%/40% respective basis.

Red Canyon contains nine exploration targets of which the Wall target area will be the focus of Montezuma's 2013 drill campaign.  At Wall, rock chip samples with up to 0.070 oz Au/ton (2.4 g Au/t) coincide with a geophysically inferred fault-bounded horst block that extends 5,000 ft (1,500 m) from Wall northwest through the Gexa and the Ice target areas.  Montezuma's 2012 vertical hole MR12-06 was collared in the Wall target on the west side of the horst block.  Although Montezuma terminated MR12-06 at 695 ft (211.8 m) without it having intersected the horst-bounding fault or the favorable lower-plate (of the Roberts Mountains Thrust) carbonate-host stratigraphy, the hole did intersect three zones with anomalous gold greater than 0.02 ppm Au (0.02 g Au/t).  Montezuma's 2013 program will be directed to provide drill tests of the intersection of the horst-bounding faults with the favorable carbonate stratigraphy beneath the Roberts Mountains Thrust.

Since 2009, Montezuma performed geologic mapping, revised stratigraphic interpretations, completed soil and rock-chip geochemical surveys, and contracted CSAMT resistivity, ground magnetic, and gravity geophysical surveys.  Through 2012, Montezuma drilled a total of 32 RC and three core holes for a total of 33,042 ft (10,071 m).  Montezuma conducts its drilling under the Bureau of Land Management-approved Red Canyon Plan of Operations that permits up to 125 acres (50 hectares) of total disturbance.

Project Details

The Red Canyon project is in Eureka County, Nevada, includes 254 unpatented lode mining claims (7.9 sq mi / 20.6 sq km) on the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend, and adjoins U.S. Gold's Tonkin Springs property to the west. The project covers an erosional "window" through the upper plate of the Roberts Mountains Thrust that exposes hydrothermally altered and brecciated lower-plate carbonate rocks that are age equivalent to the rocks hosting Barrick Gold's Cortez Hills gold deposit.

John Hogg, CEO, CMQ Resources Inc., is the Qualified Person, as defined by National Instrument 43-101, who has reviewed and verified the data disclosed in this press release.

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Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements and forward-looking information (collectively referred to herein as "forward-looking statements") within the meaning of Canadian securities laws, including with respect to the timing and details of the referenced drilling program. All statements other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements typically contain statements with words such as "anticipate", "believe", "plan", "continuous", "estimate", "expect", "intend", "may", "will", "shall", "project", "would", "should", or similar words suggesting future outcomes.

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SOURCE: CMQ Resources Inc.

John Hogg, Chief Executive Officer, CMQ Resources Inc., Tel: [phone], E-mail [email protected]