Stikine - Frac Sand Pilot-scale Sampling Commences at Nonda

TSX-V: SKY

VANCOUVER, June 24 /CNW/ - Stikine Gold Corporation (TSX.V: SKY) ("Stikine" or the "Company") has commenced a field program to extract a number of individual samples totaling approximately 500 tonnes of quartz-pure arenite rocks from its Nonda Project. The Nonda - Ghost Ridge property is located 150 km west of the Horn River Basin ("HRB") shale gas field in northeast British Columbia.

Pilot-scale process testing will commence as soon as possible, to help define operating parameters, yield and capital/operating costs for the Nonda Frac Sand project. Nonda +40-70 and 100 mesh processed sand samples have demonstrated high quality by API/ISO proppant testing methods and high yields from lab-scale process trials.

Scott Broughton, P.Eng. is the qualified person as defined by national instrument 43-101 responsible for the preparation of this news release.

    
                           STIKINE GOLD CORPORATION

                              "Scott Broughton"

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                 Scott Broughton, P.Eng. - President and CEO
    

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