GOLD: High grades extended at Lower Detour Lake

ONTARIO – Toronto-based Detour Gold Corp. reports that eight diamond drill holes have confirmed the continuity of high grade gold mineralization in the Lower Detour Lake area, about 6 km south of the Detour Lake gold mine in northern Ontario.

Six of the eight holes returned significant gold mineralization. Here are highlights from five of them:

• Hole DLD-14-128 returned 9.53 g/t Au over 12.0 metres, including 22.41 g/t over 5.0 metres.
• Hole DLD-15-131 returned 5.92 g/t Au over 18.9 metres, including 12.30 g/t over 5.0 metres.
• Hole DLD-15-132 returned 14.89 g/t Au over 4.1 metres.
• Hole DLD-15-134 returned 4.91 g/t Au over 6.5 metres.
• Hole DLD-15-127 returned 4.15 g/t Au over 8.7 metres.

To date the mineralized zone at Lower Detour Lake has been tested over a strike length of 450 metres by 16,465 metres of drilling. There is a higher grade portion approximately 250 metres along strike and from surface to a depth of 550 metres. The zone is open at depth and down plunge to the east.

Detour Gold has plans for a $5-million, infill drilling program of 50 holes totaling 30,000 metres this summer to assess the underground potential of what it is calling zone 58N.

A drill hole location map and cross sections are posted on the company's website under Projects/Detour Lake Exploration:Regional.