Ximen Starts Exploration at its Amelia Gold Property

VANCOUVER, BC - Ximen Mining Corp. reported an update on its Amelia Gold Mine project near Mt. Baldy in southern British Columbia. The Amelia property has excellent potential for gold resources within trucking distance of a gold processing facility at Greenwood, B.C. Prospecting and mapping of the Amelia Gold property has started, with the aim of generating new targets for trenching and drilling that will be used for permitting for drilling later this season. Field work involves detailed prospecting and mapping to evaluate all the known and unrecorded mineral occurrences and seek out new mineralization. The majority of the Amelia Property is under-explored by modern methods, and there is excellent potential to define gold resources on the Cariboo-Amelia vein below the historical mine workings and along strike of the historic mining area. Aside from the main Cariboo-Amelia vein, there are parallel vein structures that have not been adequately examined or evaluated. There are also other near surface targets that can be tested using geochemistry and trenching. Exploration drilling will be designed to define and outline mineral resources near-surface initially, then test below the historical mine workings, and finally test along strike and parallel to the Cariboo-Amelia vein. Geochemical surveys will be done to the west of the past surveys to identify new targets.