Amarc Resources Acquires Silver Vista Property

VANCOUVER - Amarc Resources Ltd. reported the acquisition of a 100% interest in the Silver Vista property, located in west central British Columbia. Previous exploration on the Silver Vista property indicates the potential for a significant bulk tonnage silver-copper discovery.  In addition Amarc has staked approximately 420 square kilometres of mineral claims in the region of Silver Vista to cover prospective host rocks.  Amarc is planning to aggressively explore this new project to achieve its goal of making the next major precious metals discovery in BC.

"Amarc is very excited to have purchased 100% of the Silver Vista property, which we believe holds significant potential to host an important, bulk tonnage-style silver-copper deposit", said Amarc Chairman Bob Dickinson . "Limited historical drilling has intersected broad intervals of silver-copper mineralization at one end of a strong and extensive silver-in-soils geochemical anomaly," Dickinson said. "Amarc is planning an aggressive exploration program at Silver Vista focused on determining the full extent and geometry of the silver-copper mineralization.  As a first step, a helicopter-borne geophysical survey is already underway over the entire property."

Historical exploration on the Silver Vista property defined a strong and continuous northwest-southeast trending, 1.2 kilometres long by 150 to 500 metres wide silver-in-soils anomaly, with associated copper.  This anomaly remains completely open. Samples of sedimentary rock from historical trenching in the northern part of the soils anomaly returned 16.5 metres at 74 g/t silver and 0.43% copper, 10.2 metres at 38 g/t silver and 0.24% copper, and 15.0 metres at 28 g/t silver and 0.53% copper.

Fourteen shallow core holes have been drilled across a distance of some 600 metres outwards from the area of historical trenching. Nine of the 14 historical drill holes intercepted significant intervals of disseminated silver and copper mineralisation hosted by sedimentary rocks, including: 36.6 metres at 32.3 g/t silver and 0.50% copper, including 3.5 metres at 163.9 g/t silver and 3.03% copper, and 45.5 metres at 45.4 g/t silver and 0.06% copper.  Major portions of core from a number of these drill holes were not assayed and several holes bottomed in strong mineralization.  For example, one hole bottomed in 30.5 metres grading 30.0 g/t silver and 0.18% copper from 36.6 metres to the end of the hole at 67.1 metres and another intercepted 63.1 metres grading 40.1 g/t silver and 0.11% copper from 4.0 metres to its end also at 67.1 metres.

The company's address is 15th Floor, 1040 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 4H1, (604) 684.6365, fax: (604) 684.8092.