Sienna Updates Igor Project
NEWS RELEASE Sienna Gold Inc. January 12, 2010
Sienna Updates Igor Project
Calgary, Alberta – Sienna Gold Inc. (SGP.V - TSX Venture Exchange) is pleased to announce that it is resuming activities on its Igor copper-gold property in Peru with the issue of a Category 2 drilling permit and a signed cooperation agreement with the local community of Callanquitas as required by local laws. Access to the drill platforms has begun in consultation with the drilling contractor.
Sienna has adopted a drilling budget of $328,000 to complete a 2500 meter follow up drill program to the Company’s discovery hole in Callanquitas. The Company has re-signed and registered an agreement with the community of Callanquitas which documents the responsibilities for both the community and the Company during the next 12 months of exploration at Igor. This agreement provides that site work for the new drill sites will commence immediately and drilling will start once the road construction is complete.
The Company also announces that it has completed the requirements for and received a long term drilling permit (Category 2). This permit allows the Company to complete the required drilling on the IGOR property.
This press release has been reviewed and approved by Murray Lytle, P.Eng. of Snowden Mining Industry Consultants, who is the Company’s Qualified Person under National Instrument 43-101.
For further information please contact:
John Rucci, President (403) 508-2061 or by e-mail [email protected]
The TSX Venture Exchange has neither approved nor disapproved of the information contained herein.
Statements in this press release regarding the Company’s business which are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties, such as estimates and statements that describe the Company's future plans, objectives or goals, including words to the effect that the Company or management expects a stated condition or result to occur. Since forwardlooking statements address future events and conditions, by their very nature, they involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results in each case could differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements.
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