VANCOUVER, BC–(Marketwired – August 08, 2016) – Almadex Minerals Limited (“Almadex” or the “Company”) (TSX VENTURE:AMZ) (OTCQB: AXDDF) is pleased to announce that it has completed diamond drill hole EC-16-010 to a current depth of 776.51 on the Norte Zone of its 100% owned El Cobre porphyry copper-gold project located in Veracruz, Mexico and has received the assays from the top of this hole to a depth of 317.00 meters.
EC-16-010 is the first hole drilled in the Norte Zone since 2008. From 153.50 to 317.00 meters a zone of intense quartz stockwork veining, potassic alteration and copper-gold mineralisation was intersected. From 317.00 to 393.35 meters depth an altered but unmineralised dyke was intercepted. From 393.35 to 539.10 meters a further interval of intense veining, alteration and mineralisation was intersected. This second interval has also been sampled and is currently being analysed at ALS Laboratories. Porphyry style alteration continues to the end of the hole at 776.51 meters and is currently being sampled for analysis.