April 20, 2010 – Vancouver, British Columbia. Indigo Exploration Inc. (TSX-V: IXI) has arranged a private placement of up to 250,000 flow-through common shares at a price of $0.30 per share, subject to TSX Venture Exchange approval. Securities issued pursuant to the flowthrough private placement will be subject to a four month hold.
The proceeds of the flow-through private placement will be used to complete a drill program, which is currently underway at Indigo Exploration Inc.’s Fredy Creek property. The Fredy Creek property is road accessible and lies 54 kilometres north of Williams Lake, British Columbia. Taseko Mines Limited’s producing Gibraltar porphyry Cu-Mo Mine lies 12.6 kilometres to the northwest of the Fredy Creek property. The Fredy Creek soil and geophysical anomalies are interpreted to be trending towards and coincident with the northwest trend of mineralization at the Gibraltar Mine.
The Company also recently announced the signing of a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Sanu Resources Burkina Faso SARL, (“Sanu Burkina”) an indirectly owned subsidiary of NGEx Resources Inc on April 7, 2010. NGEx is a mineral exploration company listed on the TSX and which trades under the symbol “NGQ”. The Burkina Faso property package consists of four exploration permits: Kodyel, Tordo, Lati and Loto. The four permits, which are held by Sanu Burkina, are government granted licenses and lie in greenstone belts that contain significant gold discoveries.
About Burkina Faso
The property package lies in the West African nation of Burkina Faso. West Africa is underlain by the Birimian Greenstone Belt, one of the most prolific gold producing areas in the world. A number of the world’s major gold companies are active in West Africa, several with producing mines, including: IAMGOLD Corporation, AngloGold Ashanti Limited, Randgold Resources Limited, Gold Fields Limited and Newmont Mining Corporation. Burkina Faso is considered to be relatively stable, both politically and economically and relies primarily on farming and mining as it main sources of revenue.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors,
“R. Tim Henneberry”
R.Tim Henneberry, P.Geo.
President and CEO
For further information, please contact:
Tim Henneberry: (604) 681-3422
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