Northquest Ltd. commences airborne magnetometer survey at the Pistol Bay Gold Project, Nunavut, Canada

TORONTO, July 24, 2014 /CNW/ - Northquest Ltd. (TSX.V-NQ) (FWB-N3Q) ("Northquest" or "the Company") is pleased to announce that an airborne magnetometer survey has commenced at the Pistol Bay Gold Project, Nunavut, Canada.  

The Pistol Bay Project consists of 860 square kilometres of staked claims covering a 90 kilometre strike length of the Pistol Bay Trend which is a west-trending series of surface gold occurrences and gold zones intersected in drill holes by Northquest in 2011, 2012, and 2013. The Pistol Bay Trend is a newly recognized trend parallel to, and 80 kilometres south of, the Meliadine Trend of gold deposits of Agnico Eagle Mines, which reportedly contains 3.0 million ounces of gold reserves, plus 2.2 million ounces indicated and 2.9 million ounces inferred (www.agnico-eagle.com).

The airborne magnetometer survey will consist of a total of 6,890 kilometres of survey lines using the Terraquest Magnetic Horizontal Gradiometer system with a 100 metre survey line spacing and a nominal sensor height of 70 metres. The survey will cover the west half of the Pistol Bay property, which has not been surveyed by Northquest. The purpose of the survey is to provide more information about the context of the CZ and Barrett gold occurrences, which are both captured by the Pistol Bay Trend. In addition, geophysical anomalies that are interpreted as intrusions, iron formations, and shear zones will be prioritized for further ground follow-up work.

Northquest President and CEO Jon North stated that "This survey will double the size of the existing magnetometer coverage of the property and extend the coverage of the Pistol Bay Trend by approximately another 40 kilometres of strike length. We look forward to interpreting the data later this summer and compiling a list of promising targets, including the two known gold occurrences, for ground follow up".

Potential quantity and grade is conceptual in nature.  There has been insufficient exploration to define a mineral resource at the Pistol Bay Project to date, and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the target being delineated as a mineral resource.  Northquest is a mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition, exploration and development of properties for the mining of gold and other minerals.  Northquest has 53,853,707 shares outstanding (77,578,318 shares on a fully diluted basis).  For further information please visit www.northquest.biz.

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SOURCE Northquest Ltd.