UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
Form 6-K
REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER PURSUANT TO RULE 13a-16 OR 15d-16
UNDER THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the month of March, 2008
Commission File Number 001-32570
Entrée Gold Inc.
(Translation of registrant’s name into English)
Suite 1201 - 1166 Alberni Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 3Z3
(Address of principal executive office)
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FORM 51-102F3
Material Change Report
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Item 1. |
Name and Address of Company |
Entrée Gold Inc. (the “Company”)
Suite 1201 - 1166 Alberni Street
Vancouver, BC V6E 3Z3
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Item 2. |
Date of Material Change |
March 12, 2008
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Item 3. |
News Release |
The News Release dated March 12, 2008 was disseminated via Marketwire Canadian and U.S.Timely Disclosure.
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Item 4. |
Summary of Material Change |
The Company announced the receipt of the first resource estimate for the Heruga discovery in southern Mongolia. Heruga is estimated to contain an inferred resource of 760 million tonnes grading 0.48% copper, 0.55 grams per tonne (“g/t”) gold and 142 parts per million (“ppm”) molybdenum for a copper equivalent* grade of 0.91%, using a 0.60% copper equivalent* cut-off grade. (*Copper Equivalent estimated using $1.35/pound (“lb”) copper (“Cu”), $650/ounce (“oz”) gold (“Au”) and $10/lb molybdenum (“Mo”). The equivalence formula was calculated assuming that gold and molybdenum recovery was 91% and 72% of copper recovery respectively.)
Based on these figures, the Heruga deposit is estimated to contain at least eight billion pounds of copper and 13.4 million ounces of gold. Drilling is being conducted by partner and project operator, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
The Company also announced that Ivanhoe Mines has expended over US$27.5 million thereby reaching the threshold to earn a 60% participating interest in the approximately 40,000 hectares of Entrée’s Lookout Hill property covered by the agreement. Ivanhoe Mines has advised Entrée that it intends to continue earning in, therefore a joint venture has not been formed at this time.
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Item 5. |
Full Description of Material Change |
5.1 Full Description of Material Change
For a full description of the material change, see Schedule “A”.
The Heruga deposit is situated within the Company’s Javhlant exploration licence, in southern Mongolia, immediately south of Ivanhoe Mines’ Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold deposit. Results from drilling have been released over the last several months, most recently on February 26, 2008.
Heruga is estimated to contain an inferred resource of 760 million tonnes grading 0.48% copper, 0.55 grams per tonne (“g/t”) gold and 142 parts per million (“ppm”) molybdenum for a copper equivalent* grade of 0.91%, using a 0.60% copper equivalent* cut-off grade. (*Copper Equivalent estimated using $1.35/pound (“lb”) copper (“Cu”), $650/ounce (“oz”) gold (“Au”) and $10/lb molybdenum (“Mo”). The equivalence formula was calculated assuming that gold and molybdenum recovery was 91% and 72% of copper recovery respectively.)
Based on these figures, the Heruga deposit is estimated to contain at least eight billion pounds of copper and 13.4 million ounces of gold. Drilling is being conducted by partner and project operator, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd.
Thirty four drill holes (including daughter holes) on nine sections spaced at 150-to-300-metre intervals for a combined strike length of 1,800 metres have been used in the resource estimate. The deposit is open to the south, east and north, with three rigs currently operating.
A table outlining the inferred resource was provided and is available on the company website.
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The Company also announced that Ivanhoe Mines has expended over US$27.5 million thereby reaching the threshold to earn a 60% participating interest in the approximately 40,000 hectares of Entrée’s Lookout Hill property covered by the agreement. Ivanhoe Mines has advised Entrée that it intends to continue earning in, therefore a joint venture has not been formed at this time.
5.2 Disclosure for Restructuring Transactions
Not Applicable.
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Item 6. |
Reliance on subsection 7.1(2) or (3) of National Instrument 51-102 |
Not Applicable.
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Item 7. |
Omitted Information |
Not Applicable.
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Item 8. |
Executive Officer |
The following Senior Officer of the Company is available to answer questions regarding this report:
Greg Crowe, President & CEO
604.687.4777
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Item 9. |
Date of Report |
Dated at Vancouver, BC, this 12th day of March, 2008.
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SCHEDULE “A”
ENTRÉE ANNOUNCES 8 BILLION POUND COPPER AND
13 MILLION OUNCE GOLD INFERRED RESOURCE
AT HERUGA
Vancouver, B.C., March 12, 2008 - Entrée Gold Inc. (TSX:ETG; AMEX:EGI; Frankfurt:EKA – “Entrée” or the “Company”) has received the first resource estimate prepared for the Heruga copper, gold, and molybdenum deposit. Heruga is estimated to contain an inferred resource of 760 million tonnes grading 0.48% copper, 0.55 grams per tonne (“g/t”) gold and 142 parts per million (“ppm”) molybdenum for a copper equivalent* grade of 0.91%, using a 0.60% copper equivalent* cut-off grade, see Table 1 below. Based on these figures, the Heruga deposit is estimated to contain at least eight billion pounds of copper and 13.4 million ounces of gold. Drilling is being conducted by partner and project operator, Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. (TSX: IVN; NYSE: IVN; NASDAQ: IVN – “Ivanhoe Mines”).
The Heruga deposit is situated within the Company’s Javhlant exploration licence, in southern Mongolia, immediately south of Ivanhoe Mines’ Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold deposit. Results from drilling have been released over the last several months, most recently on February 26, 2008.
Greg Crowe, President and CEO of Entrée commented, “This initial resource estimate at Heruga further highlights the developing potential of this deposit. Heruga remains open and contains significantly higher gold grades in addition to hosting potentially economic concentrations of molybdenum in comparison to other deposits in the Oyu Tolgoi –Shivee Tolgoi mineralized corridor. The discovery of this deposit also attests to the potential of the remaining Entrée-Ivanhoe earn-in agreement area that has yet to be explored by deep drilling.”
TABLE 1. HERUGA INFERRED RESOURCE - MARCH 2008
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Cut-off |
Tonnage |
Cu |
Au |
Mo |
Cu Eq* |
Contained Metal | ||
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CuEq % |
1000’s (t) |
% |
g/t |
ppm |
% |
Cu (‘000 lb) |
Au (‘000 oz.) |
CuEq (‘000 lb) |
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>1.50 |
30,000 |
0.63 |
1.80 |
126 |
1.85 |
390,000 |
1,600 |
1,220,000 |
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>1.25 |
80,000 |
0.59 |
1.39 |
124 |
1.54 |
970,000 |
3,400 |
2,710,000 |
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>1.00 |
210,000 |
0.57 |
0.97 |
145 |
1.26 |
2,570,000 |
6,400 |
5,840,000 |
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>0.90 |
300,000 |
0.55 |
0.84 |
150 |
1.16 |
3,600,000 |
8,000 |
7,700,000 |
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>0.80 |
430,000 |
0.53 |
0.72 |
152 |
1.07 |
5,000,000 |
9,900 |
10,120,000 |
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>0.70 |
590,000 |
0.51 |
0.62 |
148 |
0.98 |
6,590,000 |
11,700 |
12,750,000 |
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>0.60 |
760,000 |
0.48 |
0.55 |
142 |
0.91 |
8,030,000 |
13,400 |
15,190,000 |
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>0.50 |
930,000 |
0.45 |
0.50 |
135 |
0.84 |
9,220,000 |
14,900 |
17,270,000 |
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>0.40 |
1,160,000 |
0.41 |
0.45 |
123 |
0.76 |
10,500,000 |
16,700 |
19,530,000 |
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>0.30 |
1,420,000 |
0.37 |
0.40 |
111 |
0.69 |
11,670,000 |
18,200 |
21,530,000 |
*Copper Equivalent estimated using $1.35/pound (“lb”) copper (“Cu”), $650/ounce (“oz”) gold (“Au”) and $10/lb molybdenum (“Mo”). The equivalence formula was calculated assuming that gold and molybdenum recovery was 91% and 72% of copper recovery respectively.
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Thirty four drill holes (including daughter holes) on nine sections spaced at 150-to-300-metre intervals for a combined strike length of 1,800 metres have been used in the resource estimate. The deposit is open to the south, east and north, with three rigs currently operating.
Drill maps from the Heruga deposit are posted on Entrée’s web site at www.entreegold.com and Ivanhoe Mines’ website at www.ivanhoemines.com.
Earn-In Progress
Entrée has been notified by Ivanhoe Mines that it has expended in excess of US$27.5 million on the exploration of the Entrée-Ivanhoe Mines earn-in agreement area, thereby reaching the threshold to earn a 60% participating interest in the approximately 40,000 hectares of Entrée’s Lookout Hill property covered by the agreement. Ivanhoe Mines has advised Entrée that it intends to continue earning in, therefore a joint venture has not been formed at this time.
Quality Assurance and Quality Control
Robert Cann, P.Geo., Entrée’s Vice-President, Exploration, Charles Forster, P.Geo., Ivanhoe Mines’ Oyu Tolgoi Exploration Manager, and Stephen Torr, P. Geo., Ivanhoe Mines’ Chief Resource Geologist,, all qualified persons as defined by National Instrument 43-101 (“NI 43-101”), supervised the preparation of the information in this release.
John Vann, Principal and Director and Scott Jackson, Principal and Director of Quantitative Group from Perth, Australia, performed an independent audit at the Oyu Tolgoi site on Ivanhoe’s exploration practices and resource estimation parameters and found them to be in line with industry best practices.
SGS Mongolia LLC prepares the split core at the project site and assays all samples at its facility in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Ivanhoe’s QA/QC program is monitored by independent consultant Dr. Barry Smee, P.Geo., and managed on site by Dale Sketchley, M.Sc., P.Geo. In-house, matrix-matched copper-gold-molybdenum standards and blanks are inserted at the sample preparation lab on the project site to monitor the quality control of the assay data.
An independent NI 43-101 compliant technical report supporting the resource estimate on the Heruga deposit is currently being prepared and will be available shortly on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
ABOUT ENTRÉE GOLD INC.
Entrée Gold Inc. is a Canadian mineral exploration company focused on the worldwide exploration and development of gold and copper prospects. Most notably, the Company is a large landholder in Mongolia, where it holds three exploration licences that comprise the 179,590-hectare Lookout Hill (Shivee Tolgoi) property. Lookout Hill completely surrounds the 8,500-hectare Turquoise Hill (Oyu Tolgoi) project of Ivanhoe Mines, and hosts the Hugo North Extension of the Hugo Dummett deposit and the newly discovered Heruga deposit.
Under an “Earn-In Agreement” announced in October 2004, Ivanhoe Mines has the right to earn an interest in approximately 40,000 hectares of Entrée’s Lookout Hill property. Details of the Earn-In Agreement are available on Entrée’s website at www.entreegold.com and on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. The Hugo North Extension on Lookout Hill, identified through drilling conducted by Ivanhoe Mines as part of the Earn-In Agreement, contains an indicated resource of 117 million tonnes averaging 1.8% copper and 0.61 g/t gold for a copper equivalent grade of 2.19%. The contained metal in this indicated resource is estimated at 4.6 billion pounds of copper and 2.3 million ounces of gold. An additional inferred resource for this area is estimated at 95.5 million tonnes grading 1.15% copper and 0.31 g/t gold for a copper equivalent grade of 1.35%, containing 2.4 billion pounds of copper and 950,000 ounces of
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gold. Both the indicated and inferred resources use a 0.6% copper equivalent cut-off grade. No consideration was made for metallurgical recoveries. The “Lookout Hill Project, Mongolia, NI 43-101 Technical Report” dated March 29, 2007, which supports the resources estimate on the Hugo North Extension, is available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
The Company continues to explore its large landholdings in Mongolia as well as evaluating new opportunities throughout the region and elsewhere in Asia. Entrée plans to explore the Huaixi copper project in Zhejiang Province in China, under the terms of an agreement with the No. 11 Geological Brigade. In North America, the Company is exploring for copper-molybdenum porphyry systems in the southwest USA. The Company is also seeking additional opportunities to utilize its expertise in exploring for deep and/or concealed ore deposits.
Ivanhoe Mines and Rio Tinto are major shareholders of Entrée, holding approximately 15% and 16% of issued and outstanding shares respectively.
FURTHER INFORMATION
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Mona Forster, VP & Corporate Secretary |
Primoris Group |
This News Release contains forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are statements which relate to future events. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “may”, “should”, “expects”, “plans”, “anticipates”, “believes”, “estimates”, “predicts”, “potential” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These statements are only predictions and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our or our industry’s actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.
While these forward-looking statements, and any assumptions upon which they are based, are made in good faith and reflect our current judgment regarding the direction of our business, actual results will almost always vary, sometimes materially, from any estimates, predictions, projections, assumptions or other future performance suggested herein. Except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws of the United States, the Company does not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements to conform these statements to actual results. Readers are referred to the sections entitled “Risk Factors” in the Company’s periodic filings with the British Columbia Securities Commission, which can be viewed at www.SEDAR.com, and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, which can be viewed at www.SEC.gov.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
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ENTRÉE GOLD INC. |
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Date March 13, 2008 |
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By: /s/ Mona Forster |
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