Fri Feb 20, 2009 Amarc Completes $500,000 Financing BC Exploration Update
February 20, 2009, Vancouver, BC - Amarc Resources Ltd. ("Amarc" or the "Company") (TSXV: AHR; OTCBB: AXREF) announces that, further to its press release dated December 19, 2008, the Company has completed the previously announced private placement financing and has issued 5,000,000 equity units (the "Units") at a price of $0.10 per Unit for gross proceeds of $500,000. Each Unit consists of a flow-through common share and a non-flow-through warrant (a "Warrant"). Each Warrant is exercisable to purchase an additional common share at a price of $0.10 for a 24 month period. The Units are subject to a four month hold period under applicable Canadian securities legislation.
Proceeds from the offering will be used for Canadian exploration expenses.
Amarc also reports that analytical results have been received from the diamond drilling program at the Bodine-Warren property located in the central area of the highly prospective Sitlika Copper-Zinc Belt, near Fort St. James, British Columbia. The 2,241-meter diamond drill program was designed to test targets defined by strong copper and zinc, with associated silver and lead, soil anomalies and induced polarisation geophysical signatures, over a 2,000 meters by 700 meter area. Drilling intercepted thick sequences of favourable felsic volcanic rocks confirming the favourable geological environment for volcanogenic massive sulphide mineralisation. Strong rock alteration was found associated with significant intervals of disseminated to stringer-like zones of sulphide mineralisation that returned strongly anomalous zinc and copper values. However, no economic mineralisation was encountered.
Amarc Resources Ltd. is a Vancouver-based exploration and development company. In recent times Amarc has been focused on early stage exploration with efforts primarily directed towards making the next major new mineral deposit discovery within B.C. Amarc has also recently expanded its search, evaluating proposals from favorable mining jurisdictions around the world. Amarc is affiliated with Hunter Dickinson Services Inc., the personnel and management of which have enjoyed considerable success both in B.C. Examples of successful projects world-wide include Golden Bear, Mt. Milligan, Kemess, Prosperity, Gibraltar, Pebble, Xietongmen, Campo Morado and Burnstone.
Mark Rebagliati, P.Eng., a Qualified Person as defined under National Instrument 43-101, is supervising the exploration and quality assurance and quality control programs on behalf of Amarc and has reviewed the content of this release.
For further details on Amarc Resources Ltd., please visit the Company's website at www.amarcresources.com or contact Investor Services at (604) 684-6365 or within North America at 1-800-667-2114.
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD
Robert A. Dickinson Chairman
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