THUNDER MOUNTAIN
GOLD INC.
5248 W. Chinden Blvd.
Boise, Idaho 83714
Telephone: (208) 658-1037
Fax: (208) 322-5626
News Release
THUNDER MOUNTAIN GOLD INC. REPORTS POSITIVE SAMPLING RESULTS AT
ITS SOUTH MOUNTAIN PROJECT
Boise, Idaho, and Elko, Nevada, September 1, 2010: Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc. (OTCBB: THMG, TSXV - Pending) (Company), a US-based exploration company focused on discovering and defining high grade,
high quality precious and base metal resources, is pleased to announce the positive results of its road cut
sampling program completed in July on the Intrusive Gold Breccia Zone at South Mountain. The Company
completed approximately two miles of exploration road to access and drill the broad gold-bearing breccia
defined by the soil sampling program completed last year by Company geologists. The results confirmed an
extensive gold anomaly with all but two of the samples containing detectable gold.
A total of 115 road cut samples were collected along the new roads in 100-foot, 50-foot or 25-foot intervals,
depending upon whether the road was in soils, colluvium or bedrock. Over 8,700 feet of roads were sampled as
part of the program. The average value of all samples averaged 132 parts per billion (ppb), or 0.004 ounce per
ton (opt). The 2,600 feet of road cuts within the main anomaly target areas averaged 497 ppb (0.015 opt). The
values ranged up to 859 ppb, or 0.025 opt, over 25 feet or road cut. The road samples confirmed the geological
structural control that has been outlined by geologic mapping along with rock chip and soil sampling programs.
Jim Collord, President of Thunder Mountain Gold, commented, “The preliminary sample results are
outstanding and increase our confidence in the South Mountain gold target discovered by the Company. The
sample geology and gold values exposed by the new roads show the target has the potential to be more
extensive than we initially expected. We look forward to the start of our drilling program to test the vertical
extent and grade of the large anomaly. The drilling is scheduled to start by mid-September.”
The goal of the sampling program was to better define the extent and quality of gold mineralization in the
intrusive hosted intrusive gold-bearing breccia, an anomaly that covers an area approximately one mile long by
nearly one-half a mile wide and is located approximately one-half mile south of the historic South Mountain
polymetallic mine area. Systematic mapping and sampling of breccia outcrops were completed along with
preliminary geologic mapping. The road cut samples were screened in the field to quarter-inch minus in areas
of areas of poor outcrop with rock chips being collected in bedrock zones, then delivered by Company
personnel for analytical work to ALS Chemex Laboratory in Elko, Nevada.
The intrusive breccia exposed in the road cut consists of fragments of altered multi-compositional intrusive rock
and silicified fragments of schist and marble. Initial rock chip samples from 2009 exploration in the outcrop
area ranged from 490 ppb to 1700 ppb gold, and follow-up outcrop and float sampling in 2009 yielded gold
values ranging from 47 ppb to 5,810 ppm. The 2009 soil sampling program of 236 samples confirmed the
extent of the anomaly with values ranging up to 700+ ppb. Approximately 75% of them contained anomalous
gold values.
About Thunder Mountain Gold, Inc.:
Thunder Mountain Gold, founded in 1935, is an exploration company focused on discovering and defining high
grade, high quality precious and base metal projects primarily in politically stable regions such as the Western
United States. Thunder Mountain Gold performs its own natural resource exploration and generates value for
shareholders by demonstrating the value of its properties through a comprehensive drilling program and then
seeking strategic partners to move the properties into production. South Mountain, its flagship property located
in Owyhee County Idaho – just north of the Nevada border, is 100% owned/controlled with 17 patented mining
claims, along with private leases totaling over 1,200 acres. The Company`s other precious metals properties
include Clover Mountain in Idaho, the Trout Creek and West Tonopah in Nevada, along with two properties in
Arizona.
Forward-Looking Statements: Statements made which are not historical facts, such as anticipated production,
exploration results, costs or sales performance are "forward-looking statements", and involve a number of risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, anticipated, expected or implied.
These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, metals prices volatility, volatility of metals production,
exploration project uncertainties, industrial minerals market conditions and project development risks. Refer to the
Company's Periodic Filings for a more detailed discussion of factors that may impact expected future results. Thunder
Mountain Gold undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements.
Cautionary Note to Investors - The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) permits mining
companies, in their filings with the SEC, to disclose only those mineral deposits that a company can economically and
legally extract or produce.
Investor Relations: At Cameron Associates: Alison Ziegler - alison@cameronassoc.com or (212) 554-5469
At the Company:
Eric Jones - eric@thundermountaingold.com or (208) 658-1037
Jim Collord - jim@thundermountaingold.com
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Website: www.thundermountaingold.com
OTCBB: THMG.OB