08:44 AM EST, 12/20/2017 (MT Newswires) -- Almaden Minerals Ltd. (AMM.TO) (NYSE MKT: AAU) announced Wednesday new assay results from its ongoing exploration and development program at the company's Tuligtic project, Mexico. It said today's results are from holes TU-17-508, 517, 521, 522, 524, 525, 526 and 528 which were drilled to follow-up hole TU-17-504 (announced in August) that intersected new and significant mineralisation in an upper portion of the Pre-Feasibility Study pit which was modelled as waste material in the company's PFS. It added these latest results confirm the discovery of a new zone of mineralisation in the volcanic and limestone lithologies.

In summary, it hit 16.40 m of 2.25 g/t Gold and 25.3 g/t Silver and 10.50 m of 2.45 g/t Gold and 24.4 g/t Silver in the upper portion of its PFS Pit.

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