Published by
Will Owen,
Editor
Global Mining Review,
East Star Resources Plc has announced the commencement of diamond drilling on the Apmintas Licence in the Chu-Ili orogenic gold belt of central Kazakhstan.
Initially the drilling will focus on the areas with known high-grade mineralisation including:
- Novoe target where discovery hole AP_008 intersected:
- 63m @ 4.51 g/t in September 2021.
- Southern Shabdar target where historical drilling intersected:
- 24.9 m @ 2.86 g/t Au.
- 8.2 m @ 13.0 g/t Au.
- 5 m @ 4.89 g/t Au.
- 1 m @ 24.8 g/t Au.
- 2 m @ 39.3 g/t Au.
- 2 m @ 39 g/t Au.
- Eshkilitau II where hole AP_021 intersected:
- 14 m @ 2.54g/t in September 2021.
- Historical results intersected:
- 1 m @ 7.00 g/t Au.
- 2.8 m @ 4.67 g/t Au.
- 1 m @ 4.62 g/t Au.
- 4 m @ 2.04 g/t Au and 1.3 m @ 8.2 g/t.
- 6 m @ 1.6 g/t.
- 2 m @ 28.8 g/t Au.
- 7 m @ 1.34 g/t Au and 1 m @ 13.61 g/t Au.
Alex Walker, East Star CEO, comments:
“After an extensive predrilling field programme which included geological surveys, soil sampling and ground-based magnetics, we are very excited to commence this high impact drilling campaign which we hope will provide the data required to prove extensive high-grade gold mineralisation.
“The drill programme aims to extend past intersections and grades along strike, with the potential to discover economic deposits from exploration of only a small part of the licence. By using diamond core, work can also be undertaken on the minerology and metallurgy including conducting ‘gravity recovered gold’ testing to begin establishing a processing route for eventual production.”
Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/28072022/east-star-commences-diamond-drilling-on-apmintas-licence/
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2022-07-28 08:55:59