East Star Resources commences Apmintas drilling

Alex Walker, East Star CEO, commented: “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.”

Targeting

Initially the drilling will focus on the areas with known high-grade mineralisation, including:

• Novoe target, where discovery hole AP_008 intersected 63 m at 4.51 g/t gold (Au) in September 2021.
• Southern Shabdar target, where historical drilling intersected:
  • 24.9 m at 2.86 g/t Au.
  • 8.2 m at 13 g/t Au.
  • 5 m at 4.89 g/t Au.
  • 1 m at 24.8 g/t Au.
  • 2 m at 39.3 g/t Au.
  • 2 m at 39 g/t Au.
• Eshkilitau II, where hole AP_021 intersected 14 m at 2.54 g/t in September 2021.
  • Historical results intersected:
    • 1 m at 7 g/t Au.
    • 2.8 m at 4.67 g/t Au.
    • 1 m at 4.62 g/t Au.
    • 4 m at 2.04 g/t Au and 1.3 m at 8.2 g/t.
    • 6 m at 1.6 g/t.
    • 2 m at 28.8 g/t Au.
    • 7 m at 1.34 g/t Au and 1 m at 13.61 g/t Au.

Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/exploration-development/25072022/east-star-resources-commences-apmintas-drilling/