East Star provides Talairyk rare earths project update

Highlights:

• Completion of 30 boreholes for a total of 1001 m covering the southwestern part of the Ionic Adsorption Clay (IAC) hosted deposit.
• Drilling was designed to confirm historical grades, width and extent of the mineralisation, and provide samples for metallurgical test work.
• 90% of the boreholes recorded broad kaolinitic clay zones between 9 m and 53 m, averaging 32 m thickness.
  • Kaolinitic clay is the target lithology to potentially host high value heavy rare earth elements that can be easily extracted via relatively benign leach solutions.
• Samples currently undergoing further analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) to determine the sampling intersections for laboratory assay and leach test work.

Alex Walker, East Star CEO, commented:

''We are pleased to have been able to complete this programme this year so the assay and leach test work can be undertaken over the winter. Broad zones of kaolinitic clays are exactly what we hoped to see as this is the minerology where an ion exchange style REE+Y deposit might develop. If the results prove positive, we can launch straight into a dual strategy of resource and exploration drilling at the Talairyk project in 2023."

Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/16112022/east-star-provides-talairyk-rare-earths-project-update/