Centurion reports significant gold assays from Aceh prospect

Vancouver-based exploration firm Centurion Minerals Ltd. announced on Monday significant gold assay results from rock channel samples from the Zulham prospect within the Banda Raya property in Aceh province. The assay results are indicative of potentially large epithermal and/or shallow intrusion-related gold mineralization within the area.

Highlights from assay results received to date from a total of 105 rock samples taken from the Zulham prospect are as follows: 8 samples @ 6 - 14.5 grams/tonne (g/t) Au including 4 samples @ 10 - 14.5 g/t Au, 18 samples @ 1 - 3.9 g/t Au, 17 samples @ 0.1 - 0.9 g/t Au. The balance are less than 0.1 g/t Au.

All assays came from 1 metre (m) sawn rock channel samples with the exception of four analyses within the 1 - 3.9 g/t Au group that were rock chip samples. The Company is currently preparing a first-phase drilling program in the area to commence as quickly as possible.

The Zulham prospect is situated within the east-west trending Miwah-Menawan lineament and approximately 1875 m above sea level. Thus far, the mineralization has been defined over an area of 300 m in length and 2-7 m in width, and remains open in all directions. Gold is believed to occur in galena-sphalerite-dominated sulfide veins and stockworks, sheeted veins with comb texture, vuggy breccias with sulfide dissemination, and hydrothermal breccias with sulfide cements.

Furthermore, the Zulham prospect is approximately 750 m northeast of the previously identified Keladi prospect, from which past explorer Highlands Pacific Ltd. reported nine rock chip samples that returned between 2 and 27 g/t Au over a 500 m long vein system. Both Zulham and Keladi lie within a 1.5-km diameter multiple-ring circular structure. (romel)