EAS commences Aceh porphyry copper-gold drilling program

Vancouver-based mining firm East Asia Minerals Corporation (EAS) reported Monday that that the 3000-meter diamond drilling program within its Barisan II copper-gold prospect in Aceh, is underway.

The first hole at Upper Tengkereng is now well advanced, and has been drilling in altered and copper mineralized porphyry from surface, the company said. The hole has now reached a depth of over 200 metres. Diamond core will be split and sampled for geochemical analysis on completion of the hole.

The drilling program will test a cluster of known porphyry prospects within a 6.2 kilometre long by 3 kilometre wide block (Upper and Lower Tengkereng and Bahu) with highly encouraging coincident copper-gold geochemistry and magnetic anomalies associated with zoned porphyry alteration and quartz veining, it said.

East Asia Minerals is an Asian-based, Canadian mineral exploration company with gold and copper exploration properties in Indonesia, and uranium exploration properties in Mongolia. In Indonesia the Company has a 70 to 85% interest in six advanced gold and gold-copper properties located in Aceh Province, Sumatra, and Sangihe Island, North Sulawesi. Two of these, the Sangihe (Binebase-Bawone) and Barisan 1 (Abong) gold projects are being drilled to define NI43-101 compliant resources. (alex)