EAS continues to strike gold at Aceh project
Tuesday, January 12 2010 - 12:01 AM WIB
EMD015 encountered 1.01 g/t gold over 132.9 metres, including 1.64 g/t gold over 70.2 metres, reported the company.
The hole was drilled south from the Company's gold rich EMD012A/013 drill holes.
To date East Asia has drilled 1 kilometre of strike length along the shallow, laterally extensive 1.2 kilometre long Main Miwah Gold Zone, and has encountered wide intercepts of gold mineralization in all holes drilled.
The Main Miwah Gold Zone remains open in all directions, it said.
The Company also reports that a second drill rig, capable of drilling to 350 metres depth, has arrived on site and will commence NI43-101 resource estimate drilling at the western end of the Miwah Gold Zone.
EMD016 has also been completed with assays results are pending.
The company plans to start drilling of EDM 17 and 18 this week.
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 advanced to define NI43-101 compliant resources. (alex)