EAS encounters 106.46 g/t gold over 4.60m at Aceh gold project

Vancouver-based mineral explorer East Asia Minerals Corporation (EAS) announced on Monday that it continued to encounter significant gold intercepts from rock sawn channel sampling at its Miwah Gold Project located in Aceh Province.

The latest sampling has encountered high-grade gold from the eastern part of the shallow, laterally extensive Main Miwah Gold Zone, including 106.46 g/t gold over 4.60 metres and 3.10 g/t gold over 5.60 metres, it said.

Michael Hawkins, President and CEO of EAS stated "We continue to be very encouraged by the tenor of our widely distributed rock sawn channel sampling of this well exposed high sulphidation epithermal gold system. The ongoing detailed mapping and extensive surface sampling is improving our geologic modelling of the Miwah Gold system and supports the interpretation that the upper part of the Main Miwah Gold Zone is higher grade than the lower parts of the system. Also encouraging is that recent drill results from the western area of the Main Miwah Gold Zone returned higher grades in the upper part of the system than the adjacent surface samples."

The Miwah Gold Prospect was partially defined by approximately 3,000 metres of drilling in eleven holes by a previous explorer in 1997. All holes drilled during this program intersected significant alteration and mineralization with intercepts including 71 metres of 1.4 g/t gold and 58 metres of 1.1 g/t gold. The previous explorer suggested potential for 100 Mt at 1.1 to 1.2 g/t gold, however a review of the historical data indicates that early drilling was parallel to higher grade (greater than 5 g/t gold) structures at surface, and topographically too low to intersect higher grade parts of the Main Miwah Gold Zone . Hence, in addition to greater mineralized tonnage, significantly higher overall grades are anticipated from better geological understanding, results of the Company's detailed sampling, and properly oriented and located drill holes.(alex)