EAS expands drilling at Aceh gold prospect

Vancouver-based mineral explorer East Asia Minerals Corporation (EAS) announced Friday that the initial ten-hole diamond drill program at its Main Miwah Gold Zone Project in Aceh Province, Northern Sumatra will be expanded to acquire drill information to complete a NI43-101 compliant resource estimate.

This decision is based on consistent strong gold results across the mineralized body, it said.

To date five holes of the initial ten-hole program have been completed over 500 metres strike length. This program was designed to provide a 3D validation along the 1,200 metre east-west extent of the Main Miwah gold-bearing silica zone, and to provide the framework for follow-up drilling.

EAS 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)