East Asia Minerals reports progress With Abong and Sangihe drill programs

Canadian firm East Asia Minerals Corporation reported on Monday that drill programs at its Abong, Aceh province and Sangihe projects North Sulawesi are progressing well towards the planned year-end NI43-101 resource estimates.

Drilling at the flat-lying, near-surface Abong Jasperoid Prospect continues to produce gold-bearing intercepts including 3.60 g/t gold over 13.0 metres and 2.69 g/t gold over 17.0 metres. Additionally, drilling in the northeast and south-central areas of the Binebase Prospect at the Sangihe Property is defining the oxide gold outlines for the extensive near-surface Binebase-Bawone epithermal gold mineralization, the company 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)