Release: Oropa: more significant drill intersections at Sambung prospect
Tuesday, June 27 2006 - 03:25 AM WIB
Drill hole SAMDD019 intersected two mineralised zones with values of:
? 26m @ 2.86g/t Au from 7m (including 11m @ 4.23g/t Au from 8m) and
? 19m @ 2.27g/t Au from 48m (including 3m @ 10.07g/t Au from 59m)
Elevated gold values were encountered down the entire hole, with ore-grade values returned from zones of massive jasperoid.
Results from drill hole SAMDD016 (18m @ 2.84g/t Au from 35m, (including 6m @ 4.88g/t Au from 38m), located approximately 70m grid north of SAMDD019, indicates a broad zone of relatively thick mineralisation is present in this area.
Hole SAMDD018, located approximately 100m grid east of SAMDD019 also intersected mineralisation but due to very poor core recoveries these results are not reliable and will not be released to the market. The hole will be re-drilled at the contractors? expense.
These results are highly encouraging as both of holes SAMDD016 and SAMDD019 were completed away from broad zones of high grade gold values encountered in earlier trenching, indicating possible width extensions to known mineralisation.
Trenching completed earlier at Sambung identified significant gold mineralisation over several hundred strikes metres. The company is currently systematically testing the target area with two diamond drill rigs. (end of release)