Southern Arc mobilizes rigs for West Lombok Property

Canadian mineral exploration firm Southern Arc Minerals Inc. announced Tuesday that three diamond drill rigs have been mobilized for the Phase 2 drilling activities at its Pelangan Epithermal Au-Ag Prospect located in West Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara.

The drill rigs will immediately commence diamond drill testing for high-grade shoots at the Central Raja target in the Pelangan Prospect. Raja forms part of an extensive (3 by 2 km) area of epithermal Au-Ag mineralization, where Au-Ag bearing quartz veins and breccias overprint structurally controlled silica-ledges.

The drill rigs supplied by PT. Promincon Indonesia are capable of coring to depths of greater than 400 metres, which will adequately cover the scope of this phase of drilling.

The company's aim for the next 12 months at Pelangan is to complete Phase 2 and infill resource drilling of defined MSB's (15,000+ metres), leading to NI 43-101compliant resource status. In association with this will be aggressive drill targeting of "bonanza" style ore shoots, the company said. (alex)