Southern Arc updates drilling results of West Lombok project

By Peni Pedriawan

TSX-listed Southern Arc Minerals provided drilling results from Bising target in the Mencanggah prospect on Southern Arc's West Lombok property.

As previously announced, Southern Arc announced planned to commence drilling at West Lombok, with a near-term exploration focus on epithermal gold-bearing structural breccias in the Mencanggah prospect.

Southern Arc mobilized three drill rigs to the Bising target and initiated a Phase 2 drill program to expand the zones of mineralization adjacent to wide mineralized intercepts identified with Phase 1 drilling.

The highlight Phase 2 drilling intercepts include:
MCG04166.8 m @ 0.66 g/t gold and 2.4 g/t silver from 20.0 m including 22.9 m @ 1.16 g/t gold and 2.7 g/t silver from 22.0 m

MCG04253.2 m @ 1.04 g/t gold and 1.4 g/t silver from 16.0 m including 1.0 m @ 9.67 g/t gold and 0.8 g/t silver from 32.2 m and 0.30 m @ 10.2 g/t gold and 61.3 g/t silver from 46.3 m

MCG04342.4 m @ 0.51 g/t gold and 1.1 g/t silver from 20.7 m including 10.1 m @ 1.0 g/t gold and 1.9 g/t silver from 39.0 m

MCG04458.15 m @ 0.61 g/t gold from 87.85 m including 11.0 m @ 1.3 g/t gold from 104.6 m and 7.5 m @ 1.1 g/t gold from 123.0 m

"We are encouraged that wide intervals averaging greater than 1 g/t gold mineralization have been intersected in a large proportion of the diamond drill holes in the Bising target," said Mike Andrews, President and Chief Operating Officer of Southern Arc.

"These results continue to demonstrate the consistency and width of mineralization at Bising."

Editing by Adianto P. Simamora