East Star Resources announced that it has acquired historical drilling results over the “Southern Shabdar” which is located on the Apmintas Licence in Kazakhistan. Following the company’s analysis, “Southern Shabdar” will be added as a highly ranked target for the 2022 drilling programme.
The “Southern Shabdar” gold target was initially explored for uranium by the Kazakh State Geology Company “Stepgeologya” in 1987. During initial reconnaissance, elevated gold contents were identified in the area, which served as the basis for reorienting the work as a gold prospect.
1987 – 1994 drilling by Stepgeologya includes the following highlighted intersections:
- Southwest dipping borehole C-375 intersected 24.9m @ 2.86 g/t Au
- Vertical Borehole C-32069 intersected 8.2m @ 13.0 g/t Au
2005 -2006 drilling by Odak includes the following highlighted intersections:
- Vertical Borehole C-36 intersected 5m @ 4.89 g/t Au from 53m
- Vertical Borehole C-38 intersected 1m @ 24.8 g/t Au from 15m and 2m @ 39.3 g/t Au from 28m
- Southwest dipping borehole C-78 intersected 2m @ 39 g/t Au from 275m
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East Star CEO, Alex Walker, commented on acquisition of historical drilling results: “The acquisition of this drill data further demonstrates the quality of the exploration potential of the Apmintas Licence. The shallow, high-grade intersections at “Southern Shabdar,” repeated over a number of structures, and with demonstrated continuation of the gold mineralisation at depth, provides another high priority target on the Apmintas Licence with the potential to form an economic orebody. We are therefore very excited to add the target to our 2022 exploration programme.
Further, the ongoing interpretation of the magnetic survey data, flown in September 2021, will give us a much better idea of the wider potential of the “Southern Shabdar” target and, we hope, identify similar orebodies underneath cover which represents around 60% of the
Apmintas Licence.”
