East Asia Minerals Corporation has defined additional surface, epithermal gold drill targets in the Abong area of the Barisan Property in Aceh Province, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

Results of trench sampling include 12.11 grams/tonne gold over 8.0 metres at the Bintang Prospect and 4.75 grams/tonne gold over 16.0metres at the Fikri Prospect.

At Bintang trench sampling encountered several significant intervals of gold mineralization. Gold at Bintang was outlined by previous senior explorers in a surface exposed breccia zone within sediments, covering an area of about 750m x 450m. Within this was outlined an area of about 400m x 100m grading greater than 5 grams/tonne gold immediately north-west of the area sampled by East Asia Minerals.

Bintang is north-west of a related and larger flat lying, surface exposed gold bearing Jasperoid Zone, which was drilled by two major mining companies in the mid 1990s. A speculative non-43-101 compliant resource of between 40 and 60 million tonnes grading 1.0 to 1.5 grams/tonne gold, for a total of about 1.5 million ounces of gold, was estimated on the basis of their drilling, surface sampling, mapping and geophysical modeling.

At Fikri, 600m south-east of Bintang and north-west of the Jasperoid Zone, East Asia is also encouraged to have encountered another surface exposed epithermal zone open for drill testing. The mineralization is along structures and in collapsed breccias developed along the main Abong Area corridor in the limestone.

Previous exploration at the Jasperoid Zone, and the Bintang and Fikri Prospects was terminated on non-technical grounds, leaving much of the mineralization open in several directions. A drilling program has started at the Jasperoid Zone, which will be followed with initial phase drilling of the Bintang and Fikri Prospects.

East Asia president and CEO Michael Hawkins says: "We are greatly encouraged to have advanced another property with substantial gold potential to drill stage, after recently proving similar potential at the Sangihe Property where drilling is encountering strong gold results. These premier assets reflect the under-tested potential of Indonesia and our early entry into Aceh has us well placed for success as we develop more epithermal and porphyry drill targets."

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