A soil survey and geological mapping program has identified 10 significant exploration target areas at Maxy Gold"s Danbolongwa permit in the Huangnan copper-gold project, Qinghai Province, China.

It is the first property incorporated under Maxy"s exploration alliance agreement with Western Mining Group.

Watts, Griffis and McOuat has reviewed the results of the survey and mapping completed by the Geology Research Centre of Geosciences and Environment Engineering Department of Central South University (CSU), which collected 808 soil samples and 15 rock grab samples as part of its 1:25,000 scale 2006 survey.

The survey was commissioned by Western Mining and covers an area of 60sqkm, which included about 15% of the northern part of the Danbolongwa permit area.

Sixteen of the 24 highest soil geochemical anomalies identified by the survey, including those with the best copper, lead, zinc, molybdenum and tungsten values, are on Maxy's Danbolongwa permit.

Maxy president and CEO Andre Gauthier says: "We are extremely pleased with the soil geochemistry survey, which confirms the very high potential to discover base metal and precious metal deposits on the Danbolongwa property.

"It is particularly encouraging that these results come from surveying only the northern 15% of the permit, while the remaining 85% has open potential.

"We anticipate that an aggressive and systematic exploration program will verify these anomalies and test the oxide surface and hard rock potential of the whole of this high potential property."