East Asia Minerals is continuing to firm up prospects at its Abong jasperoid prospect in Aceh Province, Indonesia, with a quick-paced drill campaign producing gold-bearing intercepts.

The results from the shallow dipping, near-surface prospect, come as the company plans a year-end resource estimate.

The best results from the latest program include 1.67 grams/tonne gold over 9.0 metres,
1.44 grams/tonne gold over 14.0 metres, 4.14 grams/tonne gold over 11.0 metres and 3.08 grams/tonne gold over 12.0 metres. The drill rig continues to make good progress with the campaign.

Resource stage exploration drilling remains focused along the 3 x 1.5km Abong Corridor where epithermal gold mineralization is controlled by late-stage open space infilling within an extensive outcropping/sub-cropping jasperoid ‘blanket’.

The mineralized jasperoid has been outlined for greater than 1500 metres strike and up to 750 metres width, and is typically 10 to 15 metres thick. It remains open along the northwest-southeast strike direction, and across strike in the southwest-northeast direction

The Bintang and Fikri Prospects also remain priority targets where high-grade gold occurs laterally along basal surge tuff horizons within the gold-bearing jasperiod ‘blanket’ and in breccia feeder zones that extend to depth. These feeder zones will be drill tested for high-grade bonanza gold zones that are typical of epithermal gold environments.

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