Kentor Gold has started diamond drilling at the Savoyardy gold project in the Kyrgyz Republic.

The initial program is for 1500 metres of drilling designed to delineate the first JORC resources for the Savoyardy project. The drilling has been designed to test a 300 metres length of strike to a depth of about 90 metres below surface.

Exploration trenches and adits constructed in the 1970s showed the presence of high grade gold and antimony contained in a number of structures with widths of up to 27 metres. The mineralized structures can be traced for more than 7km to the south-west along strike until they move off the Savoyardy exploration licence at the Chinese border.

Across the border in China, drilling by Canadian explorer Majestic Gold has extended along the same mineralized structures towards the boundary bordering Kentor's licence.

In addition to the exploration drilling, Kentor has started a programme of mapping, trenching and sampling in the area between the drill programme and the Chinese border.