27th January 2004 The Manager, Company
Announcements Australian Stock Exchange Sydney, NSW
"A1
COMMITS TO 20,000 METRE DRILL PROGRAM FOLLOWING ROBUST RESULTS AT ITS
BRIGHTSTAR GOLD PROJECT.
Listed explorer A1 Minerals Limited
(ASX:AMM) has brought forward to early February its planned 20,000
metre RAB/Aircore drill program on the basis of initial results from its
extensive vacuum geochem drilling of its 100% owned BrightStar Gold
Project.
The ongoing vacuum geochem drilling over the 10 kilometre
by 2 kilometre BrightStar anomalous trend is on schedule and the first
results are showing robust, greater than 60ppb gold, soil anomalism
beyond, and contiguous with, the BrightStar Discovery Zone.
These
results are comparable to the surface anomalism above the following
previously published gold intercepts at the initial BrightStar Discovery
Zone: 12m @ 47.66g/t(uncut), 10m @ 5.65g/t, 7m @ 7.09g/t , 8m @ 4.42g/t,
5m @ 4.27g/t, 5m @ 9.97g/t, and 7m @ 7.65g/t.
The anomalism
indicates potential for near-surface gold resources extending northwards
from the BrightStar Discovery Zone and also parallel to it.
This is
an important step in the Company’s program to confirm the presence of a
large gold system within this large geochemical ‘footprint’, and gives
further encouragement that AI has discovered a large shallow-dipping
multiple stacked gold resource, similar in style to nearby 7 million ounce
discoveries at Sunrise/Cleo and Wallaby/Just in Case.
Although only
40% of the planned vacuum drilling program has been completed, the
extremely encouraging results to date have enabled the Company to bring
forward to early February its 20,000 metre RAB/Aircore drill program
designed to test the anomalies.
Drilling is expected to commence in
the first week of February. Directors expect to report more results to
shareholders, from the vacuum program at the end of February.
Yours
faithfully, John Williams Managing Director Information in this
ASX announcement relating to geological data has been compiled by Mr John
Williams, a Member of the AusIMM, who has more than 5 years experience in
the field of activity being reported".
AAM---A1 Minerals: http://www.a1minerals.com.au
Gerry
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