Northern Mining starts exploration at Harab Suit
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Mon 14 Jun 2004 News Release
Mr. Carlos Bertoni reports
NORTHERN MINING UNDERTAKES ITS EXPLORATION PROGRAM IN ERITREA
Northern Mining Explorations Ltd. has commenced an exploration program at
the Harab Suit project in Eritrea, East Africa. This program follows the
completion of a due diligence of the portfolio held in that country by
Eritrean Minerals Corp., the control of which was recently acquired by
Northern Mining.
The Harab Suit exploration licence covers an area of approximately 420
square kilometres located in the northwest of Eritrea. At least three
important shear zones have been identified in the licence, one of them
hosting the abandoned Harab Suit gold mine, developed in the late 1930s
during the Italian colonial period. This mine was developed on a large
ridge underlain by outcropping sheared and altered quartz porphyry diorite,
containing pervasive quartz veining and pyrite-chalcopyrite disseminations.
The main shear zone of interest outcrops for a strike distance of
approximately nine kilometres and has an apparent width of 35 to 110
metres. Geologic mapping indicates that this shear contains gold
mineralization at several intervals along its length. The company's review
of the area confirmed the existence of a total of 11 new sites in the area
returning significant gold values. Northern Mining has mobilized four teams
to systematically sample the large number of outcropping mineralized quartz
vein swarms. This sampling is accompanied by geological mapping and all the
ancillary work to prepare the property for diamond drilling on the second
semester of 2004.
Carlos Bertoni, chief executive officer of Northern Mining, stated: "Our
review of the Eritrean portfolio held by Eritrean Minerals Corporation
clearly indicated that we should start our exploration efforts in the
country at Harab Suit. In few places of the world one can still walk over
extensive mineralized outcrops that have received little or no exploration
of any type, like at Harab Suit. Our dilemma on properties like this is not
what to do, but where to start and how to maximize our exploration dollars
with efficient and conclusive work. At Harab Suit we plan to take advantage
of the large amount of outcrop and do a maximum of careful surface sampling
before we embark on diamond drilling programs. I am confident we will be
rewarded with significant results."
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