Eau Claire Drilling Intersects High-Grade Gold

 

TORONTO, ON - Eastmain Resources Inc. reported final assay data from 20 drill holes completed during a winter campaign on its wholly-owned Eau Claire Gold Deposit, located in James Bay, Northern QuŽbec. 65 gold-bearing vein and schist zones intersected within the Eau Claire gold deposit include 27 veins containing visible gold ranging from 4.58 g/t Au to 348 g/t Au or 10.2 ounces gold per ton.

Drilling cut across seven near-surface, high-grade intervals within the D Vein. Hole ER09-190 intersected 10.2 ounces gold per ton over 0.5 metres. This hole is located 580 metres west of discovery hole C87L06, which also intersected 14.5 ounces per ton (497 g/t Au) over 2.0 metres within the D Vein. Other significant D-Vein intercepts comprise 5.50 g/t Au over 4.50 metres, including 39.4 g/t Au over a half-metre, in hole ER09-188 and 11.75 g/t Au over 2.50 metres, including 22.3 g/t Au over 0.5 metres, in hole ER09-194.

Eight vein intercepts from the G Vein include: 26.94 g/t Au over one metre, including 47.1 g/t Au across a half-metre, in hole ER09-185; 20.31 g/t Au over a metre, with 40.6 g/t Au over 0.5 metres, in hole ER09-188 and 21.76 g/t Au over 1.0 metres, including a half-metre sample at 38.0 g/t Au, in hole ER09-195.

Drill hole ER09-185 intersected the JQ Vein across 8.50 metres grading 5.25 g/t Au. This includes a half-metre intersection of 15.6 g/t Au.

High-grade, gold-bearing veins from the T-series have been delineated along a strike length of 300 metres. T-Vein intersections from the northernmost hole into the deposit, ER09-187, comprise 7.13 g/t Au over 1.0 metres; 9.31 g/t Au over 2.5 metres (including 39.0 g/t Au), and 10.37 g/t Au over 4.0 metres, which also contains 60.7 g/t Au over 0.5 metres.

Definition drilling at Eau Claire has been very successful in confirming a higher average grade for quartz-tourmaline vein and schist zones throughout the gold deposit. Over the past 16 months 125 (HQ) drill holes have intersected 365 gold-bearing, quartz-tourmaline vein intervals, of which 147 contain visible gold. These 365 intercepts have an average grade of 14.0 g/t Au (0.41 ounces per ton) at an average thickness of 1.32 metres (Table 1). 250 vein intervals contain an average grade of 19.6 g/t Au (0.57 ounces per ton). 150 vein intercepts contain an average of 28.2 g/t Au (0.82 ounces per ton). 50 vein intervals contain 66.0 g/t Au (1.93 ounces per ton) and 10 intersections average 210 g/t Au (6.14 ounces per ton). None of these veins have been included in the current resource calculation.

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