Exploration Results On Detrital Wash Claim Block

SHREVEPORT, LA - International Star, Inc. (I-Star) reported additional details of the results obtained during recent mineral exploration activities on its Detrital Wash claim block in Mohave County, Arizona. In July, I-Star announced that assays performed by an Arizona registered and licensed lab on 252 geological samples recently collected from its mining claims in the Detrital Wash area support historical records obtained by I-Star of significant copper and molybdenum mineralization in both the Black Mountains and northern White Hills in the Detrital region. I-Star noted that the sampling and assays were part of its ongoing exploration work and its efforts to bring this historical data up to current National Instrument (NI) 43-101 industry standards.
The assayed samples collected as part of I-Star's current exploration program have indicated an area of mineralization extending over 24 square miles in the Black Mountains, along with additional mineralization covering several square miles in the White Hills area. Working under a limited budget, I-Star's consultant geologist and consultant engineer have evaluated I-Star's claims throughout these areas and have located and staked 430 lode claims covering I-Star's mineral discoveries.
Mineralization values found by the assays reported in July ranged from 25 parts per million (ppm) to 6.10% for copper and less than 1 ppm to 906 ppm for molybdenum. A value of 32 ppm equates to one ounce of mineral per ton. Samples given in percentages represent percent per ton. For example, the sample assayed at 6% copper equates to 6%, or one hundred twenty pounds, per one ton.
Among the assayed samples taken from the Black Mountains area, a group of samples were collected from a single north-south sample line 1.9 miles long, which follows the claim location line of AMAX, a mining company that explored the area in the 1960's. These samples assayed from 91 to 290 ppm copper. By duplicating this sample and location line, I-Star has verified under NI 43-101 standards that its historical, non-NI 43-101 data for this line is accurate. As a result, I-Star now has established legal discoveries for each of its claims along this line.
Rock and soil samples were also collected from claim location lines running east-west over an altered and silicified Precambrian gneiss and an "iron cap" or leached zone, respectively, which are usually defined as overlying secondary or supergene mineralization. Those samples are a combination of samples collected at the location posts of claims extending for an aggregate of two miles across the mineralized terrain.
I-Star management believes the evidence of copper mineralization in the White Hills area is significant because it represents an unexpected possibility of another porphyry copper system which had not previously been identified. This initial exploratory work in the White Hills also represents I-Star's first substantial foray into exploring for precious and base metals along the Detrital Wash. This first effort, which was directed at discovering the potential for northerly extensions of the old White Hills silver district ore bodies, appears to have been successful in finding anomalous silver mineralization.
Based on these results, I-Star has developed plans, subject to obtaining additional funding, to begin a new phase of exploratory activity to continue verification of the historical data and obtain further data regarding mineralization existing on its Detrital Wash properties.
The company's address is P. O. Box 7202, Shreveport, LA 71137, 318-464-8687, fax: 318-429-8036.