Assay Results At Black Mountain Property
SHREVEPORT, LA - International Star, Inc. reported that it has received encouraging results from rock chip and soil geochemistry samples taken from its Black Mountain, Arizona, property. Rock sample grades of up to 7.17 grams per metric ton (gpmt) gold and 712.0 gpmt silver confirm the presence of gold and silver rich zones of mineralization along trends containing historically mined deposits. These assays also show improved results in copper and molybdenum values from I-Star's 2008 sampling. I-Star did not have samples assayed for gold during 2008.
Outcrop rock chip samples and soil samples were taken by an I-Star geologist during 2008 and 2009 from grid sample patterns. These samples were submitted in March 2009 to Skyline Assayers & Laboratories, an Arizona licensed assay facility located in Tucson, Arizona (Skyline). The samples delivered to Skyline consisted of 91 new rock samples, 155 new soil samples and 259 rock and soil pulps of samples previously analyzed at the Mountain States Research and Development International assay lab in Tucson (MSRDI). The sample pulps were assayed by Skyline utilizing a significantly different process not offered by MSRDI. Skyline determined the gold and silver values by fire assay with gravimetric finish and analyzed 47 other elements by ICP/MS, utilizing the Four-Acid digestion process.
Collectively, the Skyline assay results show the presence of anomalous gold, silver, copper, molybdenum as well as many indicator and pathfinder elements for both precious and base metals deposits. Soil geochemical samples include values of up to 1.325 parts per million (ppm) gold and 6.9 ppm silver. Rock sample geochemical values of greater than 10,000 ppm copper and up to 1827.3 ppm molybdenum were also reported.
I-Star has the mineral rights to approximately 3.5 square miles in the Black Mountains, Mohave County, Arizona, in an area historically evaluated as a copper/molybdenum porphyry prospect. Historical gold mines are also present in the vicinity.