Lone Star Copper-Gold Project Drilling Begins

VANCOUVER - Belmont Resources Inc. reported that a 5,800 meter (m) drill program to further develop the known copper-gold deposit at its Lone Star Copper-Gold Project situated in the prolifically mineralized Republic Graben in Washington State.

President & CEO, George Sookochoff, said, “Management at Belmont are delighted that drilling has started on the Lone Star project by Marquee. This is the beginning of a very aggressive drill program that will eventually advance the project to a “production ready stage” within a relatively short time line. We look forward to receiving and announcing assay results in the near future.”

The Lone Star deposit has an historic resource estimate which was reported in a “Technical Report and Resource Estimate on the Lone Star Deposit, Ferry County Washington for Merit Mining Corp. and authored by P&E Mining Consultants Inc.