East Star commences diamond drilling on Apmintas Licence

Initially the drilling will focus on the areas with known high-grade mineralisation including:

• Novoe target where discovery hole AP_008 intersected:
  • 63m @ 4.51 g/t in September 2021.
• Southern Shabdar target where historical drilling intersected:
  • 24.9 m @ 2.86 g/t Au.
  • 8.2 m @ 13.0 g/t Au.
  • 5 m @ 4.89 g/t Au.
  • 1 m @ 24.8 g/t Au.
  • 2 m @ 39.3 g/t Au.
  • 2 m @ 39 g/t Au.
• Eshkilitau II where hole AP_021 intersected:
  • 14 m @ 2.54g/t in September 2021.
• Historical results intersected:
  • 1 m @ 7.00 g/t Au.
  • 2.8 m @ 4.67 g/t Au.
  • 1 m @ 4.62 g/t Au.
  • 4 m @ 2.04 g/t Au and 1.3 m @ 8.2 g/t.
  • 6 m @ 1.6 g/t.
  • 2 m @ 28.8 g/t Au.
  • 7 m @ 1.34 g/t Au and 1 m @ 13.61 g/t Au.

Alex Walker, East Star CEO, comments:

“After an extensive predrilling field programme which included geological surveys, soil sampling and ground-based magnetics, we are very excited to commence this high impact drilling campaign which we hope will provide the data required to prove extensive high-grade gold mineralisation.

“The drill programme aims to extend past intersections and grades along strike, with the potential to discover economic deposits from exploration of only a small part of the licence. By using diamond core, work can also be undertaken on the minerology and metallurgy including conducting ‘gravity recovered gold’ testing to begin establishing a processing route for eventual production.”