South Star Mining Completes 2018 Drilling Program at Santa Cruz Graphite Project and Announces Further Positive Assay Results
Vancouver, December 13th, 2018 - South Star Mining Corp. ("South Star" or the "Company") (TSXV: STS) (OTCQB: STSBF) is pleased to announce that it has received additional positive assay results expanding mineralization at depth and along strike at its Santa Cruz Graphite Project (Project) in Brazil. The Santa Cruz project is located in the heart of the largest flake producing graphite province outside of China with a history of continuous production for over 70 years. 2018 Exploration Program
South Star's 2018 field program included trenching and 34 holes of drilling consisting of 27 reverse circulation (RC) holes for approximately 1250 meters and 7 diamond (HQ) holes for approximately 550 meters. Assay results for the first group of reverse circulation (RC) holes have been received. The holes were aimed at expanding shallow resources and included some step-out holes for testing lateral extents of the mineralized zone. As previously reported, the NI 43-101 resource at Santa Cruz, released in conjunction with its Preliminary Economic Assessment dated August 21, 2017, included Indicated Resources of 14,990,400 tonnes at an average grade of 2.70% Cg and 3,572,100 tonnes of Inferred Resources with an average grade of 2.90% Cg. Further assay results will be reported in future communications.
Reverse Circulation Drill Highlights
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- 11 meters at 2.6% Cg in hole 55-SPC-RC-001, including 4 meters at 4.4%
- 17 meters at 1.9% Cg in hole 55-SPC-RC-002
- 26.5 meters at 1.9% Cg in hole 55-SPC-RC-005 starting at surface, including 9 meters at 3%
- 45 meters at 2.2% Cg in hole 55-SPC-RC-005B starting at surface, including 10 meters at 3%
- 18 meters at 3.5% Cg in hole 55-SPC-RC-008
Company CEO Eric Allison stated "The continuation of good assay results from our 2018 exploration program is very encouraging as we advance our Santa Cruz project. We look forward to releasing a revised resource estimate during the first quarter of 2019 as well as further results from our purification testing, licensing and permitting efforts." Mr. Allison added "drilling results and project development activities continue to advance our project towards our goal of production and positive cash flow."
The program is focused on the Sao Manuel and Sao Rubens targets of the Project. The 2018 field program is complete with all final sample analyses expected by the end of the year.
Initial sample preparation and logging are carried out at the Company's facility in Itabela with analytics being performed at the SGS Geosol Laboratories in Belo Horizonte, Brazil using LECO analysis to determine graphitic carbon (Cg).
Richard L. Pearce is a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the preparation and approval of the technical information disclosed in this news release.
Insert Table with results for all holes.
Insert map showing all previous and new drill holes.
ABOUT SOUTH STAR MINING CORP.
South Star Mining Corp. is focused on the acquisition and development of near-term mine production projects in Brazil to maximize shareholder value. To learn more, please visit the Company website at www.southstarmining.com.
On behalf of the Board,
Mr. Eric Allison
Chief Executive Officer
Ph: +1 (203) 918-3098
Email: eric@southstarmining.com
For additional information, please contact:
Mr. Dave McMillan
Chairman
Ph: +1 778-773-4560
Email: davemc@telus.net
Mr. Kris Kottmeier
VP Corp Communications
Ph: +1 (877) 828-8983
Email: kris@southstarmining.com
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This news release and the PEA contain references to inferred resources. The PEA is preliminary in nature and includes inferred mineral resources that are considered too speculative geologically to have the economic considerations applied to them that would enable them to be categorized as mineral reserves. There is no certainty that the PEA will be realized.
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