Further Drill Results

Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd 10 January 2008 The following release replaces Further Drill Results RNS number 4669L released this morning at 7am. Announcement is being re-released due to omitted images.(Images attached in URL link below table 2). For immediate release 10th January 2008 Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd ('Chaarat' or 'the Company') Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd (AIM:CGH) Reports Further Positive Drill Results from Wide Zones the Contact Zone at the Chaarat Property Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands (10th January 2008). Chaarat is pleased to announce further positive drilling results from 15 drill holes in the Contact Zone at its 100% held, 604 sq km Chaarat Licence Area in western Kyrgyzstan. All 15 of the holes, comprising 3550 metres of drilling, intersected significant gold mineralisation and were all drilled during the recently completed 2007 programme on two Project Areas along the Contact Zone, the C5300 and C4600 Project Areas. The drilling on the Contact Zone was part of a broader 53 drill hole (10,200 metres) 2007 programme which was completed during December (see press release of 6th December 2007). The Contact Zone is one of three zones in the Chaarat Licence Area, in which gold mineralisation has been discovered, and comprises some 10 kilometres of strike and includes, inter alia, the C5300 and C4600 Project Areas. The recent drilling has extended the mineralisation in these Project Areas and has intersected significant additional mineralised zones in the hanging wall and footwall. Highlights In the C5300 Project Area Drill hole 117 10.50 metres* at 4.43 g/t Au Drill hole 135 33.00 metres at 4.71 g/t Au Drill hole 136 6.00 metres at 5.72 g/t Au and 16.5 metres at 3.3g/t Au Drill hole 139 14.50 metres at 5.00 g/t Au and 4.50 metres at 6.13 g/t Au Drill hole 140 14.00 metres at 4.86 g/t Au, including 3.00 metres at 14.69 g/t Au *These are drilled width intercepts and not true thickness. True widths given in the tables below have been measured from sections drawn through the drill lines. These may change slightly when the Resources are updated upon receipt of all 2007 results. In the C4600 Project Area Drill hole 157 3.00 metres at 11.87 g/t Au Drill hole 158 16.5 metres at 3.50 g/t Au In road cut at C4300 Bulldozer Cut 790: 2.00 metres at 22.7 g/t Au and 248 g/t Ag. Comments Dekel Golan, CEO of Chaarat: 'We are delighted with these results, which confirm our view of the extensive nature of the gold mineralisation in wide zones at Chaarat. We are particularly pleased that drilling has returned some high grade intersections and wider zones, and that we have managed to extend the mineralisation in the Contact Zone Project Areas, both down dip and along strike. The added value of the high silver grades drilled in parts of the Contact Zone is also encouraging. It is also significant that we have discovered new mineralised zones in the hanging wall and the footwall, which enhances the exploration potential to delineate multiple zones of mineralisation.' Table 1: Contact Zone Drilling Results, 2007 Project Drill hole From To length (m) True width Au grade (g Ag grade g Au eq* Area No /t) /t grade g/t (metres) (metres) (m) C5300 DH117 203.5 206.5 3 2.5 2.5 36 3.22 C5300 DH117 415 451 36 18.5 2.92 16 3.24 C5300 including 440.5 451 10.5 5.45 4.43 25 4.93 C5300 including 415 422.5 7.5 3.9 3.51 24 3.99 C5300 DH117 497.5 499 1.5 - 9.31 1 9.33 C5300 DH122 44 90.5 46.5 44 1.15 6 1.27 C5300 DH123 118.5 127.5 9 2.5 1.16 7 1.3 C5300 DH123 148.5 174 25.5 5.5 1.25 5 1.35 C5300 including 148.5 151.5 3 0.85 3.27 14.5 3.56 C5300 DH134 133.5 136.5 3 - 2.51 27 3.05 C5300 DH 135 62.5 67 4.5 3.9 3.93 59 5.11 C5300 DH135 202.5 244.5 42 10.5 4.2 26 4.72 C5300 including 211.5 244.5 33 8.25 4.71 32 5.35 C5300 DH136 81 85.5 4.5 2.8 2.19 312 8.43 C5300 DH136 102 142.5 40.5 21.6 2.18 9 2.36 C5300 including 126 132 6 3.6 5.72 12 5.96 C5300 including 126 142.5 16.5 10 3.3 9 3.48 C5300 DH137 52 62.5 10.5 - 1.59 15 1.89 C5300 DH137 142.5 145.5 3 - 2.91 17 3.25 C5300 DH 138 106.5 113.5 7 4.2 2.66 12 2.9 C5300 DH139 185 214.5 29.5 9.6 3.65 20 4.05 C5300 including 185 199.5 14.5 4.75 5 30 5.6 C5300 including 210 214.5 4.5 1.45 6.13 22 6.57 C5300 DH139 286 289 3 - 13.61 1 13.63 C5300 DH140 189 203 14 6.4 4.86 15 5.16 C5300 including 189 192 3 1.4 14.69 41 15.51 C5300 DH141 62.5 66.5 4 4 3.38 51 4.61 C5300 DH143 67.5 70.5 3 - 3.45 84 5.13 C5300 DH143 189.5 197 7.5 2.4 5.01 13.4 5.28 C4600 DH157 148 151 3 2.1 11.87 44 12.75 C4600 DH158 195.5 228.5 33 22.8 2.2 30 2.8 C4600 including 195.5 212 16.5 11.4 3.15 33 3.81 C4600 DH161 198 202.5 4.5 3.2 3.04 54 4.12 * Eq Au in this release is obtained by using an Au/Ag price ratio of 50:1 QA/QC PROCEDURES Sampling Methodology and Quality Control All samples are sent to a laboratory in Kyrgyzstan, the Central Scientific Research Laboratory, JSC Kara Balta, (CSRL), accredited by the UK Accreditation Service, for sample preparation and initial assays. All samples with gold above 1 g/t are then submitted to Genalysis, Australia, a NATA ISO/IEC 17025 accredited laboratory for analysis by fire assay. Only results received from Genalysis are included in the Mineral Resource database and the intercept summaries in this press release, except for one hole DH 161. Comparison of assays from the two laboratories shows a small bias with Genalysis reporting higher values but with an acceptable HARD value variance on the averages. With the 817 samples submitted to Genalysis, 71 were internationally recognised reference materials and of these only one value was marginally outside the accepted range. It is concluded that the Genalysis assays are of sufficient quality to be included in the Resource database although no up-dated Resource has been estimated at this stage. The Contact Zone Mineralisation in the Contact Zone is hosted by a 10-15 metre wide shear zone which extends for at least 10 kilometres along the contact between the underlying Ordovician Chaarat Formation (siltstones and sandstones) and the overlying Devonian Tulkubash Formation (quartzites). The mineralised zones dip at 50-60 degrees to the NW. The gold mineralisation is associated with sulphides, sericitic alteration and minor quartz veinlets. Locally high silver and antimony values are associated with the gold mineralisation. Prospecting to date has been focused mainly on three Project Areas within the contact zone, the C5300, C4600 and C4000 and the mineralisation has been traced over a cumulative strike length of 1,900 metres. Based on drilling to the end of 2006, a JORC compliant (indicated and inferred) resource containing 903,000 oz at a grade of 3.8 g/t Au had been delineated in the Contact Zone Project Areas to depths of 150-270 metres down the dip, except for one drill hole where exploration was carried to 400m down dip. When Ag is added, the resource is 1 MOZ at an average equivalent grade of 4.22 g/t. Surface exploration undertaken this year substantiates earlier indications for the existence of additional mineralised bodies above and below the Contact Zone. The strike length of the C5300 zone has been extended by drilling to 490m. For better understanding of the structure and significance of the results the reader is referred to the maps at the end of this press release. C5300 Project Area During 2007, a total of 12 drill holes (2823 metres) were completed on the C5300 Project Area, bringing the total number of holes to 25. Of the recently completed holes, 10 were infill drilling, which reduced the drill spacing to 40 metres in some parts of the body, one tested the down dip extension and one drilled the strike extension to the mineralisation. As a result of this drilling, the strike length of the mineralisation increased from 450 metres to 490 metres and the down dip extent of the mineralization increased in an additional section from 250 metres to 460 metres down dip and remains open at depth and along strike to the south west. Significantly, the deeper drilling indicates that the mineralised zone appears to increase in width with increasing depth (Table 2). In the 2006 resource estimate for mineralisation down to a depth of 120-250 metres down dip in most sections, the average mineralised widths were measured at 5.8 metres, whereas the one deep hole drilled in 2006 and recent deeper drilling indicates the mineralisation is between 10 and 15 metres wide in the depths ranges of 290 to 460 metres, down dip below outcrop. Table 2: C5300 Project Area - Mineralised Width and Depth Relationship. C5300 dh Intersection from (m) to (m) length True Au g/t Ag g/t Au eq g/t grid elevation (m) width (m) section ASL C 0+ dh135 2392 202.5 244.5 42.00 10.00 4.21 26 4.73 680 C 0+ dh86 2260 448.5 469.5 21.00 12.30 3.1 11 3.32 640 C 0+ dh139 2456 185 214.5 29.50 9.60 3.58 19 3.96 590 C 0+ dh56 2469 181.9 200.5 18.60 7.00 3.81 17 4.15 550 C 0+ dh117 2286 415 451 36.00 18.50 2.92 16 3.84 480 C 0+ dh 143 2515 189.5 197 7.50 2.40 5.01 13.4 5.28 420 Elevation is absolute elevation (ASL) at the bottom of the mineralized interval Hole locations are shown on the map below http://www.rns-pdf.londonstockexchange.com/rns/5115l_-2008-1-10.pdf Additional Mineralization in Hanging Wall The recent drilling also intersected additional mineralised zones in the hanging wall and in the footwall of the principal mineralisation in the Contact Zone, which indicates multiple zones within the broader mineralised envelope. Five holes intersected a shallow-dipping mineralised zone in the hanging wall over a strike length of 200 m in the centre of the Project Area (Table 3). This mineralisation is of lower grade than the principal zone but is between 2.5 and 10 m wide with gold grades of between 2.2 and 3.45 g/t and variable but high associated silver values. This mineralised zone is situated between 35 and 180 metres in the hanging wall of the principal mineralised zone. It remains open down dip and represents an additional drilling target. Table 3: Hanging Wall Mineralisation in the C5300 Project Area C5300 grid Drill from (m) to (m) length True width Au g/t Ag g/t Au eq section hole (m) (m) C 0+510 DH117 203.5 206.5 3 2.5 2.5 36 3.22 C 0+650 DH135 62.5 67 4.5 3.9 3.4 59 4.58 C 0+640 DH136 81 85.5 4.5 2.8 2.19 445 11.09 C 0+640 DH136 126 142.5 16.5 10 3.3 10 3.5 C 0+450 DH143 67.5 70.5 3 2.5 3.45 84 5.13 Footwall Mineralization In addition to the mineralizations described above, two drillholes intersected a narrow high grade (3.00 metres at 9.31 g/t and 1.50 metres 13.61 g/t Au) mineralised zone, situated 30-50 metres in the footwall of the main zone(Table 2). The potential of this zone will be determined by further drilling. Table 4: Footwall mineralisation in the C5300 Project Area Section Drill hole From (m) To (m) Length (m) Au g/t Ag g Au eq. /t C 0+600 DH139 286 289 3 13.61 3 13.66 C 0+450 DH117 497.5 499 1.5 9.31 2 9.35 C4600 Project Area During 2007, three holes (726.5metres) were completed on the C4600 Project Area, bringing the total number of holes drilled on this Area to nine. These holes were drilled from the hanging wall side (as opposed to last year's shallow drilling from the footwall side) and give a clearer picture of mineralisation. Drilling indicated an increase in the width of the mineralisation in this zone compared to drilling from the foot wall side, which had cumulative widths of between 7 m and 11 m (DH 158 intersected 16.5 metres at 3.15g/t Au). Drilling in the south west of the Project Area indicates that the mineralised zone is narrower (DH 157, 3 metres at 11.87g/t Au) but has considerably higher grades. Silver grades are between 30 and 54 g/t. Mineralisation remains open at depth and along strike to both the north east and south west. Table 5: C4600 Project Area Drilling Results C4600 grid Drill hole From (m) To (m) length (m) Au g/t Ag g/t Au eq g/t Section True width (m) C 0-50 DH157 148 151 3 1.9 11.87 44 12.75 C 0+80 DH158 195.5 228.5 33 23 2.2 30 2.8 C 0+80 including 195.5 212 16.5 11.4 3.15 33 3.81 C 00 DH161 198 202.5 4.5 2.9 3.04 54 4.12 Road cuts: Results from outcrops in road cuts between C4600 and C4000 returned the following grades: Location True Width Au g/t Ag g/t Sb % Au eq g/t (m) C4250 3 5.03 72 0.37 6.47 C4300 2 22.7 248 1.08 27.66 These new outcrops are located 100m to the NE of the northernmost trench of zone C4000 and present additional scope for expansion of resources in this direction. Additional work and results: The Company is currently receiving and processing assay results from a further 40 holes drilled in 2007 on the Main Zone Project Areas (M2400, M6000) and the outstanding Contact Zone Project Area (C4000), as well as for the Tulkubash Zone and regional prospecting. These results, as well as an updated resource statement, and the results of ongoing metallurgical testwork and the scoping study will be released periodically, as the work is completed, over the next three months. The excavation of the exploration adit on the C5300 Project Area is continuing and underground drilling of the mineralisation from the adit access is scheduled to commence in February. Competent Person The Competent Person with overall responsibility for this press release is Anthony Martin, PrSciNat, MGSZ, MAuS IMM, PhD who is an employee of SRK (Zimbabwe) (Pvt) Limited. Dr Anthony Martin is an exploration geologist with 35 years experience in the resource industry and has been responsible for the reviewing of exploration programmes on various properties internationally during the past five years and the Chaarat project since August 2005; he has made four site visits since that time. About the Chaarat Gold Project The Chaarat project is situated within the Middle Tien Shan Mountains of Kyrgyzstan which form part of the Tien Shan gold belt. At the completion of the 2006 exploration season, a Mineral Resource of 1.87Moz Au (JORC compliant in the Indicated and Inferred categories) had been delineated. The Company's exploration programme is aimed at increasing the confidence levels in this Resource through infill drilling and increasing the resource through down-dip and along-strike extension drilling. In addition the company intends to explore the remaining gold occurrences outside of those currently drilled in the central 6km of the 40km strike length within the Chaarat Licence Area. About Chaarat Gold Holdings or The Company Chaarat Gold Holding is an exploration company founded for the purpose of developing its sole asset, being the Chaarat License Area. Chaarat was admitted to AIM on 8 November 2007. Disclaimer This press release includes forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors beyond Chaarat's control that would cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Chaarat to be materially different from future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward- looking statements. Such forward-looking statements are based on numerous assumptions regarding Chaarat's present and future business strategies and the environment in which Chaarat will operate in the future. Any forward-looking statements speak only as at the date of this document. Chaarat expressly disclaims any obligation or undertaking to disseminate any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements contained herein to reflect any change in Chaarat's expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statements are based. As a result of these factors, the events described in the forward-looking statements in this press release may not occur either partially or at all. Enquiries: Chaarat Gold Holdings Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 20 7499 2612 Dekel Golan - Dekel@chaarat.com Terry Cross - Terry@caserve.co.uk Canaccord Adams Limited Tel: +44 (0) 20 7050 6500 Mike Jones Robin Birchall This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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