Alberta Star Starts Permitting for Winter Drill Program at Central Canada

Alberta Star (TSXV:ASX,OTCBB:ASXSF,FWB:QLD) announced it has started the permitting process to allow winter drilling to happen at its Central Canada gold project. Permit applications are being prepared for a six hole program designed to test down dip and along strike mineralization identified two years ago by TerraX.

According to the press release:

Permit applications are being prepared for a six hole (900 m) program designed to test down dip and along strike from mineralization identified during a 3 hole (363 m) drill program conducted by TerraX in March 2012. That program tested a 110 m strike length of the main mineralized structure, which trends east-northeast. Drill holes were aligned to cut normal to the mineralized structures identified during channel sampling. Drill intersections reported by TerraX, from southwest to northeast, included:

• 23.30 m @ 0.83 g/t Au (including 0.63 m @ 7.36 g/t Au) in hole CC12-03,
• 10.61 m @ 1.32 g/t Au (including 1.82 m @ 4.77 g/t Au) in hole CC12-01, and
• 8.92 m @ 0.74 g/t Au in hole CC12-02.

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