The results of this sampling program demonstrate continuity of high grade gold-silver mineralization to surface, as well as potential extensions to the high grade mineralization to the south of prior exploration.
During the third calendar quarter of 2010, Kimber Resources initiated a program of trenching and channel sampling over the major structures which host the known resources at the Monterde project in Chihuahua, Mexico.
The aim of the program was to facilitate the upgrade of inferred mineral resource blocks to indicated or measured categories within the area of the proposed open pit.
Areas outside the proposed pit were excavated and sampled with the objective of increasing mineral resources as well as providing information to guide future exploration.
This comprehensive channel sampling of surface trenches included full QA/QC procedures that should allow the results to be included in the Monterde technical database. True widths would be approximately 80% of the interval widths reported herein.
The relatively high grades returned from section 23 and 24 are encouraging in that they demonstrate that strong mineralization is present south of section 25 in an area previously thought to be barren.
In one location, quartz was observed replacing bladed calcite. Gold and silver are closely associated with zones of silicification with only silver found in strongly oxidized areas outside of silicified zones.
Zones of gold and silver mineralization are associated with elevated levels of antimony, manganese and zinc.
