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Talairyk Rare Earths Project Drilling Update
Talairyk Rare Earths Project Drilling Update.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n THIS ANNOUNCEMENT CONTAINS INSIDE INFORMATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF ARTICLE 7 OF REGULATION 2014/596/EU WHICH IS PART OF DOMESTIC UK LAW PURSUANT TO THE MARKET ABUSE (AMENDMENT) (EU EXIT) REGULATIONS (SI 2019/310) (\"UK MAR\"). UPON THE PUBLICATION OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT, THIS INSIDE INFORMATION (AS DEFINED IN UK MAR) IS NOW CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN.\n \n \n \n \n \n NOT FOR RELEASE, PUBLICATION OR DISTRIBUTION, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY IN OR INTO THE UNITED STATES, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, JAPAN, THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA OR ANY OTHER JURISDICTION WHERE TO DO SO WOULD CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION OF THE RELEVANT LAWS OF SUCH JURISDICTION.\n \n \n \n \n \n 16 November 2022\n \n \n \n East Star Resources Plc\n \n \n \n (\"East Star\" or the \"Company\")\n \n \n \n Talairyk Rare Earths Project Drilling Update, Kazakhstan\n \n \n \n East Star Resources Plc (LSE:EST), the Kazakhstan-focused minerals exploration company, is pleased to announce the completion of 1,001 m of Reverse Circulation (\"RC\") drilling at the Talairyk heavy rare earths (\"HREE\") project in East Kostanay, Kazakhstan.\n \n \n \n Highlights:\n \n \n \n ·\n Completion of 30 boreholes for a total of 1,001 m covering the southwestern part of the Ionic Adsorption Clay (\"IAC\") hosted deposit\n \n \n ·\n Drilling was designed to confirm historical grades, width and extent of the mineralisation, and provide samples for metallurgical test work\n \n \n ·\n 90% of the boreholes recorded broad kaolinitic clay zones between 9 m and 53 m, averaging 32 m thickness\n \n \n o \n Kaolinitic clay is the target lithology to potentially host high value heavy rare earth elements that can be easily extracted via relatively benign leach solutions \n \n \n ·\n Samples currently undergoing further analysis using portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) to determine the sampling intersections for laboratory assay and leach test work\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Alex Walker, East Star CEO, commented:\n \n \n \n \n ''We are pleased to have been able to complete this programme this year so the assay and leach test work can be undertaken over the winter.\n \n \n Broad zones of kaolinitic clays are exactly what we hoped to see as this is the minerology where an ion exchange style REE+Y deposit might develop. If the results prove positive, we ca...