Eastfield Provides Update on Kilometre 26 Program, BC

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[{"type":"text","content":"\nEastfield Provides Update on Kilometre 26 Program, BC\n\n(via Thenewswire.ca)\n\n \nVancouver, BC, August 25, 2011, Eastfield Resources Ltd. \"Eastfield\" (TSX-V: ETF) would like to provide an update on the Kilometre 26 nickel-gold project located in central British Columbia, approximately 55 kilometres northwest of Fort St. James.\n\n\n \nThe current exploration program was initiated during the third week of May and work has entailed expanding the cut grid on the property, followed by magnetometer and induced polarization surveying as well as soil sampling. Approximately five weeks were spent mapping the property, using the cut grid and sampling new exposures (rock and rubble) of ultramafic and carbonate rock. Highlights of rock samples collected and analyzed included 20 that returned grades ranging between 0.19 per cent to 0.25 per cent nickel. The geophysical survey (approximately 36 line kilometres) has extended the strike length of the strong magnetic anomaly (believed to be serpentinite) to more than 4.5 kilometres. This anomaly is thought to be the source of much if not all of the nickel-mineralized rubble that has been located on the property. A separate magnetic feature is indicated several kilometres farther to the west, which likewise appears to have a dispersion train of mineralized serpentinite. Approximately 600 soil samples were collected and are currently being analyzed.\n\n\n \nAn international metallurgical organization with expertise in the recovery of nickel alloy and sulphide from ultramafic rocks has been engaged to develop a testing strategy for the Kilometre 26 project. It is anticipated that, if the exploration phase is successful, an operational extraction routine that could form part of a commercial process will be completed. Testing will entail using magnetic separation techniques from mineralized samples collected in the current program.\n\n\n \nAll permits are in place and diamond drilling of an initial 12 targets is anticipated to begin during September, 2011.\n\n\n \nThe Kilometre 26 project encompasses 9,819 hectares (24,263 acres). It is centred on a strong magnetic anomaly indicated on the Quest West helicopter-borne magnetic and electromagnetic survey flown for the British Columbia government (Geoscience BC) and published January, 2009. The magnetic anomaly is more than five kilometres in di...

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