Boka drilling pulls up more gold (September 22, 2003)

Continued drilling by Southwestern Resources (SWG-T) at the Boka gold project in Yunnan province, China, has returned gold values at both the Boka 1 and Boka 7 targets.

Hole B3-08, drilled between the Boka 1 North and South targets, intersected a 63.7-metre zone of mineralization grading 6.1 grams gold per tonne, including an 18.6-metre length running 18.5 grams gold. The mineralized interval started at a down-hole depth of 170.8 metres, with the higher-grade material near the top of the interval.

The mineralization was in sulphide-replacement zones and in quartz-carbonate veins in carbonaceous slate.

About 3 km to the south, hole B3-10, drilled on the Boka 7 target, intersected a 72.8-metre zone grading 2.7 grams gold. The material was oxidized but lithologically similar to the material encountered in hole B3-08.

The intersection included two higher-grade intervals, one running 6.5 grams gold over 9.3 metres and the other running 4.1 grams over 10.9 metres.

Two other holes, B3-12 and B3-14, are nearly finished; Southwestern has three drills in operation and a fourth that is being repaired. Three other drills are scheduled to arrive by the end of September.