East Star Resources (LSE:EST), the Kazakhstan-focused gold and copper exploration and development company, said rock chip sampling at its Snowy project returned up to 1.44g/t Au and that recent mapping supports a low-sulfidation epithermal interpretation.
Multiple samples exceeded 0.2g/t Au, silver reached 2.86g/t, veins have been traced along strike for up to 200m, and the company noted that gold is proportional to pyrite content, making the target suitable for chargeability-based geophysics.
"We are excited to progress the project which has the potential to host a large gold system," Alex Walker, Chief Executive Officer, said.
East Star described the surface veins as quartz with minor pyrite, running roughly east-west, steeply north-dipping at about 70 degrees, and cutting volcaniclastic stratigraphy that shows sericite and pyrophyllite alteration in hyperspectral data.
The company has commenced a two-line induced polarisation survey over the breccia zone to seek resistivity and chargeability targets that could rank drill targets, with results expected in the second quarter of 2026.
If IP identifies chargeable anomalies, East Star said these would present compelling follow-up targets at depth where a boiling zone in permissive volcaniclastic host rocks could concentrate higher-grade gold.
