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Estrella Gold Commences Core Drilling Program at Pucarana Gold Project

Estrella Gold has begun a 2,500 meter core drilling program at its Pucarana gold project in southern Peru.

This project includes 1,889 hectares of mineral land, which is situated southeast of the Poracota gold-silver mine and southwest of the Chipmo gold mine. Buenaventura Mines operates both these mines.

The Pucarana project is under a joint-venture with Esperanza Resources. The operator of this project is Esperanza and it has planned for Phase I drilling that contain around 10 core holes totaling 2,500 meters. The company is targeting the potential gold regions through drilling in a gold mineralized modification system including quartz veins, vuggy silica modification and silicified bodies in volcanic-hosted improved argillic epithermal alteration area. These structures are identical to geology and modification, which is examined at the Chipmo Gold Mine. The key mineralized gold formations at the Chipmo Mine are located at the Pucarana property. The production of gold was above 290,000 ounces in 2010 at the Chipmo Mine. This makes the mine to be the major and most profitable gold producers in South America. In 2010, both Poracota and Chipmo have produced 131,000 ounces of silver and 360,000 ounces of gold.

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