VANCOUVER, B.C., Oct. 24, 2002 (PRIMEZONE) -- Management of Bright Star Ventures Ltd. (TSX Venture Exchange:BSV) is pleased to announce the completion of a six-hole drill program comprising of 3,300 ft. on the DP Zone.
The DP Zone is a magnetite deposit that trends NNW over a surface area initially measuring 1.2 km x 500 meters in size. A contoured EM Mag map over the target area indicates that the central core of the DP Zone contains greater than 35% magnetite. Disseminated and fracture-controlled pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralization with malachite staining has been sampled over a large area within magnetite-rich hornblende clinopyroxenite. A Pd-Pt-Cu-Au lithogeochemical anomaly measuring 300 m x 200 m in size has been identified, and this anomaly is open to the north, east and south. Over 300 soil and rock samples have shown consistent PGE and Cu occurrences in the targeted areas including a 1-meter bedrock chip sample in this zone assaying 2.08 g/t PGE with 0.17% copper.
A soil survey conducted over this area has delineated two significant NNW trending Pt-Pd-Cu soil geochemistry anomalies. Individual soil sample values within these anomalies contain up to 280 ppb Pt, 195 ppb Pd and up to .45 % Cu over a combined strike length of greater than 2 kilometers. These two well-defined soil anomalies remain open along strike. The summary of the drill hole program is provided below.
Drilling Summary DP Zone October 2002
Hole # Location Azimuth Dip Length Date Date
Ft. From To
DP2002-01 8350N/7953E 060E -45 625 5-Oct 8-Oct
DP2002-02 88485N/7902 080E -45 664 8-Oct 10-Oct
DP2002-03 8485N/7898E 260W -45 975 10-Oct 14-Oct
DP2002-04 8650N/8000E 253W -45 304 14-Oct 15-Oct
DP2002-05 8650N/8000E 253W -60 415 15-Oct 16-Oct
DP2002-06 8650N/8000E 226W -55 377 16-Oct 17-Oct
Total Footage 3,360
The Company is currently in the process of logging the core results and splitting cores to prepare samples to be submitted to Ecotech Laboratories Ltd. in Kamloops, BC for assay.
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On behalf of the Board
"Reg Handford"
President & Director
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