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| August 13, 2002 Further Encouraging Drill Results from Sterling | |
| Imperial Metals Corporation (III:TSX) is pleased to announce the results from the second and third holes drilled in the current exploration program at the Sterling Mine. Hole 02-21, located between drill holes 01-7A and 01-09 intersected 47.5 feet of 0.50 oz/t gold about 28 feet southwest of the intercept in 01-09. Hole 02-19, located approximately 120 feet south of 01-09 intersected 9.5 feet of 0.27 oz/t gold, 5.0 feet of 0.30 oz/t gold and 3.5 feet of 0.28 oz/t gold within a larger 125 foot wide zone grading 0.13 oz/t gold. The extension of the zone to the south is encouraging. Results of the final three holes in this program will be available for release within the next two weeks. Detailed breakdown of results are as follows:
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Hole 02-19 Interval Length Gold Assay
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feet metres feet metres oz/t g/t
669.0-794.0 203.9-242.0 125.0 38.1 0.13 4.40
including 673.5-692.5 205.3-211.1 19.0 5.8 0.19 6.64
683.0-692.5 208.2-211.1 9.5 2.9 0.27 9.25
687.0-692.5 209.4-211.1 5.5 1.7 0.31 10.70
719.5-729.5 219.4-222.4 10.0 3.0 0.22 7.59
719.5-724.5 219.4-220.9 5.0 1.5 0.30 10.39
745.0-764.0 227.1-232.9 19.0 5.8 0.18 6.04
750.0-753.5 228.6-229.7 3.5 1.1 0.28 9.46
781.0-794.0 238.1-242.1 13.0 4.0 0.17 5.78
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Hole 02-21 Interval Length Gold Assay
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feet metres feet metres oz/t g/t
693.0-740.5 211.3-225.8 47.5 14.5 0.51 17.56
including 706.7-740.5 215.5-225.8 33.8 10.3 0.70 23.86
721.0-740.5 219.8-225.8 19.5 5.9 1.08 37.03
Patrick McAndless, a qualified person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, supervised the preparation of the technical information in this release. All samples were analyzed by ALS Chemex at their North Vancouver, BC facility. The Sterling property is located near Beatty, Nevada, 115 miles (185 km) northwest of Las Vegas. -30- For further information contact: Pierre Lebel, President or Patrick McAndless, Vice President Exploration | |
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