Mr. David Anderson reports
DRILLING INTERSECTS ADDITIONAL COAL IN FINAL FOUR DRILL HOLES
EmberClear Corp. has encountered significant
coal mineralization in the final four holes of its eight-hole drilling
program on the Good Spring property located in Schuylkill county, Pennsylvania. The results from the
eight-hole drill program will be used by Norwest Corporation to prepare
a new National Instrument 43-101-compliant technical
report on the property. The property is
approximately 560 acres and lies in the Southern Anthracite coalfield
of eastern Pennsylvania and is a small portion of the Valley and Ridge
physiographic province of the Appalachian Highlands. Additional
information on EmberClear's Good Spring property is available in "An
Independent National Instrument 43-101 Report Summarizing Potential
Tonnage of EmberClear Reserves Inc., Good Spring Property also called
the Tracy Slope Mine, Porter and Frailey Townships Schuylkill County,
Pennsylvania," filed on SEDAR, Nov. 7, 2011.
Air/mud rotary drilling rigs were used on GS-8, GS-15, GS-16 and GS-17
during this program. These four drill holes (GS-8, GS-15, GS-16 and
GS-17) totalled 9,367.59 feet in depth and were spaced to confirm depths
for seams of interest along presumed structural trends extracted from
United States Geological Survey (USGS) studies and other publicly
available information.
"The program has taken longer than expected, but the results are
satisfying as we have the specifically relevant data to support our
expectations about coal deposits in the area holding consistent with
history," said Albert Lin, chief executive officer of EmberClear. "The new technical report
being prepared by Norwest will further quantify and qualify our coal
deposit to help us better assess our strategic options."
The exploration holes were advanced vertically, although minor
deviations were noted using a deviation probe. The exploration
holes were geophysically logged and these data in conjunction with
driller logs, geologist logs and available optical logs were used to
determine the coal intercepts within the holes. These coal intercepts
were reviewed by the qualified person referred to below to verify their
accuracy. Optical logs, nearby underground mine data and bedding plane
strikes and dips from maps in USGS reports were used in determining
true (adjusted) seam and coal thicknesses. These exploration holes
were surveyed.
PRELIMINARY DRILLING RESULTS
Drill Drill Total coal No. of seams Range of total coal
hole depth intercepts* intersected intercepts per seam*
(feet) (feet) (feet)
GS-8 2602.07 46.04 18 0.78-5.58
GS-15 2288.43 104.10 23 0.83-12.59
GS-16 2361.58 112.19 19 1.08-16.49
GS-17 2115.51 63.97 16 0.85-21.48
*The coal intercepts have been adjusted to account for the steeply
dipping seams based on a combination of measured bedding plane
dips from cores, and strikes and dips from published geological
reports.
Two of the eight drill holes completed during the latest exploration
program were core drilled. The coal quality data, obtained from coal
samples from these two core holes, were presented in the press release
dated Jan. 31, 2012. No additional coal quality data are available at
this time. The potential coal quality data presented in the press
release dated Jan. 31, 2012, are considered conceptual in nature and
it is uncertain if further coal quality analysis will be consistent
with previously disclosed coal quality results and if further
evaluation of exploration data will result in the target being
delineated as a mineral resource.
Qualified person
Warren A. Evenson, PG, senior geologist at Norwest Corporation, is a
qualified person and independent of EmberClear in accordance with NI
43-101. Mr. Evenson has reviewed and approved the technical and
scientific information contained in this news release.
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