Astral Mining jumping ahead at Josephine - Thursday 13th September 2007

Astral Mining Corporation has announced the commencement of a 3,500m Phase Two drilling program at the JJ Main Discovery Gold Zone of its Jumping Josephine property in British Columbia.

Meanwhile surface trenching has been completed over several additional targets, with results submitted to analysts, and final results through from the 31 hole Phase One diamond drill program within the Jumping Josephine (JJ) Gold Project in southeast British Columbia.

Phase Two drilling can proceed with enthusiasm, as the junior exploration company announced the success of Phase One intersections, in certain holes amounting to ten meter sections averaging 1.17 g/t gold with another providing one meter at 4.14 g/t gold.

President, Manfred Kurschner, expressed excitement at the subsequent drilling program which will be "targeting what we believe to be a strong south-plunging mineralized shoot within the JJ Main Gold Zone".

"Astral has only just begun to test the potential of JJ Main structure which, based on mapping, geophysics and surface geochemistry, may extend for over three kilometers" added Mr Kurschner, suggesting a bright future for gold mining at the site.

Astral Mining is a company focused on identifying and mining high potential gold and silver deposits in the most mining friendly districts of North America, with six of its sites situated within the Carlin, Battle Mountain or Walker Lane Trends.
Goldbug, 13 Sep '07

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