mud lake resultsDrilling on the Alto-Wescan Mud Lake Project started in late November and nine holes were completed prior to the Christmas break. Drilling resumed again on January 9 to complete the remaining nine holes of the planned program announced on November 22, 2007. Earlier work on this property identified 12 surface gold occurrences along a six kilometre segment of the Mud Lake Shear Zone ("MLS") but these occurrences were not drilled until the commencement of Alto's 2007 winter program.
During 2007, Alto drilled three of the 12 gold occurrences intersecting up to 13.9 g/t gold across 1.0 m within a wider zone of gold mineralization that assays 3.39 g/t across 6.1 m (see Alto news releases dated March 6 and March 20, 2007). The program currently underway will follow-up on gold mineralization intersected at the three occurrences drilled during 2007 and test another three targets along the MLS that were not drilled previously. This work is part of a longer term strategy to evaluate each of these gold targets with diamond drilling and start to delineate in detail those that display continuity of mineralization and grade.
Samples from the nine holes were delivered for analyses on December 21 and gold assay results are expected shortly