They are drilling....VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Sep 07, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) --
ESOUranium Corp. (TSX VENTURE: ESO)(FRANKFURT: E2G) (the "Company" or"ESO") is pleased to announce that it has commenced drilling at its 100%owned Donna Gold Property on Monashee Mountain, which is locatedapproximately 65 Kilometers east of Vernon, BC.
The purpose ofthe current drill program is to test targeted areas on the central andwestern parts of a large anomaly that extends more than 1,600 metersalong the height of land between the Kettle River and Yeoward Creek,which are historical gold placer drainages. Recent soil sampling of thearea showed extensions of the larger gold anomaly with values of up to733 ppb gold in soils.
Sampling by ESO in September of 2009returned a chip sample over 3 meters horizontal along a flat lyingquartz vein with 12.3g/t gold within the trenched area. While somesamples show significantly high gold values, the main exploration targetis a bulk tonnage gold-silver deposit that could be hosted by thequartz stockwork and the dioritic dykes.
The geological andgeomorphological settings have some similarity with the White goldproperty in the Yukon of Underworld Resources Ltd, which appears to bepart of the source of placer gold in the White River drainage. On theDonna property, quartz veining is hosted by metamorphosed rocks of theThompson Assemblage, a small accreted terrane with siliciclasticsediments and minor limestones and cherts of Carboniferous toPermo-Triassic age intruded by Cretaceous granodioritic rocks.
B. Ainsworth, PEng BC, is the Qualified Person responsible for the technical disclosure contained in this news release.
On behalf of the Board of Directors of ESO Uranium Corp.
Ben Ainsworth, Vice President, Exploration