Far West Mining Ltd. (TSX:FWM) has announced that drilling will commence at the Santo Domingo Property in Chile on January 30, 2011.
The drill program is a combination of condemnation drilling at the Santo Domingo project and testing of new exploration targets in the Candelaria IOCG belt.
Far West Mining ("the Company") plans to conduct a 4,000 metre drill program on its Region lll Chilean properties.
The first part of the program consist of a number of condemnation drill holes (4 holes for 1200 metres) that are designed to sterilize the ground that is projected to host the plant, waste dumps and tailing facilities of the future Santo Domingo mining operation. The data from these drill holes will be utilized in the ongoing Pre-Feasibility Study for the project.
The second part of the program will test several anomalies on the Santo Domingo Property as well as a number of regional targets to the north and southwest of the Santo Domingo Property. The targets have been generated from regional ground geophysical surveys that commenced in early January and are still ongoing.
The Company is applying the detailed knowledge of iron-copper systems in Chile that was acquired during the Santo Domingo discovery. The objective is the discovery of another buried ore body of the same type elsewhere in the belt.
Metallurgical test work is progressing well and returns favorable data. Detailed results will be reported next week.
The in-house qualified person responsible for the Project is Richard N. Zimmer, P. Eng., President and C.E.O. of Far West Mining Ltd. who has reviewed and approved the contents of this news release.
Source: Far West Mining Ltd.