Eastfield JV drills 22 m of 0.78 g/t Au at Howell

2008-11-21 13:02 ET - News Release

Mr. James Morton reports

EASTFIELD INTERSECTS 22 METRES OF 0.78 G/T GOLD AT HOWELL, BC

Eastfield Resources Ltd. and Max Resource Corp. (TSX.V: MXR) have released drilling results at the Howell gold project in southeastern British Columbia, located approximately 40 kilometres southeast of the city of Fernie.

Twelve holes totalling 1,312 metres of NQ core were completed and two new soil grids established. Two distinct styles of mineralization were targeted; the first being carbonate-hosted gold and the second being carbonate replacement mineralization (commonly referred to as CRD).

           2008 DRILLING HIGHLIGHTS

Hole          From (m)   To (m)   Width (m) Gold (g/t)

HW-08-06 ext   23.7       204.0    180.7       0.26       
including      23.7       74.0     50.7        0.47       
HW-08-07       88.1       92.0     3.9         0.65       
and            132.0      138.0    6.0         0.53       
HW-08-09       8.5        129.0    120.5       0.30       
including      8.5        30.5     22.0        0.78       
HW-08-10       8.0        10.0     2.0         0.79       
HW-08-15       23.3       68.0     44.7        0.41       
including      23.3       44.0     20.7        0.53

At Howell, disseminated gold mineralization occurs in limestone and as quartz stockworks in limestone and syenite intrusives. Prior drilling included 1.23 g/t gold over 58 metres, 0.95 g/t gold over 39 metres, 0.65 g/t gold over 82 metres and 0.57 g/t gold over 149 metres.

No CRD mineralization was identified in drill core although one of the soil grids (the southeastern grid) is believed to indicate such mineralization with a number of samples collected in 2008 returning very anomalous values in gold, silver, zinc and lead including values to 130 g/t silver and 1.4 per cent lead in soil. Hole HW-08-12 and HW-08-13 were drilled during the current program to test for CRD mineralization in the area where reverse circulation hole HRC-15, drilled by Placer Dome in 1988, had intersected 7.6 metres of apparent CRD mineralized dolomite grading 1.5 per cent zinc, 1.4 per cent lead, and 53.2 per cent silver. Holes HW-08-12 and HW-08-13 were lost at 35 and 86 metres, respectively, well short of the target depth, due to drilling difficulties.

A number of additional targets exist at the Howell including a stockwork quartz system in limestone that has returned up to three grams gold in previous sampling and will be considered for further work in 2009. Of the 119 samples collected in 2008 on the southeastern grid, which is 1.5 kilometres to the south of the 2008 CRD drill targets, 16 exceeded 100 parts per million (ppm) gold (maximum 714 parts per billion (ppb)), 27 exceeded 500 ppm zinc (maximum 9,527 ppm) and nine exceeded 400 ppm lead (maximum 14,000 ppm). The southeastern grid was established in 2008 to fill in an area to the north of manto-style, zinc-lead-silver (Zn-Pb-Ag) mineralization identified in reverse circulation drilling completed by Placer Dome in 1988 (HRC-2 with 7.5 metres grading 2.4 per cent Zn, 0.40 per cent Pb and 15.3 g/t Ag). Reconnaissance prospecting in this area, completed by Eastfield in 1999, sampled a 300-metre, northeast-trending syenite intrusive that returned a value of 2.75 grams gold from the single sample collected. Review of a subsequent airborne geophysical survey completed in 2004 collaborated this feature and highlighted it for the current program.

J.W. Morton, PGeo, is the qualified person who has reviewed and takes responsibility for this news release.

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