11 April 2022
TORONTO, ON, April 11, 2022 – Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. (TSXV: BAY) (OTCQB: ATBHF) ("Aston Bay" or the "Company”) is pleased to announce that the Company’s exploration and earn-in partner, American West Metals Limited (“American West”), has reported the results of the recent ore sorting process test work completed on mineralization from Aston Bay’s high-grade Storm Copper Project (“Storm” or the “Project”) on Somerset Island, Nunavut. In addition, a diamond drill program is expected to commence in June 2022.
“We are extremely delighted with the results of this test work,” stated Thomas Ullrich, CEO of Aston Bay. “This demonstrates that a simple, low impact, low-cost process produces a valuable and marketable copper product from Storm. As well, we are impressed that our earn-in partners American West are actively advancing the Storm and Seal projects on both the exploration and development fronts. We look forward to announcing further details of the diamond drilling program later this spring.”
The following details of the ore sorting process test work and proposed program are substantially sourced from the April 11th American West press release. American West has an option to earn an 80% interest in the Storm and Seal projects and is the operator.
The simple nature of the copper mineralogy and host rocks of the Storm Copper Project indicated that it may be amenable to upgrading through beneficiation processing techniques.
The test work was completed with partners Steinert Australia at their test facilities in Bibra Lake, Western Australia. The test sample was processed using a full scale STEINERT KSS CLI XT combination sensor sorter (Figure 1).