(Source: MARKETWIRE)

Abbastar Resources Corp. (TSX VENTURE: ABA) is pleased to announce
an option agreement with Denison Mines Corp. on the Talbot Lake gold
project in northern Ontario. Abbastar has the right to earn 100%
interest from Denison, subject to a 2% NSR, upon expenditures of
$7,000,000 over 8 years.
The Talbot Lake gold project hosts the "Main Zone" gold deposit which
was discovered by Placer Dome in 1985 and acquired by Denison Mines
in 1998. It consists of an East-West striking and vertically dipping
quartz vein containing visible gold, pyrite, copper sulphide and zinc
sulphide. Channel sampling by Denison indicated an approximate strike
length of the Main Zone to be 48m with a weighted average grade of
13.8 g/t Au over a width of 3.3m. One channel over a width of 1.8m
yielded a spectacular value of 120.0 g/t Au. The gold deposit extends
for a depth of approximately 200m and remains open. The following are
some significant drill hole intersections by Placer Dome from the
"Main Zone"; 16.4 g/t Au over 7.6m, 37.2 g/t Au over 2.5m, 26.9 g/t
Au over 2.9m, 7.5 g/t Au over 7.5m. (source: Resident Geologist,
Ministry of Northern Development and Mines, Thunder Bay). To date a
total of $6,000,000 in exploration expenditures has been carried out
on the Talbot Lake gold project.
A parallel "Sulphide Zone" up to several metres wide is often
intersected adjacent to the "Main Zone" and contains copper and zinc
mineralization with anomalous gold. Further to the east the Main Zone
is crosscut by a northeast trending fault with a separate mineralized
structure called the "East Zone" located immediately east of this
fault. The 'Sulphide' and 'East Zones' have received less attention
than the Main Zone but remain highly prospective and will be part of
a more aggressive exploration program on the Talbot Lake gold
project. Importantly, there is considerable potential to expand the
Property's known gold zones.
The Talbot Lake project is located within the world-renowned gold
producing "Uchi Subprovince" of northwestern Ontario. This prolific
gold producing area is host to the Red Lake and Pickle Lake gold
mining camps and has produced in excess of 40 million ounces of gold.
Gold bearing quartz veins, like that at Talbot, are common in the
established mining camps such as Red Lake, Timmins, Kirkland Lake and
have been Canada's most important gold producers. These quartz vein
systems are planar objects, which tend to have great lengths and
depth.