Heliostar Metals Limited announced that core drilling re-commenced on January 7th after the year-end holiday break at the 100% owned Cumaro Project in northern Sonora, Mexico. The Cumaro project is a five square kilometre claim within the El Picacho district. It hosts the El Salto, Dos Amigos, and Basaitegui Vein Corridors.

In addition to those known systems, it holds the recently identified Verde and Palmita Vein Corridors. The geological model indicates that a north northeast trending fault has divided the Picacho-Cumaro district into western and eastern halves. West of the fault, veining and mineralization come to surface.

On the eastern side of the fault, only the weakly altered, upper expression of the structures come to surface. The geologic interpretation is that the eastern side is downthrown relative to the western side, thus suggesting an extension of the mineralized vein system could be preserved at depth on the eastern side. Despite the presence of historical mine workings in the western part of the Cumaro claim, the property has never been drill tested prior to the ongoing program.

Drilling commenced at the Verde Target in December with four holes totaling 427.5 metres completed prior to the Christmas break. All holes intersected veining and the associated structures as they tested the Verde and Orilla veins. The first hole intersected the Verde vein and structure below the historic tunnel.

The second hole intersected the Orilla vein near surface. The third and fourth holes intersected the Verde and Orilla veins near surface where the two veins converge. Assays for all holes are pending and expected to be returned in late February.

Drilling of the 5,000 metre program currently focuses on the Verde Vein Corridor. Once drilling in this corridor is completed the drill will move to test the Basaitegui Vein Corridor in the western block and the Palmita Vein Corridor in the eastern block. The Verde Vein Corridor is over 1.3 kilometres long and comprises three veins which are consistently mineralized over 530 metres of strike and spread over 200 metres of width.

The vein zones vary from 0.5 to 5 metres wide and have numerous medium to high grade surface channel samples. The veins returned values including; 12.6 g/t AuEq (10.3 g/t gold and 168 g/t silver) over 5.0 metres. 13.1 g/t AuEq (11.5 g/t gold and 125 g/t silver) over 1.75 metres.

9.57 g/t AuEq (8.35 g/t gold and 92 g/t silver) over 2.1 metres. 5.49 g/t AuEq (4.68 g/t gold and 61 g/t silver) over 3.0 metres. 13.6 g/t AuEq (11.9 g/t gold and 130 g/t silver over 1.65 metres.

4.05 g/t AuEq (2.65 g/t gold and 105 g/t silver over 5.9 metres. Twenty channel samples returned a grade multiplied by vein thickness greater than 5 g/t metres. Within the Verde Vein Corridor, the Verde and Orilla veins dip toward each other and intersect, forming a high potential drill target.

The veins are epithermal veins with banded green to white quartz and calcite. Similar green quartz occurs within the high-grade areas of many mineralized systems in northern Sonora and this relationship holds true at Cumaro. Select sub-samples from the green quartz at the Verde target return values up to 41.2 g/t gold and 364 g/t silver.

One historic tunnel descends 35 metres below surface on the Verde vein. It shows similar grades and widths to those on surface, thus providing confidence in the depth potential of the surface channel results.