Tucson, Arizona\u2014February 5, 2008\u2014Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (the \u201cCompany\u201d), (OTCBB symbol: LBSU) is pleased to announce\u00a0 it has completed low angle drill holes Neol \u2013 01,02,03 & 04, all drilled from the same drill pad.\u00a0 The purpose of these holes was to probe part of the Neola area where multiple geoscientific indicators suggest potential for a good breccia pipe within the Neola collapse structure.\u00a0 Such a feature was intersected by Neol \u201302, 03, & 04, defining a breccia feature that appears to be about 90 feet wide and about 180 feet long trending north-easterly and open at the northeast end and possibly at the southeast end.\u00a0 Photos of some core samples from these holes are shown on our web site under \u201cPhoto Gallery & Maps\/ Drill Core from Collapse Breccia Pipes.\u201d<\/p>\n
We are very pleased with these results.\u00a0 We have demonstrated that with only a few holes we can identify with great precision rock alteration and the accurate boundaries between unbroken rock and collapse breccia.\u00a0 This is what our plans were and we have accomplished our immediate goals in the first round of drilling.<\/p>\n
Holes in the Neola target were drilled in the east, west, northwest, and north-northwest directions.\u00a0 All holes were inclined -45 degrees from horizontal.\u00a0 The inclined hole gives us the best chance of intersecting a vertical pipe, allows us to test large areas for breccia and also allows us to define the exact boundaries of the breccia feature.\u00a0 A total of 1093 feet have been drilled in 4 holes in the Neola target.\u00a0 These four inclined holes in the Neola area were used to define the breccia body mentioned above.\u00a0 The breccia fragments, matrix, and surrounding rock was altered, silicified and mineralized with fine pyrite.\u00a0 No uranium or other ore minerals were detected, but none were expected at this shallow depth.<\/p>\n
The purpose of this drilling is to define the breccia pipe or pipes so that the center can be accurately defined and then the drill will be moved to the center where the pipe is tested at a depth where ore is expected, about 900 to 1,500 feet below the current surface.\u00a0 We are very pleased with the results of these first holes.\u00a0 Careful surface geologic examination suggests that this breccia did not come to the surface, but we are still able to accurately define it.\u00a0 Other types of drill technology, specifically rotary drilling, used in the past and currently by others, would not have been successful in recognizing this breccia.\u00a0 As is the case with all of our drill core, we are cutting it in half along the core length, with a diamond saw (\u201csplitting\u201d the core), sending one half, in about 10 foot increments, to our certified assay lab, and permanently archiving the remaining half for future examination.\u00a0 This is all according to SEC guidelines and the more stringent Canadian National Instrument 43-101 rules.<\/p>\n
The drill has been moved 300 feet east and is drilling a northeast trending hole (Neol \u2013 05) approximately 450 feet horizontal distance to test a geochemical fingerprint on favourable geology.\u00a0 Several other holes will be drilled in order to determine the position for a deep test that will go to an approximate depth of 2,000 feet.<\/p>\n
The weather has been cold, snowy and muddy extending the time when we will move back to Helvia and Hafsa.\u00a0 Permits for drilling at those sites are now in hand.<\/p>\n
ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS<\/p>\n
James A. Briscoe
\nPresident\/Director<\/p>\n
About the Liberty Star North Pipes Super Project<\/p>\n
The breccia pipes are part of the large uranium bearing breccia pipe terrain which occurs on the Arizona Strip lying just south of the Utah border.\u00a0 Eight mines were brought into production during the 1970s and early 1980s on deposits discovered within the immediate area.\u00a0 The uranium bearing pipes which were mined are the second highest grade uranium mineral deposits in the world and the highest grade in the United States.\u00a0 Previously mined mineralization in these pipes has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tucson, Arizona\u2014February 5, 2008\u2014Liberty Star Uranium & Metals Corp. (the \u201cCompany\u201d), (OTCBB symbol: LBSU) is pleased to announce\u00a0 it has completed low angle drill holes Neol \u2013 01,02,03 & 04, all drilled from the same drill pad.\u00a0 The purpose of these holes was to probe part of the Neola area where multiple geoscientific indicators suggest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-releases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystaruranium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystaruranium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystaruranium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystaruranium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystaruranium.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystaruranium.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystaruranium.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystaruranium.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystaruranium.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}