Essex Minerals Inc. announced assay results from the initial six-hole program of diamond and reverse circulation drilling at the Drummer Fault gold project in north Queensland, Australia. Highlights: Drummer Toy DH2 intersected: 3m grading 5.1 g/t Au and 51.2 g/t Ag from 83m to 86m down hole including 1m grading 8.2 g/t Au and 35.6 g/t Ag from 85m Drummer Toy DH3 intersected: 1m grading 3.5 g/t Au and 4.5 g/t Ag from 83m to 54m down hole 28m grading 0.6 g/t Au and 2.41 g/t Ag from 75m to 103m down hole Drummer Toy DH5 intersected: 1m @ 4.6 g/t Au and 6.8 g/t Ag from 131m to 132m down hole Drummer West DH6 intersected: 7m at 1.74 g/t Au and 67.7 g/t Ag from 64m to 71m down hole including 3m at 2.9 g/t Au and 137 g/t Ag from 65m to 68m down hole. Visible gold was believed to have been identified in at least one of the drill holes and, as a result, 75 mineralized samples have been resubmitted to ALS Global for screen fire assay. The six holes totalling 951.5m have demonstrated gold mineralization associated with sulphides below the previously mined surface (up to 15m depth) oxide zone on the eastern end of the Drummer Fault within the Mt Turner project area. All drill holes intersected significant gold silver and/or base metal mineralization. Five holes were drilled under the Drummer Toy Pit and one hole under the Drummer West Pit. All five drill holes at Drummer Toy intersected mineralized quartz veins and/or silica flooded shear zones near the projections of the north pit wall and the south pit wall respectively. These zones form the north and south (hanging wall and footwall) contacts between Quartz Mica Schist in the body of the pit and Diorite intrusives. Dolerite and Rhyolite dykes were also encountered in varying widths and frequency in the drill holes. The Quartz Mica Schist exhibited varying degrees of quartz sulfide veining with more intensity generally noted near the hanging wall and foot wall zones. The Drummer Fault is a 19-kilometre east-west structure readily visible on Lidar and satellite imagery. The Fault has been active throughout geological time having displaced Proterozoic granites and schists, and is disrupted by Permo-Carboniferous felsic and mafic dykes associated with the Kennedy Magmatic Association of North Queensland (genetically related to the major gold deposits of north Queensland). This structure has been influenced by the Mt Turner multi-phase intrusive porphyry Cu-Mo system 1.4 kilometres to the south of the Drummer Pits. In addition, NE trending structures have intersected the eastern ends of both the Drummer Girl and Drummer Toy Pits and may localise higher-grade mineralisation or yet undiscovered mineralized subsidiary splay faults. At a local scale, exposures in old pits in the oxide zone have shown a close correlation between mineralisation and lithology. In the Drummer Pits, mineralisation follows fault breccias and quartz veining at the contact between granite and meta-dolerite. The Drummer Girl Pits appear to follow a contact between brecciated granite and rhyolite dykes while the Drummer Toy Pit is localised within coarse-grained muscovite granite with meta-dolerite noted some 50 metres to the south. Generally, where exposed, the Drummer Fault is mineralized along its entire length. The western five kilometres of the structure appears to be dominated by uranium mineralisation in the form of coffinite associated with apatite and sulphides (dominantly pyrite) associated with Permo-Carboniferous rhyolite and mafic dykes in steeply plunging shoots to the west. A historical uranium resource of 374,000 t @ 0.16% U3O8 has been established in the LC50 prospect by previous operators. Gold mineralisation in the eastern portion of the Drummer Fault occurs in steeply dipping quartz veins and fault breccia and is associated with galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. Early phase white quartz veins within the fault structure have been brecciated and sheared along lithological boundaries and fluids have been reintroduced along fault breccias, which have been annealed, by fine quartz and sulphides. Some breccia clasts are mineralized and appear rhyolitic.