Western Tethyan Resources Limited (“WTR” or the “Company”), a UK registered  private mineral exploration and development company, is pleased to announce that the government of Kosovo has granted  WTR the ‘Hertica’ exploration licence, covering 58 km². The company now holds 297 km² of prospective licenses in Kosovo.  Three other license applications (161 km²) in Kosovo are under final revision phase by the ICMM (Independent Commission for Mines and Minerals)

Highlights:

• The Hertica exploration license lies in the northeastern part of Kosovo.  The area is considered part of the Lecce Magmatic Complex, straddling the Serbian and Kosovar borders, and host to the Tulare porphyry (300Mt @ 0.27% Cu and 0.26 g/t Au), the Drazhnja Polymetallic Deposit (4.7 Mt @ 7% PbZn and 45 g/t Ag) and several other porphyry and epithermal deposits.
• The Hertica license area includes a large 6 km² zone of advanced argillic alteration with several quartz-diorite porphyry intrusions outcropping throughout and associated copper, gold, antimony mineralization. The contact between the intrusions and host sediments is also considered highly favourable for CRD and sediment hosted styles of mineralisation.
• Reconnaissance work on the project area to date, although limited, has returned some prospective grades throughout different alteration styles of the epithermal-porphyry target, i.e:
  • Up to 0.12 g/t Au from the vuggy silica samples, and
  • Up to 0.4 g/t Au and 0.5% Cu from Quartz-Sericite-Pyrite (QSP) alteration zone
• Upon granting of the licence WTR has immediately started exploration work with advanced geology and alteration mapping and a license-wide soil sampling program on three different grids ( 50×200, 100×400 and 200×800), initially to be tested with XRF.