Tirex Resources announced that 2nd drill will begin turning on the company's Mirdita District. The 2nd drill will test East Slope Trend anomalies with a focus on new discoveries and will be turning within 1 week.

The East Slope Trend has never been drilled and has never been the subject of any previous modern and systematic exploration.

Prior to Tirex's arrival in Albania, little was known about the East Slope Trend. The trend is considered to be of equal potential importance to the Gurthi and Munelle Trends which hosted multiple historic mines and VMS deposits. It is largely hidden by a thin limestone cap that covered the favorable volcanic host rocks and potential mineralization.

When Tirex flew the country's first ever airborne geophysical survey, the East Slope Trend was first identified. The trend has since become the subject of significant Tirex ground work including detailed geological mapping, stream sediment sampling and ground geophysics. Stream sediment sampling from creeks that drains the Trend were highly anomalous with copper values of 70ppm to 637ppm. Based on the airborne electromagnetic results, 2 Induced Polarization lines were carried out across the trend. High priority drill targets, resulting from this ground work have been identified. The target deposit type is Noranda style VMS deposits. Such deposits on the Gurthi and Munelle Trends to the west host high grade copper, zinc, gold and silver mineralization.

Mr George Gorzynski director of Tirex said that "Armed with the data generated from significant ground work completed during the past year, Tirex is ready to drill the East Slope Trend. This trend, never before drilled, represents multiple opportunities for discovery. The initial identification of this trend and the subsequent target definition work are indicative of what modern exploration in this large historically producing District can do."