Bellavista Resources announced that it has commissioned a second drilling rig to start immediately at its Brumby zinc-silver-copper project, 130km south-west of Newman. The decision to engage the RC drilling rig follows the successful completion of Bellavista's first two diamond drill holes at Brumby. Core from these holes has been dispatched from site with the diamond rig currently drilling hole 3. The drilling program is aimed at expanding the known mineralisation footprint, which is already estimated to cover 30sqkm, based on historical drilling, and specifically target areas where high-grade mineralisation may exist.

The first hole BRDD0001 was drilled on the eastern edge of the known mineralisation, where it also out crops. The second hole BRDD0002 was located 3km to the west, with previous exploration suggesting the host rock plunges at a shallow angle in this direction. The third diamond hole BRDD0003 is now underway 4km further west of the second hole covering a total of 7km of strike along the axial plane of the Brumby anti-form.

Drilling should provide an opportunity to expand the mineralisation footprint with this maiden diamond core providing critical geological information as the technical team builds knowledge of the Brumby SEDEX (sedimentary exhalative) system. Bellavista Executive Director Mick Wilson said visual inspection of the core from the first two holes was highly encouraging. Brumby sits within Bellavista's Edmund Basin Projects, which cover approximately 130km of strike of the northern margin of this highly prospective basin.

The Projects include Brumby Deposit,Vernon Base Metals, Vernon Nickel/PGE and Gorge Creek. The properties are prospective for largeto super-large SEDEX base metal deposits, Abra-style IOCG Cu-Pb-Ag-Au deposits, sulphiderelated Nickel/PGE's deposits in Mafic/Ultramafic Intrusions and possible sediment hosted Uranium. The RC and diamond drilling programs planned for this field season will now take place in parallel.

The drilling is being aided by the results of electromagnetics surveys and ground-based gravity,which have bolstered priority targets and identified a host of new targets.Two priority coincident EM and gravity targets have emerged from the review. A mid to late timeconductor has been observed in the centre of the basin. This is coincident with the axis of the hostanti-form and may represent a structural target (thickening) where the host SEDEX mineralisationinteracts with the axial plane of the fold.

A second, multi-line conductor is present on the northwest flank of the Brumby system, alsocoincident with a localised gravity high. This appears to be stratigraphic and could represent athicker zone of sulphides to target closer to the basin edge.