Artemis Resources Limited announced that it has commenced a 1,975 metre trenching programme at its Weerianna Gold Project, located near Karratha in Western Australia, designed to increase the known 70,000 ounces of JORC complaint Inferred Resources. The Weerianna Gold Project [M47/223] is 80% owned by Artemis and is located 25 km east of Karratha and 5 km west of Roebourne in Western Australia and adjacent to the Karratha - Roebourne highway. It is also conveniently located only 35 km by road from the Radio Hill Plant. The company has an exclusive option to buy the fully permitted AGIP 425,000 tpa Radio Hill nickel and copper operations, processing plant and associated mining and exploration tenements for a total consideration of $3.5 million. The Weerianna Gold Project hosts a JORC (2012) compliant Inferred Mineral Resource of 1Mt at 2.2 g/t Au for total contained metal of 70,000 ounces of Au2. The current resource outcrops at surface and remains open at depth and along strike. The 2017 Weerianna trenching programme will comprise 6 long trenches totaling 1,975 metres, ranging from 250 metres to 450 metres in length, across the 1,200 metres of known strike length with priority being given to the first 3 trenches totaling 875 metres, the core 600 metres of strike. This trenching programme is looking to advance the inferred resource to a higher JORC category and to refine the geological model, by looking at structural controls on gold mineralisation near surface. This can then be extrapolated through the gold deposit. Gold mineralisation at Weerianna outcrops at surface and is associated with quartz veining within chlorite-serpentinite schists, with variable degrees of silicification and carbonate alteration. Previous drilling has only focused on one orientation and a new interpretation of the geological model has indicated that two orientations to gold mineralisation are potentially present. The one orientation of gold mineralisation being drilled forms the basis of the 70,000 oz gold resource. Artemis believes that the trenching will support the second perpendicular orientation of gold mineralisation. If this second orientation is validated, a significant drill programme will be required and this will significantly improve the economics of the deposit by increasing the ounces per vertical metre. The contractors commenced work on the 9 January 2017 with initial results expected within the next few weeks.