Artemis Resources Limited announced its plans to commence trial gold production in second quarter 2017 from its Nickol River Gold/Platinum Project, located only 15 minutes by road from Karratha in Western Australia, with the installation and commissioning of a modern 150 tonne per hour gravity gold plant. River Gold Project is located only 12 km from the regional mining centre of Karratha (15 minutes by road) in the Pilbara area of Western Australia and close to excellent infrastructure straddling the Karratha - Roebourne Highway. The company has identified significant areas at Nickol River that are highly weathered and free-dig from surface to depths of between 2 to 6 metres that would potentially be amenable to bulk scale mining and processing using a modern gravity plant for gold and platinum recoveries. Previous trial mining operations at Nickol River, as reported by Sir Samuel Mines NL listing Prospectus, noted that in 1984 a 10 tonne per hour plant tested 600 tonnes of surface material yielding a recovered grade of 0.33 grams per tonne of gold ("g/t Au") and in 1985 a bigger 40 tonne per hour pilot plant processed 42,500 tonnes of surface material that yielded a recovered grade of 0.15 g/t Au. There are currently no JORC compliant resources at Nickol River as the previous work outlined in the 1980's in the Sir Samuel Mines NL Prospectus was published prior to the existence of JORC.