Ausgold Limited announced the resumption of exploration activity at its 100%-owned Katanning Gold Project (KGP) in Western Australia’s south-west as results are pending from drilling undertaken by the Company during the December 2017 quarter. Following a short break over the Christmas period, the 10,000 metre aircore(AC)program testing targets along the Jackson-Lone Tree, White Dam-Fraser and Olympia-Jinkas mineralised trends at the KGP will recommence today. Diamond drilling at the Datatine prospect, which lies along strike to the north of the Jinkas deposit, will recommence later this week. Ausgold completed 5,440 metres of the AC program as well as three of four diamond holes planned for Datatine in the December 2017 quarter. All samples from the AC drilling and core from two of the diamond holes have been submitted for assay and core from one drill hole is yet to be sampled. Results from the AC program, which is focused within a 10km radius of the KGP resource area, will be critical in prioritising targets for follow-up reverse circulation (RC) drilling planned to begin in February 2018. Following completion of a regional ground gravity survey over Ausgold’s entire 4,031km2 tenement holding in the December 2017 quarter, a more detailed (200 x 400m) ground gravity survey over the KGP resource area will begin this week, as will a ground-based moving loop electro-magnetic (EM) survey targeting high grade gold-pyrrhotite association at the Jinkas, Jackson-Olympia and Lukin prospects.