Balmoral Resources Ltd. announced that its multi-rig winter 2012 drill program has commenced on the company's Detour Gold Trend Project in Central Quebec. Follow-up drill testing of the company's Grasset gold discovery has begun. Two additional drills are currently being mobilized and it is anticipated that expansion drilling, targeting the high-grade Martiniere West gold zone and several new high-grade gold discoveries in the Martiniere East area, will commence within the next 5-10 days. The Martiniere gold discoveries are located less than 45 kilometres from the Detour Gold Project which is currently under development. Winter 2012 Drill Program: Drilling has commenced on the Grasset gold discovery. Initial plans call for the completion of 12 to 15 drill holes (approximately 4,000 metres) in the Grasset area. Drilling will initially focus on expanding the Grasset gold discovery itself through broadly spaced drilling along the Sunday Lake Deformation Zone. Three additional targets in the Grasset area, including two prominent conductors identified by the airborne EM survey completed in late 2011, are also slated for testing. Balmoral will commence expansion drilling of its high-grade Martiniere West Zone with 2 drills within the next 5-10 days. 2011 drilling traced the Martiniere West Zone for 380 metres along strike and to a depth of 170 metres with the Zone remaining open in all directions. Drilling will initially focus on potential extensions of the West Zone along strike at shallow depths, and then proceed to test the Zone below the 170 metre level. Initial testing of a 300 metre span which separates the West Zone from the historic Central Zone, which share strong geological similarities, will be a high priority in hopes of linking the two zones of gold mineralization and more than doubling the current strike extent of the system. Drilling at Martiniere will also include follow-up testing of a number of new discoveries announced in December of 2011. These include the high-grade ME-16 discovery which returned 9.33 metres grading 12.93 g/t gold and a high-grade gold and silver bearing breccia which returned 76.40 g/t gold and 1390 g/t silver in hole ME-11-09. Balmoral hopes to complete approximately 12,000 metres of diamond drilling on the Martiniere Project during the current program. The Martiniere and Grasset properties form part of Balmoral's district scale Detour Gold Trend Project. The Project extends for over 80 kilometres along the regional gold-bearing Detour-Sunday Lake Deformation Zone, which hosts the multi-million ounce Detour Gold deposit currently under development adjacent to Balmoral's holdings.