Barton Gold Holdings Limited confirmed that RC drilling has started at the Tunkillia Gold Project's (Tunkillia) Area 51 prospect, where a new 500m long gold zone
was recently confirmed.1 The program is expected to comprise ~2,300m over a period of two weeks' time. RC drilling at Area 51 follows recent successful extensional RC drilling at the 223 Deposit, where ~90% of historical drilling informing the current (2020) 965koz Au Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) was completed at gold price below USD 800/oz. Depth extensions and regional targets were poorly tested. Assays at the Main Deeps, South Plunge, and Southern Targets have returned shallow high-grade results up to 23.5 g/t Au in target high-grade zones, and multiple assays now indicate ~500m of potentially continuous, broad (20m+ thick) mineralisation below the 2020 MRE pit shell. These results provide further support of Barton's thesis that significant zones of mineralisation are likely to exist in historically poorly tested areas outside of, and below, the 2020 block model.