Auteco Minerals Ltd. announced it has secured a large, highly strategic land holding along strike from its 1Moz Pickle Crow gold project in Ontario, Canada. It has increased its land position around the high-grade, tenure to more than 496km2. Auteco has also mobilised a fourth drilling rig to site to help expedite Resource growth. Auteco Executive Chairman, Ray Shorrocks, said the land acquisition and the fourth rig reflected the Company's commitment to growing the Pickle Crow resource. This additional staking includes an additional 12km of the highly prospective Tarp Lake Shear Zone. The increased land holding staked by Auteco is subject to the earn-in agreement entered into with First Mining Gold Corp. on March 12, 2020 (refer ASX release 13 March 2020) which has the option to allow some or all the increased land holding to form part of the earn-in and joint venture on the Pickle Crow Gold Project. The Inferred Resource Estimate of 1Moz @ 11.3 g/t gold announced on the ASX 1 September 2020 is within a 3.5km section of the core mineralised shear zone and incorporates multiple high-grade Lodes within a large, mineralised corridor. This 3.5km section previously produced 1.5Moz @ 16 g/t gold1 until the mine closed in 1966. The current Resource includes 22 separate modelled lodes. All resources are reported at a 3.5 g/t gold lower cut-off which is deemed acceptable based on industry costings associated with the likely mining method (narrow vein underground).