Fremont Gold Ltd. announced that drilling will be underway at the Company's Gold Bar project by the end of January 2019, with drilling to start at the Gold Canyon project soon thereafter. Fremont's Gold Bar and Gold Canyon are both past producing gold mines in the Gold Bar District, Eureka County, Nevada. The 1,000-metre reverse circulation drill program at Gold Bar will target a coincident gold and mercury geochemical anomaly that may represent an extension to the historic Gold Bar mine. Gold Bar was exploited by Atlas Precious Metals Corp. from 1986-1994 and produced 286,354 ounces of gold. The 500-metre diamond drilling program at Gold Canyon will be focused on further defining a previously unrecognized mineralized zone approximately 50 metres below the pit floor. Fremont's Gold Bar and Gold Canyon projects are both former mines in the Gold Bar District, Eureka County, Nevada, an active mining district within the Battle Mountain-Eureka Trend. The district contains several Carlin-style sediment-hosted gold deposits, including McEwen Mining Inc.'s Gold Bar project, which is scheduled to begin production in early 2019. Fremont's Gold Bar and Gold Canyon projects are adjacent (west) and immediately north of McEwen's Gold Bar project. While McEwen's project and Fremont's project share the same name, the historic Gold Bar mine is held by Fremont. McEwen's project comprises four of the five satellite pits to the historic Gold Bar mine, whereas Fremont controls the remaining satellite pit, Gold Canyon.