Trillium Gold Mines Inc. reported that drilling on the 100%-owned Rivard property, located in the southwest portion of the Newman Todd project, will be initiated during the last week of January to augment its major drill program already underway. This new phase of 2021 drilling on the greater Newman Todd project is expected to provide further understanding of the structural intersections at Newman Todd, and the high-grade veining both along strike and at depth on Rivard, where previous shallow trenching revealed spectacular visible gold (VG). The initial drill phase on the Rivard property will comprise over 5,000 meters targeting the lateral and depth continuity of the veining as well as the high-grade gold mineralization seen in the trenches, and the southwestern extents of the NT Zone in areas of little to no historical drilling. This follows the receipt of the drill permit for the Rivard property previously announced on December 23, 2020. Preliminary ground inspection on the Rivard property late in the summer of 2020 confirmed multiple continuous gold-bearing quartz veins. The veins, exposed on surface and in historical drilling, typically strike at an azimuth of 140 degrees and dip steeply to the southwest. An example of the historical trenching can be seen in Photo 1 below. Historical drill results from the 2007-08 drilling by E Energy Ventures include 12.38 gpt Au over 2.0 m, 34.07 gpt Au over 1.5 m, 13.65 gpt Au over 1.0 m, and 28.62 gpt Au over 2.9 m. Exploration has been carried out on the Rivard property since the 1930s. In the 1940s, Heath Gold Mines Ltd. collected a 64 ton bulk sample from several pits along a 200 metre length of the main gold-bearing trend. The bulk sample yielded 8.32 ounces of gold (approximately 260 grams of gold) and had an average grade of 0.13 ounces of gold per ton (approximately 4.46 grams per tonne). The Newman Todd Zone is currently a 2.2 km long and up to 200 metre-wide structural target which is situated in the Red Lake Gold Camp. Drilling from 2013 and earlier had mostly focused on testing the zone by targeting the footwall with drilling toward the southeast, now known to be sub-parallel to gold mineralized veining and structures, potentially missing high-grade intersections or undercutting much of the targeted zone. Newman Todd is a highly prospective target with 41% of the 165 historic drill holes having intervals of greater than 20 g/t gold over various lengths. In addition, nearly all drilling has been conducted to depths of less than 400 meters.