Shore Gold Inc. announced that Shore and Rio Tinto Exploration Canada Inc. have completed a Sonic overburden drilling program, consisting of ten holes and some 1,205.5 metres of drilling, on the Star Kimberlite. This geotechnical investigation of the overburden was completed, in close proximity to the core drilling, by Boart Longyear Inc., utilizing a Sonic drill rig. Detailed geotechnical logging of the core collected by the Sonic rig has been completed by Clifton Associates Ltd. The ten hole locations are in close proximity (10 to 15 metres) to previously collected underground bulk samples and past 48 inch large diameter drill ("LDD") holes and include areas of significant intersections (80 – 110 metres) of the Early Joli Fou ("EJF") Kimberlite, the principal economic unit of the Indicated Resources previously estimated by Shore for the Star Kimberlite in December 2015.