Fire River Gold Corp. announced results from its 2012 surface diamond drilling program, at its wholly owned Nixon Fork Gold Project in Alaska. The company completed 38 surface diamond drill holes totaling 2976 metres targeting resource expansion at the Mystery Mine.

Twenty of 38 drill holes intercepted significant gold, silver and copper mineralization, a very high success ratio. Drilling highlights include: 7.6 metres grading 50.26 g/t gold in drill hole N12-014, 8.3 metres grading 36.75 g/t gold in drill hole N12-001 and 6.1 metres grading 31.83 g/t gold in drill hole N12-012.