Western Gold Resources Limited announced that results of the Sub-Audio Magnetics (SAM) survey completed over the Brilliant-Kingfisher blocks at the Gold Duke Project have provided valuable insights into the geological structures and potential controls of mineralization within the Brilliant shear zone (BSZ). The Gold Duke Project, located in the northern goldfields, 35km to the west of Wiluna, contains a combined Mineral Resource estimate JORC-2012 Mineral Resource estimate of 4,570,000 tons at 2.0 g/t Au for 293,000 oz Au. The SAM survey at the Brilliant-Kingfisher block is two of three blocks surveyed at the Gold Duke Project and covers the northern section of the Brilliant Shear Zone (BSZ), host to the Brilliant and Bottom camp Mineral Resources and the Kingfisher prospect.

Previous interpretation of the SAM survey over the Wren Block that covers 3km strike length of the Joyners Find Shear Zone identified 10 new gold targets. Planning for Exploration based on these targets is well advanced. The BSZ is interpreted to extend over a strike length of 16 km and is 0.5 km wide containing sheared mafic and ultramafic units with occasional intrusions of differentiated dolerite sills and quartz-feldspar porphyry dykes.

Mineralization within ultramafic host rocks is coincident with less frequent brittle-ductile mineralization that occurs as quartz veins and stockwork within dolerite, gabbro, and felsic porphyry intrusions. The historic North Brilliant Mine located on the southern limit of the survey area produced 5,265t @ 17.4 g/t for 2,955 oz. The completed SAM survey has identified nine high-priority targets producing three datasets; TMI (magnetics), MMC (magneto-metric conductivity) and TFEM (Total Field Electromagnetics).

TMI data is measured passively as a function of the Earth's magnetic field distorted by magnetic minerals in the rocks, MMC data is measured while current is flowing through the ground, and TFEM are measured as that current is switched off and there is a decay of potential. The SAM survey has successfully delineated structural trends which correlate with previously identified mineralization/anomalism and provide follow-up targets for soil sampling and follow- up shallow drill testing. At present, WGR plans to test four targets in Q2, three targets north of the Brilliant mine and one target at the Kingfisher North area.

The concealed Kingfisher North Au-Cu target is part of an WA Government EIS Co-funded drilling grant of $118,500.