A drilling campaign tested the continuity at shallow depth of the gold-bearing zones exposed on surface after the stripping program. Diamond drill hole B-137 returned directly under the stripped area an intersection of 3.72 g/t Au over 4.20 m at a vertical depth of 45 m and hole B-142 drilled approximately 15 m to the east returned at the same elevation an intersection of 3.10 g/t Au over 6.0 m. On the same section, hole B-143 intersected at a vertical depth of 70 m a gold-bearing zone grading 3.01 g/t Au over 4.20m. Diamond drill hole B-145 intersected the West zone 75 m to the west and at a vertical depth of 90 m with a gold intersection of 2.87 g/t Au over 3.15 m. At greater depth, diamond drill hole B-128 returned on the same section than hole B-137 and at a vertical depth of 140 m, a gold intersection of 3.78 g/t Au over 2.9 m and approximately 60 m toward the east diamond drill hole B-132 intersected the West zone at a vertical depth of 170 m with an intersection of 5.13 g/t Au over 5.15 m.

These results indicate that in this sector the West zone is continuous from surface to the elevation 180 m below surface where the resources have been evaluated in 2005. The discovery of this new gold-bearing zone on surface is very important because it warrants new exploration programs of all the area located close to surface and immediately to the west of the old Bachelor mine.

Analyses were performed by fire assay at the Bachelor mine laboratory with verification of some samples at the Bourlamaque Assay Laboratory of Val d'Or, Que.

Andre Tremblay, PEng, is the qualified person pursuant to National Instrument 43-101 and supervised the technical information presented in the news release.