New and Ongoing Exploration Programs
International Tower Hill has began resource expansion drilling at the Livengood Gold Project. The company plans to drill approximately 42,000 meters in up to 175 holes within the core target area, which covers an area of approximately 1.5 square kilometers. The resource expansion program will focus on the higher-grade Lillian Zone of the deposit and is designed to double the size of the 2.0 million ounce inferred gold resource (87.8 million tonnes at a grade of 0.71 g/t using a 0.50 g/t gold cutoff), which is contained within the global inferred resource of 3.3 million ounces of gold (188 million tonnes at a grade of 0.54 g/t gold using a 0.30 g/t gold cutoff).
The Lillian Zone has returned a number of higher grade intervals such as 8.8 meters grading 9.95 g/t gold, 8.5 meters grading 9.64 g/t gold and 3.5 meters grading 7.33 g/t gold, contained within thick (+50 meter) intervals averaging above 1 g/t gold. The grade-tonnage curve produced from the initial resource calculation using 48 drill holes indicates there is a significant potential to define a large resource at Livengood. With just 25% of the core target area drilled to date, the company considers that the upside potential for the deposit is enormous.
Pelangio has commenced a 2000 meter drilling program at its Obuasi property in Ghana. The 10-hole program will focus on the extension of the Obuasi mine trend where Pelangio has identified gold and copper soil anomalies and geophysical conductors from the 2007 survey. This program is the first part of a projected 10,000 meters to be completed in 2008. The company recently completed a drill program at its 100% owned Seeley Lake property in the Hemlo area of northwestern Ontario and at its 100% owned Black Township property located approximately 100 kilometers southwest of Timmins.
Gold Fields has begun field work on Redstar Gold Corp.'s (TSX-V: RGC) 100% owned Richmond Summit and Dry Gulch projects within the Carlin Trend in Nevada. Under Letters of Intent executed in March, Gold Fields has committed $1.4 million in exploration expenses on the projects during the first year. The initial work program on Richmond Summit and Dry Gulch is well underway and includes geological mapping, rock-chip sampling, gravity and magnetic geophysical surveys, and trenching. The geophysical surveys are now complete and trenching is expected to begin on the Richmond Summit property before the end of the second quarter and drilling on both projects is planned after results are received from the trenching program. The strongest gold mineralization identified to date occurs in the Main Zone, where surface samples reach 7.75 g/t gold. Channel sampling in trenches in this area has also returned 3.048 g/t gold over 20 feet and 4.960 g/t gold over 10 feet.
Mediterranean recently announced that drilling has begun on its Tac and Corak gold properties in northeastern Turkey. The company's focus will be the continued exploration and development of Tac and Corak through a significant 15,000 meter drill campaign planned this year. This campaign will also include conducting an IP 16 line kilometer survey for chargeability and resistivity at Celtik and drilling targets identified by ground exploration programs performed in 2007.
Anglo Swiss has commenced a Phase II diamond drilling program has at its wholly owned Kenville gold property, located near the city of Nelson, in southeastern British Columbia. This program is contracted for 10,000 meters and will test three separate and distinct mineralized zones present on the Kenville Mine property. Previous exploration of the Eagle gold vein at Kenville, situated within the western portion of the property, returned results as high as 82.15 g/t gold over 0.30 meters.
New Drill Results
Ciresata prospect, Rovina Exploration License, Romania
| Drilhole ID Number | Intersection | Gold Grade | Comments |
| RGD-3 | 163 meters | 0.74 g/t | including 0.14% copper |
| including | 42 meters | 1.00 g/t | including 0.17% copper |
| RGD-5 | 65 meters | 0.77 g/t | including 0.12% copper |
| including | 22 meters | 1.56 g/t | including 0.18% copper |
Calcite zone, Detour Lake property, Canada
| Drilhole ID Number | Intersection | Gold Grade | Comments |
| DG-07-247 | 20 meters | 9.36 g/t | n/a |
| DG-07-259 | 69 meters | 2.26 g/t | n/a |
| DG-07-259 | 27 meters | 5.21 g/t | n/a |
Natividade project, Brazil
| Drilhole ID Number | Intersection | Gold Grade | Comments |
| NRD017 | 2 meters | 34.91 g/t | n/a |
| NRD024 | 19 meters | 7.72 g/t | n/a |
| indlucing | 8 meters | 16.05 g/t | n/a |
| NRD039 | 9 meters | 1.04 g/t | n/a |
El Valle project, Spain
| Drilhole ID Number | Intersection | Gold Grade | Comments |
| DDH08KV1093 | 15.8 meters | 4.42 g/t | including 22.3 g/t silver and 0.41% copper |
| DDH08KV1094 | 21.5 meters | 2.45 g/t | including 7.8 g/t silver and 0.26% copper |
| DDH08KV1098 | 28.4 meters | 2.25 g/t | inculding 10.6 g/t silver and 0.46% copper |
| DDH08KV1100 | 17.95 meters | 2.64 g/t | including 10.9 g/t silver and 0.60% copper |
| DDH08KV1101 | 19.7 meters | 2.29 g/t | including 13.7 g/t silver and 0.65% copper |
San Agustia project, Mexico
| Drilhole ID Number | Intersection | Gold Grade | Comments |
| SA-186 | 294.30 meters | 0.46 g/t | including 15.36 g/t silver, 0.10% lead, and 0.53% zinc |
| SA-187 | 350.40 meters | 0.25 g/t | including 24.05 g/t silver, 0.16% lead, and 0.84% zinc |
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