Gold Road welcomes third drill rig

THE DRILL SERGEANT: A third drill rig has arrived at the Yamarna Gold Belt of Perth-based Gold Road Resources to accelerate the current exploration program underway at Hann, Central Bore, Justinian and Attila gold projects.

The Yamarna Belt is located 140 kilometres east of Laverton on the eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

The new RC drilling rig is capable of drilling to a depth of 800 metres and will be initially put to work at Central Bore and Justinian.

The arrival of the new rig will augment the RAB drilling program already underway at Central Bore and Justinian, where the company is currently completing around 800m RAB drilling per day.

RC drilling at Hann is also currently ongoing with around 150m completed per day.

The company owned auger rig is continuing shallow geochemical regional drilling at Yamarna to generate new gold targets.

Gold Road plans to drill approximately 90,000 metres throughout 2011, focussing primarily on Central Bore, Justinian, Hann and Attila as well as new gold targets.

Initial results from the current drilling program are expected to be announced in June.