Aruma Resources Limited reported that the major drilling program has restarted at Slate Dam for 2018, after a total 974m were completed in December. Results are expected in January through to February. Aruma mobilized contractors to commence a 5,000m RC drill program in mid-December 2017. The priority target for the company is the advanced Slate Dam Gold Project, situated only 40km east of Kalgoorlie. With proven evidence of gold mineralization, consisting of a 7km2 >200ppb bottom of hole geochemical gold anomaly with significant intersections. Slate Dam is a project capable of uncovering several mineralization trends. A total of 974m in 11 RC holes were drilled before the break for Christmas-New Year with the holes drilled to a nominal 100m depth. The initial Project evaluation using historical data defined a bottom-of-hole geochemical gold anomaly of considerable size over a small part of the Slate Dam Prospect, covering some 10% (4km of the 40km) of the prospective trends in the shale rich sequences. All the geological requirements for a gold system are in place but these are masked due to the presence of Lake Yindarlgooda covering the anomaly. The substantial gold anomaly was delineated but inadequately drill tested. This maiden drill program for Aruma is testing the high tenor (>200ppb Au) anomaly, which includes testing the basement which has previous drilling defined gold intercepts that were not followed up. The prospective shales are shown in Figure 4 which has many similarities to the Invincible Deposit at Kambalda. This deposit hosts 2Moz of gold at over 4 g/t grade.