Emgold Mining Corp. provided an update of its surface exploration activities at the Buckskin Rawhide Property, located about 40 miles south of Fallon, Nevada. Since acquiring the Property, Emgold has made two important discoveries: the Black Eagle High Grade Vein Target and the Chicago Mountain Bulk Disseminated Target. The Buckskin Rawhide Property is comprised of 52 unpatented claims totaling 1,040 acres, of which 46 claims are currently under a lease and option to purchase agreement with Nevada Sunrise LLC, a private company. Six additional claims were staked by Emgold. The Property is located in the Rawhide Mining District and is situated adjacent to Pilot Gold Inc.'s Regent gold-silver property and to Rawhide Mining Company's Rawhide Mine. The Buckskin Rawhide Property is a volcanic-hosted, structurally controlled, epithermal gold-silver prospect in the Walker Lane gold belt of western Nevada. The Walker Lane is a regional shear zone and known gold trend that hosts large and small historic and currently operating gold-silver mines, including mines of the Comstock Lode, Tonopah District and Rawhide District. Buckskin Rawhide geology and mineralization are associated with lithologic units and structures of the Rawhide caldera, as well as structures from the Walker Lane and Basin and Range. Forty-four additional rock chip samples were taken by Emgold to further explore the Black Eagle Fault, for a total of 108 surface samples to date. To date, the total length of the Black Eagle area sampled to date is 6,000 feet. The higher grade has been identified because Emgold sampled rocks exposed primarily on and adjacent to the high grade zone, while Kennecott analyzed the targets in the vicinity of that structure, looking for bulk disseminated mineralization. The data indicate the potential for discovery of both types of mineralization. The methods and quality control from the historic sampling are unknown and cannot be verified under NI 43-101. Confirmation drilling will need to be completed to confirm the reliability of historic data. Emgold's most recent geologic mapping of the area near the Black Eagle Fault also resulted in the discovery of a new fault. Eight channel samples, each 12-inches in length, of bedrock and structures taken at and near the new fault showed low grade anomalous gold mineralization, with values ranging from less than 0.001 ounces per ton gold to 0.019 ounces per ton gold. Silver values ranged from 0.049 ounces per ton to 2.73 ounces per ton. Kennecott Minerals also conducted reverse circulation drilling, with results indicating the presence of gold mineralization from the surface to depths of 165 feet. The methods and quality control from the historic sampling are unknown and cannot be verified under NI 43-101. Confirmation drilling will need to be completed to confirm the reliability of historic data.