iMetal Resources Inc. announced the issuance of exploration permits for the Company's Gowganda West project which lies within the prolific Abitibi Greenstone Gold Belt. Gowganda West is an exploration-stage gold project about 100 km south-southeast of Timmins, Ontario, contiguous to Aris Gold Corp.'s Juby Project in the Shining Tree Camp of the southern part of the Abitibi Greenstone Gold Belt; contiguous also with the Knight project that is part of the Strategic Partnership between Orefinders Resources Inc. and Agnico Eagle Mines Limited. iMetal has just recently completed a seven-hole, 2,611 m drilling program, which intersected multiple gold zones including a new gold trend to the east of previously discovered trends.

The issued permits are three-year drill and exploration permits and cover the Zone 1 and Zone 3 exploration areas. The permits include allowance for: 15 line kilometres of induced polarization (IP) surveying; Trenching to refine gold targets at up to 25 locations and 4,000 square metres; Greater than 20 drill pads.