Mako Gold Limited announced that it has secured a multi-purpose reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drill (DD) rig from Geodrill and plans to resume drilling shortly at the Company's 224 km2 Napié Project in Côte d'Ivoire. Mako is earning up to a 75% interest in the Napié Project under a farm-in and joint venture agreement with Occidental Gold SARL, a subsidiary of West African gold miner Perseus Mining Limited. Mako currently holds a 51% interest in the permit and is operator of the project 1. The drilling program will consist of approximately 1,000m of reverse circulation RC drilling and 500m of DD on the Tchaga Prospect shown as a red rectangle in Figure 2. The drilling program will follow-up on the positive results received from previous drill programs. Mineralisation on the Tchaga Prospect is associated with a 23km-long +40ppb gold soil anomaly and is located along a coincident +17km-long shear zone, thought to be a major control for gold mineralisation. The multiple shear zones and soil anomalies present excellent regional targets for future drill testing. Three other specific targets, shown as dashed blue circles in Figure 2, host significant gold intercepts from previous drilling by the Company, and remain to be further tested in follow-up drill programs. While Mako has received positive drill results to date elsewhere on the Napié Project, the Company is focussing on the more advanced Tchaga Prospect in its endeavour to outline a JORC compliant gold resource by Fourth Quarter 2020. Current and previous drill results on Tchaga have confirmed the presence of multiple wide and high-grade gold mineralised zones along a strike length of 1.4km. The upcoming drilling program will follow-up on the positive results received from previous drill programs on the Tchaga Prospect which include 2: 36m at 3.09g/t Au from 43m - hole NARC107; 28m at 4.86g/t Au from 83m - hole NARC057; 25m at 3.43g/t Au from 53m - hole NARC017; 18m at 3.25g/t Au from 39m - hole NARC080; 23m at 2.46g/t Au from 15m - hole NARC084; 17m at 2.43g/t Au from 86m - hole NARC055; 30m at 1.16g/t Au from 117m - hole NARC101. To date, gold mineralisation has only been tested to a maximum vertical depth of 120m. The DD extensions of previous RC drilling will test mineralisation to vertical depths of approximately 200m. Drilling oriented DD holes will also help Mako better understand the structural controls of the wide mineralised zones. In addition, RC drilling will test along strike of mineralised zones identified from previous drilling and hopefully confirm extensions of mineralisation. Shear-hosted mineralisation is typically of a "pinch-and- swell" nature therefore the combination of deep DD and shallow RC drilling planned in this phase should help unlock another piece of the geological puzzle. Drill-for-equity to be used to conserve cash: The Company intends to use its drill-for-equity facility with its chosen drill contractor Geodrill in order to minimize cash costs of drilling. Under the terms of the drill-for-equity agreement, Mako can elect to pay half of the drilling invoice in shares, thereby helping to conserve cash reserves 3.