Mako Gold Limited reported on its gold discovery on the Company's Niou Project in Burkina Faso. Assays returned values up to 53.80g/t Au (hole NURC006) and separately multiple widths up to 24m (hole NURC007) of mineralisation. There is no previous drilling on the permit. The 1,210m reverse circulation (RC) drilling program was designed to test two targets within a broad (1 to 2km wide) zone of shearing associated with a major regional fault and coincident with a gold soil anomaly along a 7km long strike. Target A contains a 2km-long by 1km-wide main gold artisanal mining site, where artisanal miners are mining to depths up to 50m suggesting high-grade mineralisation is present in the area. Seven RC drill holes totaling 810m of drilling were completed on the artisanal site within Target A. All holes were drilled in a southeasterly direction at an inclination of -55 degrees, except NURC006 which was drilled in a southwesterly direction. NURC003 was drilled at a steeper angle to avoid artisanal mine workings. Hole lengths were between 100m and 150m with a maximum vertical depth of 120m. The drill holes were designed primarily to intersect multiple parallel, vertical shear zones mapped by Mako geologists. In addition to geological mapping, the drill hole planning also used airborne geophysics, trenching and rock chip sampling from work previously completed by Mako. Six of the 7 holes drilled within Target A host significant gold intersections with multiple mineralised intervals within each hole. Intermittent mineralised zones in NURC005, NURC006 and NURC007 over a width of 315m are located within the centre of the artisanal mining area. Figure 5 shows a cross section of these holes looking ENE. The multiple gold intersections are interpreted as parallel vertical mineralised zones (pink shaded areas) associated with the northeasterly trending shear structures. This interpretation is supported by geological mapping which identified vertical to sub-vertical shear zones on surface. Evidence from rock chip sampling indicates that the shear zones are hosting the gold mineralisation. Mineralisation is open in all directions. Future drilling, which should include diamond drilling, would provide valuable geological and structural information to better understand the structures hosting gold and the extent of mineralisation.