Columbus Gold Corp. announced that it has acquired the Castle gold project which hosts an historical estimate of 272,153 ounces of gold resources adjoining the south end of Columbus Gold's Eastside gold project. Columbus recently announced an initial NI 43-101 pit-constrained Inferred Resource of 721,000 ounces of gold equivalent at Eastside. The Castle gold project covers an area of 9.6 sq. km and is located 13 km south of the Original Zone, where substantially all Eastside drilling has occurred to date, and 6.5 km south of Target 5 at Eastside where drilling is planned to commence in February.