Platina Resources Limited will move quickly to conduct a follow up soil sampling program at the company's wholly owned Challa Gold Project in Western Australia after initial soil sampling completed in November last year confirmed a number of highly prospective zones. Assaying of 696 soil samples has identified a strong correlation to mineralised outcropping veins previously identified in its October reconnaissance program that returned grades of 1.62 grams/tonne (g/t) gold and 5.89 g/t gold in rock chip samples. Acquired by the company in June 2020 as part of Platina's strategy to refocus on Australia, the Challa tenements, E58/552 and E58/553, cover 293km2 and are located in-between the prolific Mt Magnet and Sandstone gold districts in Western Australia, 500km north-east of Perth. The Sandstone province has produced over 1.3 million ounces of gold from numerous underground and open pit mining operations, while Mt Magnet produced over six million ounces since discovery in 1891. Nearby, the Youanmi Gold Mine produced 670,000 ounces of gold throughout its lifetime, and is currently the focus of new resource drilling of high-grade gold lodes.