Rupert Resources Ltd. provided an exploration update for the Pahtavaara Project where base of till (BoT) sampling continues to delineate further gold anomalies in close proximity to the fully-permitted Pahtavaara mine and mill in the Central Lapland Greenstone Belt ("CLGB") of Northern Finland. Drilling targets are emerging at the NE Extension and Arttu areas where further infill sampling with one rig is underway. The second rig has commenced sampling targets in the south west extents of the licence holding. Rupert has completed approximately 1500 points of the planned 8,500 point BoT programme that began in November with the aim of outlining targets both near to the mine and across its 290km2 licence for diamond drilling in 2019. Further to the previously announced Paskamaa East target the continuing BoT sampling has defined a number of anomlaies that extend over a strike length of 1.5km to the east-north-east. These extend from Paskamaa East to the NE Extension area and further into a new area called Arttu. Importantly the strike of this anomalism conforms to the S2 foliation direction that has been identified at the Pahtavaara mine and through regional structural interpretation. The Paskamaa East, NE Extension and Arttu anomalies lie within an large structural feature, identified from magnetics and BoT geology, with the anomalism broadly related to the orientation of the structural deformation. The core of this feature comprises ultramafic lithologies and appears to control the location of the anomalism in a corresponding magnetic low. It is expected that further multi-element results in the coming weeks will provide more insight into the geological setting of Paskamaa East and related anomalies. Further BoT sampling is underway to both extend the grids completed to date and infill anomalous zones to better define drilling targets. A number of smaller anomalies have also been identified in the Karoliina, Western Extension and south extents of the Arttu areas which will also be followed up in later infill BoT programmes.