Alto Ventures Ltd. announced that planning has started for the 2018 exploration program on its Miner Lake Gold Property in the Beardmore-Geraldton gold camp in Ontario. Surface exploration this spring will be followed up with a summer diamond drill program. Miner Lake is located approximately 45 km northeast of the Town of Beardmore, Ontario and 10 km northwest of Greenstone Gold Mines Brookbank Gold Deposit (a 50/50 Partnership between Centerra Gold Inc. and Premier Gold Mines Ltd.). Year-round road access to the property can be gained by Trans-Canada Highway 1 and then by Provincial Highway 801. Alto completed nine shallow drillholes on the property in 2011. Eight of the nine holes intersected significant gold anomalies with one hole cutting a wide zone of 39.2 m averaging 0.6 g/t gold including 4.24 g/t gold over 1.5 m. Assay results from surface saw cut channel samples include 6.79 g/t gold across 1.0 m; 4.14 g/t gold across 1.4 m; and 1.78 g/t gold and 0.11% copper across 19 m. This last interval contains two higher grade sections of 3.36 g/t gold and 0.24% copper across 5.0 m and another section of 6.29 g/t gold and 0.08% copper across 2.0 m. Several granodiorite and diorite stocks intrude sequences of felsic to mafic fragmental volcanic rocks near the centre of the Miner Lake Property. Regional shear zones, trending east and northeast traverse the property and strong biotite- silica alteration is associated with sections of the shear zones. In addition to shearing, numerous zones of hydrothermal breccia have been discovered within one of the granodiorite plugs and the areas of breccia that are chlorite altered and sulphide mineralized carry significant gold mineralization on surface. Results from limited surface glacial till sampling programs completed in 2015 and 2016 have delineated gold-in till dispersion trains down-ice from the known gold zones and have also located a cluster of till anomalies near the southwest end of the property. One sample from this cluster contains 578 gold grains of which 471 of the gold grains are described as pristine. The high proportion of pristine gold grains may indicate that this sample is close to a yet undiscovered gold bearing bedrock source. Alto is currently compiling all drill and geophysical/geochemical data for the project for review by potential joint venture partners. Drilling by Alto has extended gold mineralization for three kilometers discovering two other gold zones east of the DAC Deposit. The DAC Deposit has Indicated Mineral Resources of 10.8 million tonnes at an average grade of 1.05 g/t gold and an Inferred Mineral Resources total approximately 8.3 million tonnes at an average grade of 0.92 g/t gold using a 0.5 g/t gold cut-off grade. The estimated contained ounces in the Indicated category are 364,000 plus 247,000 ounces in the Inferred classification. The gold mineralization is open to depth and along strike.