Cora Gold Limited announced that, following the mobilization of the drill rig on 30 November 2017, it has completed the Stage 1 reconnaissance drill programme at its flagship Sanankoro Gold Discovery in Southern Mali and is awaiting assay results. During December 2017, seven drill fences with 27 holes for a total of 2,499m of combined AC and RC drilling were completed at Sanankoro Target. Target 1, which is located nearly 4km to the north of Zone B, covers a strike length of ~3km.  The primary objective of the drill campaign was to confirm the presence of mineralized structures previously indicated by shallow historical RAB drilling. Importantly, visible gold was identified in many of the drill holes completed indicating widespread gold mineralization along the structure. Based on visual characterization of the samples from drilling, the lithological package appears to be (from hanging to footwall) a mix of sandstones/siltstones, followed by a 30-40m wide zone of sandstone, which overlies a phyllite, which is interpreted to be carbonaceous. Visible gold was observed to lie predominantly within or close to the sandstone units. Two drill holes (total 250m) were undertaken at Zone A to target the main north-south trending structure at Sanankoro. By using a north-west drill azimuth (rather than the historical E-W orientation) Cora planned to also target the east-west oriented quartz veins which it believes were not properly identified in the previous Gold Fields drilling. Initial results are encouraging, with visible gold and intense quartz mineralization observed in several samples. Given the broad zones of quartz veining, the Company believes some is likely to have occurred on the east-west orientation, potentially indicating a broader mineralized structure than previously identified. Unfortunately, the drill rods became stuck approximately 140m down hole leading to one of the holes being abandoned before its final completion depth.