Greatland Gold plc announced that drilling has successfully identified two large zones of gold mineralisation at its Ernest Giles project in Western Australia. An ambitious drilling campaign at Ernest Giles has successfully identified two large zones of mineralisation, a Western Zone of 6km in length and 1.5km in width, and an Eastern zone of 2km by 1.5km; The majority of the RC holes drilled intersected mineralisation including several that intersected wide zones (up to 60 metres) of anomalous gold mineralisation; The cover sequence was not as thick as expected with the shallowest intercept at 119m, suggesting that Ernest Giles represents a large, relatively near surface gold exploration target; Greatland Gold's field operations team have taken 1 metre re-samples of several holes and the results of the 1 metre re-samples are expected within the next four weeks. The Ernest Giles project is located in central Western Australia, covering an area of 1,000 square kilometres that includes over 120km of strike of gold and nickel prospective rocks. The area is covered by desert sands and sediments, making it virtually unexplored. The region is home to several successful exploration discoveries such as Tropicana, which contains over 7 million ounces, and Yamarna, with over 6 million ounces. The Company is targeting large +5m ounce deposits and clusters of several camp-type +1m ounce gold discoveries at Ernest Giles. Earlier drill programmes by the Company at Ernest Giles intersected gold mineralisation and large alteration systems in wildcat drilling of blind structural targets defined by detailed airborne geophysics. This is considered a major achievement for such a large prospective area with virtually no historical work. To build on this the Company has completed a comprehensive broad spaced RC drilling programme which tested several large areas based on work completed by the Company and earlier work by Western Mining Corporation. The RC drill programme comprised 23 holes for 5,581m. Hole locations were based on a broad spaced grid pattern of 1,600m x 800m. Holes were designed to test basement lithologies for gold mineralisation and also test beneath surface geochemical anomalies. It is pleasing to report that mineralisation was observed in 13 of the 23 holes. Initial 4m composite analysis of drill spoils shows gold anomalism between 5 and 95ppb in more than 10 holes peaking at 784ppb. Several holes exhibiting gold anomalous zones over tens of metres, for example ERC011 140-200m (60m) peaking at 0.78g/t gold with mineralisation at end of hole, and ERC014 224-278m (54m) peaking at 0.17g/t gold also with mineralisation at end of hole. Results of drilling outline two, large, north-west trending zones of mineralisation. The Western Zone being 6km long and 1.5km wide and open to the north, and the Eastern Zone 2km long and 1.5km wide which remains open to the north and south. The cover sequence was not as thick as expected with shallowest intercept of 119m, but generally around 180m depending on location. Varying basement lithologies were intersected including basalt, band iron formation and syenite. Silica and biotite alteration were prevalent with quartz veining and sulphide mineralisation. Additional 1m re-sampling of several holes has been completed to confirm initial results and better define mineralisation. Results of the 1m samples are expected to be received within 4 weeks.