Mako Gold Limited commenced a 2,000m maiden RC drilling program at the Korhogo Nord Permit which, with the Ouangolodougou Permit constitute the Korhogo Project . The permits collectively cover 296km2 hosting 17km of faulted greenstone granite contact. Both permits are 100% owned by Mako and are readily accessible from the Mako Field Office.

Korhogo is located in a fertile greenstone belt that hosts Barrick Gold's 4.9Moz Tongon gold mine and Montage Gold's 4.5Moz Kone gold deposit, both in Côte d'Ivoire, as well as Endeavour's 2.7Moz Wahgnion gold mine just across the border in Burkina Faso. Previous work completed by Mako includes airborne magnetics/radiometric geophysics, soil geochemical sampling, and the recent 11,000m auger drilling program 1. Interpretation of the results on these previous programs has identified several high-priority targets. The maiden drilling program will focus on the first target, a 2km-long +20ppb gold auger anomaly with high grade cores over 60ppb gold, coincident with the faulted greenstone/granite contact.

Drilling has commenced on the first of four fences of heel to toe RC holes (where the bottom of one hole when projected to surface is the collar of the next hole), covering approximately 900m of the highest auger anomalies. Ongoing exploration at the Korhogo Project will consist of further RC drilling on other high priority targets, as well as additional auger drilling along the structural trends in order to extend current anomalies or discover new anomalies which would then be tested with RC drilling. The Company is also pleased to advise that resource drilling has been completed at Gogbala and Tchaga at its Napié Project and that drill data is being transferred to specialist consultants for the calculation of the maiden Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE).