Essex Minerals Inc. provided a summary of exploration achievements from work completed in 2020 on its three Australian gold projects: Cumberland, Mt Turner and Compass Creek. Under the terms of its option and earn-in agreement with private Australian companyKNX Resources Limited ("KNX"), Essex had the right to earn an initial first-stage earn in of 50% of KNX's interest by spending AUD 1,000,000 on exploration by May, 2021. At the end of the first-stage earn-in, Essex may offer to acquire all the shares in KNX at independent valuation, or earn an additional 25% interest in Mt Turner and 20% interest in Cumberland and Compass Creek by financing a further AUD 3,000,000 on exploration. Essex reported it has now completed the first-stage earn in expenditures and has earned 50 per cent of KNX's interest in all three projects. The Company is now assessing its options with respect to the next stage of the KNX earn-in joint venture. The 2020 work program and earn-in expenditure consisted of LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) surveys at Compass Creek and Mount Turner, and in-fill geochemical sampling, data compilations and a two-phase drill program comprising 10 diamond drill holes totalling 1,851m at Cumberland. The Cumberlandproperty was staked by KNX following a regional search for targets with the potential to host low sulfidation epithermal carbonate-base metal deposits similar to the 5 million-ounce Kidston deposit discovered by Placer Dome in the 1980s in a similar geological setting, 70km to the southeast. Cumberland contains numerous prospects which show characteristics of poly-metallic, low sulfidation, epithermal mineralization. From within these prospects, the initial diamond drilling commenced on the RBZ prospect, a major 2.5km northwest trending structural corridor dislocated by conjugate northeast structures which have created a number of dilation centres. The dilation centres have been intruded by a series of Permo-Carboniferous, poly-phase intrusives culminating in late stage altered rhyolites. The centres have then been overprinted with surface mineralization consisting of hydrothermal breccias associated with multi-phase quartz-adularia silver and gold mineralization as disrupted ginguro bands in the north, and higher temperature veining 2km to the south. Surface sampling was also undertaken on the Hook prospect in the north of the property and Hill 60, southeast of RBZ on the caldera margin. All rocks intersected in the 2020 drilling have been initially pervasively potassic altered and subsequentially overprinted by later stage phyllic and argillic alteration associated with silica flooding and veining. Late-stage carbonate infilling of fractures and veinlets is also evident.