Otis Gold Corp. announced up to 92.6% gold recovery from column leach metallurgical testing of near-surface mineralized volcanic rock at its Kilgore Project. The test samples came from drill hole 17OKC-379, a larger diameter PQ drill hole that contained a true width interval of 120 feet (35.6 metres) with a calculated head grade of 1.49 g/t Au; the PQ core hole was a twin of 17OKC-356. Otis submitted approximately 450kg of PQ core from drill hole 17OKC-379 to Resource Development Inc. of Denver, CO for metallurgical testing. The drill samples to be tested came from the interval: 13ft (4.0m) to 133ft (40.5m), an interval of 120ft (35.6m), and returned head assays of 1.49 g/t Au and 2.2 g/t Ag, including 5ft (1.52m) from 119ft to 124ft (36.3-37.8m) of 42.68 g/t Au and 15 g/t Ag. These assays are significantly higher than those from the original, smaller diameter, HQ core hole 17OKC-356 which returned a mineralized interval of 124ft (37.8m) averaging 0.31 g/t Au; the difference in returned gold values highlighting the variable nature of gold mineralization at Kilgore. The samples, as analyzed in both holes, came from near surface, hydrothermally altered and oxidized rhyolite-composition lithic tuffs. Metallurgical testing of the samples consisted of: Initial head grade assay of each of the drill intervals submitted. Bench-top bottle roll leach tests. Column leach tests at 0.5-inch, 1.5-inch and 3.0-inch crush sizes. The test work was conducted to confirm the suitability of this material to treatment by cyanide heap leaching and to validate the crush size required for efficient gold extraction. Each of the tests was conducted in a typical heap leach configuration. Mineralogical examination of the higher-grade gold occurrences within the samples submitted revealed gold grains associated with Jarosite, a mineral product of oxidation of iron sulfides, varying in size from <2 microns to 70 microns.