Tietto Minerals Limited announced that it has commenced an initial 8,000 metre reverse circulation and diamond drilling program along 11 continuous kilometres of gold corridor at Tietto's Abujar Project in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa. The initial 8,000 metre program is part of an extensive campaign of more than 30,000 m of RC and DD drilling planned to test over 70km of substantial artisanal workings and significant gold geochemistry results at the Abujar Project in 2018. The first stage of this program will target down-dip extensions of the Abujar gold resource which has been drilled over a strike length of 2.7 km and contains an initial JORC 2012 Inferred resource of 646,000 oz gold at 2.1 g/t Au to an average vertical depth of 180 m. Initial drilling will focus on sections of the existing resource where there are cross-cutting faults, as these appear to cause dilation zones which may contain higher average grades and widths of gold mineralization. This drilling is designed to provide a base for a rapid increase in resources. Further drilling will consist of "fences" of two or three shallow holes in each line to an average depth of 50 metres at spacings of between 100 and 200 metres for a strike-length of 2.4 km to the north of the Abujar resource to link up with the two high-grade sections discovered late in 2017; Up to 6km to the south of the Abujar resource, where artisanal workings and geochemistry has shown continuous gold bearing structures, including the Pischon prospect which lies approximately 4km south of the Abujar Main Resource and hosts a JORC 2012 Inferred resource of 57,600 oz gold at 1.7 g/t Au down to an average vertical depth of 100 m. This reconnaissance drilling is designed to identify further dilation zones where company anticipates greater concentrations of grade and greater widths of gold mineralization.