Western Gold Resources announced that it has received the final assay results from 39 reverse circulation drill holes for 3,152m recently completed at the Eagle and Joyners deposits at its Gold Duke project. The gold mineralisation at the Eagle and Joyners Find deposits are within the regional Joyners Find shear zone and hosted primarily within vertical to steep westerly dipping banded iron formation units ("BIF") hosted within highly weathered mafic and ultramafic rocks. At Joyners Find, gold is also hosted within a NW-trending quartz vein that was the focus of historical mining.

Much of the recent and historical drilling is on an azimuth of 90o inclined at -600 which is approximately perpendicular to the mineralisation. A total of 34 RC drill holes for 2706 m were completed to test the eastern and western BIF units that host gold mineralisation at the Eagle deposit. Drilling infilled the pattern to a nominal 20 m north and 10 m east spacing, as well as testing northern and southern extensions to the known mineralisation.

Drilling targeting the eastern BIF unit demonstrated the continuity of mineralisation to the north and south. Shallow intersects of 2m @ 6.93 g/t Au from 11m (WGRC0346) and 1m @ 12.32 g/t Au from 13m, 1m @ 1.23 g/t Au from 19m and 3m @ 1.10 g/t Au from 22m (WGRC0342) extend mineralisation a further 60m to the north which remains open. Deeper drilling to the south confirmed the southerly plunge of the high-grade shoot with exceptional results from 4m @ 17.28 g/t Au from 110m (WGRC0337) and 7m @ 2.23 g/t Au from 103m (WGRC0339).

Drilling targeting the western BIF included infilling previous drilling on a 20x10m pattern to increase resource confidence. Drilling confirmed strong mineralisation results from infill drilling with 12m @ 1.79 g/t Au from 66m (WGRC0323) and 6m @ 3.24 g/t Au from 46m (WGRC0322) increasing WGR's confidence that the mineralisation system extends further south. WGR is currently awaiting approvals to test this area.

A drilling program of 5 RC holes for 446m tested mineralisation hosted within both the northerly-trending BIF unit as well as the NNW-trending quartz vein. All significant intercepts are listed in and include: · 7m @ 2.33 g/t Au from 98m (WGRC0309) · 2m @ 5.33 g/t Au from 37m and 1m @ 2.45 from 45m (WGRC0308) · 1m @ 5.28 g/t Au from 47m (WGRC0313). Two drill holes, WGRC0308 and WGRC0309 targeted mineralisation associated with a NW trending quartz vein.

Drilling intersected a broad zone of wall rock chlorite-talc alteration and quartz-sericite veining. The intersection 7m @ 2.33 g/t Au in WGRC 0309 is especially interesting and it suggests a wider zone of mineralisation below the historical workings. Three holes were drilled to test mineralisation within the western BIF unit with 1m @ 5.29 g/t Au from 47m (WGRC0313) the best intercept.

The drilling results indicate that the high-grade shoots within the BIF plunge southerly and the current drilling missed the anticipated target. The drilling results from Eagle confirm the strong continuity of mineralisation along strike and at depth. The exploration team is currently field mapping the northern limb of the western BIF to determine possible extensions to the orebody.

At Joyners Find the limited drilling program defined both the controls on mineralisation and demonstrated the potential of the orebody at depth. A follow-up program is planned to test these targets. The Company is in the process of finalising its planning for exploration in the third quarter.

Exploration will include a targeted AC drill program over coincident structural-geochemical targets and at its Kingfisher, Brilliant North and Top Knot Prospects generated from UFF soil sampling programs and Sub-audio magnetic geophysical survey interpretation.