Azumah Resources Limited advised that it has commenced a 40,000m, AUD 4 million multi-target drilling campaign aimed at lifting Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves at its Wa Gold Project in Ghana, West Africa (Project) where the primary objective is to deliver an economically attractive, evelopment-ready Project by third quarter of 2019. The first phase of the drilling programme will include at least an additional two RC/DDH core holes targeting depth extensions to the broad zone of high-grade mineralisation intersected in KRC831 (44m at 5.37g/t Au from 99m) that was drilled into the Kunche deposit's central saddle zone. Holes with similar objectives will be drilled below the base of current designed pit bottoms at the Bepkong and Julie deposits. A number of RC holes have been planned at the Kunche and Julie deposits and at the Kunche NW, Manwe, Josephine, Alpha and Bravo prospects so that some current in-pit inferred Mineral Resources can be upgraded into the measured and indicated categories and then included in pit optimisations. The majority of aircore drilling, which is aimed at upgrading many targets to RC drill-ready status, will be undertaken in the Wa Lawra region where numerous high-tenor auger geochemical anomalies were generated last season and which are viewed as `low-hanging fruit' for the discovery of new shallow Mineral Resources. At Wa East, of specific interest will be the programme designed to test the newly identified, 5km-long Eve VTEM geophysical anomaly which displays similar scale and geophysical properties to the main Julie deposit minerals system. This new focus area, including the spatially associated 2km-long Eve geochemical anomaly, will be further explored through an expanded soil geochemical survey and trenching while several other recently generated geochemical targets, including Danyawu SW, Laudetta and Kjersti South will also be tested by trenching in coming weeks. Throughout the 2,400km2 Project area, there are a series of high-priority areas upon which to conduct first- pass auger drilling and, where there has then been confirmed strong anomalism, infill auger programmes. Geochemical sampling by auger drilling is the primary method by which new structurally favourable settings are tested for anomalism and hence new prospects identified and readied for RC drilling. Having progressively refined auger geochemical sampling methodology, considerable confidence is now placed on its ability to generate reliable anomalies. It is expected that many of these new and earlier stage targets will be drill-tested during the second phase of RC drilling in 2019.