Ireland has announced results from smelting extraction tests completed at the Columbus Project, located in Esmeralda County, Nevada. Technical Program Update: As previously discussed, Ireland continues to pursue a two-pronged precious metals extraction program (smelting and leach solution treatment). The company is seeking to remove a refractory coating of carbon polymer (CP) to facilitate gold and palladium extraction. The company believes that the CP can be removed by either high oxidation leach and/or high temperature smelting. Smelting - Ireland's technical team has completed five high temperature smelting tests of sands material from its Columbus Project under similar operating parameters. Each test was completed using 1000 grams of extracted sands. Both gold and palladium were successfully extracted with this process. While the range of extraction results remains inconsistent, the log average extraction results from this series of tests were 0.18 opt gold and the 0.05 opt palladium. These are the first smelting results in a series of ongoing tests. As metallurgical work at the Columbus Project continues, results will be released as they become available to the company. Leach Solution Treatment In addition to the ongoing smelting extraction program, the company continues to engage in leach extraction tests. Samples of PLS (pregnant leach solution) were treated at a private lab that specializes in organic removal from solutions and those samples have been treated and returned to the company. The company believes that testing of the post treated PLS has shown encouraging results and intends to conduct further testing. Ireland expects to receive these results in early July. Readers are cautioned that the materials sampled for the tests shown above are all from a single area within the Columbus Project site, and may not be indicative of results for the rest of the North Sand Zone or the Columbus Project as a whole. Ireland believes that, because the project site is comprised of alluvial soil, mineralization deposits are wide spread throughout the Columbus Project site. Third party chain of custody protocols were not observed during current testing as Ireland personnel are assisting in sample collection and preparation. In addition, in the past, Ireland has encountered difficulties when attempting to translate extraction results achieved under laboratory conditions to the larger scale on-site pilot plant. Financial Update: Ireland has sufficient funds to continue with its current technical program until the end of May 2018. To maximize its available funds, the company is currently reviewing additional cost cutting measures, including the elimination of senior administrative roles as well as making changes to the technical program and reducing overhead expenses. The company is seeking to raise additional funds from already identified sources. Any additional funds raised by the company will be used to continue the technical program, hire additional technical personnel and appoint a new board of directors. If the company is unable to raise additional funds, then the company may wind down and cease operations.