Ireland Inc. provided an update on the technical program for its ongoing gold extraction process at the Columbus Project, located in Esmeralda County, Nevada. The modification to the TPAC process was to switch from autoclave to open vessel leaching. As part of this change, enhancements to the pilot plant leach tanks and the PLS extraction circuit were required. This enhancement work is currently underway and is expected to be completed in June 2016. Ongoing work includes installation of abrasive and chemical resistant coatings on the pilot plant leach tanks and the installation of a high capacity extraction circuit in the pilot plant. This work is expected to be completed in approximately three weeks, after which management expects to commence testing for the purpose of demonstrating and reporting gold extraction rates at the pilot plant scale (400 lbs to 4,000 lbs samples). Pilot plant testing and upgrading has been ongoing since April 2016 and is expected to be completed in July 2016. Upon completion of the current leach tank enhancements, the Company expects to resume full scale pilot plant testing and gold extraction. The Company’s goal is to demonstrate consistent gold recovery on large scale extraction tests at onsite pilot plant. Upon successful completion of several larger onsite plant trials, management expects to engage third party metallurgists/assayers to validate extraction results.