Lexington Gold announced that its 2023/24 drilling programme at the Bothaville Project in the Witwatersrand Gold Basin, South Africa is now underway. Highlights: The planned 2,000m+ drilling campaign comprises 4 mother holes plus wedging at the Bothaville Project located in the Witwatersranch Gold Basin, South Africa. The campaign is aimed at confirming and expanding the area of gold mineralisation intersected in historic third party drilling.

Approximately half of the drilling will be percussion drilling to penetrate the Karoo Supergroup ("Karoo cover") The main exploration targets are the gold-bearing conglomerates of the Kimberley Formation (including A-Reef) which subcrops beneath the Karoo cover starting at a depth of 250m, where diamond drilling will be utilised. The drilling programme is expected to take 2 to 3 months to complete in light of a scheduled Christmas shutdown period. The drilling programme comprises a minimum of 2,000m of combined percussion drilling and diamond drilling (including wedging).

The first drill campaign at Bothaville is aimed, in particular, at investigating the area around an historical drill hole (CC2) in which the A-Reef yielded an average gold grade over five intersections of approximately 5.1g/t Au over a corrected interval of 77cm. The programme will seek to investigate both the down-channel and cross-channel gold mineralisation potential at an estimated depth of around 350m to 450m below surface.