North Bay Resources Inc. announced that the Company will be initiating its 2018 exploration season at its 100% owned Tulameen Platinum Project in southeastern British Columbia on June 20, 2018. This work is intended to build upon the positive results from 2016 exploration program that focused on a large deposit of commercial-grade olivine identified in the PGM mineralized areas of the property. In addition, the Company reports that it has recently expanded the size of property with the staking of 2 additional claims adjacent to the northwest and southwest quadrants of the property. The claim in the northwest quadrant expands the known olivine resource, and the other claim is believed to host a new PGM occurrence. The Tulameen Platinum Project covers a sizeable part of the dunite core of the Tulameen Ultramafic Complex that hosts platinum, palladium, iridium, rhodium and osmium mineralization, and which is often accompanied by chromite and magnetite. It is this part of the dunite core that has been eroded by the Tulameen River over time and resulted in the release of most of the 20,000 ounces platinum that had been historically mined by placer operations along the Tulameen River and its tributaries. It is thus belief that the Company’s Tulameen Platinum Project property hosts the lode source of most of the historical placer platinum production in the Tulameen District. In addition to the well-established evidence of extensive Platinum Group Metals (PGM) mineralization on the property, the Company notes that the ground covered by the Tulameen Platinum Project is also known to host an estimated 15 million tonne drill-delineated historical resource of olivine. An industrial mineral, olivine is a magnesium iron silicate that is also known as peridot and chrysolite.