Pambili Natural Resources Corporation announced that drilling has begun at the Happy Valley Mine ("HVM") in Zimbabwe to validate previous surface exploration work. The drilling rig, owned and operated by KW Blasting of Harare, a division of Drilling Resources Zimbabwe (Private) Limited, is now engaged in a Phase 1 resource drilling program to define a 200-metre strike and 150m down-dip, NI 43-101-compliant resource on a drill grid of 40m x 40m. The program requires about 1,180m of Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling, with holes on a 40m line spacing.

Sampling and testing will be taken at one-metre intervals, generating 1,180 sample points and percussion chips that characterize the geology of the different rock types. This information will form the basis for estimating a mineral resource on the drilled area and help determine the parameters for the second phase of drilling, which will include diamond drilling and a closer hole spacing. More details of the program are available in the National Instrument (NI) 43-101 Technical Report on the Happy Valley Mine.

Samples from the campaign will be analyzed by Antech Laboratories in Kwekwe. Antech is Zimbabwe's leading ISO/IEC 17025 accredited commercial metallurgical assay laboratory servicing the mining and exploration industries in Zimbabwe, the SADC region and beyond. The intention is to submit samples from every two holes drilled so as to minimize the time taken to get the full assay results.