Renaissance Gold Inc. announced the commencement of diamond drilling on its Ecru Project, Lander County, Nevada. The Ecru Project is located to the north of Barrick's giant Cortez gold mining operations which comprises several multi-million ounce gold deposits, including Pipeline, Cortez Hills, Goldrush and Robertson. The project is subject to an earn-in agreement with S2 Resources. A distinct gravity high occurs on the project which is currently interpreted to represent an upthrown block of favorable lower plate carbonate host rocks. In addition, a pronounced break in the gravity data corresponds with the northwestward projection of the Cortez Fault, and this relationship is further supported with multi-element surface geochemical data. Drilling by Coral Gold on the adjacent Robertson Property encountered anomalous gold mineralization in both upper and lower plate stratigraphy in holes TV07-1 and TV07-2, with grades up to 2.19 g/t Au. These drill holes and the Robertson mineralization and other nearby gold occurrences are spatially associated with the same gravity feature that they are exploring at Ecru. The U.S. Geological Survey completed a deep hole and encountered several anomalous gold values in both upper and lower plate stratigraphy, including several intercepts exceeding 1 g/t Au and a high of 4 g/t Au. This initial drilling program will establish the depth to favorable lower plate carbonate host rocks and will provide geochemical characterization of the host rocks in the target area.