Sutter Gold Mining Inc. announced results for Phase II drilling, the second half of its surface diamond drilling campaign at its Lincoln Mine project near Sutter Creek, California. The drilling program was comprised of 22 drill holes for a total of 8,791 feet. While awaiting the final assays, the core rig has been relocated approximately 2.5 miles to the north-northwest of the Lincoln Mine onto the newly optioned property, a one-mile-long extension of patented claims along the central Mother Lode Gold Belt.

Six drill holes have been planned and permitted in this zone, the first of which is already completed. The drill rig may return to the Lincoln Mine area, depending on the last batch of pending assay results of Phase II. Drilling has shown that a portion of the barren intervening area between the Lincoln and Comet segments of the mineable gold resources along the main structural trend, the 42 Vein System, remains barren, at least in the upper probed portions of that area.

However, drilling at the southern portion of this area intersected a previously undiscovered west-dipping gold-bearing vein system at shallow depth west of the main vein trend and another significant one east of the main vein zone at greater depth. This latter fissure vein system, dipping vertically to slightly easterly, occurs along the contact zone between the augite-bearing Greenstone to the west and the carbonaceous fine grained argillites and meta-volcanic rocks, the Interbedded Sequence, to the east. The highest assay value returned was 1.19 oz.

Au/ton over a down-hole drill interval of 1.8 feet. Further exploration of this vein system will be conducted via underground development headings when the mine reaches those levels. Veins of the central Mother Lode tend to be gold productive when they are steeply dipping, before they begin to flatten and curl easterly to shallower dips and split or horsetail into multiple veins.