Bardoc Gold Limited announced that it has intersected broad zones of shallow high-grade mineralisation at the cornerstone 1.7Moz Aphrodite Gold Deposit which forms part of its flagship 1Moz Reserve/3.07Moz Resource Bardoc Gold Project, located 40km north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. The Aphrodite Deposit is a multi-lode system located 20km north of the Excelsior/Zoroastrian deposits where the processing facility for the Bardoc Gold Project will be located. It forms a key baseload ore feed in the later years of the mine plan, which was outlined in the recently completed Definitive Feasibility Study which forecast gold production of 136kozpa with pre-tax cashflow of AUD 740M based on a forecast AISC of AUD 1,188/oz. The Aphrodite area has had minimal exploration beyond the known Resources and offers significant upside for the Project. Importantly, the shallow supergene mineralisation in the Sigma Lode is free-milling and will complement free-milling ore feed from the Zoroastrian and Excelsior Deposits. The results reported in this announcement are in areas that are not in the current mining plan and have the potential to add additional ounces to both the 3.07Moz Au Resource base and 1Moz Au Reserve, after the necessary modelling and optimisations are completed. The Aphrodite Deposit is a series of steeply-dipping, NNW striking, shear zones with Reserves, open pit and underground, concentrating on the Alpha and Phi Lodes. Other lodes are the Omega, Epsilon, Sigma and Gamma Lodes. The 1.7Moz Au Aphrodite Deposit is under-explored and has untested strike and depth extensions as well as having areas of mineralisation that have not yet been included in Resource models due to insufficient drilling density. The first-pass programs reported in this announcement indicate that major under- and, in some cases, completely unexplored lodes are present at Aphrodite. These areas have the potential to host similar gold mineralisation to that within the main Alpha and Phi Lodes.