Alderan Resources Limited provided initial assay results for drillhole 9DD22-003 completed at the southern end of the East Pit in the historical Drum gold mine (Drum). The hole is within Alderan's Detroit Project, located in the Drum Mountains region of western Utah, USA. The hole is part of Alderan's planned 10-hole drilling programme aimed at verifying and extending remnant oxide mineralisation at Drum.1 Drum gold mine historically produced 125,000oz gold but until now, it has seen no modern exploration since mining ceased in 1989.

Alderan designed hole 9DD22-003, drilled to 145.24m, to test for remnant gold mineralisation at the southern end of the East Pit, where Alderan modelling indicated a 10-20m zone of oxide mineralisation grading +1.0g/t Au remains below the pit bottom. Alderan received 9DD22-003 gold-only assays for 30 samples ranging in length from 0.47 - 2.42m between 85.95 - 123.0m down the hole (61-87m below surface given the hole's -45o drilling dip angle). The highest-grade assays are 4.13g/t Au (1.48m), 3.91g/t Au (0.48m) and 3.33g/t Au (0.51m) and the mineralised intersections include: 6.57m grading 2.48g/t Au from 99.2m downhole and, 3.19m grading 3.54g/t Au from 101.01m downhole, within 17.77m grading 1.70g/t Au from 88.0m downhole (includes a 0.76m cavity interval grading 0.0g/t Au) which lies approximately 20m below the pit wall.

The Tatow unit which hosts the majority of historically mined ore in the East Pit was not intersected down the hole with the mineralisation occurring in quartzites of the Lower Pioche unit immediately below the Tatow. This indicates that the Lower Pioche quartzites also have potential to host thick zones of high-grade gold mineralisation below the contact with the Tatow. The mineralisation intersected is primarily oxide with some visible sulphides.