Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. announced that in preparation for a planned 900 metre (m) diamond drill program on its Buckingham Gold Property located in Central Virginia, USA, a drill rig and all necessary equipment is being mobilized to site. Drilling will be focused on an outcropping gold-bearing quartz vein with a strike length of over 150 m and an associated gold-in-soil anomaly that extends for over 900 m. Visible gold is present at surface in quartz vein outcrop and subcrop. Select rock chip grab samples from the outcropping quartz vein assayed up to 701 grams/tonne (g/t) Au (20.4 ounces per short ton). The associated gold-in-soil anomaly contains values up to 0.4 g/t Au in soil. Three historical drill holes were completed over a strike distance of 80 meters along the vein outcrop area in 2016. These yielded mineralized quartz vein intercepts of 15.57 g/t Au over 4.1m and 11.69 g/t Au over 3.1m (all drill depths and assay intervals are measured-down-the-hole depths and thicknesses; they do not represent true widths). The vein has been intercepted to a depth of 40 meters and mineralization is open along strike and down dip In addition to the vein mineralization, a significant zone (27.4 m @ 0.4 g/t Au) of disseminated gold mineralization was intercepted in a metavolcanic rock below the quartz vein.