Aston Bay Holdings Ltd. announced the initial results of its recently completed drill program at the Buckingham Gold Project located in central Virginia, USA. Six large diameter (HQ) diamond drill holes totaling 878 metres (m) were completed with partial results received to date for four of these holes. Three of these four holes intersected significant near-surface gold mineralization, including 35.61 g/t Au over 2.03m in hole BUCK19-001, 20.44 g/t over 3.30m and 34.25g/t over 0.5m in hole BUCK19-003, and in hole BUCK19-004 24.73 g/t over 3.57m including 62.51 g/t over 1.39m. These results are presented in Table 1. Based upon multiple vein intersections, the estimated true width is 80% of the core interval. The assay results are based upon one kilogram pulp metallic screen analyses from HQ core for the mineralized intervals. The current drilling targeted an area of boulders and sub-crop of quartz veining in which visible gold had been identified and sampled, followed by limited but successful drilling completed by a previous owner. That previous program consisted of three holes on the Buckingham Property, all of which intersected significant gold, including 15.57 g/t Au over 4.1m and 11.69 g/t Au over 3.1m. In addition to gold-bearing quartz veining, the previous drilling intersected a zone of sericite-pyrite alteration yielding 0.4 g/t Au over 24m (all historic intercepts are core intervals, i.e., not true width; see March 4, 2019 Aston Bay press release). The current drill program was designed to test along strike and down dip along the targeted northwest-southeast trending vein system as well as test for zones of gold-bearing alteration. Three of the six drill holes intersected quartz veining; results from all intercepted quartz-veined intervals are reported here. Several zones of moderate to strong sericite-pyrite alteration were also intersected in several holes from the current drilling; assay results from these zones are pending. The vein system is hosted within a package of likely Cambrian-age sediments, including greywackes with minor quartz-arenites (phyllite, schist and quartzites), within the Appalachian orogenic belt. This region is the site of the historically prolific Pyrite Belt which hosted a reported 250 gold mines that were in production prior to the California gold rush of 1849 but has seen little recent mineral exploration. Gold production has also occurred to the south in the Carolina Slate Belt, notably at Oceana Gold's Haile Mine located in South Carolina with commercial production commencing in 2017 and slated to produce up to 150,000 ounces of gold per year. The following is a summary of the intervals assayed to date from the 2019 drill program. At present, sample assaying is approximately 20% complete with all of the quartz veined intervals now completed. Samples from the program were shipped for analysis at the ALS Laboratory in Reno, Nevada. Samples of quartz vein and several adjacent "shoulder" samples were assayed by the metallic screen technique, while the remainder of the samples received a standard 30g Fire Assay with an AA (Atomic Absorption) finish. Proper chain of custody and all quality control protocols were maintained. Hole BUCK19-001 was collared approximately 25m from the central portion of the quartz vein subcrop exposures and was drilled to the southwest. The massive white quartz vein contained several clusters of small visible gold grains, along with minor chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena and trace pyrrhotite. The vein was intersected at the base of the weathering profile (saprolite) at the transition into un-weathered phyllite. The vein assayed 35.61g/t Au (1.04oz/ton Au) over 2.03m core length. The apparent dip of the vein is 72o to the northeast, yielding an estimated true thickness of approximately 1.62m. Holes BUCK19-003 and BUCK19-004 were drilled parallel to holes BUCK19-001 and BUCK19-002 on a section approximately 25m to the southeast. BUCK19-003 intersected two quartz vein intervals. The upper (main) quartz vein interval most closely resembled the vein intersected in BUCK19-001 with sulfide mineralization and abundant fine visible gold grains, yielding 20.44g/t (0.60opt) over a core interval of 3.30m between 23.20m and 26.50m. This represents an estimated true thickness of approximately 2.64m. A second thin quartz vein interval was intersected between 30.90m and 31.40m (0.50m interval, 0.40m estimated true thickness) that yielded 34.25g/t (~1.00opt) Au. Three samples of greywacke between the two vein intervals assayed between 0.18 and 0.23g/t Au. Including these samples, the interval with both veins (23.20-31.40m) averaged 10.42g/t (0.30opt) Au over an 8.2m core interval (6.55m true thickness). The lower quartz vein interval sits adjacent to a gouge zone which may be part of a structural offset zone.