Avidian Gold Corp. announced that it has staked an additional 1,683.5 hectares (16.835 sq km) of ground immediately to the south and southwest of its Golden Zone property to increase its district-scale land holdings to 141.1 sq km. The Golden Zone property is strategically located midway between Anchorage and Fairbanks and only 10 km west of paved State Highway 3, the Alaska Railroad, and the 345 kV Alaska power lines.

This ground was staked as a tie-on to the trending extension of the Southwest Prospects and to fill in the gap between the Golden Zone property and that of Discovery Africa Limited. The exploration work completed by DAF on their ground has uncovered several high-grade gold, copper, and silver samples on their Partin Creek prospect up to 73.9 g/t Au, 21.1% Cu, and 1,500 g/t Ag along the same mineralized trend found on the Golden Zone property that now can be traced for approximately 30 km between the two properties. Avidian's Southwest Prospects collectively consist of at least 5 large gossanous gold-bearing zones (JJ, J4, CC, MJ, and Silver Kitty), all within the same stratigraphic sedimentary rock package defined along a NE-SW direction over a strike length of +4.5 km in the southwestern portion of the 19 km mineralized trend that extends across the entire Golden Zone property.

Each of the prospects has only been sparsely sampled due to challenging topography and has yet to be fully assessed or sampled in-between each of the currently known prospect areas. The newly staked ground has also yet to be explored. Background Information on the Golden Zone Property: The property lies within the prolific gold endowed Tintina Gold Belt with mineralization styles on the property directly associated with Intrusive Related Gold System ("IRGS") deposits with numerous polymetallic, gold-dominated showings contained within three fault-bounded belts or corridors.

All the known mineralization is spatially associated with Cretaceous age intrusive rocks, analogous to what is observed in many of the large gold deposits within the Tintina Gold Belt. The mineralized occurrences on the project extend for well over 19 km of strike length. There are several regional-scale exploration targets in the central and southern portions of the property for gold-copper mineralization.

The property also hosts a NI 43-101 Indicated gold resource of 267,400 ounces (4,187,000 tonnes at 1.99 g/t Au) plus an Inferred gold resource of 35,900 ounces (1,353,000 tonnes at 0.83 g/t Au) within the Breccia Pipe Deposit. This resource is exposed on the surface and was pit constrained for an open-pit mining scenario.