Azumah Resources Limited announced that the first of three RC/DDH holes, BRCD487, drilled beneath the Bepkong deposit at its Wa Gold Project, Ghana has discovered a new `blind' high-grade eastern lode having intersected a semi-continuous, 93m mineralised zone grading 2.33g/t Au from 261m (no lower cut-off applied) including 9.9m at 8.42g/t Au from 295m, and 2.16m at 21.17g/t Au from 303m (1.0g/t Au cut off applied). The Bepkong East lode is associated with a major structurally controlled `fluid conduit' system that could extend mineralisation to considerable depth. Its discovery adds to the already substantial near-surface mineralisation at Bepkong (201,100oz Measured and Indicated; 44,000oz Inferred; 113,000oz Proved and Probable). At present, the Bepkong East mineralisation remains unconstrained at depth and along strike. Two additional holes (BRCD485 and BRCD486 - drilled 50m and 100m north of BRCD487) designed with the same objective of testing for down-plunge extensions to high-grade mineralisation intersected in historic drillholes BRCD451 and BRCD452A, have just been completed. Visible gold was observed in the latter at a depth of 180.9m. Combined with historic drillholes, the volume of mineralised rock identified at Bepkong has been substantially increased. This is likely to have a materially positive impact on the overall Project including increasing the likelihood of underground mining. 40,000m drilling campaign: The current drilling is part of a recently commenced 40,000m, AUD 4 million multi-target drilling campaign aimed at lifting Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves at the Project where the primary objective is to deliver a commercially robust, development-ready Project by third quarter 2019. The drill rig has now moved to the Kunche deposit where it is drilling two deep holes to follow-up recent high- grade intercepts including 44m at 5.37g/t Au from 99m. Geology: This new deep mineralisation at Bepkong is associated within an intercalated shale and siltstone unit which has provided a rheological contrast that has focussed the mineralising fluids. This results in a visibly intense set of translucent quartz veins with associated strong wallrock sulphide development within the higher grade zones of the conduit and moderate to weakly veined and disseminated sulphide wallrock alteration in the footwall to the higher grade mineralised zones. The emplacement of the veins at Bepkong appears to have been controlled by the pre-existing graphitic ductile shear zone. Mineralisation is associated with arsenopyrite and a calcium carbonate-graphite-silica alteration assemblage.