Azumah Resources Limited advised that recent drilling at the Wa Gold Project, Ghana (Project), has extended Bepkong East Lode mineralisation to 580m below surface, greatly improved definition of high-grade zones, laid the foundations for the Company's engineers to evaluate the merits of underground mining and with that, added the possibility of a material increase in the already robust project financial returns. The just completed 11-hole (3,521.5m diamond core and 1,998m RC) programme has confirmed the presence of a substantial, well-developed, consistently mineralised, south-plunging system hosting several high-grade ore shoots. These shoots have excellent continuity in all dimensions and remain open at depth. At 800m, BRCD501 is the deepest hole ever drilled at the Project and, with a total of 17 holes for 8,347m now completed, the rig is now drilling similar deep targeted holes at the nearby and larger Kunche deposit, with results to be reported in coming weeks. Using data from the recent drilling campaign, the Company's mining engineers are now undertaking a high-level evaluation of the merits of declining down from the planned base of the Bepkong open-pit and mining the deeper mineralisation from underground. Notable intercepts obtained from the extended deep mineralisation zone include: 4.5m at 4.96g/t Au from 363.5m and 15.5m at 5.17g/t Au from 401m (which included 2.5m at 16.65g/t Au from 414.0m)(BRCD493); 13.5m at 3.21g/t Au from 480m and 3m at 4.55g/t Au from 482.0m (BRCD494); 3.7m at 7.45g/t Au from 424.3m and 3m at 5.05g/t Au from 488.0m (BRCD495); 9m at 3.08g/t Au from 397m (BRCD496); 9.1m at 2.94g/t Au from 506.9m (BRCD498) and 2.5m at 3.55g/t Au from 710.5m (BRCD501). Using data obtained from the recent drilling campaign, the Company's mining engineers are now undertaking a high-level evaluation of the merits of declining down from the planned base of the Bepkong open-pit and mining the deeper mineralisation from underground. If proven to be viable, this could increase ore reserves and financial returns from the current already robust 1,000,000oz ore reserve, plus-100,000oz per year, open pit mining operation. The findings at Bepkong and Kunche highlight the possibility for several other presently shallow drilled deposits at the Project to host deeper mineralisation consistent with their structurally controlled, orogenic gold origins. These deposits are known to extend to over two kilometres depth in West Africa, Canada, Western Australia and elsewhere in the World. A three-hole drilling programme is underway at the larger Kunche deposit, 2km south of Bepkong, with a similar objective of investigating for much deeper mineralisation. In addition to tracking to depth mineralisation intersected in KRC831 of 44m at 5.37g/t Au from 99m (including 27m at 7.86g/t Au from 116m, 20m at 10.27g/t Au from 120m and 1m at 144g/t Au from 137m) and KRCD850 of 1m at 140.49g/t Au from 208m (4oz per tonne), the programme will also be testing for other possible mineralised fluid pathways along the 1.5km continuously mineralised orebody (436,500oz Ore Reserve and 846,500oz Mineral Resource). Whilst drilling in the vicinity of and below currently defined deposits presents the best opportunity to rapidly add Ore Reserves to the Project, the Azumah-Ibaera joint venture has continued to aggressively test its pipeline of high-priority brownfields and regional exploration targets within its vast, regional-scale and prospective tenure. With minimal outcrop, the primary tool continues to be soil geochemical sampling using auger rigs, mapping and trenching. The results of the latest work will be reported shortly. There is every expectation that the broader Project could yield several more sources of ore to feed the proposed regional gold processing facility at Kunche, especially given the combination of highly prospective ground, a top-class geological team and funding from the Azumah-Ibaera joint venture.