Black Dragon Gold Corporation confirmed its first phase of exploration reconnaissance soil sampling programme has been completed at its recently acquired Padbury Gold Project, located northwest of Meekatharra in Western Australia The initiative is the first step in Stage One of a new exploration program that is targeting gold anomalies via soil samples across a 15km trend of gold occurrences identified in prospecting and historic stream sediment sampling. Samples were collected along watershed ridge lines between 400m and 1.2km apart, with sample spacing between 80m and 600m apart. All samples have now been prepared and are at an independent laboratory in Perth for assaying with results expected within six weeks.