Bluebird Merchant Ventures Ltd. announced E-Green Management & Environmental Consultancy Corporation ('E-Green') has been appointed to undertake the Preparation of the Environmental Impact Study ('EIS') and Application of an Environmental Compliance Certificate ('ECC') for the Lobo high-grade gold mining opportunity within the Batangas project area in the Philippines ('Lobo' or 'the Project'). The Project is being developed in tandem with the company's local Joint Venture partner which is fully funding the Projects advancement to production decision, including the EIS. The JV has already received the Certificate of Approval from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau ('MGB') for its Two-Year Community Development Plan and the Project has two 25-year Mineral Production Sharing Agreements ('MPSA') in place.

The EIS, along with a Declaration of Mining Project Feasibility are the two key outstanding compliance permissions for the Project. The Lobo licence area covers 1,164-hectare. The mineral resources are associated with a linear, steeply dipping, epithermal lode with high grade 'shoots' of mineralization.

Multiple high grade target areas have been identified and include the South West Breccia ('SWB'), West Drift, Japanese Tunnel, historic Lobo copper mine, Camo, Acacia, Pica, Balisong and Ulupong prospects. Lobo has an initial Probable JORC Compliant Ore Reserves of 171,000 tons at 6.6 g/t for 36,000 ounces of gold excluding silver credits based primarily on the South West Breccia ('SWB') area of the licence that can be mined in the first 18 months of any operation. There is an Indicated resource of 82,000 oz au that is perceived as easily convertible.

Additionally, the Lobo licence area has multiple epithermal and high-grade targets already identified for resource expansion with 15km of identified mineralized structures with results across the nine identified targets yielding excellent results. These include 2.1m at 14.4g/t Au and 3m at 12.1g/t at West Drift, which already has an Indicated and Inferred resource of 350,000t at 3 g/t Au, 8.35m at 18.3 g/t Au and 6.0m at 31.2 g/t Au located immediately west of the SWB Extension, 19m surface channel sample with intersections of 19m grading 9.8 g/t Au at Ulupong and trenching at Limestone Target yielded 3.5m at 25.9 g/t Au including 1.5m at 56.8 g/t Au.