Compass Gold Corp. provided an update on the recently completed deep reverse circulation drilling at the Tarabala prospect, located on the Company's Sikasso Property in Southern Mali. Highlights: Drilling at the Tarabala prospect to test 450 m of a 1,000 m zone intercepted higher-grade mineralized areas within wide zones of low-grade mineralization.

Best interval: 13 m at 3.30 g/t Au (from 84 m), including 8 m @ 4.95 g/t Au (from84 m); highest-grade interval: 1 m @ 18.90 m (from 86 m);idest interval of low-grade mineralization was 19 m at 0.84 g/t Au (from 170 m). Mineralization remains open at depth. The Company is considering a metallurgical sample test program of high-grade, near- surface gold mineralization.

Six RC drill holes (1,036 m) were drilled in early March at the Tarabala prospect To test the down-dip, the Company has discovered grades in this 450 m section of the Tarabala zone far exceeding that level. And even more is that drilling intercepted significant down-dip widths of gold mineralization at depths of just 125 m from surface. This includes some of the higher grade intercepts the company has seen in this area, including 13 m at 3.30 grams per tonne, which bodes well for follow-up drilling.

Meanwhile, the company are awaiting the results of the metallic screen fire assaying to determine if coarse-grained, nuggety gold is present in the samples. If it is, then it is likely that previously reported grades from drilling along the 14 km Tarabala trend were under-reported, which would indicate a huge potential for future resource estimations along several zones of that trend. Next Steps: Based on the recent drilling, the Company now believes that gold mineralization is open at depth and continues to the south of the main workings.

Additional drilling is required along the full 800 m length of the target zone structure to enable the Company to perform an initial resource estimation.