Essential Metals Limited announced that gold-focused drilling will commence at the Juglah Dome Project, 60 km ESE of Kalgoorlie, with an expanded programme. The programme will test four high-priority prospects ­ Gards, Golden Shovel, Moonbaker and Dwyer. Following the Company's recently-completed oversubscribed $2 million share placement, the drilling programme has been expanded to include three additional holes in the Golden Shovel area to test for parallel mineralized porphyries, and two holes to test bedrock mineralisation at the Dwyer prospect. Further holes will be added during the programme as and when required. The RC drill programme is expected to take approximately three weeks to complete with samples to be submitted prior to the Christmas period. Assay results are expected towards the end of January 2021, based on assay turnarounds taking between 4 and 6 weeks due to the current volume of samples at the laboratories, and lower availability over the Christmas-New Year period.