Guyana Goldfields Inc. announced its operating results for the second quarter 2019 from its Aurora Gold Mine in Guyana, South America. Work on the underground exploration decline resumed in the second quarter. The contractor completed and reinforced the collar at the Mad Kiss portal and advanced the exploration decline approximately 164 metres. In order to fulfill the scope of the early works phase, the decline will be extended to 200 metres. The Company's permit allows for test mining of up to 350,000 tonnes that could potentially provide supplemental mill feed during the development period and further unlock value at Aurora. In addition, the underground exploration ramp will allow the Company access in the fourth quarter to perform infill drilling at depth to delineate exploration targets and potentially add mineral resources, as well as convert mineral resources to mineral reserves and further unlock value by potentially prolonging the mine life at Aurora. The Company is finalizing the review of bids received for the extended underground exploration development decline contract with the target of final award in the third quarter of 2019. The Company is continuing its near mine exploration efforts and has an active drill campaign utilizing two surface drill rigs to test down plunge extensions of the high-grade mineralization reported in late 2018. The Company allocated $6.8 million in 2019 for additional surface brownfield drilling, initial underground exploration drilling and the resumption of greenfield exploration for a combined total of approximately 30,000 metres. Two diamond drills were in operation during the second quarter completing 18 holes totaling 5,059 metres bringing the total for the year to 52 holes and 13,001 metres drilled. Drilling was completed at Mad Kiss, North Aleck Hill and commenced at East Walcott. Drilling at East Walcott targeted the depth extension to recently modeled ore shoots extending beneath the Rory's Knoll pit. Through the end of the quarter, a deep parent hole test had been completed intersecting multiple zones of intense veined silica-pyrite mineralization. Assay results from this work are pending.