Japan Gold Corp. announced the acceptance of new prospecting rights applications covering extensions to the Sanru Project by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry ("METI"). The new applications total 9,571.7 hectares and cover prospective areas north and south of the Sanru Mine, on the west side of the Sanru Project. The Sanru Project is Japan Gold's largest project and covers a 25 kilometre-long northeast oriented strike length of the prospective Omu-Kamikawa graben from the Sanru Mine in the southwest to the boundary of Irving Resources Omu project in the north. The Sanru Mine license, not held by Japan Gold, is located within the southwest corner of the expanded Sanru Project. The Sanru Mine occurs at a flexure in a major northeast trending fault2 that continues through the project towards the Omui Mine. Five veins were developed at the Sanru Mine containing six bonanza-grade ore shoots, reported dimensions of the shoots were up to 200 metres in length by up to 30 metres wide3. The Honpi or Champion vein was the largest developed in the mine and averaged 8 g/t gold and 40 g/t silver along a strike length of 1,300 metres, with an average width of 4.0 metres and a vertical extent of 300 metres4. The Juji-hi vein carried the highest grades, averaging 25 g/t gold and 200 g/t silver along a 350-metre strike by 150-metre vertical extent with an average width of 0.5 metres. The northeast continuation of the Sanru Mine structure and parallel structures are host to six additional workings and gold occurrences across the southern half of the Sanru Project. Sinterous quartz float previously identified shedding from the Jugosen-zawa workings, indicates preservation of the epithermal vein system in this locality. Systematic regional drainage sampling carried out by the Metal Mining Agency of Japan (MMAJ) in 1997, identified five coincident gold and arsenic anomalous drainage basins across the southern half of the project. The Barrick Alliance 2020 regional stream sampling programs identified, banded quartz-vein and silicified volcanic rock float shedding from separate drainages up to 6 kilometres to the north and 2 kilometres to the south of the Sanru Mine. Some of these streams are covered by younger volcanics that post-date, and potentially conceal mineralization. Contoured government-sourced gravity data from the area shows the coincident location and orientation of the major graben-bounding structures within the new applications. These typically deep-seated faults provide excellent pathways and re-charge locations for upwelling gold-bearing hydrothermal fluids, essential to the development of high-grade veins in adjacent structures. The inferred graben-bounding faults and the areas shedding quartz vein and silicified floats are now well covered by the new applications and provide another compelling exploration target within the Barrick Alliance portfolio.