Mako Gold Limited announced that it has commenced the phase 2 infill auger program of the multi-rig, 25,000m auger program on the Company's 90% owned Napié Project in Côte d'Ivoire. Napié hosts a +23km soil anomaly and coincident 30km-long Napié shear and associated splays. Phase 1 exceeded the Company's objective to demonstrate the multi-million-ounce gold potential of Napié by identifying several mineralised footprints equal to or several times larger than Tchaga or Gogbala along the extensive 30km shear and associated faults at Napié.

The program began with orientation auger drilling over the current Tchaga and Gogbala deposits, and identified continuous auger anomalies thereby validating that auger works well on Napié to identify gold mineralisation. The phase 2 infill program will tighten up the line and sample spacing from 400m X 100m to 200m X 50m, thereby adding more detail to the previously announced anomalies from the first regional phase of auger drilling 1. 1 This will provide more precise drill targets when the company begins a resource expansion drilling program. A total of 800 drill holes are planned for 8,000m of drilling.

Five auger rigs are on site in order to expedite drilling, in order to launch into an RC/DD drilling program as soon as results are received from the laboratory. First results are expected towards the end of February. The infill program will focus on Tchaga North and Gogbala, along strike of the Tchaga and Gogbala deposits, which form the basis of the maiden 868koz MRE 2. The high-priority areas include: Tchaga North where 11km of gold mineralisation was identified.

Limited previous drilling by Mako returned 8m at 8.53g/t Au, 1m at 215g/t Au and 4m at 101.31g/t Au 3; The 1.4km-long zone south of the Gogbala deposit which returned 55.90g/t Au and 1.79g/t Au in; auger transition samples outside of the resource in an area of no previous RC/DD drilling; The area west of Gogbala which hosts an approximate 800m-long gold anomaly parallel to Gogbala.