Pasofino Gold Limited announced that Hummingbird Resources (Liberia) Inc. has started its drilling program aimed at the upgrade and expansion of the Mineral Resources and has received encouraging surface exploration results on the Dugbe Project, in which Company has an option to earn a 49% economic interest (net of the Government of Liberia's carried interest). Two promising new targets have been identified through extensive soil sampling. Drilling at the Dugbe F deposit commenced on the 21st of January 2021 with two rigs. A total of 5,000 metres is planned, aimed at converting a large portion of the current Inferred Mineral Resource to Indicated. The Inferred Mineral Resource is 16.3 Mt with an average grade of 1.57 g/t Au and contained gold of 820 k oz. The Indicated resource currently stands at 273 k oz. Drilling will focus on the areas within the current conceptual pit shell. The gold is hosted by a flat to undulating mineralized layer which outcrops along the western side of the deposit and dips gently southeast to a maximum of 120 m below surface within the conceptual pit. Drilling at the southern end of the conceptual pit may result in some extension of the resource depending on the results from those holes. The final road bridge to allow access into the Tuzon deposit is nearing completion. Drilling is expected to commence in February to test the southward extension of 'zone B' of the deposit and to infill areas of the Inferred Mineral Resource. 8000 m of drilling has been allocated to this drilling. Zone B has an average grade of 1.7 g/t Au. The last two holes testing zone B were drilled in 2014; these were holes TDC082 and TDC084 which intersected 132 m grading 1.15 g/t Au and 50 m @2.0 g/t Au respectively (a true thickness of approximately 125 m and 46 m based on the current interpretation). The drilling will test the extension of this zone starting with holes 80 m then 160 m 'on strike' to the southwest. Depending on the results of these holes, additional holes will be added. Trenching totaling approximately 2,500 m has commenced in the Tuzon-Dugbe F area to test gold in soil anomalies between 100 and 1000 ppb Au, most of which are on strike from the existing deposits. For reference, the Au in soil 'above' the outcropping parts of the Tuzon and Dugbe F deposits is typically between 100 and 1000 ppb Au. The soil data in this area dates from between 2006 and 2014 but only one of these targets was tested (by trenching or drilling) previously. These soil anomalies may indicate extensions or 'satellite' mineralized areas close to the existing deposits either at surface or partially concealed. Results of these trenches are expected from early March 2021 onwards beginning with those at Tuzon SW and NE. To define new targets, five new soil grids have been completed for a total of 3,256 soil samples. So far two 'new' Au in soil anomalies stand out; one at the Gmayenken area and one the Nemo Creek South area. Both are over 1 km in length and have maximum Au in soil of 0.5 g/t (500 ppb). Trenching has been completed at Gmayenken, and infill soil sampling is planned at Nemo Creek South. At Gmayenken, artisanal miners are extracting gold from alluvial gravels along a 6 km long section of the drainage beginning approximately 1 km downstream of the soil anomaly - though there is no certainty that the source of the gold is at the soil anomaly, it is an encouraging observation. 2006 to 2014 soil samples were collected according to a well-defined and implemented standard operating procedure. Samples were from a depth of 0.5 to 0.6 m. 1-2 kg of material was sent for analysis. Following sieving to -180 microns gold analyses were completed by fire assay at either ALS (Ghana), OMAC (Ireland), or SGS (Liberia). Lower detection limits were 5 or 10 ppb. Blanks, standards and field duplicate samples were inserted at a frequency of 1 in 20 samples. The recent soil analyses were also collected from 0.5 to 0.6 m. Analyses were carried out by ALS in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso after preparation at their facility in Ivory Coast. Gold analyses were completed by fire assay and atomic absorption following sieving to -180 microns. Blanks, standards and field duplicates were inserted in intervals of 1 in 50, 1 in 100 and 1 in 50 samples respectively, and QAQC performance was found to be acceptable. Sample spacing for all soil samples varies from 200 by 40, to 300 by 80 metres. Five of the planned nine holes were drilled at this target on the eastern part of the Project to follow-up on 2012 trench results. The remaining holes could not be accessed due to difficult terrain. Results of the five drill-holes were received; narrow intervals of mineralization are present but none are significant. Additional trenching and auger-hole drilling is underway at the target as a precursor to possible further core-drilling elsewhere at this large target. However, given the large number of targets on the Project, further drilling at Tiehnpo will be weighed against the need to test higher ranking areas that arise from the new soil sampling and trenching programs.