Pelangio Exploration Inc. announced that it has commenced the initial diamond drill program on its 75 square kilometer ("km2") Hailstone gold project in the La Ronge Gold Belt, Saskatchewan. Highlights of the Hailstone Gold Project: Initial diamond drill program commenced at the Hailstone gold project; Drill program focussed on the Asbell Bay target area, which represents a small portion (3%) of the entire 75 km2 property; Eight high priority drill targets to test 1 km of the 1.8 km Asbell Bay trend; Bornite zone occurrence (bedrock grab samples assayed up to 15.9 g/t gold) to be tested; Crocodile Zone occurrence (rock grab samples returned values up to 1.65 g/t Au) to be tested; Project located proximal to several former gold producers and deposits in geological environments similar to the Hailstone project. The Hailstone property is surrounded by a number of historical gold mines and occurrences in geological environments similar to that at Hailstone. The property is located within the Central Metavolcanic Belt of the La Ronge Domain of north-central Saskatchewan, which represents a portion of the Paleoproterozoic Trans-Hudson Orogeny. The property comprises a southwest-northeast trending metavolcanic succession intruded by multi-phase intrusive rocks of the Berven Lake Pluton. Gold and copper ("Cu") mineralization on the property is hosted within quartz veins and quartz-rich pegmatite dikes associated with southwest-northeast trending shear zones subsidiary to the terrane-bounding McLennan Lake Tectonic Zone.