Rackla Metals Inc. announced that field crews have mobilized to the Company's Astro project, located in the western Northwest Territories, and is on schedule with plans to commence its maiden 3000m drill program in July. Highlights: The Astro plutonic complex includes the Astro, Ser and Hit projects and covers approximately 22,500 Ha along the highly prospective Tombstone Gold Belt within the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Rackla's primary target at Astro, the Radio/UV target, benefits from extensive data that has been used to delineate an initial target for exploration.

Soil and talus fine sampling revealed a strong gold/bismuth anomaly covering an area over 1,200m by 700m. High-grade trench results that include up to 30 meters of 17g/t Au on surface. Phase 1 drilling will follow up limited historic work where previous operators intersected gold mineralization within the underlying Tombstone Intrusive body, a feature that is now believed to be a primary host for mineralization in the district.

Rackla is well underway constructing a road accessible camp on the edge of the Astro Claims that will also service the Company's various properties in the Tombstone Belt. The diamond drill is scheduled to arrive on the property the first week of July, and field crews will be commencing drill pad construction in the coming days to set up for initial drilling of the Radio/UV target. The Radio/UV target was discovered by previous operators with a trench that returned 30 meters of over 17 grams per tonne gold and associated strong bismuth in hornfelsed sedimentary rocks overlying a Tombstone Suite granitoid.

Soil and Talus fine sampling throughout the valley below and up the adjacent hillsides defined a strong gold/bismut anomaly covering an area over 1.200m by 700m with a significant number of samples running over 1 gram per tonne gold. Much of this area is underlain by an intrusive stock, and while the previous operator focused on testing the sedimentary rocks, it is the belief of Rackla will test this hypothesis and combined with geological mapping will define any structural controls on the gold mineralization.