Rackla Metals Inc. announced that the Company has commenced diamond drilling at the HIT property, Yukon. The drilling at HIT is part of the previously announced 3,000 m drill program focussed on targeting a Reduced Intrusion-related Gold System (RIRGS) in the intrusive bodies at the Astro plutonic complex. The Company plans to drill 1,000 m in 5 holes at HIT on targets identified by airborne geophysics, boots-on-the-ground prospecting, talus fines and rock sampling.

A high priority 1,000 m by 400 m Au/Bi/As anomaly has been defined in soils, rock and talus fines associated with a northwest trending structural corridor exhibiting strong sheeted vein zones in outcrop within the intrusive stock. The HIT property is underlain by the Canol Stock, a monzogranite intrusion of the Tombstone Suite. The Ridge Zone is characterized as a highly tectonized intrusive with sheeted veins containing pyrrhotite- pyrite-chalcopyrite.

Talus fine sampling in the area has returned 1.3 g/t gold over 6 m. This zone was tested with HIT-002, results pending. The Central Zone is located 600m N/W of the Ridge zone and here float samples have returned 20 g/t Au and 4.9 g/t Au in grab samples. This zone was tested by HIT-001 with results pending.

The Mehitabel zone is located a 1,000m N/E of the Ridge Zone at the northern margin of the Monzogranite, where it is in contact with carbonaceous finely bedded siltstone. Sheeted veins cutting the siltstone and the intrusive stock here have returned strongly anomalous gold values both in the vein and skarn zones, up to 3.4 g/t Au. This zone was tested in HIT -003, results pending.

Following the completion of the drilling at HIT, the Company will return to the Astro property to drill at the Lake Creek Valley target. The Lake Creek Valley target is defined by a 450m long gold-bismuth- molybdenum talus fines anomaly and abundant sheeted veins in the biotite-hornblende-clinopyroxene granite of the Tombstone Suite. The sheeted veins are well oxidized on surface and have been observed to contain pyrrhotite-pyrite-chalcopyrite with a sericitic halo where they are not completely weathered.