West African Resources Limited announced to report assay results from the maiden grade control (GC) reverse circulation (RC) drilling program from its M1 South deposit at the Sanbrado Gold Project in Burkina Faso. GC holes drilled to date at M1 South have targeted early production ore from near surface mineralisation within the M1 South open pit. Significant M1 South GC results include: 27m at 8.7 g/t Au from 30m, including 7m at 16.2 g/t Au, 21m at 9.2 g/t Au from 14m, including 6m at 25.4 g/t Au, 37m at 2.4 g/t Au from 3m, including 5m at 8.5 g/t Au, 24m at 3.0 g/t Au from surface, 17m at 3.3 g/t Au from 12m, including 6m at 5.8 g/t Au, Denotes ends in mineralisation. The maiden GC drilling program is currently underway at the M1 South deposit, ahead of the start of open pit mining First Quarter 2020. The M1 South open pit will be mined out in the first two years of production at Sanbrado and contains more than 150,000 ounces of gold at 5.5 g/t Au. Drilling is aimed at upgrading the confidence level in both the interpretation as well as gold grade estimation in the upper 20m of the deposit. This program covers the first five months of scheduled open pit ore from M1. Drilling is being completed on a nominal 6.25m by 12.5m pattern over M1 South open pit area, to test the independently prepared April 2019 Mineral Resource Estimate. The upper 20m to 30m of the M1 South deposit has been subject to significant historic artisanal mining as such a number of holes have intercepted stopes backfilled with surface spoils and waste material. These areas of the deposit have largely been discounted within the MRE. However, residual mineralisation has been intercepted on most sections with some spectacular results returned including 27m at 8.7 g/t Au from 30m including 7m at 16.2 g/t Au in SGC00251 and 21m at 9.2 g/t Au from 14m including 6m at 25.4 g/t Au in SGC00264. Drilling results to date correlate well with the April 2019 M1 South resource model which was depleted to take into account historic artisanal mining. A summary plan and typical cross-sections through the southern portion of M1 South are presented. A full table of drill hole details to date, including significant intercepts, are presented.