West African Resources Limited reported 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. First pass GC drilling has been completed at the M1 South deposit, ahead of the start of open pit mining first 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 has upgraded the confidence in both the interpretation as well as gold grade estimation in the upper 20m of the deposit, with drilling results reconciling well with the April 2019 FS resource model. The GC program covers off the first five months of scheduled open pit ore from M1 South. First pass drilling was completed on a nominal 6.25m by 12.5m pattern over M1 South open pit area, and further infill and extensions have been planned to better define ore-waste boundaries and areas where mineralisation has been intersected and the corresponding resource model reported low or no values. 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 as well as remnant mineralisation. The upper portion of the M1 South deposit has largely been discounted to reflect depletion from historic artisanal mining. However, residual mineralisation has been intercepted.