West African Resources Limited announced it has poured first gold at its Sanbrado Gold Project, Burkina Faso, on Wednesday 18th of March, 2020. On 18th of March, 2020 the Sanbrado project poured its maiden gold bars weighing 23.9 kg (768 troy oz). Construction and commissioning activities are complete in all areas and the project has recently passed 3,000,000 hours worked LTI free. The process plant mill throughput is already meeting nameplate capacity. At the time of reporting 75,000t at 1.5 g/t Au has been processed through the Sanbrado plant, with indicative metallurgical recoveries over 90%. The Company would like to thank WAF's Owners Team and key contractors and consultants; ECG, Outotec, Lycopodium, Knight Piesold, Enikon, EERIE BF, PSS, Kanazoe and Sogea Satom for their hard work and dedication. Open-pit mining has ramped up mining activities and continues at both the M5 and M1 South pits, with double day/night shifts ongoing. Currently there are 250,000 tonnes of oxide ore on the ROM pad at an average grade of 1.5 g/t gold, which is reconciling well with grade control models. Underground development continues to progress to schedule. The first development crosscut on the 2120 level (300m below surface) has intercepted visible gold north of the mine plan. Some 1,200t of underground ore has been mined and stockpiled ready for processing. Grade control drilling of the first panel on the 2120 level has intercept visible gold, assays are pending.