Laconia Resources Limited announced that four large, discrete areas of gold anomalism have been identified from the assay results of soil samples taken from the northeast sector of its 100% owned Kraaipan Gold-Nickel-Copper-PGM Project in southern Botswana. The gold anomalous zones is at least 3km long and up to 750m wide, indicating it is a highly prospective target. Laconia will follow up this gold anomalism with shallow drilling to determine a vector towards the primary source of gold. Laconia's is currently prioritising several gold and nickel-copper-PGM targets through the analysis of approximately 6,000 regional soil samples across the Kraaipan Project tenure; the assessment of a historic electromagnetic surveys (VTEM) that contains several high priority targets, all of which remain untested; and a geological/structural interpretation of the regional aeromagnetic data to identify the most likely faults/shear zones to be associated with gold mineralisation. A subset of 5,583 soil samples was selected from the overall regional soil sample survey of approximately 14,000 samples and dispatched to Intertek's Perth Laboratory for analysis. These samples are being analysed for low detection Au and PGMs, as well as `Pathfinder' elements such as As, Bi, Ag, Cu, Mo, Sb, Sn, Sc, Zn, etc. Results of the second sector from the regional soil survey are reported in this announcement and the assay results for the other sectors are scheduled to be received and announced throughout September and October. The soil geochemical assay results for the northeast sector of the Kraaipan Gold-Nickel-Copper-PGM Project have been received and interpreted. All assay results greater than the 95th percentile were deemed anomalous and results were plotted spatially. When the gold assay results were plotted, it was found that the anomalous assay results clustered within four relatively distinct areas, at least 3 kilometres long and up to 750 metres wide. This gold anomalous zone is currently open to the east-northeast and west-southwest. Not only are these zones anomalous for gold but they were also found to be variably anomalous for several pathfinder elements such as Ag, As, Bi, Cu, Mo, Sb, Sn, Sc and Zn. The fact that the gold anomalism (as well as Ag, As, Bi, Cu, Mo, Sb, Sn, Sc and Zn anomalism) in these areas is relatively discreet in spatial extent and oriented parallel to the gold-bearing veins that outcrop in the south of the project area, gives confidence to the interpretation that this anomalism is reflecting the subsurface geology and are therefore priority targets. These results will be followed up with shallow drilling to vector towards the primary source of gold.