We saw some really impressive drill results last week including 169 meters grading 13.16 grams per tonne of gold recovered by Aurelian Resources and 2 meters grading a whopping 561 g/t gold at Ramelius Resources' Wattle Dam project in Australia.

Lincoln Gold Corp. (OTC BB: LGCP) has commenced core drilling on its 100%-controlled Pine Grove gold property located in the Pine Grove Hills, 20 miles south of Yerington, Nevada. Four holes are designed to acquire large-diameter PQ core (3.35 inch diameter) for metallurgical samples. Lincoln Gold also commenced core drilling on the large La Bufa gold/silver exploration property in the Guadalupe y Calvo mining district in southwestern Chihuahua State, Mexico. The first drill arrived on site in February and a second drill may be brought to the site before the end of March. The exploration program is focusing on the southern extension of the Rosario vein system, which extends onto the La Bufa property for at least 1600 meters. The company plans to drill a minimum of 15 angle core holes in two-hole fences across the vein system for a total of 6,000 meters. All holes are targeted to reach the 2,250 meter level or deeper, which was historically productive in the adjacent Rosario mine owned by Gammon Gold. Lincoln Gold may earn up to a 60% interest in the La Bufa property from Almaden Minerals Ltd (TSX: AMM, AMEX: AAU) by spending US$3.5 million over a four-year period and issuing 1,550,000 shares.

International Northair Mines Ltd (TSX-V: INM, Pinksheets: INNHF) has announced that a second phase reverse circulation drill program has commenced at the El Reventon project, located in the state of Durango, Mexico. The program will total 2,000 meters in approximately 15 holes and is designed to increase the size of the Reventon Breccia zone, where core drilling in 2007 returned significant silver values. The El Reventon property is comprised of a number of attractive silver and gold occurrences, of which the Reventon Breccia appears to be the most significant. Surface sampling in this area averaged 104 g/t silver, 0.75% lead and 0.79% zinc. A first-phase core drill program completed by the company during 2007 intercepted significant zones of mineralization, with highlights including 33.5 meters of 179 g/t silver, 22.8 meters of 94.7 g/t silver and 56.4 meters of 84.5 g/t silver, with associated lead and zinc values. The average grade of the mineralized intervals encountered in the phase-one program was 92 g/t silver. The 2007 program was the first drilling conducted on the property and significantly increased the company’s geological understanding of the breccia. The second phase drilling will cover an area of approximately 180 by 110 meters and has the potential to materially increase the size of the known breccia. International Northair will also test the Los Alisos Zone with two exploration drill holes. Los Alisos lies about 500 meters south of the Reventon Breccia and has a similar geochemical signature. Continuous chip sampling at Los Alisos has returned results of 15 meters of 88 g/t silver and, as all of the area between the two zones is covered by post-mineral volcanics, it presents an attractive exploration target.

Coral Gold Resources Ltd (TSX-V: CLH, OTC BB: CLHRF) has entered into a contract for 37,600 feet of reverse circulation drilling on the company’s 100%-owned Robertson property at Crescent Valley, Nevada. The agreement, signed with Lang Exploratory Drilling of Salt Lake City, Utah, is expected to begin in April following permit approval from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Both Phase I and Phase II are aimed at expanding and upgrading Robertson’s 2.3 million-ounce inferred resource. In February 2008, Beacon Hill Consultants reported that the Robertson resource, to date situated on a small portion of the property, had increased by more than 110% from the previous calculation. The updated resource was calculated from work completed in 2006 and 2007. With the 2008 drilling, Coral hopes to upgrade a significant portion of the inferred resources into the measured and indicated categories. The reverse circulation drilling of Phase I will range in depth from 500 to 1,200 feet. This work will focus on key shallow-lying zones locally exposed on surface and also potentially in an open pit mining configuration. Some of the new resources remain open to expansion on strike and at depth. The planned 21 diamond drill holes of Phase II are expected to range from 300 to 1,000 feet in depth. Phase II drilling will provide geological data on the controls of mineralization and geotechnical data, confirm grade and continuity, and provide material for metallurgical testing.

Azumah Resources Ltd (ASX: AZM) has advised investors that follow-up drilling has commenced to further test the recently announced 100%-controlled Bepkong gold discovery and other priority gold targets. Bepkong will be the first area to be tested with RC drilling, following up an intersection of 16 meters grading 4.9 g/t gold, including ten meters grading 7.1 g/t gold. This was a particularly pleasing result, especially given that the intersection was from the very first hole drilled into a newly delineated soil anomaly that extends intermittently for two kilometers from Bepkong back to the company’s main 516,000 ounce Kunche gold resource. The anomaly lies off the generally accepted trend of mineralization in the area. A program of 7 RC drill holes will test a 300 m x 150 m gold anomaly, where rock chips taken from quartz veins hosted in granite returned several very anomalous values, including 11.5 g/t, 8.2 g/t and 7.8 g/t gold. A second rig will drill 40 RAB holes into the four-kilometer long Basabli anomaly 40 kilometers north of Kunche, which was generated by power-auger soil sampling obtaining spot values of up to 1.68 g/t gold.

International KRL Resources Corp. (TSX-V: IRK) has secured a diamond drill contract for its Wolf project, a silver/lead/zinc target in the southern Yukon Territory 75 kilometers west of Watson Lake. The property is road accessible and site preparation has begun for the pending drill program, which is expected to begin in the next few days. International KRL has an option to earn a 60% interest in the Wolf project from Tarsis Capital Corp. (TSX-V: TCC). Known mineralization on the property consists of an oxide zone up to 30 meters wide, which returned four meters of 352.4 g/t silver and 9.12% lead in a trench. Grab samples of oxide mineralization from another trench returned 1,248.1 g/t silver and 49.5% lead and 978.7 g/t silver and 32.0% lead. The planned first phase of drilling consists of 1,500 meters of HQ diamond drill core and has been guaranteed by the contractor DJ Drilling Ltd. DJ Drilling Ltd is a sought-after drill company that has modern equipment, experienced crews and a long-standing working relationship with International KRL.

Citadel Resource Group Ltd (ASX: CGG)
Shayban project, Saudi Arabia

Drilhole ID Number	Intersection	Gold Grade	Comments
SH023	72 meters	2.50 g/t	n/a
SH026	76 meters	1.49 g/t	n/a

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Imperial Metals Corp. (TSX: III)
Sterling project, USA

Drilhole ID Number	Intersection	Gold Grade	Comments
SU08-1	101.0 feet	0.05 oz/t	n/a
SU08-7	123.0 feet	0.04 oz/t	n/a
SU08-8	130.5 feet	0.06 oz/t	n/a
SU08-11	153.5 feet	0.14 oz/t	n/a
SU08-15	264.0 feet	0.07 g/t	n/a

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Ramelius Resources Ltd (ASX: RMS)
Wattle Dam, Australia

Drilhole ID Number	Intersection	Gold Grade	Comments
WDRC315	2 meters	561 g/t	n/a
including	1 meter	1,114 g/t	n/a

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Aurelian Resource Inc. (TSX: ARU)
Condor, Ecuador

Drilhole ID Number	Intersection	Gold Grade	Comments
CP-07-185	144.05 meters	7.41 g/t	included 12.4 g/t Ag
CP-07-176	163.93 meters	13.13 g/t	included 13.0 g/t Ag
CP-07-181A	83.60 meters	14.1 g/t	included 14.1 g/t Ag
CP-07-182	31.10 meters	7.70 g/t	included 9.3 g/t Ag
CP-07-188	76.00 meters	7.38 g/t	included 7.7 g/t Ag
CP-07-189	53.30 meters	7.36 g/t	included 9.9 g/t Ag

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Magellan Minerals Ltd. (TSX-V: MNM)
Cuiu Cuiu project, Brazil

Drilhole ID Number	Intersection	Gold Grade	Comments
CR-15-07	179.6 meters	1.06 g/t	n/a
CR-16-07	174.2 meters	1.46 g/t	n/a

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