Birimian Gold Limited (ASX:BGS) Defined 12km Gold Trend by Drilling at Dankassa Gold Project in Mali

Perth, Jan 19, 2012 AEST (ABN Newswire) - Birimian Gold Limited (ASX:BGS) is pleased to announce very encouraging analytical results from first-pass, broadly-spaced, reconnaissance aircore drilling completed in the northern part of the Company's Dankassa Gold Project in Mali during October 2011.

This aircore drilling programme was designed to investigate the central section of an extensive gold in soil geochemistry trend that extends over more than 20 kilometres in the north of the Dankassa Gold Project area; the Dankassa Gold Trend.

A very successful auger drilling program was completed at the northern and southern ends of the Dankassa Gold Trend during October 2011. This auger program delineated coherent gold anomalies in bedrock over more than 6 kilometres of strike. Exceptional results, including assays of 6.0 g/t gold and 1.26 g/t gold, were returned from this auger drilling program (reported in a release to the ASX on 9 December 2011).

The gold in soil anomalies in the central portion of the Dankassa Gold Trend were better defined than at the northern and southern ends, so rather than systematically undertaking auger drilling prior to aircore drilling in this central area (as has been the approach at the northern and southern ends of the Trend), the Company immediately implemented an aircore drilling program. 78 aircore holes were drilled in this central area - the Balala Prospect, during October 2011, totalling 4053 metres. Analytical results have now been received for all holes drilled during this program.

The aircore drilling was undertaken on broadly spaced centres, nominally 400 metres x 50 metres, and only tested very shallow depths (maximum and average hole depths of 77 and 53 metres respectively). Exceptionally encouraging results have been returned, with broad zones of shallow gold mineralisation intersected in holes adjacent to, and directly along strike from, one another. Significant results are presented in Table 1 (see link at the bottom of the release), with better results including:

- 8m @ 1.29 g/t gold from 16m

- 46m @ 0.48 g/t gold from 8m, including 12m @ 1.00 g/t gold from 36m

- 16m @ 0.56 g/t gold from 28m

The integrated auger and aircore drilling results now define a very coherent bedrock gold anomaly at the Dankassa Gold Trend that extends for over 12 km in a north south direction.

Furthermore, the limited aircore drilling completed to date confirms the presence of significant bedrock gold mineralisation within the Dankassa Gold Trend. The Company believes that there is considerable potential to discover economic thicknesses and grades of primary gold mineralisation along this 12 km long trend.

Forward Work Program

A follow-up aircore drilling program to further evaluate the primary source of the highly prospective, coherent, 12 km long Dankassa Gold Trend is scheduled to commence in late February 2012.

The Company's auger drilling strategy has proven to be extremely successful. This technique facilitates the rapid and efficient delineation of bedrock mineralisation, hence the definition of high-priority drill targets, in a very cost effective manner. While the initial focus of the Company's auger drilling programs has been on the newly defined Dankassa Gold Trend, other extensive gold in soil geochemistry anomalies that are yet to be effectively explored occur elsewhere within the Dankassa Gold Project. The Company intends systematically investigating these anomalies with auger drilling during the coming months. Birimian also continues to be active at its other highly prospective gold projects, the Korindji Gold Project in Mali and the Basawa Gold Project in Liberia. Results from this ongoing work are expected to be announced over coming months.

For the complete announcement including figures and tables, please view:
http://media.abnnewswire.net/media/en/docs/ASX-BGS-574477.pdf

Contact

Kevin Joyce Managing Director Birimian Gold Limited Ph: +61-8-9286-3045 Email: info@birimiangold.com