• Barns Deposit: efficient flotation of ~90% of contained gold to concentrates grading 20 - 25 g/t Au; gold recoveries of ~97 - 99% via a conventional gravity + leaching flowsheet
• Baggy Green Deposit: gold recoveries of ~91% in the supergene zone and ~98 - 99% in the primary zone via a conventional flowsheet
• Potential to truck high-grade concentrates to Central Gawler Mill and/or Tunkillia, leveraging current and future processing infrastructure for lower costs and enhanced returns

Barton Gold Holdings Limited (ASX:BGD, OTCQB:BGDFF, FRA:BGD3) has provided an update on its review of strategic options for the new South Australian Wudinna Gold Project (Wudinna). Wudinna is located approximately 400km southeast of Barton's Challenger Gold Project, which hosts the Central Gawler Mill (CGM), and 200km southeast of Barton's Tunkillia Gold Project and future Tunkillia mill. Metallurgical testwork for Wudinna suggests opportunities to leverage the installed capital of the CGM or future Tunkillia mill. Flotation testwork indicates the ability to concentrate ~90% of contained gold into ~6% of feed mass, and also strong gold recoveries of up to 99.3% via a conventional gravity and leaching flowsheet. The ability to leverage the installed capital value of the company's existing and future processing infrastructure through regional blending strategies is highly attractive and was a key factor in Barton's acquisition of Wudinna. Barton's Managing Director Alex Scanlon commented that the opportunity to blend high-grade concentrates into the future Tunkillia processing infrastructure is very attractive, with the potential to extend the 'Starter Pit' style returns over a longer operating horizon at Tunkillia.