• Drilling has commenced at the Lord Nelson and Vanguard North deposits
• Part of a larger 55,000m RC drilling program to upgrade and grow the existing 1.5Moz resource
• Significant diamond drilling programs also planned for later in H1 CY25

Brightstar Resources Limited (ASX: BTR) has announced the commencement of its 2025 drilling program at the recently acquired Sandstone Gold Project in Western Australia's Murchison region. The initial drilling will focus on the Lord Nelson deposit, with approximately 3,000m of RC drilling planned to complete the program started in December 2024. The 'Lords' project area, comprising the Lord Nelson and Lord Henry deposits, currently hosts a mineral resource of 0.4Moz @ 1.6g/t Au. The program aims to infill and upgrade the resource inside optimised pit shells. Drilling will then move to the Vanguard Camp, which hosts a high-grade open pitable gold resource of 0.2Moz @ 4.5g/t Au. This 4,000m program aims to extend and infill the Vanguard North resource. Following these initial programs, further RC and diamond drilling will be completed across the enlarged Sandstone Hub, targeting resource upgrades and extensions, as well as systematically testing the numerous early-stage exploration targets across the package. Alongside the Sandstone drilling, large-scale RC, diamond, and aircore drilling programs are also planned at the Menzies and Laverton hubs, scheduled to commence towards the end of Q1 2025.

Brightstar's geology and engineering teams have been working diligently since the Alto and Montague East acquisitions, planning aggressive exploration programs to meet their goals of growing the total Mineral Resource beyond the current 1.5Moz @ 1.5g/t Au and increasing confidence classification to underpin mining studies to advance the projects towards mining opportunities. The pipeline of advanced exploration targets across the package is particularly encouraging, and they aim to test many of these in the current program.