Ongoing Drill Program At Basin Gulch 

ATLANTA - Dutch Gold Resources, Inc. reported that it is expanding the scope of the next phase of its second drilling program in 2011 by introducing a bigger drill rig to its ongoing drilling program at its Basin Gulch property in Granite County, Montana. The Company's current drilling is within the diatreme complex that is important to the property's gold and silver mineralization. The bigger drill rig will allow DGRI to increase the size of its core drilling to 3.5-inch diameter core to acquire bigger samples for bulk testing.

"The large diameter core will allow us to process four kilo samples. A normal assay sample size is 30 grams, or about an ounce", said Dan Hollis, CEO. "The four kilogram samples, about 8.8 pounds each, will allow us better assay control because the area in which we are drilling contains coarse gold. We know that coarse gold is present because testing of samples that was conducted in the 1990's within the area currently being drilled showed that much of the contained gold is present in the form of scattered coarse pieces. This is further supported by the observation that much of the historic placer mining was of the in-place near-surface diatreme material. The placer mining expanded in width and depth within the diatreme, recovering coarse gold from the weathered in-place bedrock. A normal 30-gram assay can easily miss the presence of coarse gold, or if a coarse gold piece is included in the sample, can also give an artificially high reading. The four-kilogram samples will give us more accurate results in the presence of coarse gold. We plan to follow up the larger diameter drilling with limited bulk samples, on the scale of a ton each, later this year", added Hollis. The company's address is 3500 Lenox Road, Suite 1500, Atlanta, GA 30326.