Barton Gold (ASX: BGD) (OTCQB: BGDFF) has completed a Phase 2 resource upgrade drilling campaign at its Tunkillia gold project in South Australia. In June, Barton added 10,500m of drilling to expand the Phase 2 campaign to 40,000m with the aim of materially enhancing Tunkillia’s economics by adding new gold and silver ounces to the optimised open pit outlines. Proceeding to PlanBarton managing director Alex Scanlon said the Phase 2 campaign had proceeded to plan, thanking his team for their “massive efforts”. “Our drilling programs over the past five months have included four rigs across three different project sites, which all then converged on Tunkillia’s Phase 2 drillout,” he said. A pre-feasibility study (PFS) is underway for a large-scale gold development, with publication targeted for the first quarter of calendar year 2027 and a Mining Lease application planned to follow.