Golden China Resources has had excellent interim drilling results for its exploration program at Behinyar gold project in China.

The best intercept at Beyinhar to date has been an intersection of 77.2 metres averaging 4.08 grams/tonne gold, which includes an intersection of 61 metres at 5.03 grams/tonne.

The latest results demonstrate continuity of the Beyinhar oxide resource over a strike length of at least 2000 metres, which the project's ongoing drilling program is expected to increase even further.

In addition, the results highlight the primary, high grade sulphide mineralization at depth and indicate the potential for a long-term underground mining operation at Beyinhar, possibly in conjunction with the proposed open cut development.

Golden China president and CEO Greg Starr says: "This significant high grade intersection of 77.2 metres at 4.08 grams/tonne underscores the multi-million ounce potential of the deposit and Beyinhar's capacity to develop into a low-cost 100,000 ounce per year gold producer in the short-term. "Ongoing exploration will continue to extend the mineralization to the south-west, enabling us to significantly increase our resource base."

Before the completion of the Beyinhar feasibility study, expected in December, Golden China plans to grow the project's measured and indicated resources to more than one million ounces. Beyond this, the company aims to further, and significantly, increase Beyinhar's resource base, in both the oxide and sulphide zones, with additional drilling on the second exploration licence to the south-west of the existing permit.

Golden China recently released a scoping study on Beyinhar, which suggests the project's ability to initially produce 100,000 ounces per year for a low cash cost per production ounce of between US$260 and US$280, and capital expenditures of only US$29 million.

The Beyinhar gold project lies along the Sonid Zouqi gold corridor within the Inner Mongolia Fold Belt Region, a productive orogenic belt hosting several skarn, shear-hosted, orogenic/mesothermal veins and porphyry copper-gold deposits. This region hosts the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold deposit and CSH 217 shear-hosted gold deposit.

Beyinhar is a near surface, bulk-mineable oxide, and heap leachable gold deposit with a continuous high-grade zone. Beyinhar is only about 1.5km from the Hohhot-Xilinhot highway in proximity to a well-established provincial railway line and within an easily accessible power grid supply.