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February 25, 2009

Cluff Gold’s Drill Results Are So Good The Company Itself Is Still Coming To Terms With Them

By Alastair Ford

It’s double jeopardy in the non-legal sense when you contradict bullish data in your own presentation in front of an audience in which the compiler of the presentation is also present, especially if it turns out that the data was accurate after all. So the following appeal goes out from a contrite, but even more bullish, Douglas Chikohora in the wake of the otherwise excellent speech he gave at our 57th Minesite forum on the state of play at Cluff Gold: "In my presentation today, a question was asked, but I am not sure by who, regarding drill hole DDH47 on the Baomahun section. I would like to confirm that the 16 metres @ 20.62g/t Au intersection is correct. This is also reported in our past announcements. Please pass this on to the person who asked the question. Thanks."

For anyone who wasn’t actually present at the forum, this might seem a somewhat obscure piece of text for us to publish in an opening paragraph - worthy, perhaps, of Douglas’s official title of “Technical Director”, but otherwise of little value outside of the wider context of the other drill results on Baomahum, which has always looked promising anyway. But note the grade and the intersection here – at nearly 21 grammes per tonne over 16 metres on a property that in any case averages a very...