Golden PredatorMining Corp. said March 31 that it has completed blasting, excavationand loading of approximately 750 tons of material from the Sleeping Giant vein atits 3 Aces goldproject in Canada's Yukon Territory, and began drilling at the vein.

Final arrangements are being made for the processing of the bulksample.

At Sleeping Giant, Golden Predator kicked off drilling March25, and plans to test down-dip and along strike of the bulk sampled portion of thevein. Trenching northeast along strike revealed a portion of the vein which wasexposed over a 20-meter stretch, with visible gold noted in two locations. The veinremains open to the northeast.

Golden Predator has contracted Midnight Sun Drilling Inc. todrill an unspecified number of holes along strike and down-dip to outline additionalareas for potential bulk sampling.