Southern Gold Ltd. was granted formal tenure over the historical Aphae gold-silver mine in southwestern South Korea.

The company said March 27 that it sampled over 1 g/t of gold and up to 6.08 g/t of gold and 93 g/t of silver from the waste material adjacent to the mine.

Southern Gold plans to review historical data and plans diamond drilling to test the strike and downdip extent of the main Aphae mineralization.