Nexus Gold Commences Drilling At Bouboulou Gold Concession, Burkina Faso, West Africa

Nexus Gold Corp. (TSXV:NXS,OTC:NXXGF,Frankfurt:N6E) is pleased to report that drilling has commenced at its 38-sq km Bouboulou gold concession. Bouboulou is located approximately 75 kilometres north-west of the capital Ouagadougou, on the Boromo-Goren greenstone belt, and is bisected by the Sabce shear zone.
The 2000 metre phase one diamond drill program at Bouboulou will target previously identified mineralized zones at the property, namely Bouboulou 2, Pelatanga, and Rawema. In addition, the Company will test the Koala zone, where recent samples ran as high as 66 grams-per-tonne (“g/t”) gold (“Au”), and the newly identified Rawema West zone.
New Zone Identified – Rawema West
As reported in a June 6, 2017 news release, company geologists have now determined the presence of a new mineralized zone at Bouboulou through the observance of increased artisanal activity, and the result of rock sampling taken from the newly observed area.
The new zone, named “Rawema West”, occurs approximately 1000 metres west of the main workings at the previously identified Rawema site. The Artisanal workings extend some 150 metres in length and appear by observation to extend to depths of greater than 20 metres.
Company geologists collected seven select rock samples of dump material from the Rawema West workings. Of the seven samples collected there, four returned values greater than 1 g/t Au, including BBL-004 which returned 9.49 g/t Au.
The sampling results greater than 1 g/t Au, from both Rawema West and Koala, as reported June 6, 2017, are tabled below:

Sample ID	Gold (g/t)	Sample type	Zone
BBL-004	9.69	Select	Rawema West
BBL-005	2.62	Select	Rawema West
BBL-006	4.41	Select	Rawema West
BBL-007	4.84	Select	Rawema West
BBL-012	66.1	Select	Koala
BBL-013	29	Select	Koala
BBL-014	2.20	Select	Koala

The trend of the workings at Rawema West runs roughly parallel to the Pelatanga-Rawema (“PR”) trend that the company intends to test with its upcoming diamond drill program.
Bouboulou Historical Data
In 2011 Roxgold Inc completed reverse circulation (RC) and diamond drilling (DD) programs to test the four previously identified mineralized zones. Historical reverse circulation (RC) drilling highlights from Bouboulou are tabled below:

Hole ID	Azimuth	Dip	Depth (m)	From	To	Length (m)	g/t Au	Zone
BBL-11-RC-003	320	-55	103	24	34	10	1.10	Pelatanga
			Includes	30	32	2	3.66
BBL-11-RC-005	120	-50	103	60	64	4	1.86	Bouboulou 2
BBL-11-RC-006	120	-67	115	70	110	40	1.54	Bouboulou 2
			Includes	70	90	20	2.25
			And	100	110	10	1.42
BBL-11-RC-012	300	-50	120	100	108	8	1.21	Rawema
BBL-11-RC-013	300	-50	109	74	109	35	2.20	Rawema
			Includes	74	86	12	5.45
BBL-11-RC-020	270	-55	103	40	50	10	2.84	Koala
			Includes	42	44	2	12.45
BBL-11-RC-021	240	-55	130	6	8	2	3.94	Koala
BBL-11-RC-022	270	-60	133	44	48	4	1.63	Koala
BBL-11-RC-024	320	-55	193	38	44	6	1.95	Pelatanga
BBL-11-RC-027	120	-45	120	90	114	24	1.36	Bouboulou 2
BBL-11-RC-028	120	-60	162	130	132	2	2.53	Bouboulou 2
BBL-11-RC-031	120	-45	144	78	94	16	1.18	Bouboulou 2
BBL-11-RC-036	120	-50	120	8	10	2	1.42	Rawema
BBL-11-RC-038	130	-55	144	114	116	2	1.53	Koala
BBL-11-RC-039	120	-50	150	116	130	14	1.37	Koala
BBL-11-RC-041	130	-50	138	52	54	2	2.04	Koala
BBL-11-RC-042	320	-55	114	40	46	6	1.26	Pelatanga
			Includes	52	54	2	3.80	Pelatanga

Historical diamond drilling (DD) highlights from Bouboulou are tabled below:

Hole ID	Azimuth	Dip	Depth (m)	From	To	Length (m)	g/t Au	Zone
BBL-11-DD-002	315	-45	127	42	44	2	5.43	Rawema
BBL-11-DD-003	135	-45	142	56	58	2	5.33	Bouboulou 2
				78	82	4	12.53
				96	98	2	1.59
BBL-11-DD-005	300	-50	179	74	80	6	4.62	Rawema
			Includes	77.7	78	0.3	81.32
BBL-11-DD-006	120	-50	127	91.5	93	1.5	1.74	Bouboulou 2
BBL-11-DD-008	320	-45	198	125	127	2	2.55	Koala

* Note all assay results represent intercept lengths and are not true widths
Bouboulou Trends
The Company has subsequently identified three distinct 5000m (5km) long anomalous gold trends at the Bouboulou concession. Each of the three trends display strong coincidental geochemical and geophysical gold anomalies, and extend from the four previously drill-identified mineralized zones, namely Rawema, Pelatanga, Bouboulou 2 and Koala.
They are identified by numerous orpaillages and geochemical samples of greater than 1 g/t Au. All three of the Bouboulou trends display similar coincidental anomalies. Each trend has substantial artisanal workings either directly on them, or along trend.
A map of the three trends can be seen here:
https://www.nexusgoldcorp.com/images/NexusGold_Boub1.jpg
About Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked nation, located in West Africa. It covers an area of roughly 274,000 square kilometres and has an estimated population of more than 16 million people. The country has a stable political setting with a pro-mining and foreign investment stance. Burkina Faso is the fastest growing gold producer in Africa, and was the 4th largest gold producer in Africa in 2012. Eight new mines have been commissioned there over the past six years. The country has excellent geological potential. The Greenstone Belts that host all of the major deposits in Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire continue northward into Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso has undergone less than 15 years of modern mineral exploration, remaining under-explored in comparison to neighbouring Ghana and Mali; both of which host world-class gold mines in the same belts of Birimian rocks.
About the Company
Nexus Gold Corp. is a Vancouver-based gold exploration and development company operating in some of the world’s premier mining districts. The Company is currently concentrating its efforts on two gold projects located in Burkina Faso, West Africa. The Bouboulou gold concession is a 38-sq km advanced exploration target where previous drilling has confirmed multiple zones of gold mineralization. The Niangouela gold concession is a 178-sq km project featuring high grade gold occurring in and around a primary quartz vein 1km in length and associated shear zone.
For more information on these projects, please visit the Company website at www.nexusgoldcorp.com
Warren Robb P.Geo., Senior Geologist is the designated Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and is responsible for the technical information contained in this release.
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