Altan Rio Minerals Limited announced that it has produced first gold sourced from a old mineralised stockpile at the Pilot Gold Mine at its Southern Cross tenements in Western Australia. Approximately 1,500 ounces of gold was produced after toll treating the stockpile through a third party processing plant located approximately 40km south of Pilot. Based on measurements of the area and height of the Pilot stockpile was predicted to contain approximately 30,000 to 40,000 tonnes of ore.

Based on records of the historical mining operations the average grade of stockpiled material was predicted to be around 1.5g/t. These figures are in accord with the recovered gold of approximately 1,500 oz. Confirmation of the grade and successful processing of the historical stockpile demonstrates the quality of the Company's assets and underlines the potential for further gold discovery along its consolidated tenure along the Fraser shear zone. Historical Pilot Gold Mine: Pilot lies 10 kilometres north of Southern Cross and was last mined by Troy Resources Ltd. in 1994 who produced 0.56 Mt @ 3.03 g/t for 54,554 oz Au from a small open pit operation.