Timberline Drills Additional High-Grade Gold Intercepts at Butte Highlands

Timberline Resources Corporation TLR today announced additional results from underground drilling at the Butte Highlands Gold Project in southwestern Montana. Results reported today are from holes BHUG11-034 through BHUG11-039 and BHUG11-068 in Timberline's recently-completed 86-hole, 49,500-foot (15,000-metre) underground diamond drill program which was designed for detailed delineation of the mineralization and for production planning purposes. Timberline has a 50-percent carried-to-production ownership interest in the project, which is currently in the development/permitting stage and is scheduled to commence gold production in early 2012.