Royal Road Minerals Limited (CVE:RYR) has received the permit for exploration drilling at its La Golondrina property in Colombia and is poised to start turning the drillbit.
It's the latest step in the group's gold development journey - after a new environmental licence was received in April this year.
An initial scout diamond drilling program of between 1,000 and 1,500 meters at the project is planned.
This will be the first drilling program to be conducted at the project with drilling expected to start by August this year.
Dr Tim Coughlin, the president and chief executive, said: "In preparation for drilling we have commissioned a significant reprocessing and overhaul of geophysical and other available data at the La Golondrina project.
"The geophysics is currently being reprocessed using mapped geological constraints and measured rock properties such as magnetic susceptibility, estimated resistivity and IP-chargeability.
"Early indications are encouraging, showing convincing sub-horizontal combined magnetic and IP anomalies some of which appear to be spatially related to known high-grade gold veins and underground mine development.
"We have received quotations and expressions of interest from five drilling contractors and depending on rig availability, we hope to commence drilling sometime before the end of August."